Investing in Teachers

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Investing in Teachers

Today's students need educators to re-envision the role of technology in the classroom

by Nancye Blair
Principal, January/February 2012


A dramatic shift is sweeping through our schools. The signs are all around us. Third graders texting on their cell phones. Kindergarteners who can navigate an iPod Touch better than we can. Middle schoolers who already have an Internet following on their blog or YouTube channel.
These are not the same 21st century learners we came to know over the first decade of the new millennium. For these students, simply watching videos or images during class, playing an Internet multiplication game, or even taking turns at an interactive whiteboard is no longer enough.
These new 21st century learners are highly relational and demand quick access to new knowledge. More than that, they are capable of engaging in learning at a whole new level. With the world literally at their fingertips, today’s students need teachers and administrators to re-envision the role of technology in the classroom.

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Common Core: Shift 6: Academic Vocabulary

Discussion of increasing comprehension through understanding of vocabulary that transcends specific disciplines, but appears regularly in complex texts.

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Closing Keynote: Rob Mancabelli: The Secrets of Creating 21st Century Schools

Rob Mancabelli: The Secrets of Creating 21st Century Schools

• Why do most schools change effort fail? 
• 90-95% of school change efforts fails.
• What can we do to succeed with change? 

• What changes are at the heart of 21st Century Schools?
• Networked learning

• Changes
• Change 1 - Instead of just one teacher in the classroom, not there are millions.
• Change 2 - My students can learn from me how to learn without me.
• Change 3 - My students knowledge is a combination of their learned skills and the quality of their networks
• schools still built on the idea of a learner of one

Kindergaten Robotics - Susanne Brokmeier

Kindergarten Robotics by Susanne Brokmeier, SDSU
We Do Robotics kits (http://www.legoeducation.us/eng/product/lego_education_wedo_robotics_construction_set/2096)

Hall Davidson, Discovery Education: Not Your Father's eBook: New Kinds of Learning Tools for New Kinds of Learners

"South Dakota....where the wind blows like the Apocalypse."

Hall Davidson, Discovery Education: North Your Father's eBook: New Kinds of Learning Tools for New Kinds of Learners

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Hall Davidson Handouts

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Hall Davidson’s links to follow-up sessions at CALSA, for the Siemens’ STEM Academy, GAEL, TCEA, PETE&C, ICTLT, and others!

South Dakota TIE Conference
Making Mobile Media Meaningful pdf
Keynote:  Not Your Fathers eBook:  New Kinds of Tools for New Kinds of Learners pdf

Day of Discovery - Colorado
When the Inside Becomes the Outside:  Book as Backpack pdf
Ten Things to Try with Video pdf
ICTLT Singapore
Leading, Learning, Achieving: The Realities of the Digital Age
Trees to Bits:  Moving Education into the 21st Century
Palm Beach Technology Conference
Making Mobile Media Meaningful pdf
Assess This!  New Tools for New Kinds of Learners pdf
ASCD - Making Mobile Meaningful pdf
ASCD - They’re Coming From the Cloud and They’re Here to Help:  The Techbooks pdf
NCCE
NCCE - They’re Coming from the Cloud and They’re Here to Help
NCCE Three-Hour Admin Workshop pdf

CAG (Gifted Association)
iPads and Tablets:  The Flatout Future pdfSouth Carolina Middle School AssociationRight in the Middle:  The Very Fine Future pdf

MDLANot Your Father’s eBook pdf
Ten Things to Try with Video pdf

ITSCStraight link to test download http://mediashare.discoveryeducation.com/mediashare/index.cfm?event=pushFile&guidAssetMediaFileId=a0e80219%2D0e10%2D73a4%2D1294%2D23fbff30ba95
Making Mobile Meaningful pdf
Making Mobile Meaningful ppt
Assess This!  New Tools for New Kinds of Learners pdf
Assess This!  New Tools for New Kinds of Learners ppt

PETE&CDo the MASH..Tech Style ppt (filling in for Traci Blazowsky)Do the MASH..Tech Style pdf (filling in for Traci Blazowsky)Making Mobile Meaningful pdf
Making Mobile Meaningful ppt

TCEA
New Tools for New Kinds of Students:  Assess This! pdf
New Tools for New Kinds of Students:  Assess This! ppt
Take a Page from the Perfect Digital Techbook pdf
Take a Page from the Perfect Digital Techbook ppt
Moving the Earth: Google Earth and the Gifted pdf
Moving the Earth: Google Earth and the Gifted ppt
Media Mashups: pdf
Media Mashups: ppt
Faster, Better, Shorter, Deeper: Editing and Capturing Video. pdf
Faster, Better, Shorter, Deeper: Editing and Capturing Video ppt
Going Digital: What it Means to Administrators When Technology Changes the Game pdf
Going Digital: What it Means to Administrators When Technology Changes the Game ppt

GAEL PresentationsIt’s in Your Pocket:  Teaching Spectacularly with Cellphones, Tablets, and other Mobile! pdfIt’s in Your Pocket:  Teaching Spectacularly with Cellphones, Tablets, and other Mobile! pptLearning and Leading in the Digital Age pptLearning and Leading in the Digital Age pdf

Making Mobile Media Meaningful in Your Classroom - And Beyond - pdfMaking Mobile Media Meaningful in Your Classroom - And Beyond - ppt (slides only, no video)Siemens Making Mobile Meaningful - pdfSiemens Making Mobile Meaningful - ppt

 

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