Technology for the 21st Century Classroom

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Technology for the 21st Century Classroom

• Teaching to the Digital Native

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Immigrant or Native?

• Are we digital immigrants or digital natives?
• What are your students?

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Digital Immigrants - Do I have an accent?

• Encyclopedia or Wikipedia?
• Users manual or plug play?
• Print your e-mail or save in folders ?
• Edit documents on paper or on screen?
• Share interesting website in person or send URL?
• Do you make the Did you get my e-mail? phone
  call? (and do you still dial a phone?)

The digital immigrant adapts to the new
environment, but retains their accent, their foot
in the past.
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Digital Natives - Twitch Speed http//www.twitchsp
eed.com/site/Prensky20-20Digital20Natives,20Di
gital20Immigrants20-20Part1.htm

• Lifetime exposure to all the other toys and tools
  of the digital age
• Accustomed to instant access
• Beamed, instant and text messaging
• No lectures, step-by-step logic, or "tell-test"
  instruction

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Wont settle!

• They demand more. "I went to a highly ranked
  college where all the professors came from MIT,"
  says a former student. "But all they did was read
  from their textbooks. I quit."

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Wired? Or Re-wired?
http//www.twitchspeed.com/site/Prensky20-20Digi
tal20Natives,20Digital20Immigrants20-20Part1.
htm

• Make it fast
• Think differently (divergent).
• Parallel process and multi-task
• Graphics before text
• Random access (like hypertext)
• Networking
• Share experiences
• Instant gratification, frequent rewards
• Games over "serious" work
• Customized learning

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Faces of the Future

• www.hungry.com, said akindergarten student
  recently at lunchtime.

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Motivation? Relevance? Authenticity?

• Turned off to school
• Focused on passing the next test
• Not excited by the classroom
• No application to life after school
• Discouraged from following their own interests
• From an article by Roger Shank, Engines for
  Education
• http//www.engines4ed.org/hyperbook/nodes/NODE-44-
  pg.html

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Traditional Classroom

• Chalkboards
• Desks in rows
• Books
• Pencil paper
• Focus on the front (teacher)
• Read, take notes, study as an individual
• Take tests to measure learning
• Prescribed curriculum

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Change? Who me?

• Methodology
• Communication
• Best practices
• Content
• Legacy
• Future

http//www.twitchspeed.com/site/Prensky20-20Digi
tal20Natives,20Digital20Immigrants20-20Part1.
htm
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Technology Integration Matrix

• Characteristics of meaningful learning
  environments

http//fcit.usf.edu/matrix/
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21st Century Classroom
http//webquest.brevard.k12.fl.us/21classroom/inde
x.htm
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New Tools for New Times

• Interactive whiteboard
• Handhelds
• Student Response systems
• Laptop carts for 1-1 computing
• Digital projectors
• Audio enhancements
• Wireless environment
• InterWrite schoolpads
• Document cameras

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Right Here, Right Now

• Technology Integration Institute (TI2)
• Online training from TLC
• Intel Teach
• Florida Digital Educators
• Master Digital Educators
• EETT grant
• Model classrooms
• Technology Coaches
• Find a mentor, be a mentor

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Conclusion - What can you do?

• Get training - stay informed
• Pay attention to trends embrace the future
• Become active in your schools technology plans
  and committees
• Focus on Project-based Learning
• Create Goal-based scenarios
• Use your own experiences, your passions, to
  invigorate your curriculum see Curriki
  http//www.curriki.org

Immigrants become natives by assimilating the
culture.
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Goal-based Scenarios

• When creating a GBS, a designer goes through
  these six steps
• 1. Identify a set of target skills
• 2. Develop Missions which require the target
  skills
• 3. Choose a Focus
• 4. Create a Cover Story which envelops the
  Mission
• 5. Plan the Operations
• 6. Build learning environments to support the
  target skills

http//www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/models/gbs.html
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Project-based Learning

• In project-based learning, students work in teams
  to explore real-world problems and create
  presentations to share what they have learned.
  Compared with learning solely from textbooks,
  this approach has many benefits for students,
  including Deeper knowledge of subject matter
  Increased self-direction and motivation
  Improved research and problem-solving skills.

http//www.edutopia.org/php/keyword.php?id037
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References Links

• Twitch Speed - http//www.twitchspeed.com/site/Pre
  nsky20-20Digital20Natives,20Digital20Immigran
  ts20-20Part1.htm
• Engines for Education, Roger Shank -
• http//www.engines4ed.org/hyperbook/nodes/NODE-44-
  pg.html
• Technology Integration Matrix -
  http//fcit.usf.edu/matrix/
• 21st Century Classroom - http//webquest.brevard.k
  12.fl.us/21classroom/index.htm
• Goal-based Scenarios - http//www.edtech.vt.edu/ed
  tech/id/models/gbs.html
• Project-based Learning - http//www.edutopia.org/p
  hp/keyword.php?id037
• Technology Integration Institute (TI2) -
  http//tlc.sbac.edu/summer.htm
• Online training from TLC - http//tlc.sbac.edu/tra
  inonline.htm
• Link to this PPT - http//tlc.sbac.edu