"Technology is not additive, in that it doesn't change some things... it changes everything."

~ Roger Schank

 

For the next three sessions we will be exploring how Web 2.0 tools have revamped how we use technology for teaching and learning. During these sessions you will learn:

 

•  why Web 2.0 has had such a huge impact on society, the schoolhouse and more specifically, the students we teach.
• how the Web has changed from a global information space to one that faciliates  collaboration, contribution and community
• how we can harness these powerful changes through new web applications and services and
• how thes tools and changes that have the potential to extend your students' thinking and learning engagement with the challenging themes found within Alberta's Social Studies Program of Studies.

 

This wiki will serve as the session's hub, a resource that you can return to later. Be sure to expand the HotLinks side bar on the right-hand side of this page. I will post many of the links I refer to over the next three days.

SESSION ONE

SESSION TWO 

What's Your Red Paper Clip? 

A Vision of Students Today

 

 

“Eighty-eight percent of voters say

they believe that schools can and

should incorporate 21st century

skills such as critical thinking and

problem-solving skills, computer

and technology skills, and

communication and self-direction

skills into their curriculum.”

 

 

~ Results of a national poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and Peter D. Hart Research Associates on behalf of the Partnership for 21stCentury Skills.

 

 

What Students Should be Able to Do.pdf 

 

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Culture of Remix

 

Mix, mix again, remix, reshape, tweak, merge, morph, bootleg, pirate,
plagiarize, enrich, sample, break down, reassemble, repurpose, decompose, recompose, erase borders, reform and then finally feed forward (which means to launch it out for other to begin their own remix process). Out of the activities of remixing, tweaking, merging etc. will come the innovative solutions, inventions and ideas of the future. Although some of these words don't belong in a healthy knowledge network (ex: bootleg, piracy, plagiarize) some of them may have the makings of 21st century skills that we should be teaching the
students. How do you go about teaching students the skill of tweaking or repurposing an idea? Do we give students practice decomposing an idea or concept and then recomposing it? How do you take two distinctly different ideas and merge them into a new one? When does the line between morphing an idea or a series of words become plagiarism?

~ Richard Flordia (author of The Rise of the Creative Class)

 

 

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