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Saturday at the CLMS/CUE Technology Conference opened with a keynote presentation by David Jakes. He began with a Google Earth tour of several corners of the globe and discussed how technology is connecting and changing the educational landscape. This was followed by a trip down memory lane to demonstrate how technology has progressed from the ditto machine to online connectedness represented by Club Penguin, Facebook, and even AARP.
This lead to the question, what does this connectedness mean for education? Quiz Time for 400 high school students: Text Message (all), Facebook page (75%) , Video game (most), Read a blog post (10), Posted image to Flickr (5), Used Twitter (0), Written a blog post (5), Created a podcast (0), Contributed to a wiki (0), Created a video (most). The point of this quiz was to point out what kids are capable of doing. My take away was that our students are capable of much more than is asked of them.
Continuing along the topic of expanded access to technology, he brought up Open Yale
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Basic Instinct 2 release Does technology require new literacy, or does literacy=literacy? Connect, Collaborate, Create, and Contribute; are they literacies or skills? In his discussion of this question, David discussed 7 aspects of the Global One-Room Schoolhouse:
Vision: What do you want learning to look like? (Permeability - Open vs Walled Garden). Is there value for students to publish to a worldwide audience? Perception is that students value the opinion of their peers in the immediate community most.
Readiness: What is Web 2.0? (School, Community, Alter the learning landscape?, Change)
Implementation: What’s your plan? (Teachers First!, Are your teachers networked?, Pilots? Policies? AUP vs RUP, Free vs Hosted?) David expressed his opinion that teachers need to enter new worlds first. Teachers learn the power of connected learning by blogging and becoming involved in a network. He mentioned blogging, Ustream, Twitter, as examples of networking tools. He shared Twitter4Teachers as a way to find teachers to network with.
Expectations: Will use be expected?, Goal-based and systemic?, Scope and sequence?, Pockets of innovation?
Literacy Any Given Sunday trailer : Are there new literacies? (current definition - ability to read and write), Is this about tools? 21st Century Literacies vs 21st Century Skills, Blogs and Wikis vs …?, Standards (NETS, NCTE, 21st Century Skills) David shared his opinion that there are no new literacies, however there are new skills required to be literate.
Barriers: What are they?, Curriculum vs Technology. As an example for this point, David asked, “Who decides what gets blocked at your school, Director of Curriculum or Director of Technology?
Growth and Sustainability: Tools come and go, Targets, How will you sustain momentum and continually grow?
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Assessment and Evaluation: Guskey, Evaluate the technology?, How will you know it’s better?
Step Up 2: The Streets video A refreshing aspect of David’s presentation was that he did not give the impression that he had all of the answers. Instead, he provided a very thorough discussion of the issues that must be seriously considered as we become a Global Schoolhouse.
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