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March 8-14
| Focus: The new connected world | Did You Know..... | |
| Enduring Understanding: | evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning. | |
| Essential Question: | Does the Internet and the connections it created truly changed teaching and learning? | |
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| Add a link to your blog: | Jeff's Blog (started in 2005) Marilyn's Blog (started in 2008 but not written in very often) | |
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| What is it with all the geeks today making a stink about how technology is changing our world? Why all of a sudden do we HAVE to be teaching With (big word there) technology? Before I continue I would like you to watch this 8 minute video (to the right) created by a Technology Coordinator out of Colorado. This video has a great story. The short version is he created it in August of 2006 to show all the teachers in his district at the start of the school year. Two years later, the PowerPoint that he created has been viewed over 6 million times and has been continually updated with the latest information. Karl Fisch is the creator and I encourage you to add his blog The Fisch Bowl to your RSS reader if you don't already have it. So what does all this mean? I don't know....I guess it means different things to different people. You'll have to take some time to ponder what this 8 minute presentation is trying to say to educators. For me it talks about the pace of change and how we can not ignore what technology has done and continues to do to our society. As the pace of change continues what skills do our students need to have to be successful in this new fast pace world? The slide that talks about people having 10-15 jobs by the time they are 38 is the one that speaks most to me. How do we prepare students for a world in which they will not be like us...they will not get a job, do it for a lifetime and then retire. The ability to learn, unlearn, and relearn is what companies are and will be looking for in a new workforce. Workers who are highly adaptable and can continually learn new skills will be the highest in demand as we continue into the 21st Century. My hope is to expose you to some new tools, connect you into a network of learners that will allow you to grow, share ideas, and push your own thinking and abilities on how we educate students in a network world. Again, don't read too far ahead in this course as it's Sunday morning for me here and this is when I sit down with a cup of joe and update pages based on past conversations, your blog entries, and whatever other crazy thing I might be thinking about. :) First thing: Make sure you add your classmates' blogs to your Google Reader and get in the habit of reading it every day. Make this your home page or a tab that opens automatically when you start Firefox (Hopefully you all use Firefox). Please add a link to your blog above and add other classmates blogs to your Google Reader. Trying to understand what RSS Or Really Simple Syndication is and how it works? See if this video helps. | ||
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