Students need Choice-Media Creation-Peer Feedback & response AND authentic audience. p.49-56 (I just got the book! Wohoo!)
11:35 AM on Wednesday, February 16
http://teachingtechsavvykids.com/ her book is featured here along with .pdf of pres and good stuff!
11:33 AM on Wednesday, February 16
Interest‐based activities: In these peer‐based learning environments
we have been discussing, it is important to notice that kids are engaged in YouTube or Wikipedia because these sites offer specific ways to participate around interest-based activities. In the third chapter of the book, Patricia Lange discussing her research with YouTube. In her vignette on page 45, she discusses how “kids areincreasingly carrying around cameras in their day‐to‐day activities in ways that enable them to act, think, and later reflect more deeply on what has happened to them by manipulating and sharing everyday, recorded images.” She goes on to detail three different teens and their personal interests connected to their local community and global activities such as politics and war.
we have been discussing, it is important to notice that kids are engaged in YouTube or Wikipedia because these sites offer specific ways to participate around interest-based activities. In the third chapter of the book, Patricia Lange discussing her research with YouTube. In her vignette on page 45, she discusses how “kids areincreasingly carrying around cameras in their day‐to‐day activities in ways that enable them to act, think, and later reflect more deeply on what has happened to them by manipulating and sharing everyday, recorded images.” She goes on to detail three different teens and their personal interests connected to their local community and global activities such as politics and war.
11:32 AM on Wednesday, February 16
I think I get her book with this workshop ... but they are lost somewhere on the block ...
11:29 AM on Wednesday, February 16
Anne Collier, an advocate for children and their online safety, argues, “We’re fearing and mourning what’s being lost a lot more than we’re seeking and considering what is being gained.” When we focus on what is being lost, we tend to miss the fact that as educators we must engage with students’ changing media knowledge and, most importantly, recognize how students’ experiences are (probably) fundamentally different from are own.
11:17 AM on Wednesday, February 16
We can't continue to have our students just look up answers on the Internet - it's the discussion, dialogue, and collaboration on the perspective and analysis of information.
11:15 AM on Wednesday, February 16
"this is a very different outlook to have as a young person -- it changes our relationship to text and promotes a constant invitation to engage, contribute, and learn." Henry Jenkins via "Creating a New Education Mindset by Dr. Jessica K. Parker.
11:09 AM on Wednesday, February 16
Prosumers (producers + consumers) - new term. We used to be a passive world - now we are engaged in the creativity of today, now.
11:07 AM on Wednesday, February 16
"Space limitations force texters to get to the point and write on code. It is important to acknowledge how written rules changes depending on one's communicative context and its genre" Dr. Jessica K. Parker, Assistant Professor Sonoma State University
11:05 AM on Wednesday, February 16
Texting does not damage the English Language, it is a new genre - it is quickness, efficient, and informal.
11:03 AM on Wednesday, February 16
Don't start your conversations with "but" ... we need to think how ...
10:55 AM on Wednesday, February 16
I have a .pdf with her presentation with resources.
10:53 AM on Wednesday, February 16
Just met Gaston from British Columbia, a teacher. I guess there are over 2000 at this conference.
10:52 AM on Wednesday, February 16
Kids playing games want to get better - what is wrong with that? This school turned curriculum integrated with gaming. Kids make games in the Systems course - how cool is this. Critical thinking at best. "Design Thinking" for kids - they grow up as Design Thinkers! Wow, this is 21st century learning.
10:42 AM on Wednesday, February 16
Quest 2 Learn - new 6-12 school in New York about gaming. Send me email for more resources on this: jody@expandingeducation.com
10:38 AM on Wednesday, February 16
Hardware - low barrier of entry ... across the curriculum allowing technology.
A school has been designed around "gaming" - shift your perspective! - by Katie Salen via PBS Video online
A school has been designed around "gaming" - shift your perspective! - by Katie Salen via PBS Video online
10:36 AM on Wednesday, February 16
Needed in classrooms today: --Peer-based learning --Collaboration --Creativity --Interest-Based practices --Friendship-based practices
10:27 AM on Wednesday, February 16
Teaching the Digital Teen workshop session @ SF conference.
Teaching Tech-Savvy Kids site: http://teachingtechsavvykids.com/
What does learning, literacy, and knowledge look like in the 21st century? What does this look like in your school? We need to begin the conversation. We need the research to support our decisions. Study learning rather than education!
Teaching Tech-Savvy Kids site: http://teachingtechsavvykids.com/
What does learning, literacy, and knowledge look like in the 21st century? What does this look like in your school? We need to begin the conversation. We need the research to support our decisions. Study learning rather than education!
