Who I am

1000 Students
140 Grade 8 Math Students

Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada

This is how close we are to each other
Only 2500 km apart!
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It isn’t all snow and cold.
Summers are great.

Darren Kuropatwa
Introduced to Blogging
and Social Networks in
2005
Started a class blog
immediately

Sargentparkmathzone.blogspot.com
Makeitinteresting.blogspot.com

K12 Online
Conference
Release the Hounds

What are you saying?
What message does the “way”
you teach convey to your
students?

Historica Heritage
Minute

Who was Marshal
Mcluhan?

Kelvin High School

University of Toronto Centre
for Culture and Technology 1963

What was the Medium is the message?

Medium

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What new medium have you added to your classroom
to change your message

Pew Internet Survey 2007

Pew Internet Survey 2007

Pew Internet Survey 2007

Pew Internet Survey 2007

Pew Internet Survey 2007

A Medium is anything from which CHANGE emerges.

All
Ideas Innovation

What is the Meaning of The Medium is
the Message?
by Mark Federman
Chief Strategist
McLuhan Program in Culture and
Technology

1970’s or Today?

Implications for Education

Fear
?

The Medium is the Message

Assembly Line
Teaching machines

Rooted

Factory Jobs?

Past/Future

Ways in which classroom is open all day

Conduit

Lightning Rod

(Principle 1) TEACHERS MUST ENGAGE STUDENTS! PRECONCEPTIONS
Students’ Errors and Misconceptions Based on Previous Learning
Students come to the classroom with conceptions of numbers grounded
in their whole-number learning that lead them astray in the world of
rational numbers; e.g. multiplying always makes numbers bigger.
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Source: How Students Learn Photos Source
Title: Nov 15-9:27 PM (2 of 9)

UNDERSTANDING REQUIRES FACTUAL
(Principle 2) KNOWLEDGE AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
The Knowledge Network: New Concepts of Numbers and New Applications
What are the core ideas that define the domain of rational numbers?
What are the new understandings that students will have to construct?
How does a beginning student come to understand rational numbers?
Source: How Students Learn Photo source
Title: Nov 15-10:14 PM (3 of 9)

A METACOGNITIVE APPROACH
(Principle 3) ENABLES STUDENT SELF-MONITORING
Metacognition and Rational Number
A metacognitive approach to instruction helps students monitor their
understanding and take control of their own learning. The complexity of
rational number—the different meanings and
representations, the challenges of comparing
quantities across the very different
representations, the unstated unit—all mean that
students must be actively engaged in sense
making to solve problems competently. We
know, however, that most middle school
children do not create appropriate meanings for
fractions, decimals, and percents; rather, they
rely on memorized rules for symbol
manipulation.
Photo source Source: How Students Learn
Title: Nov 15-10:14 PM (4 of 9)

Today’s
Student?

Change in Social Life

Social networks,
cellphones texting etc

Notebook Usage 1.0 =(

Scribe Posts

The World
is shrinking

Global Village

Person

Horse

Train

Air Travel

20th Century Media

21st Century Connections

Tools used to make your class more
connected

Now

post06wash@photos.flickr.com
Take a picture of someone and email it to this address.

Google?

Unprojects take content and push the
boundaries

Expertvoices.blogspot.com

http://teamlrjdev.blogspot.com/

Spunproject08.wikispaces.com/Erick+Jerome

A Medium is anything from which CHANGE emerges.