Passport to a Passport to a Digital DayDigital Day

Jim WenzloffJim Wenzloff

Passport to a Passport to a Digital DayDigital Day

Jim WenzloffJim Wenzloff

Passport to a Digital DayPassport to a Digital Day

Your Tour Guide

• Speaks a foreign languages• Talks too fast• Doesn’t know what you’d really

like to see

Your Interrupter

• Speaks your Language• Knows the geography• Can help you understand the

culture

How do you use the How do you use the Internet?Internet?

How do you use the How do you use the Internet?Internet?

Informational Software

How do your students (children)use the Internet?

Social Software

Movies

$1.65 Billion!

Artwork

Writing

Daniel Pink• Design• Story• Symphony• Empathy• Play• Meaning

Doug ReevesCenter for Performance Assessment

Five Tips for Engaging Students

1. Choice2. Varity of Delivery and Response3. Student Created Rubric4. Engaging Scenarios (Story)

Where to Start•Content

•Creativity

•Collaboration

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW

I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN

[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum.  See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/  ]

Content

• Share everything.

• Don't take things that aren't yours.

Content• Make everything digital

• Make everything accessible 24 hours a day.

• Make most of it public – be a creator not just a consumer

• Don’t try to do it all at once.

• Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

• And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK

Creativity

• Allow students to share what they know in new ways?

• Share content in new forms – read, hear, view.

• New assignments – same concepts.

Collaboration•  And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

• Play fair.

Collaboration• Teaching is a collective effort not an individual

achievement.

• Our learning is only as powerful as our network.

• Start small

• Plan big