New Technologies in the Classroom

Using Emergent Technologies in your teaching Danny Nicholson Think Bank Ltd

Web 1.0
Static
Read only
Top down

Web 2.0
The Read / Write Web
Collaboration
Communication
Sharing
Personalisation
The Web as a platform

Examples
Social Bookmarking (del.icio.us)
Blogging
Wikis
Podcasting
Photo / Video Sharing (Flickr / YouTube)
Online applications (Google docs)
Social Networking

New Literacies
“ If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate”
David Warlick
Redefining Literacy for the 21 st Century
Technology
Information
Media Creativity
But 3R’s still involved.

Publishing changes
Reading
Receiving
Researching
Contributing
Collaborating
Creating
Web 1.0 Web 2.0

Digital Natives “ Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet.” Marc Prensky

Digital Learners: School http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

Digital Learners: College Michael Wesch: http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/ http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

Digital Learner Characteristics
Digitally literate
Connected
Experiential
Social / interactive
Visual and kinaesthetic
Immediate

Digital Learners
Prefer receiving information quickly from multiple multimedia sources.
Prefer parallel processing and multitasking.
Prefer processing pictures, sounds and video before text.
Prefer random access to hyperlinked multimedia information.
Prefer to interact/network simultaneously with many others.
Prefer to learn “just-in-time.”
Prefer instant gratification and instant rewards.
Prefer learning that is relevant, instantly useful and fun.
Ian Jukes and Anita Dosaj, The InfoSavvy Group, February 2003

A few stats….
120,000 new blogs every day
1.5 million posts per day
6000 photos uploaded to Flickr per minute
8 hours of video added to YouTube per minute
If MySpace was a country it would be 8 th largest in the world. (300 million members)

Twitter
Microblogging tool
140 characters max
Can build up a useful network
www.twitter.com

Get the news straight from the source http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix http://twitter.com/CassiniSaturn

del.icio.us
Online bookmarks
Can access from anywhere
Tags make things easy to find
Diigo.com – like del.icio.us but with themed groups
http://del.icio.us/dannynic

Google Docs

Google Docs
Allows for collaborative working
Many users can share docs and work on them
Can work on them in school or at home
Can share with teacher to mark and return
See Tom Barrett’s blog – excellent work on using Google Docs with his year 5/6 class
http:// tbarrett.edublogs.org /

Can fill in a form online – feeds into spreadsheet
http:// snipurl.com/blogsurvey
Surveys

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80516279@N00/2274372747 Other Tools

Student set up a wiki for information about places around the world. Visitors can add a photo and description of where they live
http://karlfisch.wikispaces.com/abbytravelogue

Slideshare.net
Online versions of presentations
Can comment
Embed into blogs
Simply upload powerpoint file to create online version

Example of a “Ning” in education
www.classroom20.com
11,000 members and rising

Don’t just think about the PC How could you use them? These are being brought into schools every day

Visit some of the sites mentioned ( here )
Don’t be afraid to “Lurk”
Participate when you can
Comment and share
Next steps

Reading
Coming of Age – the New WWW by Terry Freedman
http://www.ictineducation.org
Intro to Web 2.0
http://www.squidoo.com/introtoweb20
Digital Signposts
http://theok.typepad.com/digital_signposts/

To avoid a long list of complicated web addresses some reading on Digital Natives is up on my del.icio.us list at;
http://delicious.com/dannynic/digitalnative
A similar list for web 2.0 resources;
http://delicious.com/dannynic/web2.0

http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk	332
http://modelschoolscnyric.pbworks.com	230
http://echucaelearning.wikispaces.com	203
http://www.slideshare.net	15
http://mrskaymedina.edublogs.org	11
http://cnyricbootcamp.pbworks.com	10
http://summercourse10.wikispaces.com	7
http://translate.googleusercontent.com	3
http://whiteboardblog.co.uk	2
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com	1
http://static.slidesharecdn.com	1
http://jamorgan.edublogs.org	1
https://echucaelearning.wikispaces.com	1

New Technologies in the Classroom

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