Samantha Morra is an experienced NJ educator and consultant who is passionate about using technology to transform education. She discusses how digital tools have changed learning and how teachers need to engage with technological change to help students. She emphasizes creating an active learning environment that promotes self-directed, passionate learners and using tools like digital storytelling and collaboration to support critical thinking and student voice.

1. Digital Pedagogy
Samantha Morra
Consultant
http://tinyurl.com/morraFETC2015

2. Samantha Morra, Presenter
@sammorra
http://samanthamorra.com/
About.Me
Samantha Morra is a NJ educator with 20 years experience in
public education. She is also a Google Certified Teacher and
has presented at the state and national level. She is an
instructor and consultant and is passionate about technology
and its potential to transform education.

3. Digital Pedagogy

4. pedagogy. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved January 14, 2015, from
Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pedagogy

5. Digital tools have changed
our social and information landscape.

6. Digital tools have changed
our social and information landscape.

7. **
No one who
ever bought
a drill
wanted a
drill.
They wanted
a hole.
-Perry Marshall
http://goo.gl/2UQ7e0
https://twitter.com/perrymarshall/status/511933290631028737

8. Where did you get information
when you were growing up?

9. What did we do B.G.

10. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/EncycBrit1913.jpg

11. The sum of human
knowledge.
It’s in our hands.

12. Teachers are being asked to
teach with tools that did not
exist when they were in school.

13. We teach in a moment
of great change...
we need to choose to engage
with this change ourselves,
so we can help our learners.
— Will Richardson

14. Do I have to?

15. If we teach today's students,
as we taught yesterday's,
we rob them of tomorrow.
- John Dewey

17. I wanted to create an
active learning environment
that promoted self-directed,
passionate,
autonomous learners
who desired mastery.
Daniel Pink - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us http://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc

18. What is the role of
lecture?
Essential Questions

19. What is the best
way for a teacher
to use their face-to-
face time with their
students?
Essential Questions

20. How can you arrange
time so that students do
the most cognitively
difficult work in class?
Essential Questions

21. Who decides what a
student needs to learn and
where and when they
learn?
Essential Questions

22. How can you
make ephemeral
content delivery
permanent?
Essential Questions

23. What do we need
to know about the
digital world?
Essential Questions

24. Digital Life

25. Searchable

26. Scale

27. Participatory

28. Remixable

29. Persistent

30. Data

31. Ubiquitous

33. Communicate

34. Social Media

35. **
PLN
Personal Learning
Network

36. Communication

37. Create

38. Digital Storytelling
Tell your story.
Give students voice and let
them tell their story.

39. Digital Storytelling
is
active,
dynamic,
community building,
and radically democratic

40. Digital Storytelling

41. Digital Storytelling

42. Digital Storytelling

43. Collaborate

44. Collaboration
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
― Aristotle

46. Collaboration

47. Collaboration

48. Learning Spaces

49. Learning Spaceshttps://prezi.com/gbqiep4xof3w/21st-century-classroom/

50. Learning Spaceshttps://prezi.com/gbqiep4xof3w/21st-century-classroom/

51. Learning Spaceshttps://prezi.com/gbqiep4xof3w/21st-century-classroom/

52. Learning Spaceshttps://prezi.com/gbqiep4xof3w/21st-century-classroom/

53. Critical Thinking

54. Bloom’s
Taxonomy
(Revised by
Lorin Anderson)

55. Critical Thinking - Digital Portfolios

56. Critical Thinking - Digital Citizenship

57. Critical Thinking - Coding

58. Critical Thinking - Coding

59. Empathy is THE 21st Century Skill.
Empathy should be included if we are to create the
global citizens we hope our students will become.
Global awareness and the ability for technology to
bring the world into our classrooms is important, but
only if we can use these tools to better understand
ourselves and others.
Critical Thinking - Empathy
https://sites.google.com/site/teachingempathy/

60. Critical Thinking - Empathyhttps://sites.google.com/site/teachingempathy/

61. Critical Thinking - Empathyhttps://sites.google.com/site/teachingempathy/

62. Critical Thinking-Maker Spaces & Gamification
Problem-solving
Playback & Feedback
Messy
Empowering
Community-building
Heroic
Failure must be an option
Students need to know that they
matter!

63. (Culture eats strategy for breakfast. - Peter Drucker)
Culture eats pedagogy
for breakfast.
Our Students Matter

64. Our Students Matter
http://www.mhbabrooklyn.com/#!about1/c1x1t
Must Read: Angela Meiers - The YOU MATTER Manifesto

65. So Much to Do,
So Little Time

68. http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/3293199214/

69. http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/3293199214/

70. **
PLN
Personal Learning
Network

71. **
PLN
Personal Learning Network
PLJ
Personal Learning Journey

72. **
Help them enjoy the journey!
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes
you come alive, and go do it. Because what the
world needs is people who have come alive.”
― Howard Thurman
What makes your
students come alive?

73. Digital Pedagogy
Samantha Morra
Consultant ICLE
http://tinyurl.com/morraFETC2015