Digital Footprints
Becoming a 21st Century Teacher

Fred Haas
Hopkinton High School
English Instructor
fhaas@hopkinton.k12.ma.us
haaslearning.wordpress.com
akh003 @ Twitter

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Personal
Experience
Process/ Reflection/
Methodology Conclusions
Conclusions/
Results

Century
21 st
Skills?

Default Habits &
Behaviors for
Ever-changing
World

Complex
≠
Complicated

“text”

Media Evolution

Media Evolution
Live

Media Evolution
Print
Live

Media Evolution
Analog
Print
Live

Media Evolution
Digital
Analog
Print
Live

Core Literacy
Expanded Literacy

We are all Harolds
reading and writing
our world into existence

Takeaways
• Henry Jenkins - Confronting the Challenges of
Participatory Culture
• College Board AP Central - English &
History
• Wesley Fryar - Moving at the Speed of
Creativity
• Marco Torres

It’s not about the
technology
as much as it is about how
technology
impacts the way we think

It all starts with
you

Personal
Learning
Environment

Play
Purpose
Speed

Tools

Tools: RSS
• Google Reader
• Pageflakes
• NewsGator
• Bloglines

Tools: Podcasts
• iTunes
• Odeo
• Podomatic
• Podcast Alley
• Direct Sources

Tools: Ning
• Steve Hargadon - Classroom 2.0, Future of
Education, and LearnCentral
• James Burke - English Companion
• MIT - Project New Media Literacies
• Connie Weber - Fireside Learning

Tools: YouTube
• Channels
• Michael Wesch
• Stephen Heppell
• Google Talks
• Universities

Tools: Twitter
• Real-time Short Messaging
• Following
• Being Followed
• 3rd Party Extensions

Tools

Tools
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Tools
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Tools
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Tools
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2005

Tools
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2005 2006

Everything is
changing so fast.
It’s all new.
We are all novices.

Meta
Data
Age

Learning Ecology
networks
data tools
people knowledge media
experience information
skills

How do you
drink from a
fire-hose?

Everything
is
Miscellaneous

Filtering Mechanisms
•Personal Inquiry
•Managing Stop Points
• Social Networks
• Reflection

We are all
creators,
editors,
reviewers
perforce

Takeaways
• David Weinberg - Everything is Miscellaneous
• Michael Wesch - The Machine is Us/ing Us
• Alan November - November Learning >
Resources

Participate
Beyond
Boundaries

Closing
the

Closing
the
Participatory
Gap

Collection - Collaboration - Cooperation
Community
Participatory Communities
Mentorship Policing

Anyone
Anytime
Anywhere

You do not
have to
reinvent the
wheel

Takeaways
• Youth Voices
• Flat Classroom Project
• Global Education Collaborative
• Network of Professional Communities

21 Century
st
Skills
Operating System
for
the Mind

OS for the Mind
• Managing data and information
• Tracking the change
• Select, collect, and prioritize
• More types of reasoning used
• New skills
• Demands are greater

Thank You
Fred Haas
Hopkinton High School
English Instructor
fhaas@hopkinton.k12.ma.us
haaslearning.wordpress.com
akh003 @ Twitter