Slides from a workshop I gave on November 28, 2008, for k-12 teachers on how to rejig their lessons to take advantage of social media and the affordances offered by free tools available on the internet. The focus was more on pedagogical approaches rather than a suite of tools alone.

1. ^
Extreme Lesson
Plan Makeover

2. Three principles

3. preconceptions

4. Studentsʼ Errors and Misconceptions
(Principle 1)
Based on Previous Learning
Students come to the classroom with conceptions of numbers grounded in their
whole-number learning that lead them astray in the world of rational numbers;
e.g. multiplying always makes numbers bigger.
x =
TEACHERS MUST ENGAGE STUDENTSʼ PRECONCEPTIONS

5. Publish It
networked

6. The Knowledge Network:
(Principle 2)
New Concepts and New Applications
UNDERSTANDING REQUIRES FACTUAL
KNOWLEDGE AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS

7. Create It
metacognition

8. (Principle 3)
Metacognition
A METACOGNITIVE APPROACH
ENABLES STUDENT SELF-MONITORING

9. mind maps

11. solution manuals

13. poster projects

14. mapping project

18. presenting project work

20. your turn

21. K12 Online Conference
http://k12onlineconference.org

22. thanks

23. Photo Credits
Boy is my face red
http://flickr.com/photos/eqqman/224588322/
How Students Learn
http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10126
DAI Gallery
http://flickr.com/photos/herzogbr/1227648062/
Pewter Letters Numbers
http://flickr.com/photos/lwr/sets/72157594512642436/
published me
http://flickr.com/photos/hi-phi/329004580/
This body is networked
http://flickr.com/photos/funksoup/403990660/
Magic is true!
http://flickr.com/photos/7933170@N03/2631820657/
The Thinker
http://flickr.com/photos/renny1967/1509761982/
Mind Mapping
http://flickr.com/photos/sirwiseowl/2101661645/
My version of a quadratic !
http://flickr.com/photos/40256716@N00/316074893/
book shelf project 2 ~ striatic {notes}
http://flickr.com/photos/striatic/730978/
Obligatory Wiki Photo
http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/19490596/
dsc006647
http://flickr.com/photos/49405310@N00/24167123/
High School quot;Gamesquot; Projects
http://flickr.com/photos/mspatt/2367994924/
your turn ;p
http://flickr.com/photos/mariachily/2174723906/