Changing Education with Web 2.0 Tools

Changing Education with Web 2.0 Tools
By Cindy Wright Instructional Technology Specialist Columbus City Schools I believe that we cannot even begin to imagine the changes that are going to take place as the two-way nature of the Internet begins to flower, and that even those of us who have spent time imagining this future will be astounded by what happens. ~ Steve Hargadon Photocredit :http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/15/monarch_stages.jpg

Engaging today’s students means tapping into what is important to them.

We have a responsibility to prepare them for their future, not our past.

Technology allows learners get their information
When they want it
How they want it
Wherever they want it

Today’s students are Digital Natives ( Marc Prensky )
Visual learners
Multi-taskers
Short attention spans
Use technology to express themselves
Information analysts
Content producers
Real-time learners - instant messages, text messages

How students live with technology Different kinds of experiences lead to different brain structures. Dr. Bruce D. Perry, Baylor College of Medicine

Educators must get over the idea that technology will replace them. Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer absolutely deserves to be, because they just do not get it.
Ian Jukes

When I Become A Teacher

Technology is changing
Impossible to keep up with it
Skills learned today will be irrelevant in the near future
Focus less on the technology skill
Focus more on the 21 st century skill

Why Change? You change because you understand learning is dynamic and that to not change means to quit growing. ~ Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog/ Photo credit :http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/15/monarch_stages.jpg

21 st Century Skills
Communication
Innovation
Creativity
Problem-Solving
Interactive
Collaboration
Critical Thinking

Applied skills refer to those skills that enable new entrants to use the basic knowledge acquired in school to perform in the workplace.

What Employers Want:
Professionalism/Work Ethic
Oral and Written Communications
Teamwork/Collaboration
Critical Thinking/Problem Solving

• Professionalism/Work Ethic , Teamwork/Collaboration and Oral Communications are rated as the three “most important” applied skills needed by entrants into today’s workforce. • Knowledge of Foreign Languages will “increase in importance” in the next five years, more than any other basic skill, according to over 60 percent (63.3 percent) of the employer respondents. • Making Appropriate Choices Concerning Health and Wellness is the No. 1 emerging content area for future graduates entering the U.S. workforce as reported by three-quarters of the employer respondents (76.1 percent). • Creativity/Innovation is projected to “increase in importance” for future workforce entrants, according to more than 70 percent (73.6 percent) of employer respondents. Currently, however, more than half of employer respondents (54.2 percent) report new workforce entrants with a high school diploma to be “deficient” in this skill set.

Welcome to Web 2.0

Web 2.0
Open source content and applications
Sites that get their value from their users
Blogs/Microblogs
Wikis
Social Networking/Bookmarking Sites
RSS Feeds
Podcasting

Open Source Content and Applications
Anyone can be a publisher
All open source material is free
Relies on a community that encourages reusing materials
Tools for commentary/free expression-text, audio, video
Supports social networking

Impacting the Classroom With Web 2.0 Tools

Create your own Personal Learning Network
How can web 2.0 tools help you become a better teacher?
How can you work smarter not harder?
How can you feel connected to teachers with similar issues, feelings, worries, struggles?
Get a Network!

Not this type of network

But a professional network

Begin building your PLN
Join a professional social network. I belong to Classroom 2.0 (Ning) and the Discovery Educator’s Network (Discovery Education) (http://socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com/)
Find 3-5 Blogs (Google Blogs) you like and subscribe to them using RSS feeds or Google Reader
Join a microblogging network like Twitter or Plurk
Lurk for awhile
Participate-Become a part of the conversation

Classroom 2.0 Ning http://www.classroom20.com/ A great place for building contacts with other educators who are interested in using Web 2.0 tools. A weekly live show on Saturdays gives members a chance to communicate and learn together. ISTE Ning http://www.iste-community.org A new Ning created by ISTE to promote communication among ISTE members. Special Interest Groups for Tech Coordinators, 1:1 and more give an opportunity for focused conversations. 1. Join a Social Network

2. Find 3-5 Blogs to follow

Really simple syndication, a way of aggregating web content in one place. Users subscribe to sites with RSS feeds and the aggregators collects new content and sends it to your desktop. So the content of 30 sites is visible in one place.
Aggregators
Bloglines.com
Netvibes.com
Subscribe to Blogs using RSS

www.bloglines.com
Instead of checking out all 25 student Weblogs every day, you could just collect their work in your aggregator using their RSS feeds.

Microblogging tool
140 characters or less
Use it to see what others are doing
Use it to ask questions and get ideas
http://www.commoncraft.com/show 3. Join a microblogging site

Twitterator
http://twitterator.org/
Use this URL to be added to STAR Discovery Educators list
http://tinyurl.com/4a7mnu
http://www.edutopia.org/twitter-professional-development-technology-microblogging

Impacting the Classroom With Web 2.0 Tools

Wikis
www.pbwiki.com
www.wikispaces.com
www.wetpaint.com
www.wikipedia.com

Wiki
A free online writing space that is created and edited by multiple authors
Encourages collaboration
Student interaction
Easy-to-use interface for creating Web pages
No software - all you need is Web-based
Public or private, and you can invite participants

What can you do with a Wiki?
Build a classroom/school newspaper online
Publish student projects and research
Manage documents
Use as a presentation tool
Debate course topics, assigned readings
Design a student-created “Solutions Manual”
Support service learning projects (build a website about a challenge in your city)

Wikis http://whsbulldogs.wikispaces.com

http://mehs-slockuk.wikispaces.com/Friends

Wikis
http://rdsc.wikispaces.com/Economics
Http://fpdm.wikispaces.com/FP+cookbook

www.wikispaces.com Now we're taking the next step - we want to give away 100,000 free K-12 Plus wikis. That includes all the features and benefits that normally cost $50/year - for free. No fine print, no usage limits, no advertising, no catches.

Social Bookmarking
Web based service where shared lists of user created Internet bookmarks are displayed. Allows user to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources by tagging sites.
Diigo.com
Del.icio.us
http://handouts.wesfryer.com/ohio

Social Bookmarking
Saves links to web pages
Web based so your bookmarks are available anywhere-not just on one computer in the favorites
Share web page links with others
Create “networks” of people with like interests and bookmarks
Organize your web pages with tags

Social Bookmarking
Users create “clouds” of tags to easily locate resources
http://www.diigo.com/list/eflclassroom/web-20

http://www.slideshare.net/lwright3768/

www.slideshare.net

Digital Video www.zamzar.com

What will you do today?
Build digital literacy
Use the right tool for the job
Use the tools to communicate more effectively
Create learning networks for teachers and students
Provide learning whatever, whenever, wherever
Provide authentic learning experiences-engaging and contextual
Provide opportunities beyond the classroom

Don’t prepare us for your world, prepare us for our world. http://www.boxoftricks.net/?page_id=29 –Box of Tricks

My contact information:
Cindy Wright
Columbus City Schools
737 E. Hudson St.
Columbus, OH 43211
614-365-5102
[email_address]

http://edudemic.com	844
http://wvlearns.k12.wv.us	594
http://bhlmc.wikispaces.com	568
http://www.scoop.it	351
https://jujo00obo2o234ungd3t8qjfcjrs3o6k-a-sites-opensocial.googleusercontent.com	204
http://soldage.blogspot.com	156
http://www.ktp-qualification.eu	148
http://www.shambles.net	109
http://internetpopu11.blogspot.com	88
http://inmaiclass.wordpress.com	74
https://uoit.blackboard.com	73
http://karenansjournal.blogspot.com	73
http://www.slideshare.net	68
https://bcc.blackboard.com	66
http://pltrishs.global2.vic.edu.au	58
http://learningdigital.wikispaces.com	56
http://eduaction21.kr	53
http://mbk44.wikispaces.com	50
http://mrsrenoclassconnection.blogspot.com	49
http://www.rvcsd.net	44
http://mcarte66.weebly.com	43
http://www.weebly.com	42
http://campusib.fh-burgenland.at	42
http://onlineteachingretreat.wordpress.com	37
http://teachingictk12.wikispaces.com	35
http://web20yeducacion-lyly.blogspot.com	34
http://bestaristmichael.blogspot.com	34
http://rockchalk302.blogspot.com	33
http://darya-speechpractice.blogspot.com	33
http://comunicare.sos-ismb.ro	33
http://rvcsd.net	32
http://feeds.feedburner.com	28
http://enggram4u.blogspot.com	27
http://paper.li	26
http://digabites.co.uk	25
https://onlineteachingretreat.wordpress.com	17
http://internetpopu11.blogspot.com.ar	17
http://2167311259.nvmodules.netvibes.com	16
http://bogspace.com	16
http://2seizetheday.blogspot.com	15
http://jujo00obo2o234ungd3t8qjfcjrs3o6k-a-sites-opensocial.googleusercontent.com	14
http://edingv.blogspot.com	14
http://enricgil.wordpress.com	13
http://www.watchknow.org	13
http://cv.uoc.edu	12
http://mulculcur.blogspot.com	11
http://shambles.net	11
http://english4lawstudents.blogspot.com	9
http://evgeniyaae.blogspot.com	8
http://soldage.blogspot.com.es	8
http://233vlcteachers.wikispaces.com	7

Changing Education with Web 2.0 Tools

by Cindy Wright on Feb 02, 2009

Accessibility

Categories

Tags

Upload Details

Usage Rights

118 Embeds 4,583

Statistics

Changing Education with Web 2.0 Tools — Presentation Transcript