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Integrate and Disseminate Cutting-edge Technologies to Engage Kids Learning in Elementary and Middle Schools . - A Consortium of Technology Integration/Innovation in Upstate NY. Background (1). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Integrate and Disseminate Cutting-edge Technologies to Engage Kids Learning in
Elementary and Middle Schools
- A Consortium of Technology Integration/Innovation in Upstate NY
Background (1)
• Rapid technological changes - gap between “digital natives” (Web 2.0 users)and “digital immigrants” (Web 2.1 generation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8
• Web 2.0 – dynamic, interactive, open source– What is it?– Horizon Report (2009)
Background (2)• Web 2.0
– What is it? An intro in 5 minutes• Educational use
– Blog• 8th Graders are blogging on Presidential Campaign (Son Michael's Social
Studies Class Blog) (2 weeks – 83 comments)
– Wiki• The Anatomy wiki - a middle-school class project started in summer 200
8 and began popular (10, 000) visitors… or (StephanieClassWiki)
– YouTube• Science class – eg
. DNA evidence to trace human origins; video by National Geographic - animals, daily news, environment, kids, maps, music, photography, science and space, travels and cultures…
• Teachertube.com – Abraham Lincoln Reads The Gettysburg Address– Free webs (Goggles sites/Wikispaces…)
• Making instant family website – a Cortland family made one during Children’s Museum time
Overall Goal
– Through the Consortium (name?), empower teachers, overcome barriers, disseminate cutting-edge technologies (Web 2.0), make meaningful integration of the technologies into curriculum to engage students and enhance learning outcomes in elementary and middles schools in Upstate NY …
Objectives
• #1: Identify/develop good teaching practices integrating Web 2.0 technologies into curriculum.
• #2: Provide support (technical and instructional design), overcome barriers, empower teachers, and disseminate the practices/activities .
• #3: Engage students and enhance learning outcomes
The Consortium • College
– Dean, PDS coordinator– Faculty (instructional design, technology expertise)– Pre-service teachers– Resources
• Schools– Teachers (active ones + peers)– Technology coordinators– Administrators (superintendents, principals, board…)– Families – Others
• Other existing resources (Technology Centers in schools, Teacher Centers, Career Exchange )
• Kids
Rationale
• Why do we need such a system/mechanism– Computers oversold – underused– Why not using?
• Technical skills• Application/Integration• Resources• Norms, conventions, values, and more
– But if meaningful integration – could be very powerful
Theoretical Framework (1)
• Information Ecology (Nardi, 1999)– Define: a system of people, practices, values, and
technologies in a particular local environment. – Metaphorical
Information Ecology
Epistemological & Ethical beliefs
Technical SupportTime
Budget
District laws
Current technology
Management issues
Activities (meaningful integration)
Teachers
KidsKnowledge structure
interest
Peers
peers
family
Theoretical Framework (1)
• Information ecology (continued)– Is a complex system of parts and relationships. – It exhibits diversity and experiences continual
evolution. – Different parts of an ecology coevolve, changing
together according to the relationships in the system. – Several keystone species necessary to the survival of
the ecology are present. – Information ecologies have a sense of locality.
Norms, Conventions, Values, and more…
Thirty spokes will convergeIn the hub of a wheel;But the use of the cartWill depend on the partOf the hub that is void.
With a wall all aroundA clay bowl is molded;But the use of the bowlWill depend on the partOf the bowl that is void.