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David Warlick – May 11, 2007 – What Did He Said?

Expand the definition of what it means to be a reader

Information now comes more and more from the network Too much information

How do I get my message through this storm of information

The only thing we read is that which competes successfully for our attention

The nature of information has changed This changes the basic skills we teach from K on up, to expand what the teaching of reading is Information can no longer be contained within a book, and be dispensed by teachers-as-gatekeepers

An ethical imperative that we teach kids how to be gatekeepers; it is now a personal literacy skill that everyone needs

Not the 3 R’s the 4 E’s Expose truth Employ information, can you take information and emply it to accomplish a goal Express ideas compelling, more than just writing, but can you express an idea compellingly Ethics, the ethical use of information

online handouts http://davidwarlick.com/wordpress/ http://www.landmark-project.com/ http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PodcastingForEducators - podcasting information\

He has an office on Second Life – you can get to his online handouts through his office in Second Life

DW Wiki – password is “teacher”

Learning in the 21st century means learning from others, learning from your neighbors

In a world of lifelong learning, we cannot describe the future that we are preparing our children for. The best thing we can do is to teach them how to teach themselves, instead of teaching them how to be taught So by generating conversations in the classroom is an important technique for lifelong learning

Information in last 15 years Networked; digital; overwhelming; flowing without containers

conversations – as with blogging Reader controlled People connecting

“Content is Conversation” blogger.com; blog.com; edublogs.org; wordpress.org and http://2cents.davidwarlick.com use epals.com gaggle.net imbee.com

His mission: To retool the idea of education to exploit 21st century tools

The best technology use is when teachers use tech to give voice to students

David’s blog software: Class Blog Meister http://classblogmeister.com/

David’s editing trick: Have the text read out loud using the text-to-speech engine, so that you can hear what might be wrong

Podcast links: http://www.gcast.com/?nr=1&&s=191763346 http://www.gcast.com/?nr=1&&s=191763346 http://podcast.com/

We were taught to assume the authoiryty of the information we were taught, e.g. from encyclopedias. Now we need to have the learner know how to check the content, to access the content and know how to discern the reliability.

aggregators: netvibes.com google reader (newsfire – the one that David demonstrated, is Mac only)

David Warlick’s del.icio.us link page: http://del.icio.us/dwarlick

Podcasting: get the audio file to the internet, via podcast or gcast, etc.

Script the dialog, or show Kids would identify something they wanted to podcast It’s very motivating to a community that we are asking to support us

To convert wma to mp3, use “switch” – available free on the internet http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html

Use Audacity to record voice.

Voice recording: Olympus Digital Voice Recorder WS-300M

You can upload a podcast directly from your digital recording, but it’s more fun to edit it in Audacity.

We used to think that information was something that we consumed: We read, we watched, etc. Kids think of information today as raw material, something that you can use, process, add value to. What you can do with it, what you can build around it. Podcasting gives students the opportunity to build content.

Have kids record themselves reading, edit with Audacity, make them sound like a fluent reader. Then they can hear themselves as successful readers.

Podcasts; conversation; a personal thing;

Ways to use this? o Have students write biographies of famous people, and they wrote speeches as if they are those people themselves. Then podcast the kids’ speeches. o Book Reviews, have kids review the books and podcast them and use the podcasts to select books o Record podcasts with instructions for how to do things on a computer, have the students do the recordings. o Have students read and record books for students who are using English as a Second Language. o Record students discussing artwork, having a conversation about art, and podcast their discussions. o At end of unit, have students podcast their discussions about the conclusions of their project, about what they learned, etc. o Have students write directions to go along with a SmartBoard demonstration, for example on a math problem, so that they have instructions they can access from home as homework help. o Podcast a group discussion, have other students visit it and respond o A tool for differentiated instruction, where some children may be able to embrace this and use it well, especially for children with special needs. o Allows students to use their various skills to shine

Pay attention to your students! David’s best advice. get sound effects: partnersinrhyme.com see Karen for other links like that