(via Why Blog? | Walking Through Information Technology)
Created by one of our COETAIL participants in Taipei this is an excellent presentation on why we blog and why we make you blog for this course.
What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School?:
The project surveyed almost 300,000 students (along with 43,000 parents, 35,000 teachers, 2000 librarians and 3500 administrators) from over 6500 private and public schools last fall about how they’re using – and how they want to be using – technology for learning.
Students Speak Up in Class, Silently, via Social Media – NYTimes.com:
Instead of being a distraction — an electronic version of note-passing — the chatter echoed and fed into the main discourse, said Mrs. Olson, who monitored the stream and tried to absorb it into the lesson. She and others say social media, once kept outside the school door, can entice students who rarely raise a hand to express themselves via a medium they find as natural as breathing.
10 Steps to Kick Start Your Twitter Network | edte.ch:
When you join Twitter it can seem a strange little place, with it’s own rules and secret ways. Having helped many people make a start I wanted to share some of the key things to help you early on so you can tap into the huge potential a Twitter network has. Here are my 10 steps:
Students Have No Idea How Google Works:
In a detailed study of 30 college students by anthropologists at Illinois Wesleyan, only seven were able to do a “reasonably well-executed search.” According to Inside Higher Ed:
Seth’s Blog: Back to (the wrong) school:
Large-scale education was never about teaching kids or creating scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system.
9:00 – 9:30
Welcome Back!
What have you been reading?
9:30 – 10:30
Digital Profile/Footprint
Delicious.com (/tag/?????)
Diigo.com (/tag/????)
Digital Profile Activity
10:30 – 12:00
Copyright and Fair Use Pre-Assessment
6 moths ago Keri-Lee a blogger on U Tech Tips shared a student produced video on the website. The students, following the teachers directions used what has become known as the Common Craft style of creating videos.
Here’s an example of a Common Craft Video
Here is the one that the students in Singapore created:
Does Common Craft have a right to ask the teacher to please remove the video from YouTube?
Are the teachers and students allowed to use the video format and share it with the world under “Fair Use” Law?
Reflection of Understanding Copyright in small groups.
Essential Questions:
Critical Thinking Questions:
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 Creative Commons
2:00 – 2:30
Adding images to your blog
3 key points to attribution:
1. You must have permission to use it (ie: CreativeCommons)
2. You must link back to the original image (ie: URL)
3. You must state the owners name (ie: whose image is it)
2:30 – 3:30: Cyber Bullying
Cyber Bullying Case Studies
What is cyberbullying and what sort of technologies can be used for it?
Is cyberbullying any different to offline bullying? Do you think it is worse or just different?
3:30 – 4:00: Group Discussion
Is Cyberbullying prevalent at your school? How do we know? How can we find out?
Does the school have any jurisdiction and the right to intervene in cyberbulling incidents created off the school campus?
Who has the responsibility to educate students how to respond to Cyberbullying incidents?
Do schools take an active or reactive approach to cyberbullying?
How can we as a school be proactive in preventing cyberbullying?
Cyberbullying Response
4:00 – 4:30: Revisit your schools AUP and discuss how cyberbullying, copyright, and other issues are addressed within them.
4:30 – 6:00
Course 2 Project
How Do You Learn? – EducationNation 2010:
Have kids find their learning stye in a fun and interactive way.
Hacking Higher Education | DMLcentral:
If education is about more than access to educational resources and is more than the purchase of a ticket to a job, then we need to ask not only how such an education might be delivered, but what the values and purposes of such an education might be.
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