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Focus: Teaching in a Networked ClassroomDid You Know.....
Enduring Understanding:
  • Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society.
  • Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S.
Essential Question:How does teaching change in the networked classroom?
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  • Teaching in a new networked world
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Notes
(The following is from last October but I think still relevant to this topic)
I have an interesting week coming up. Monday I am giving a 45 minute presentation to our high school students on Internet Safety. Of course with HS students you can't call it Internet Safety...so I've decided to take a positive approach and call it "Creating your online profile". We're going to take 45 minutes and look at how what you post online does in fact create your digital profile. Whether it is facebook, youtube, or search history. Anything and everything you do on the internet is kept some where....and students just don't get that.

After the 45 minute presentation I'll then spend the rest of Monday and Tuesday going class by class and talking with students on a more intimate level. I'm struggling with how do you talk to students in their world? You know they are going to be looking at me going "Yeah, we know this Jeff!".....could be my toughest crowd to date.

In my research for the presentation though I did come across some great stuff about what is happening out there in the "real world." How universities are using Facebook and Myspace and doing Google Searches on incoming students. Here are some links if you are interested.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22093513-26040,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2006-03-08-athletes-websites_x.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TakeControlOfYourLife/Story?id=3171218&page=1
http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSN0224087420070806

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So what does all of this have to do with teaching in a new network space?

Are we teaching students to how protect themselves? How to create a positive digital footprint. Heck are we teaching teachers how to do this. Are both teachers and students learning how to find information and use the tools they have to be more productive? Watch this video below of an educator who interviews one of the main engineers at Google. Did you know that Google could do all this? Did you learn anything new?



There there is Clarence Fisher. Middle School teacher in Snow Lake, Canada. A town of just under 1000 people his students are some of the most connected in the world because their teacher understands how to teach and use the information that is stored in the network. What are your thoughts on Clarence's latest teachings on bias.

Podcasts and frustrations

Many of you have experienced frustrations with creating and uploading a podcast assignment. Let me say that all I expect is that before this class finishes that you have a podcast linked to your blog so you have time to try and figure it out.

And figure it out you must. :) I gave very little direction for how to create a podcast...and I did it on purpose (I know I'm mean!). What I want to do is push you to learn something new. To work on your searching and acquire new skills on your own. Sure I could have created a video for you, could have given you all the information and walked you through step by step on how to do it. But what would you have learned? How to follow directions?

Teaching in a networked environment means allowing people to create their own knowledge. Allowing them to find the information they need and create meaning from it. Creating a podcast isn't easy and it takes time to learn all the little steps needed to create and publish a podcast. But once you learn it...it becomes a powerful tool.



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