This document provides an outline for a presentation on mapping media to the Common Core. It discusses the truth about educational technology and cites research showing that technology has not significantly improved test scores on its own. It advocates allowing students to demonstrate their understanding through creative projects using various media. Examples of media-rich student work are presented, showing how assessments can become "windows" into student learning. The presentation argues that students learn best when they can actively create and make things.
1. Mapping Media
to the Common Core
by Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
www.speedofcreativity.org
12 October 2012
Seaside, Oregon
maps.playingwithmedia.com
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8. Outline: http://instagr.am/p/LvKmkxugG6/
truth about
edtech
why create with
media?
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9. an important goal today:
ādo no harmā
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not fear overwhelm
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11. too many people today believe
in the power of
TECHNOLOGY rather than
the power of WORDS &
PASSIONATE PEOPLE
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17. truth about
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technology?
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18. āIf you just
buy this...ā
āyour test
scores will
look like this:ā
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19. larrycuban.wordpress.com
Dr. Larry Cuban
(2003) www.tc.columbia.edu/news.htm?articleID=3911&pub=6&issue=56
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20. āAs for enhanced efļ¬ciency 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 conļ¬dently
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.ā
Dr Larry Cuban. Oversold and Underused: Computers in the
Classroom. Harvard University Press. 2003. ISBN: 0674011090. pages
178-179.
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21. Michael
Horn
(2008) www.ļ¬ickr.com/photos/wfryer/3349773813/
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22. āā¦the billions schools have spent on computers have
had little effect on how teachers and students learnā¦
The reason for this disappointing result is that the way
schools have employed computers has been perfectly
predictable, perfectly logicalā 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.ā
Christensen, Horn & Johnson. Disrupting Class: How Disruptive
Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. McGraw Hill.
2008. Pages 72-73.
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30. āBut Wes: Does educational research show this
āincreased media menuā will improve test scores?!
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32. www.punahou.edu
April 2008 podcast
of
December 2007
conversation
with Judy Beaver
http://wfryer.me/110
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33. 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
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34. ...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 speciļ¬c 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 studentās
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/
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39. please discuss:
whatās GOOD
about this project?
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40. 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
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41. Are you going to
let your students
CREATE stuff?
If not, why not?
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54. May 2012
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55. May 2012
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about-the-images-infographic/
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56. end
PowerPoint
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classroom
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57. by jasoneppink
Alan Kay: āThe predominant technology in the
classroom determines the predominant
learning taskā
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58. BYOD?!
What will we do differently when students bring devices?
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59. the menu for demonstrating
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understanding & mastery
in your classroom
has exploded
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60. <3> whatās on this new menu?
āterra incognitaā
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Leaving smoldering remains behind
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The ļ¬re was given new life
Like a new small heartbeat
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71. ...continued...
The ļ¬re lit the dry grass
It was gathering in strength
Like a lion preparing to strike
The ļ¬re that ate the forest
The ļ¬re now reached the trees
It was a wild beast let free
Grey smoke billowed up to the sky
The ļ¬re that ate the forest
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104. Mapping Media
to the Common Core
by Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
www.speedofcreativity.org
12 October 2012
Seaside, Oregon
maps.playingwithmedia.com
Saturday, October 13, 12