Adam's+Workshop+Notes

May 11, 2007 Adam Dugger

David Warlick Notes

Information has changed: Increasingly networked Increasingly digital 10 years could be fully Increasingly overwhelming TOO MUCH INFORMATION How do I get my message through? How do I get it through to the kids?

Information now flows outside containers. It is not always in books/magazines/contained etc. It resists containment - Encyclopedia Britannica vs. Wikipedia Dynamic vs static

We must teach the kids how to be gatekeepers vs US being the gatekeepers Math – can you take information and employ that information to accomplish a goal? It is NOT just computation. Ethical use of information

We must still teach how to be good writers and how to communicate, but we also must teach them how to survive the storm of information.

Password to online handouts is teacher for [|http://www.landmark-project.com]

“21st Century we learn by learning with each other.”

Blogging – Using other people’s images and words – can be immediate.. language is not a barrier “The Shape of Information has Changed!”


 * 21st Century Learning**

Learning is about sharing information – learning from one another

In our classrooms we teach our children how to be taught.. in the future we have no idea what their workplace or lifestyle will be like. We must prepare them as best as we can. We must teach the how to teach themselves. We must stop teaching kids how tot be taught, and to teach them how to teach themselves.

In the past 3 years: Information is more about conversation – blogs, Youtube, Information and content is coming from people – reader controlled… People connecting with other people – not because of any commonality other than ideas – no cultural, country of origin etc.

Blogs: Blogger.com Blog.com Edublogs.com Wordpress.org


 * Web 1.0** – More like a library – answers question – access information
 * Web 2.0** – Something that you participate with. Not just a spectator but more of an active participant in the digital library.

http://www.classblogmeister.com/ Developed by David Warlick for teachers to use with their classes

http://edublogs.org/

Teachers should be lifelong learners Teachers need to be inspired by new ideas

Creative Commons – Invented by Lawrence Lessig. License content, but give permission to use content in several ways. Can alter/use. Copyright is yes or no.. use or not use.

[|www.creativecommons.org]

content is conversation blogs epals.com gaggle.net imbee.com classblogmeister.com

gcast – host your podcast

Aggregator Google.com/reader Newsfire

Can be used to check latest news and unread entries in blogs that you frequent. http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/index.html NY Times RSS Feed information XML based format for blogs

del.icio.us social bookmarking

podcast - blog with link to an audio or video file http://davidwarlick.com/connectlearning/ - David Warlick’s podcast site http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/index.html School Podcast – good examples!

http://www.mathfactcafe.com/ interesting site found by S. Baranello

IPOD to record podcast Italk – plugs into top of IPOD – turns it into recorder. Olympus USB Voice Recorder – output .wma files

Geeked – microphone omni directional used for talking about technology – 2 tech teachers and 2 art teachers.

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html Switch Plus audio file converter is a sound file converter for Windows or Mac. It can convert audio files from many different file formats into mp3, wav and many other file formats.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems

The value of information is what they (students) can do with it. What can they build around it? They are not just consumers, as we were. They can construct using raw materials.

After editing, students can hear themselves as ‘successful readers’.

Where to get music/sound effects [|www.freeplaymusic.com]

http://partnersinrhyme.com/

[|www.wliw.com] free audio

[|www.findsounds.com] sound search engine

Anything in their podcasts that are not there to enhance will surely distract! Whatever material they are using has to be based on whether or not it/they will enhance their goal. Focus on communication.