Thinking Big as the World Gets Small- Hall Davidson
Thinking Big as the World Gets Small
The cameras in their cell phones make them citizen journalists. The web is their personal library and media center. They communicate in real time with the ends of the earth. But can they convince their teachers to let them learn at school with help from such powerful tools? Beyond the “wow,” technology provides nearly limitless potential for connectivity and education. See examples of how today’s technologies — from calculators to the web, from music files to video-on-demand — can (and should) engage and teach a new generation of students.
UStream Session
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The new workplace- wikis, blogs, podcasting, media, communities and content creation are real now in workspaces. This is the way we will work in school.
A few years ago, these things were not in school. More and more students are using this. Twittering, ustreaming, How could we ask them to turn off their laptops and cellphones. You can go deeper and share as the presenter is talking. What would kids do if we were to allow them to use these tools.
Examples:
Chat with Dubai, skype with Belgium. Kids can do this. Not unusual situation.
Phone a friend exams from Australia. We need to get access that is reliable and quickly. There are things that we need to know, but there is a lot of data that we spent too much time on memorizing, when we just need to have the skill to be able to access it quickly.
Global Network in School.
We will need to teach social network in school. Expand out network.
Advantage of networks is global citizenship
- Economy
- Digital tools
- World View
Skype
- Skype with your students from a conference, with the substitute teacher
Rock our World project from Carol McGuire
- 6 countries
- 5 continents
- 6 time zones
- 2 different days
Beat the Greeks
- two simultanous webcams
- 30 brainy kids
- 30 minutes
- calculators
You don’t have to have a live network to start.
Using google earth and Jing
- Create a video in Jing
- Save the video as flash file
- Go to Google Earth
- Paste code into info box of placemark into Google Earth Codes for Google Earth (doc)
Tools
- Flixter
- VoiceThread
Newspapers are “Dying”
TV are #1 where America is getting their Information. We are constructing our own news. We need to teach that to our students.
Quik.om
Kyte.com
Social Profiles