Northwest Service Cooperative Technology Seminar

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Leading the Digital Learners

• Northwest Service Cooperative Technology Seminar

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The MySpace Learners

• Session Flow
• Internet and tech statistics
• Educational implications
• Tools of the trade
• The rest of the conference
• P.S. Dont take notes you can have this
  presentation if you want! Resources at the end!

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Tuck This Thought Away 1

• I would think my child was being educationally
  deprived if they werent using Internet
  technology often in school

Parent, 2007
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Tuck This Thought Away 2

• Theres not really an avenue at school for me to
  share, or publish my own stuff, or especially get
  feedback from people all over thats really the
  only reason I rush home to do MySpace so much.

High School Honors Student
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Todays Internet Users - Video

• Video Whos watching what?
• 60 of total online adults have watched videos
  online
• News comedy for the young adult group

Pew Internet Project, July 2007
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Todays Internet Users Social Video

• Video Social video viewing
• 57 of the total surveyed population watch video
  with others
• 73 of the young adult group does so.

Pew Internet Project, March 2007
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Todays Internet Users - Social Networking

• 66 of Online Teens say their profile is not
  visible to everyone
• 32 of Online Teens were contacted by strangers,
  with 65 of those stating that they ignored the
  contact, deleted, or reported it

Pew Internet Project, April 2007
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Decision-making online resources

• 40 increase between 2002 2005 in researching
  Internet for major life decisions

Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD), May 2007
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Information Access
Where people report getting most of their science
and news information
Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD), May 2007
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Cell Phone Usage

• 58 of adult Americans have used a cell phone or
  personal digital assistant (PDA) to do non-voice
  activities
• Texting
• Emailing
• Taking pictures
• Looking for maps

Pew Internet Project, March 2008
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Cell Phones

• Just how connected are our students? Us?
• Pull out your cell phones, and lets text a
  message to this number 46645 (Google)
• Examples
• Library crookston, mn
• Movies 56716
• Sushi grand forks

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Todays Users - Information Online

• 44 of the 18-29 age group use Wikipedia to look
  for information
• Of all online users surveyed, 50 of those with
  at least a college degree consult Wikipedia,
  compared with 22 of those with only a high
  school diploma
• Wikipedia is now the top free online educational
  reference site
• 5.3 million total entries

Pew Internet Project, April 2007
Hitwise, March 2007
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Students Today Bottom Line

• Our high schoolers are actually pretty old when
  it comes to technology
• Even our first year teachers are pretty old when
  it comes to technology
• Todays children have incorporated technology
  heavily into the social aspects of their lives.

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Education Implications

• Good, often free, online resources exist at
  higher numbers
• The tools available today are easier to
  manipulate for classroom use than ever before
• Technology, not just computers, plays a critical
  role in how the world communicates, collaborates,
  works together, plays together.

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Workforce Survey
What Goes On Once They Leave Us?
Released October 2, 2006, by The Conference
Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families,
Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the
Society for Human Resource Management.
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Workforce 2.0
What skills are most important for job success
when hiring a High School graduate?
Work Ethic
80
Collaboration
75
Communication
70
Social Interactions Responsibility
63
Critical Thinking Problem Solving
58
Released October 2, 2006, by The Conference
Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families,
Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the
Society for Human Resource Management.
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Workforce 2.0
What skills and content areas will be growing in
importance in the next five years?
Critical Thinking
78
Information Technology
77
Collaboration
74
Innovation
74
Personal Financial Responsibility
72
Released October 2, 2006, by The Conference
Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families,
Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the
Society for Human Resource Management.
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Learner 2.0 Tools

• What tools allow us to tap into this MySpace
  mind, but in an educational context, and in a way
  that addresses world-readiness skills?

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Technology Changes and Web 2.0

• Web 2.0 simply means an Internet that is more
• Customizable
• Interactive
• User-Centric
• Controllable
• Mobile
• Socially Motivated

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Wikis

• Free, easy access for K-12
• Immediate publishing to the world
• Collective intelligence
• Drafts, revisions, final all in one
• History of edits

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Blogs

• Free, easy access for K-12 journaling, book
  clubs
• Publishes a progression of learning
• Ongoing collaboration
• Single and group authorship
• Easy medium for soliciting feedback
• Endless opportunities for reflections, revisions,
  etc.

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Students and Blogging

• A 5th grader, when asked what she learned in the
  classroom blogging project
• What did I learn? Well, I pretty much found out
  that the more detailed descriptions I used in my
  post, the more comments I got back. I loved that
  part. Now I just cant find enough time to write
  as much as I want!

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Other Online Publishing

• Video audio podcasts
• Capitalizes on the high interest of publishing
• Allows teachers to use some Learner 2.0 tools
  inside an educational context
• Pushes the concept of ongoing learning and global
  interaction
• Lots of fun

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How Do I ?

• How do I move toward taking advantage of these
  Web 2.0 tools in the classroom?

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Planning 2.0

• Time to let go of some of our old thoughts
  about technology
• Key into the minds of your MySpacers
• No more using it as a reward or after were
  done with real teaching
• Think classroom-level digital equity

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Reflecting 2.0

• What curricular goals do I have that could use
  some powering up?
• How can I get the students more directly involved
  in communicating, collaborating, producing?
• What tools are out there that might serve my
  needs?

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Modeling 2.0

• How can I model being an effective technology
  user?
• Join classroom20.com social network
• Visit ISTE in Second Life
• Set up a teacher-controlled blog as step one
• Better yet, get at least one NEW person in your
  building to do all of the above with you

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Resources
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Edutopia
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Podcast Network
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Teacher Tube

• Education Related Video Sharing Site
• . . .Our goal is to provide an online community
  for sharing instructional videos

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Bottom Line

• Leading 2.0
• Are we having high-level conversations about
  technology?
• Can we share current research data?
• Can we enable students to use technology in ways
  that reflect the real world outside school?
• How can we encourage and enable each other?

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Resources Help

• http//schooltwopointo.wikispaces.com
• Tutorials
• Explanations
• Videos
• Handouts
• This presentation file

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Thank You
Chris ONeal onealchris_at_gmail.com http//schooltwo
pointo.wikispaces.com