Improving Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking Skills with Media (August 2012)
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Shared August 7, 2012, in Missoula, Montana: Interested in helping students become better readers, writers, and critical thinkers? We need to “play with media” to become more effective communicators and improve our media literacy skills as both learners and citizens. As you learn to play with digital text, images, audio and video, you will communicate more creatively and flexibly with a wider variety of options. Author and educator Wesley Fryer will inspire and empower you, as a creative person, to expand your personal senses of digital literacy and digital agency as a multimedia communicator! Learn more, order Wesley’s eBook, and access session resources on www.playingwithmedia.com. http://wfryer.me/improve
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- 1. improving reading, writing, & critical thinking skills with by Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. www.speedofcreativity.org 7 August 2012 Missoula, MT playingwithmedia.com
- 2. anyone have pioneer spirit? www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/3471363885
- 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldseem%C3%BCller_map Waldseemüller map (1507)
- 5. digital learning pioneers “terra incognita”
- 6. Outline: http://instagr.am/p/LvKmkxugG6/ truth about edtech why create with media? what’s on the Clark Fork River, Missoula, Montana - August 4, 2012 http://instagram.com/p/N-JdGEugCM/ menu?
- 7. an important goal today: “do no harm” HARM not . not fear overwhelm
- 8. www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/223327646 picture the importance of relationships at school
- 9. too many people today believe in the power of TECHNOLOGY rather than the power of WORDS & PASSIONATE PEOPLE www.flickr.com/photos/jemimus/4824411391
- 10. www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/7175432025 wfryer.me/improve
- 11. For links to today’s presentation resources: Send the text message or scan: wesinfo to 23559 cel.ly/c/wesinfo or visit: wfryer.me/improve
- 12. playingwithmedia.com/pages/about 100% eBook discount through Aug 8, 2012 only! Use discount code: blackfootETC
- 13. <1> truth about ed tech
- 14. truth about <1> educational technology? www.spacepub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/The-Truth-Is-Out-There.jpg
- 15. “If you just buy this...” “your test scores will look like this:” http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f8pXcUqZgA8/TG7TCB1j4cI/AAAAAAAAAos/nIbsPJ_g2ys/s1600/iwanttobelieveel4.jpg
- 16. larrycuban.wordpress.com Dr. Larry Cuban (2003) www.tc.columbia.edu/news.htm?articleID=3911&pub=6&issue=56
- 17. “As for enhanced efficiency in learning and teaching, there have been no advances (measured by higher academic achievement of urban, suburban, or rural students) over the last decade that can be confidently attributed to broader access to computers. No surprise here, as the debate over whether new technologies have increased overall American economic productivity also has had no clear answers. The link between test score improvements and computer availability and use is even more contested.” Dr Larry Cuban. Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom. Harvard University Press. 2003. ISBN: 0674011090. pages 178-179.
- 18. Michael Horn (2008) www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/3349773813/
- 19. “…the billions schools have spent on computers have had little effect on how teachers and students learn… The reason for this disappointing result is that the way schools have employed computers has been perfectly predictable, perfectly logical– and perfectly wrong. As we show in this chapter, schools have crammed them into classrooms to sustain and marginally improve the way they already teach and run their schools, just as most organizations do when they attempt to implement innovations, including computers. Using computers this way will never allow schools to migrate to a student- centric classroom.” Christensen, Horn & Johnson. Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. McGraw Hill. 2008. Pages 72-73.
- 21. Communication with should become ‘the new normal’ in classrooms www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6098473377
- 23. im “as digital pioneers we need to play with media” x t ag t e es audio vide o maps.playingwithmedia.com www.flickr.com/photos/ncsphotography/4247856340
- 24. t im t e x bl ve k og st ag es ti o ac Bo o er e ry nt a ,i i ph con in ed ed at m ot ce 5 o pt ph mashups er ti d l 18 m o o u m m 0 ap to pr s oj ec o t Scratch Projects e Google Earth/Maps Tour d ow au h i e s id st v ‘n it sl ca eo eo di o ed d n id id ed ed p te ee t v v it’ od ra scr pe it o po ca a r p ed dc st n u - p k as t u ic q
- 25. “But Wes: Does educational research show this “increased media menu” will improve test scores?! www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6190432919
- 26. 2001 revision of Bloom's Taxonomy
- 27. www.punahou.edu April 2008 podcast of December 2007 conversation with Judy Beaver http://wfryer.me/110
- 28. research on improving literacy skills? www.marzanoresearch.com Identifying Similarities & Differences Summarizing & Note-Taking Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition Homework & Practice Nonlinguistic Representation Cooperative Learning Setting Objectives & Providing Feedback Generating & Testing Hypotheses Questions, Cues, & Advance Organizers time on task parent involvement http://web2thatworks.com by Stephanie Sandifer @ssandifer
- 29. ...when assigning a project, teachers look for mastery of content and allow students to take ownership of how they present that content. A teacher may ask students to demonstrate their knowledge of photosynthesis, but rather than give them a specific means of doing so, will allow the students to use any available resources to do so. This not only gets the students innovating more as they navigate through this task, but more importantly makes each student’s experience unique and gives them ownership over the product they produce. Some students 15 March may make posters, some a voicethread, some a 2012 powerpoint or prezi, but this should be no problem for the educator as they are assessing on mastery learning objectives and not actual means of presenting them. http://theoffbeatmaestro.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/new-england-11-summit-2/
- 30. www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6190432919 provide assessment choices
- 32. Are you going to let your students CREATE stuff? If not, why not?
- 33. why should we play with media? creativity brains play2learn stories hands-on engage windows fun standards history www.slideshare.net/wfryer/why-play-with-media
- 37. how do you learn “new skills” best? www.flickr.com/photos/pitadel/4951801589
- 38. www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy/5964127786 share a project idea from school
- 43. www.flickr.com/photos/8136496@N05/4198567126 your website as a window into your classroom
- 44. OLPC in Afghanistan: summer 2010 www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/4882646127
- 48. May 2012 www.mdgadvertising.com/blog/its-all- about-the-images-infographic/
- 49. end PowerPoint abuse in your classroom www.presentationzen.com
- 50. by jasoneppink Alan Kay: “The predominant technology in the classroom determines the predominant learning task”
- 51. BYOD?! What will we do differently when students bring devices? www.flickr.com/photos/ivyfield/4486938191
- 52. the menu for demonstrating www.flickr.com/photos/familymwr/5322734002 www.flickr.com/photos/torres21/6048960035 understanding & mastery in your classroom has exploded
- 53. <3> what’s on this new menu? “terra incognita”
- 58. Results from June 6, 2012, in Fort Bend ISD, TX
- 63. The Fire There was a fire ban that year But the carless campers left Leaving smoldering remains behind The fire that ate the forest Wind whispered wordlessly in the trees The fire was given new life Like a new small heartbeat The fire that ate the forest
- 64. ...continued... The fire lit the dry grass It was gathering in strength Like a lion preparing to strike The fire that ate the forest The fire now reached the trees It was a wild beast let free Grey smoke billowed up to the sky The fire that ate the forest
- 68. search.twitter.com hashtag: #comments4kids
- 75. Is this a big deal? Why or why not?
- 77. think of visual literacy and digital literacy as a menu of progressive options
- 78. Story in 5 Photos Narrated Slideshow Digital Story
- 80. Picture 1 www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/1083914660
- 81. Picture 2 www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/1083071925
- 82. Picture 3 www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/1083975764
- 83. Picture 4 www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/1083252779
- 84. Picture 5 www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/1084110378
- 90. www.flickr.com/photos/ecastro/5503890234 How will we have TIME to find & use photos?
- 91. Create a “photo sandbox” website to share photos free: picasa.google.com
- 105. ...one more tool
- 111. closing thoughts www.flickr.com/photos/ dnorman/13885252
- 112. Cub Scout Scrapbook 1949 - 1950 www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6708933389
- 115. 3rd Grade Report Card May 1949 www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6708936719
- 116. What should Rachel’s 12th grade report card look like? www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6577432889
- 117. we’re going exciting places together
- 118. Oct 15, Oct 22-25 & Oct 29 - Nov 2, 2012 http://k12onlineconference.org
- 119. improving reading, writing, & critical thinking skills with by Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. www.speedofcreativity.org 7 August 2012 Missoula, MT playingwithmedia.com