How Can I Become Part of this ReadWriteWeb Revolution?
Alice Barr, Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes

Questions to ponder?

• What is school?
• Make our classrooms as exciting as homecoming?
• How does teacher engage students as learners?

We have digital students, a whole new kind of literacies to teach (compared to the 3 Rs):

• media literacy
• collaboration
• communication
• innovation
• information literacy
• digital citizenship
• ethics

We need to teach students how to invent, innovagte and think for themselves, be self-directed. These skill sets are different from what we were taught and how we were taught to teach.

How to you learn to teach those skills when you are stuck in a classroom, paperwork, standards, grading, NCLB, etc.? The vision of the three presenters is that you don’t have to do this on your own. Find a commmunity/network that you can share with others.

Technology tools used in the presentation:

• Flip Video http://www.theflip.com/products_flip_ultra.shtml
• Skype: http://skype.com
• Skype Chat: http://www.tinyurl.com/562nm4
• SEEDlings Ning: http://bitbybitseedlings.ning.com
• Voicethread: http://voicethread.com

How can web 2.0 tools help you and your students to be collaborators or co-creators of learning?

Cheryl suggest Voicethread as a great tool for beginners, easy access to publish. Bob says that bringing in these technologies has a transformative effect.

• sharing the ownership of the learning
• giving kids the tools and they will come up with uses we never thought of
• using these tools allows students to make, create and archive their learning to make it more meaningful
• tools help with differentiation for different learning styles
• how to engage students in a participatory culture?
• Is your class a journey, an adventure

Starting to create your own community of learners. The concersation is ongoing and asynchronous.

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Posted: 16. November, 2008 at 12:02 pm. Filed under: 21st Century Skills, Conferences, Professional Development.
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