Education 2.0 Breakout Session Preso

CIE: Education 2.0 Emergent Technologies in Education Lucy Gray The Center for Urban School Improvement The University of Chicago 1

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What do you think? 3

“... if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” -John Dewey 4

KnowledgeWorks Foundation: Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas Gen Y Attributes Unbundled Education Participatory Pedagogy Personal Digital Media Media-Savvy Youth Technologies of Cooperation Media Rich Pervasive Learning Integrating Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants 5

Learning 2.0 Society Today: Inﬂuential Buzz Words Attributes of Today’s Kids Emergent Technologies: Technologies of Cooperation and Collaboration Digital Schools and Programs: Participatory Pedagogy Policy for Tomorrow The Digital Divide Critical Questions 6

Inﬂuential Buzz Words The World is Flat A Whole New Mind NCLB Web 2.0 21st Century Skills Partnership for 21st Century Skills American Association of Librarians 7

Evidence Pew Internet & American Life Project NetDay Speak Up Day NSBA Report: Creating and Connecting Grunwald Associates: Kids’ Social Networking Study - more detailed than NSBA; available for purchase SETDA - Maximizing the Impact Report 8

Summary of Pew Findings 93% of 12 to 17 year olds use the internet 87% of parents are online 73% of families have high-speed internet access 89% of online teens have access at home 75% have internet access at school 51% of online teens go online every day 9

Summary of Pew Findings 75% have internet access at school 51% of online teens go online every day 94% of online kids use the internet for school research 41% of online students use email or instant messaging to talk to teachers and classmates about school work 18% of online students know someone who has cheated 10

Today’s Teen - Born 1990 11

First Grade - 1996 12

Fourth Grade - 1999 13

Middle School - 2001-2003 14

High School - 2004 15

Sophomore year - 2005 16

Junior Year - 2005-2006 More than 100 million accounts created Third most popular site in the U.S after Yahoo and Google 55% of online teens use social networking sites 55% of these kids have posted a proﬁle Of those who use social networking sites, 48% visit these sites at least once a day 17

Senior Year - 2007 18

Pew did not include... Twitter Pownce Gaming Email 19

According to the Pew Report... 4 Key Teen Realities: Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a wired world. Mobile gadgets allow them to enjoy media and communicate anywhere Teens know that ordinary citizens can be publishers, movie makers, artists, song creators, and story tellers Teens are multimedia multi-taskers. 20

NetDay SpeakUp Survey Known as Project Tomorrow-NetDay Top devices for K-12 students: computers, cell phones and video game players Top concerns: spam, digital access equity, online cheating Students want schools to relax rules about email, IM, cellphone and online use and to consider laptops for home and school use. 54% of middle schoolers have outside online friends and most have never met face-to-face 21

NetDay - Parents Over 50% of parents are 2/3 of the parents are not satisﬁed with the amount of satisﬁed with the priority technology at their child’s placed on technology use at school and the online safety their school, the amount of protections in place time their child spends using technology at school and how A majority of parents (52%) well technology is integrated do not believe that their into core academic subjects. child’s school is doing a good job of preparing their child to compete for jobs and careers of the 21st century 22

NetDay - Teachers Over 50% say technology Teachers use computers for affects the quality of housekeeping tasks teaching, lesson planning and Only 28% has used email as a student engagement regular communication tool 75% say the use of with students, but 79% have technology has increased communicated electronically student achievement and with parents. performance 47% of teachers believe that Time is the biggest obstacle their school is doing a good to tech integration job of preparing students for the 21st century 23

Technologies of Cooperation Web 2.0 is.... Personal Powerful Pervasive Web 2.0... The Machine is Using Us 24

Tools Blogs Google Tools Wikis Social Networks Podcasts Simulations Photosharing Virtual Reality Chat Video 25

Blogs usually an individual journal Types Examples Cool Cat From the The MUS Lower Teacher/Admin Teacher Blog Principal’s Desk School Blog Consumer Math Collaboration Student Newly Ancient Class Nation Professional Dangerously Weblogged ITM Development Irrelevant 26

Wikis used for collaborative work 27

Wiki Examples Type Examples Educational 50 Ways to Tell A Teacher/Admin Shift Happens Wikis Story 6th Grade Global Student Computer Flat Classroom Collaborations Science Alabama Best Professional Digital Native School Practice Development Wiki Computing Wiki Center 28

Media Sharing web-based tools for organizing & publishing Audio (podcasts) Photos Videos 29

Media Sharing Examples Tools Examples iTunes iTunes U Coulee Kids Room 208 Map of Best Word Merode Flickr Migrations Book Ever Altarpiece YouTube Did You Know? TEDTalks Women in Art Poems by Ms. K-20 Knufﬂe Bunny VoiceThread Gross’s Educators Stories Students Exploring SL 30

Did You Know? 31

Chat communicating with audio, video, and text Sightspeed Skype Twitter Flashmeeting eCamm software uStream.tv iChat AV Many other tools.... 32

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Google online collaborative software Tools Examples Summer Teacher Google Lit Google Earth Tomatoes Project Trips Docs & Scavenger Palo Alto High Alex Ragone’s Spreadsheets Hunt School Skype Preso Mrs. Gray’s Elementary Custom Search Global Voices Sites Language Arts 34

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Simulations & Virtual Reality Second Life ISTE Discovery Education Global Kids Second Life Teen Grid Skoolaborate Quest Atlantis The River City Project 36

MySpace Facebook Ning Orkut Club Penguin Imbee Webkinz Whyville 37

Social Networks 38

Social Networking - Pew Web pages where people post information about themselves, connect with others and share media 55% of online teens using social networking site Older girls are more likely to engage in these sites Teens are increasingly savvy about privacy issues 32% of teens say that they have been contacted by strangers - 23% of these were uncomfortable 32% report have experienced cyberbullying 39

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NSBA/Grunwald Associates Report 9 to 17 year olds spend just about the same amount of time on SN as on TV 96% have accessed some sort of SN technologies; 71% use it weekly School is a frequent topic of conversation despite schools banning SN “Explosive growth” in student authoring Schools have extensive rules against social networking and are leery of the label. 41

NSBA, continued Nonconformists are student leaders, producers of content, and users of new media. Families report few problems with unwelcome encounters and cyberbullying than “school fears and policies seem to imply.” There’s a discrepancy in perceptions. 52% of districts say their students have a problem with providing personal info; 3% of kids report ever giving out personal info to strangers 42

Participatory Pedagogy Rethinking Bloom’s Taxonomy Schools & Programs Digital Youth Network Science Leadership Academy Generation YES Flat Classroom Project MoLLIE 43

Digital Youth Network MacArthur funded intiative 44

Beneﬁts & Pitfalls Personalized learning Ubiquitous computing OLPC Censorship Teacher Asssesment Research What else can you think of? 45

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When I Become A Teacher.... 47

Education 2.0 Breakout Session Preso

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