Spheres

Slide 1: Ec+i 831 Computers In The Classroom Feb 12, 2008 Spheres of Influence Sharon Peters LEARN sharonpeters@gmail.com mtl-peters.net/blog

Slide 2: “Understand the word, understand the world” understand the world”

Slide 3: I conjecture that by 2018, a student will routinely be judged not only by her ability to write a 5-paragraph essay but her ability to represent her ideas via a 5 minute podcast, 2 minute movie, and level in an educational game.

Slide 4: “Teenagers (we) learn through relationship (networks)”

Slide 5: “Creeping Disconnection...” Social Neuroscience

Slide 6: ... on the topic of backchanneling iLike.... Matthew

Slide 7: Meg Meg Meg Fictionpress - Simply Meg ICT in Education - Music on the Internet A Real Teen Talks about Blogging and Social Spaces Facebook

Slide 8: Nat Runescape YouTube for music videos

Slide 9: To be literate, we must make meaning from all the information that is available to us - multi-modal information audio graphical visual tactile symbolic/representational

Slide 10: Rationale : LITERACY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Literacy, simply put, is about meaning-making Quote taken from the Québec Education Program

Slide 11: These tools offer affordances for students to making meaning

Slide 13: The need to include “visual grammar” into our frameworks of literacy

Slide 14: It’s all about AUDIENCE Moist Continental LCC Blogs

Slide 16: Let’s Go Global! Online Collaborative Learning Projects Sharon Peters LEARN sharonpeters@gmail.com mtl-peters.net/blog

Slide 17: Global Projects begin.....

Slide 18: ...with Globally-Minded Educators

Slide 19: What did this globally-minded student have to say? "Thank From a Neveh Channah student after receiving peer review from a student from LCC: you for taking the time to read my paper. I was touched by your warm words and the gentle criticism. Yes, some of the spelling should be edited and I didn't want to burden the reader with too many details and information....I would love to host you here in Jerusalem and to join you personally on a walking tour through the streets of Nachlaot." "Thank you for taking the time to read my paper. I was touched by your warm words and the gentle criticism. Yes, some of the spelling should be edited and I didn't want to burden the reader with too many details and information....I would love to host you here in Jerusalem and to join you personally on a walking tour through the streets of Nachlaot."

Slide 20: These partnerships provide opportunities for students to "be human together" (Siemens)

Slide 21: Skills Built •Multiple Literacies: digital, cultural, media Cross-cultural communication • Critical thinking • Synthesis and summary Info literacy, research, validation, authentication of facts Negotiation and collaboration

Slide 22: Award-winning Global Projects • GVC Virtual Classroom Web Design(2007 Silver Award Global Team 06 Wikispace - Contest) • From Jerusalem to Montréal - ( ISTE SigTEL ) 2007 Silver Award • Flat Classroom Project - (2007 Gold Award ISTE SigTEL) • Technospud Projects (2006 Global Schoolnet Award)

Slide 23: "From all of the work that we have done with other studen I have learned how to look over other people's work and l them edit my own.”

Slide 24: (Metacognitive skills built) “From working with other students, I also learned how to be patient and not always want things to happen at the exact moment I would like them to, but rather wait and spend more time on something to make it even better." - Matthew, grade 7 - Matthew, grade 7 - Matthew, grade 7

Slide 25: Karen Guth - teacher at Neveh Channah School in Etzion Bloc, Israel:"I would say that this became a project that engaged the minds, skills, and hearts of our students. It turned the English Bagrut project into an international research, writing, thinking, and teaching opportunity."

Slide 27: Other Portals • LEARN (Québec) site for Classroom Exchanges • Israeli Pedagogical Network for Collaborative Learning • Global Virtual Classroom • Global SchoolNet • iEARN • Taking IT Global • Teachers Without Borders (need for provincial coordinator)

Slide 28: Research • Self-Regulated Learning / Metacognition (Ley & Young, 2001, Hadwin & Winne, 1996, Boekaerts, 2000) • Collaborative knowledge construction environments (Jonassen 1995, Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1994) - computers no longer support ONLY individualized instruction • Improvement in motivation, learning and problem-solving behaviour (Hoyles, Healy and Pozzi, 1994)

Slide 30: Your Network is Your Filter. (Tapscott) We learn from the company we keep. (Smith)

Slide 31: Who is “the company” you keep?

Slide 32: What are your spheres of influence?