Student 2.0: New Technologies, New Opportunities for 21st Century Learners

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Student 2.0 New Technologies, New Opportunities
for 21st Century Learners
April, 2007 Julie Mathiesen Education Technology
Specialist TIE
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What is our business?
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What is our Business?

• ..the invention of tasks, activities, and
  assignments that the students find to be engaging
  and that bring them into profound interactions
  with the content and processes they will need to
  have mastered to be judged to be well education.
  Schlechty (2001)

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• To design engaging knowledge work that students
  believe is worth doing.

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Zimbabwe
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Are Our Customers Needs Changing?
Is technology changing the waystudents learn and
work?
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The New Labels

• Digital Natives Marc Prensky
• Clickerati Idit Harel, MaMaMedia
• The Net Generation
• Nexters
• Screenagers
• Millennials Educause/Oblinger
• Generation Y or D or M
• Echo Boomers
• My Space Generation

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6-9 and 10-12
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The Pew Internet American Life Project

• There is a widening gap between techno-savvy
  students and their schools.
• Many schools and teachers have not yet recognized
  much less responded to the new ways students
  communicate and access information over the
  Internet.
• Students want more and more engaging internet
  activities at school that are relevant to their
  lives.

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Web 1.0 a Web 2.0

• Meaningless marketing buzzword or new
  conventional wisdom Tim OReilly
• Static a Dynamic
• Content Consumer a Content Creator
• information silo a architecture of participation
• (use of Web 2.0 adds value to the product)

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Web 2.0Read, Write, Speak, CreateCommunicate,
Collaborate

• Blogs journal style website in reverse
  chronological order
• Wikis simple, editable website

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Blogs (weB log)

• individuals and groups can create a web presence
  with no programming skills
• an online journal
• open to the rest of the Internet world, can also
  be closed
• like-minded bloggers often group together to
  share ideas, comment on each others posts, and
  generally create a sense of community

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Blog as Administrative Tool(a virtual chalkboard)
Vickis Blog on eLearning to explain development
of the flatworld
Mr. McDowells World History Class
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Blog as Discussion Tool
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Blog as Discussion Tool
Civic Dude!
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Blog as Publication Tool
BlogWrite
Sheehy - Interaction
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Blogging Products

• Make thinking public
• Develop Voice
• Deep Thinking
• Creating Community

• Authentic Work/Authentic Audience
• Improve Literacy
• Self-Expression

A World Tour of Classroom Blogs Google
Earth Anatomy of a Blog