From editor, Richard Byrne:
There are teachers around the world who
want to use technology in their classrooms,
but they’re just not sure where to start.
That’s why eleven prominent bloggers,
teachers, and school administrators got
together to create this free ebook.
Contents:
Introduction: pages 2-3
An Administrator's View: pages 4-7
Elementary School: pages 8-25
Middle School: pages 26-35
High School: pages 36-42
ESL/ELL: pages 43-46
Teaching Online: pages 47-50
Connect Via Skype: pages 51-61
Elementary School Blogging: pages 62-65
Alternative Ed Tech: pages 66-68
Social Media for Educators: pages 69-71
Contributors:
Steven Anderson
Adam Bellow
Richard Byrne
George Couros
Larry Ferlazzo
Lee Kolbert
Patrick Larkin
Cory Plough
Beth Still
Kelly Tenkely
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
From editor, Richard Byrne:
There are teachers around the world who
want to use technology in their classrooms,
but they’re just not sure where to start.
That’s why eleven prominent bloggers,
teachers, and school administrators got
together to create this free ebook.
Contents:
Introduction: pages 2-3
An Administrator's View: pages 4-7
Elementary School: pages 8-25
Middle School: pages 26-35
High School: pages 36-42
ESL/ELL: pages 43-46
Teaching Online: pages 47-50
Connect Via Skype: pages 51-61
Elementary School Blogging: pages 62-65
Alternative Ed Tech: pages 66-68
Social Media for Educators: pages 69-71
Contributors:
Steven Anderson
Adam Bellow
Richard Byrne
George Couros
Larry Ferlazzo
Lee Kolbert
Patrick Larkin
Cory Plough
Beth Still
Kelly Tenkely
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Amanda Lenhart presented to the Education Writers Association Annual Meeting. This presentation offers an overview of the findings and insights from the Writing, Technology and Teens report. The report and the presentation examine the intersection between writing and technology for teens, in both the academic and social spheres.
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An interesting (and extremely text-heavy) profile of some of the biggest names in educational theory and reform. Some original thoughts thrown in. If you are looking for a quick read, look elsewhere. But if you want to find out a lot about the various problems and possibilities in our educational system, this might be your cup of tea.
Cengage Webinar: Teaching American Government to the digital generationCengage Learning
Who are 'digital natives'? How do they learn? In this webinar, Dr. Robert Starken of the University of Texas explores these questions and more as they relate to getting students to engage with the study of American Government.
A follow up on the event, What's Next wherein principals, counselors and influencers from the education industry contributed on creating a blueprint for education for tomorrow
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Keynote for Newman University 08.09.2021
In this talk, Debbie will explore the cacophony of voices communicating through different channels and telling us how we ‘should’ prepare for our teaching. Which ones should we listen to? In metadata analysis, the ‘outlier’ was traditionally excluded from the analysis – however, recent evidence points to the outliers pointing the way for new trends. Participants are warmly invited to consider the voices they are hearing and map them in any format; you are warmly welcomed to add your thoughts on which are the ‘loudest’ voices onto the padlet, and post conference, if there is interest, we can co-author a blog post for the National Teaching Fellow blog.
Amanda Lenhart presented to the Education Writers Association Annual Meeting. This presentation offers an overview of the findings and insights from the Writing, Technology and Teens report. The report and the presentation examine the intersection between writing and technology for teens, in both the academic and social spheres.
4/25/08
An interesting (and extremely text-heavy) profile of some of the biggest names in educational theory and reform. Some original thoughts thrown in. If you are looking for a quick read, look elsewhere. But if you want to find out a lot about the various problems and possibilities in our educational system, this might be your cup of tea.
Cengage Webinar: Teaching American Government to the digital generationCengage Learning
Who are 'digital natives'? How do they learn? In this webinar, Dr. Robert Starken of the University of Texas explores these questions and more as they relate to getting students to engage with the study of American Government.
A follow up on the event, What's Next wherein principals, counselors and influencers from the education industry contributed on creating a blueprint for education for tomorrow
TEDx Phnom Penh - Heroes and innovations in educationsamng
Presented at a TEDx workshop session in Phnom Penh on 22 May 2012. The session reviewed existing materials on TED and looked at other innovations in education with a particular focus on developing countries (like Cambodia) and the role of technology.
Outliers and insiders: a Kaleidoscope of voices influencing our decision making debbieholley1
Keynote for Newman University 08.09.2021
In this talk, Debbie will explore the cacophony of voices communicating through different channels and telling us how we ‘should’ prepare for our teaching. Which ones should we listen to? In metadata analysis, the ‘outlier’ was traditionally excluded from the analysis – however, recent evidence points to the outliers pointing the way for new trends. Participants are warmly invited to consider the voices they are hearing and map them in any format; you are warmly welcomed to add your thoughts on which are the ‘loudest’ voices onto the padlet, and post conference, if there is interest, we can co-author a blog post for the National Teaching Fellow blog.
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This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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1. Learning In the 21st Century
Presented by Julie Coates
Sr. Vice President, LERN
LERN Annual Conference, New Orleans, 2015
2. Some Sobering Statistics
about Learning in America
Working Harder, not Smarter
The US ranks 14th in the world with the number of 24-35 year olds
with higher education credentials
The odds that a young person in the U.S. will be in higher education
if his or her parents do not have an upper secondary education are
just 29% -- one of the lowest levels among OECD countries.
The U.S ranks 28th in the percentage of 4-year-olds in early
childhood education, with a 69% enrolment rate.
Across all OECD countries, 30% of the expenditure on higher
education comes from private sources, while in the U.S., 62% does.
Teachers in the U.S. spend between 1,050 and 1,100 hours a year
teaching – much more than in almost every country
3. When NOT having a
generation gap is a negative
24-35 year olds have only 5%
greater attainment of post
secondary credentials than
54-65 year olds.
Other countries are seeing a
larger difference between
older and younger generations
Smallest gap in ability
to use information and
communication
technology for problem
solving
20+% of 54-65 year-olds
40% of 24-35 year –olds
(below the OECD
average of 50%)
4. Fewer People Do Better Than
Their Parents
The US has one of the smallest proportions of young adults who
surpassed their parents’ level of education
15% as compared with 22% overall
62% of female students graduated in 6 years
56% of male students graduated in 6 years
5. There are more older students
Between 2000 and 2012, the enrollment of students
under age 25 and the enrollment of those age 25 and
over both increased by 35 percent.
From 2012 to 2023, however, NCES projects the rate of
increase for students under age 25 to be 12 percent,
compared with 20 percent for students age 25 and
over.
6. Today’s students
are emotionally
less well than at
any time in
history.
The CDC now
estimates that
one in every 68
students over
the age of 8 is on
the autism
spectrum.
Simultaneously,
the numbers
with average or
above average
intelligence is
increasing.
The vast
majority of
students today
have to balance
studies with
work and still,
many live below
the poverty line.
The average level
of student debt
for a college
graduate today is
$30,000, even
though students
work while in
school
Faculty
development is a
critical issue for 21st
century teachers,
along with
structures that
support student
learning.
AndragogyPoverty &
Work
Cognitive
Difference
Mental
Health
Debt
“Students who come to college feeling
depressed and not emotionally well tend
not to graduate,”
7.
8.
Six Myths about Learning in the 21st Century
#1: Just because it is online does not
make it 21st Century
9. We have a hard
time envisioning
the future.
1. Adaptive
Learning
2. Gamification
3. Flipped
Classrooms
4. Blended
Learning
5. Mobile
Learning
6. Visual
Learning
Source: Edutopia: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/the-future-of-learning-beth-holland
10. #2: We Embrace Diversity
DIVERSITY
1 : the inclusion
of different
types of people
(as people of
different races
or cultures) in a
group.
11. The College holds the
diversity of human
perspectives and gifts to
be indispensable
Makes possible the
education of distinctive
graduates prepared for
lifelong learning, in the
21st century.
“Inclusion is an essential dimension of
academic excellence.”
12. Visible Diversity & Invisible
Diversity
Autism
Bi-sexual
Working class
Middle Class
Doesn’t need to work
13. #3: Learning Happens in School
“It isn’t what people don’t know
that hurts them. It’s what they do
know that just ain’t so.”—Will
Rogers
14. • Smoking has gone from doctor-
recommended to deadly
• We used to think the Earth was
the center of the universe
• Pluto is a planet
• Brontosaurus was a real
dinosaur
• Dinosaurs were cold-blooded
Students Learn
EVERYWHERE from an
early age.
Half the facts you know
are wrong.
People cling to selected
“facts” as a way to justify
their beliefs about how the
world works. Science
increases exponentially,
doubling in size every 10–
15 years.
16. Learning Rewards Learning
Learning Rewards Learning
• It’s all about dopamine.
You may have heard
about dopamine
because it is the
chemical that is
released in the brain
when we are rewarded.
• It is also released when
a person gambles and
wins (or loses), takes
certain addictive drugs
like cocaine, or just
engages in a new
exciting adventure.
• Novelty
• Relevance
• Engagement
• Reinforcement
17. Within current classrooms,
most of us ask our students
to sit in the same types of
seats, to use the same texts,
notebooks, and technology,
and to work within an
environment configured
primarily by the teacher.
20. 6
Listening to teachers
and studying for tests
has little to do with life
in the world of work.
People in the work
world create,
manage, evaluate,
communicate, and
collaborate—
engage..
Schooling
Prepares
Students
for Life
#6: Education prepares
students to learn
21. Listening to teachers and
studying for tests has little
to do with life in the world
of work. People in the work
world create, manage,
evaluate, communicate,
and collaborate—engage..
Schooling
Prepares
Students
for Life
Education prepares
students to learn
22.
23. Demographic
Realities
• Boomers are not retiring at
65.
• In 15 years, all Baby
Boomers will be over 65.
• The more education, the
longer people continue to
work.
• More engaged workers
retire later.
• 49% of Boomers still
working plan to retire after
age 66.
• Boomers currently
comprise nearly 31% of
the workforce. (about
equal to Gen X and Gen
Y)
• Between 27% and 38% of
workplace training
happens online.
25. Older Adults and the Internet
Internet Use by
Older Adults
58% of adults 65+ use the
Internet.
81% of adults 50-64 use the
Internet
Of Baby Boomers seeking an
MBA 44% preferred online
delivery, compared with
22% of Millennials and 28%
of Gen Xers.
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/06/26/americans-internet-access-
2000-2015/ and http://www.aacsb.edu/blog/2015/june/reaching-
millennials-and-gen-xers-in-the-classroom/
26. Boomers Like Online
Learning
Intuitive Interfaces
Avoid confusing or unclear processes
Set content in a readable font
Don’t treat them like they’re old. They don’t like that.
Opportunity to interact
Opportunity to share what they know
Opportunity to “lurk” when they feel uncertain
Quickest way to the goal
Prefer online learning more than Gen X or Gen Y
http://elearningbrothers.com/how-to-target-the-right-generation-in-elearning/
27. How Boomers Learn
Best Online
• Tell them up front what the
course will cover, what the
objectives are and what
they need to master
• Present in a linear fashion
• Cover information in a
logical, progressive
fashion
• Boomers will learn what
they are told is expected
• Boomers will always want
to make an “A”
How to Design E-Learning for
Multiple Generations
December 16, 2013 E-
Learning Blog
Source: http://freddiediazbatista.com/main/tag/baby-boomers/
28. Gen X and Online
Learning
Appreciate new technology
Expect Interactivity
Prefer linear content
Want options to “test out”
when they believe they
know what they need to
know
Choices (turn audio on or
off, for example)
Training on what they need
NOW, not 6 months from
now—performance support
tool or job aid they can
refer to later
Games and simulations
More performance support
tools
29. How to state
Objectives for Gen X
and Gen Y
To meet Generation X’s preference
for learning takeaways, we began
building more performance
support tools for those tasks that
learners don’t perform often.
Because this group likes choice,
we also added an audio on/off
and closed-captioning option to
many of our courses.
For Generation X (and Y) learners,
we changed the way in which we
write course objectives. If you put
objectives at the beginning of an
e-learning program, Baby Boomers
will read and accept them.
Generation Xers and Yers won’t. So
we began telling a story instead.
The story usually explains why the
training is necessary (e.g., Here’s a
situation and here is the outcome
that will occur if the situation is not
handled properly).
WHY
1. Tell a story
2. Explain why the training
is necessary
30. Millennials Spend 18 Hours a Day
Consuming Media -- And It's Mostly
Content Created By Peers
ages 18 to 36 spend an average of 17.8 hours a day
with different types of media.
Those hours represent a total across multiple media
sources, some of which are consumed simultaneously.
User-generated content shapes millennials' lives more
than any other form of media.
Information gathered through user-generated
content is trusted 40 percent more than information
from other media – including newspapers and
magazines.
Millennials also find user-generated content 30
percent more memorable than other sources.
32. On Demand
Learning
What they need
When they need it
When it is convenient
Online, Podcasts, Peer-
to-Peer
Mentors
33. Technology has enabled this generation
to expect "instant digital gratification"
• . . .through mobile phones,
ipods, iphones and so on, and
although it might be a bit
extreme, if we translate that
into learning expectations, we
can assume that the way
learning is designed and
delivered needs to be re-
thought.
Robert Spence: Director e-Learning at
Pricewaterhousecoopers
34. Genuine Desire to Learn
“Somewhere between my
desire to learn and the
professor’s efforts to teach,
something goes terribly wrong.”
Willie Draves, 2006
42. Ubiquitous, Embedded, Invisible Technology
In much the same way that students may
configure their physical learning spaces, they
could also design their digital ones. In the
Jetsons, Elroy relied on his "homework helper"
to support his learning. However, he had
limited access to the machine given its size --
and that it was built into the wall.
Mobile devices allow students to access their
academic support from anywhere at any time.
Technology has truly become ubiquitous. In
fact, it is so embedded in our society that all of
us carry in our pockets the ability to access
information and communicate with others.
44. During the 2015 holiday season, 53
percent of Millennials with
smartphones and tablets are
expected to do more shopping on
their devices than they do in brick-
and-mortar stores.
The findings showed that 18-34-year-
olds rely on mobile devices, both to
make purchases and look for deals
as they peruse store aisles in person.
And that trend has far-reaching
implications for the years ahead.
Source: Survey From Waltham, Mass.-based software
performance company Dynatrace.
45. Six 21st Century
Techniques
5.
Gamification/Game
Based Learning in
the online
environment
http://indusgeeks.com/blog/
Over 60% of learners would be
motivated by leader boards and
increased competition between
students.89% say that a point
system would increase their
engagement with an eLearning
application.
49. More Tips for Success with Gen Y
Scenarios
Offer diversity
Let them take control
Relevant content
Challenging and
unpredictable
Allow learners to take
risks
Gamify the course with
rewards
Chunk Information
Use Social Learning
Tools
Be Flexible
Be Dynamic
Allow multi-tasking
http://info.shiftelearning.com/blog/bid/219404/Top-12-Must-Do-Things-
to-Reach-Millennials-Through-eLearning
50. What Aetna Did for Gen Y Learners
The Thiagi Group
Four-Door approach to
e-learning, in which
learners choose their
best learning style and
can shift from one to
another to meet their
needs our Generation Y
learners.
The Library (performance
support and reference
materials for self-study
The Playground learning
through gaming
The Café learning
through social interaction
The Torture Chamber the
opportunity to test one’s
skills or knowledge
through simulation
51. If we want this new
generation of learners to
be engaged, we need to
get to know them and
adapt our courses.
52. Genuine Desire to Learn
If we teach today’s students as
we taught yesterday’s, we rob
them of tomorrow.”
John Dewey
53.
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