What's in Your Digital Toolbox?

Joquetta “ The Digital Diva” Johnson, Library Media SpecialistBCPS School Social Workers MeetingFriday, October 12, 2012 Flicker Image: By Kodomut

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to seeevery problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow

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We must educate the students we have, not the student we used to have, nor the student we wished we had. We must adapt to todays student, not them adapting to us. We must adapt to their world of todays 21st century technology. We cannot teach like weve taught forever anymore. We must change ourselves to adapt to their world. They are hyper-communicators and must "power down" just to go to school.http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/sharingtechnology/archive/2008/02/23/using-youtube-in-the-classroom.aspx

So, how do youselect the righttool?Flicker Image By: slynnsdesigns

Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Teaching & Learning

http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/speakup_reports.html

About Speak UpNational Initiative of Project Tomorrow, the nations leading educational nonprofit organization dedicated to the empowerment of student voices in education

…students to reach their potential through increased access to educational resources and experts that extend learning beyond the capacities or limitations of their school or communitySource: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU10_3EofEducation%28Students%29.pdf

…students in rich, compelling learning experiences that develop deeper knowledge and skill development especially the problem- solving, creativity and critical thinking skills so highly desired for our world todaySource: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU10_3EofEducation%28Students%29.pdf

…students to take responsibility for their own educational destinies and to explore knowledge with an unfettered curiosity, thus creating a new generation of life long learners.Source: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU10_3EofEducation%28Students%29.pdf

To better understand thereality of how well schoolsare currently leveragingtechnology to enhancelearning…each of thestakeholder groups(students, parents andeducators) were asked thissimple but pointed question…http://www.flickr.com/photos/colinkinner/2200500024

Is your school doing a good job of using technology to enhance learningand/or student achievement?http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/4511930995

The results are unsettling, especially at the high school level… 74 % of high school teachers, 72 % of high school principals 62% of parents of high school aged children said yes to that question…

only 47% of high schoolstudents agreed

64% Of online teens have participated incontent-creating activities on the Internet Source: Lenhart et al. 2007

28% http://www.flickr.com/photos/europedistrict/4419592724/ Of online teens have createdSource: Lenhart et al. 2007 their own online journal or blog

55% Of online teens have created a profile on a social networking siteSource: Lenhart et al. 2007

26% / http://www.flickr.com/photos/31092106@N02/3749432665 Of online teens remix content they find onlineSource: Lenhart et al. 2007

Image source: http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/611062 93% Of American teens use the internetSource: Lenhart et al. 2007

Adolescents havebeen called "digitalnatives," but datasuggests that theyare bothcomfortable withnewtechnologies, andyet not always astechnically savvy aswe collectivelybelieve them to be. http://pewinternet.org/topics/Teens.aspx

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Digital Literacy

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Creativity Collaboration Authentic Learning 24/7 Access Global Audience Innovation Critical Thinking Supports 21st Century Skills Global AwarenessCommunication When Kids Are Engaged… They Learn Better

“Graphical representation or wordfrequency that presents a picture of themost common words used with those usedmore often displayed larger…” University of Oxford

Wordle is an application that creates WordClouds (pictures made of words) based on thefrequency of the words that are entered in theWordle Site. www.wordle.net

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http://edu.glogster.com/

http://www.squidoo.com/voki www.voki.com

So, how do youselect the righttool?Flicker Image By: slynnsdesigns

BCPSLibrary Information Services Wiki http://tinyurl.com/bcpslis

http://community.thinkfinity.org/message/14418

BCPS Digital TaxonomyBaltimore County Public Schools Databases & Web 2.0 (unfiltered)http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/Reference/reference.html

http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/ http://edu.glogster.com/

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One in threeteens sendsmorethan100 textmessagesa day,or 3000texts amonth. http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones/Summary-of-findings.aspx

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Remind 101

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"Schools need to think how powerful it could be as a learning tool [social media] to bring that engagement outside the classroom into the classroom…you insert a simple tool that allows students to connect with each other or their peers in other schools and countries whenever they want, you just see kids faces light up. Thats what we saw in a class where our kids were talking to students in Iowa." Chris Lehmann, principal of the Science Leadership Academy (SLA) in Philadelphiahttp://www.technewsdaily.com/teachers-embracing-social-media-in-the-classroom-0509/

If the only tool you have is ahammer, you tend to see everyproblem as a nail.

We must educate the students we have, not the student we used to have, nor the student we wished we had. We must adapt to todays student, not them adapting to us. We must adapt to their world of todays 21st century technology. We cannot teach like weve taught forever anymore. We must change ourselves to adapt to their world. They are hyper-communicators and must "power down" just to go to school.http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/sharingtechnology/archive/2008/02/23/using-youtube-in-the-classroom.aspx

We shouldnt expect"out of the box" thinking when we only employ "in the box" teaching. Tom Whitby

Joquetta “The Digital Diva” Johnson Library Media Specialist Pikesville High School 410-887-1231 jjohnson@bcps.org www.pikesvillehslibrary.pbworks.com www.joquettajohnson.com www.twitter.com/accordin2jo http://www.slideshare.net/accordin2jo/ http://www.youtube.com/accordin2jo http://www.diigo.com/joquettajohnson@accordin2jo

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