Technology+&+Education

=How Are We Preparing Our Students For The 21st Century? =

===="Research indicates that technology's use in the classroom can have an additional positive influence on student learning when the learning goals are clearly articulated prior to the technology's use ...applied effectively, technology implementation not only increases student learning, understanding, and achievement but also augments motivation to learn, encourage collaborative learning, and supports the development of critical thinking and problem solving skills." (Pilter, Hubbell,Kuhn & Malenoski) ====

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=="...Our ability to easily publish content online will force us to rethink the way we communicate with our constituents, the way we deliver our curriculum, and the expectations we have of our students. It also has the potential to radically change what we assume about teaching and learning, and it resents us with important question to consider: What needs to change about our curriculum when our students have the ability to reach audiences far beyond our classroom walls? What changes must we make in in our teachings as it becomes easier to bring primary sources to our students? How do we need to rethink our ideas of literacy when we must prepare students to become not only readers and writers, but editors and collaborators as well? How do we best put to use the reams and reams of "digital paper" that Weblogs provide" (Richardson) ==

=="The National Technology Plan released in January 2005 went so far as to admit that "Today's students, of almost any age, are far ahead of their teachers in computer literacy. They prefer to access subject information on the Internet, where it is more abundant, more accessible and more ==

=="While there's no telling what next year's technologies will bring in the way of literacy opportunities and challenges, today's educators can lay the groundwork for whatever is to come by preparing students to be critical thinkers, savvy researchers, and ethical contributors to the Participation Age" (NCTE executive Committee/ Judy Salpeter) ==


==="Given this new state of affairs one might suppose that educators would acknowledge that today's kids grow up differently and that kids are enlightened by all their various connections to the world. Educators would figure out ways to use, build on, and strengthen students' reservoirs of knowledge. They would assume that kids will use their connections to the light to fund information quickly, structure it in new ways, and communicate with peers around the world in a powerful, 21st-century learning process. Teachers would no longer be the providers of information but instead woudl be the explainers, the meaning makers, and the evaluators of information that kids find on their own. Teaching would still be a nobel calling, perhaps even more so than before" (Pensky) ===

==//"The computer and the internet have put information literally at our fingertips. Perhaps the most significant impact on reading habits for children and adults is evidenced in our quest for information. We have shifted from leafing through traditional hardbacks encyclopedias and other resource books to logging on the “Googling” a topic”(Cambrell)// ==


==="Kids today are connected to the entire world around the clock, in real time, thought their media and their myriad personal devices, both electronic (such as TV) and digital (such as the Internet and cell phones). In the 21st century, young people certainly don't grow up with perfect understanding of the world-after all, they are all still kids. But can we still characterized their intellectual state as one of ignorance and darkness? Hardly" (Prensky) ===

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====**"Kids want to learn about technology. They want to know how it all works and what it can do. It's everywhere, it's the future. Kids who cant access it, well they are just living in the past." (Long, 2008) **==== ==="Long before they ever get to school, kids have seen a tremendous amount of the world. They've watched wars in far off countries and explorations of distant planets. They have seen wild animals up close. They've simulated driving, flying, and running businesses. Many have taught themselves to read through the eletronic games" (Prensky) ===

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=What are Wikis? media type="youtube" key="6NRbbskf3cA&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"= = = =[|What is Blogging?] = =<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(255, 0, 45); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"> = =<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 45); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 200%;">"...blogs are a collaborative space, as readers become part of the writing and learning process."(Richardson) = <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Research conducted by Fernette and Brock Eide's found that blogs can:
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Promote critical thinking
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Be a powerful promoter of creative, intuitive, and associational thinking
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Promote **analogical thinking**
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Be a powerful medium for increasing access and exposure to quality information
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Combine the best of solitary reflection and social interaction

//**<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(255, 0, 228); font-family: Georgia,serif;">"...students are learning to read more critically, think about that reading analytically, and writer more clearly." (Richardson) **// = =

media type="youtube" key="LDU4pAy13SE&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Classroom Use Of Blogs (Richardson) <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 168);"> =<span style="color: rgb(180, 69, 45);">What is Podcasting? =
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Post prompts for writing.
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Write comments, opinions or questions on daily news items or issues of interest.
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Discuss activities they did in class and tell what they think about them.
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Write about class topics, using newly learned vocabulary words and idioms
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Showcase their best writing pieces
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Cimplete project work in small groups, assigning each group a different task
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Showcase products fo project-based learning
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Complete a WebQuest
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Post assignments based on literature readings andhve students respond on their own Weblogs..
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Provide online readings for your students to read and react to
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Invide students comments or postings on issues in order to give them a writing voice
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Showcase student art, poetry, adn creative stories
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Create literature circle
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Create an online book club
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Build a class newsletter...
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Reactions to thought provoking questions
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Link your class with another class somewhere else in the world
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Journal entires
 * <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 195);">Ideas and opinions about topics discussed in class

**<span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(37, 132, 26); font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Podcasting is basically the creation and distribution of amateur radio.." (Richardson) **
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