Keynote Speaker - Will Richardson

Learning in a Networked World: For Ourselves and Our Students

Presentation on Google Docs

http://willrichardson.com/

http://todaysmeet.com/

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17NQmkE1qgYv9f-SGUqTbyfePmDfkyT6bQHY-LKR1uA4/edit?pli=1#slide=id.gddf4350_1_14

The world is changing because of the web.

Education is changing because of the web.

The moment is filled with great opportunities for learners....

...but great challenges for schools.

We have important questions to answer.

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

-Alvin Toffler

Author Rethinking the Future

Why have students memorize information when the whole world just looks it up?

VIMEO

http://vimeo.com/

Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. We provide the best tools and highest quality video in the universe. See for yourself and Join today!

Media - YouTube/Netflix
Politics - Obamanet/Change.org
Journalism - Twitter/Storify
Medicine - Patients Like Me/Foldit
Books - Kindle/Nook/iBooks
Business - Amazon/Paypal
Music - iTunes/Rhapsody

http://www.knewton.com/

Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/ 

Watch. Practice.

Learn almost anything for free.

With over 3,100 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

 Motuto 

http://motuto.com/

motuto is an on-demand, real-time mobile tutoring app. When you have a problem or question you need help with you can just log on, connect with a tutor and get the help you need. It is as simple as that!  

iTunes U

Department of Education in Maine on iTunes U

http://maine121.org/itunesu/

he Maine Department of Education maintains a K-12 iTunes U site that is designed to offer educators a valuable source of multimedia teaching and learning materials that are fully accessible to users with different learning styles or disabilities. With a focus on professional development activities and supporting the integration of technology into the classroom, some of the most recent content added to the Maine iTunes U site includes:

Maine121.org - a series of podcasts by MLTI state-wide integration mentors that focuses on the effective integration of technology and learning

Game And Learn: An Introduction To Educational Gaming – a series of podcasts by Dr. Ruben Puentedura that highlights the value of gaming as an educational resource.

What’s On Your MacBook – a series of podcasts identifying the many pieces of software on the MLTI image, and why you might want to use them.

Geogebra: Do The Math! – a series of podcasts that introduces the open source software GeoGebra.

MITnews

 http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-education-initiative-1219.html

MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:

• organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace
• feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication
• allow for the individual assessment of any student’s work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITx
• operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions.

MIT expects that this learning platform will enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences. MIT also expects that MITx will eventually host a virtual community of millions of learners around the world.

 

Scratch

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Fold It

http://fold.it/portal/

 Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. This page describes the science behind Foldit and how your playing can help.

Change.mooc.ca

http://change.mooc.ca/

This course will introduce participants to the major contributions being made to the field of instructional technology by researchers today. Each week, a new professor or researcher will introduce his or her central contribution to the field.  

Deforest Action

http://dfa.tigweb.org/

What is Possible when Young People Decide to Change the World?

DeforestACTION is a project created and owned by young people from around the world.  It is supported by a number of industry and NGO partners who strongly believe that old models of reform are not working and young people deserve the chance to have a say in the condition of the planet they are going to inherit.

it is also a project to ensure schools have real examples of 21st Century Learning.  The teacher resources, guides, virtual classrooms and collaborative spaces help young people to quickly work in international project groups, tackling comlex projects, while developing hope, confidence, civic and global responsibility and creativity.

Why did young people unit to start deforestation?  And why is this project so important? 

...are you being "old school" or "bold school?" 

“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

--Eric Hoffer