Since the IFTTT recipe cuts off the title of each post now (and why it is doing that, I have no idea), I will be copying the title into the main body. That way, you at least have an idea what topic is being covered before you start reading.As I write this, we are sitting in the main lecture hall, waiting for this morning's keynote. Lisa Thumann, Assistant Director, SGEI, Kean University. Thumannresources.com
Animaljam from National Geographic.
Innovation: Different, Growth, Change, Enlightenment, Progress (Terms our participants came up with)
2013 K-12 Horizon Report: http://www.nmc.org/publications/2013-horizon-report-k12
Key trends:
- Students spend significant amount of time online researching.
- More than 1 billion people use Facebook - engaging. Why not use social media in school?
- Open content - readily accessible to remix and reshare - teach students to look for it, remix it, own it, share it.
- BYOD - budgets, more common
Significant Challenges:
- Much-needed professional development
- Resistance to change
- New models for learning (MIT, MOOCs, etc), More informal learning
- How do you use BYOD to facilitate differentiated learning? More formative assessment - meaningful assessment
These two lists are parallel! 1 billion people are using FB because it is engaging, yet often in school, there is resistance to change, etc.
Cloud Computing:
Google apps
Distance learning
What are you doing in the cloud NOW that you didn't do a year ago?
- -- Students are using it now
- -- Virtualizing servers
- -- Collaboration for lesson plan development across the district/school
If schools are using mobile devices, how are they being used? If not, what are the roadblocks?
Not using:
- support,
- fear of retribution should 'little johnny' go somewhere he shouldn't
Using it:
- Evernote or Google Keep, digitizing the book;
- blogging from device; edmodo;
- writing about primary source and storing in google docs then grading it online
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