Sylvia Martinez

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Preparing Next Generation Learners with Emerging
Technologies

• Sylvia Martinez
• President, Generation YES
• Sylvia_at_genyes.com
• www.genyes.com

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Emerging Technologies

• Emerging technologies are embraced by youth
• Highly collaborative technologies enable
  excellent teaching AND learning practices
• Schools can lead, follow, or block

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Blogs - web logs

• "blogs can be an important addition to
  educational technology?initiatives because they
  promote literacy through storytelling,
  allow?collaborative learning, provide
  anytime-anywhere access, and remain?fungible
  across academic disciplines.
• David Huffaker in "The Educated Blogger Using
  Weblogs to?Promote Literacy in the Classroom,"
  First Monday, vol. 9, no. 6, June?2004.
  http//www.usabilityviews.com/uv007838.html

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Wikis - read/write website

• Shared content - shared control
• Chaos! Control! Democracy!
• My Brilliant Failure Wikis In Classrooms
• the role of educational technology should be to
  replace classroom discourse patterns
• Scardamalia, M. Bereiter, C. (1993).
  Computer-support for knowledge building
  communities. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 3,
  265-283.

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Wikis - read/write website

• Shared content - shared control
• Chaos! Control! Democracy!

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Social Networking

• architecture of participation - Tim Reilly
• a grassroots user base creates a self-regulating
  collaborative network -Social Bookmarking Tools,
  Hammond et. Al April 2005, Digital Library
  Journal
• Taxonomy vs. folksonomy
• Yahoo vs. Google
• Wikipedia vs. Britannica
• Amazon vs. Dewey decimal system
• More users more value to each user

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Technology Enables Differentiated Learning

• Project-based
• Research shows it supports deeper learning
• Issues
• Time consuming
• Teacher training
• Assessment
• Tools alleviate these issues
• Time has come
• Portfolios revisited

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Students Are Stakeholders

• Technology integration has not met the promise of
  30 years of work
• Traditional professional development is not
  working
• Innovative efforts are needed
• Students are 92 of school population
• If all stakeholders are not on board, no change
  will occur
• Lead, follow, or block

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Generation YESYouth and Educators Succeeding

• Helping schools include students in the process
  of improving education through technology
• GenYES Students and Teachers Collaborate on
  Classroom Technology Integration
• TechYES - Middle School Technology Literacy
  Certification
• Generation TECH Student Technical Support
• Curriculum Guides
• Girls Issues Technology
• Encouraging Student Voice
• Professional Development
• Wed love to help you!

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Contact Information

• Website www.genyes.com
• Toll free (888) 941- 4369 x107
• Email sylvia_at_genyes.com