• Day 1Read the
Horizon Report (2008).
Post a blog on what technological trend you feel will become most prevalent in K12 learning within 5 years and why.
(see Rules of Engagement)• Day 2Please watch both of the Sir Ken Robinson videos linked below. Then post two slides on the shared presentation: 1) one way schools kill creativity, and 2) one way schools foster creativity.
Do schools kill creativity?Creatively Speaking(see Rules of Engagement)
• Day 3
Assignment 1 - See Blog entry on Web 2.0 Directory below for instructions.
Assignment 2 - See Blog entry on P21 Skills below for instructions.
• Day 4Assignment 1 - Wikipedia - see post below.Assignment 2 - Colliding Forces - see post below.
• Day 5 and Day 6Live Broadcast - post a response to the blog below on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)• Day 7 and Day 8 - Surprise.....Your assignment is optional - you will receive credit whether you email me yes or no, but you do have to email me. I do not believe in zeros, nor in failure as an option. However, you get what you put in, so I encourage you to say yes....;-)
If you email me yes, here's what you are committing to. Give me your email address at work, what grade level or content area you teach, whether you are an administrator, whatever. What school you are at and a short resume/introduction of yourself. I will leave your name and contact anonymous until I find another teacher/educator/administrator in PVUSD who might like to work with you on REACH, and in turn you with them. I will make an intitial email introduction of each of you to the other - from there, you are on your own to put into practice the communication, collaboration and creativity of 21st century teaching and learning, using information technology to bridge time and space constraints.
REACH (Real Experiences Advancing Childhood Humanities) is an initiative our district is implementing with other educators/administrators outside of our walls. We are connecting students/teachers/administrators, from differing classrooms, differing schools, cities, states, countries, using technology to communicate/collaborate/create in whatever ways possible and appropriate to postively impact student learning - totally up to you and your PVUSD counterpart on what you think would be useful - how big, how small, how deep, how thin, is up to you.
It does not have to be high tech, with tons of technology - in fact, the technology is not the point - learning with and about others is, being creative and taking a risk is the experience. One simple internet connection and a Google account can do wonders (you should now know that), to connect students, teachers, administrators, whatever. I suspect your kids, your school will be richer for the adventure and you will cross into something I believe is profound and necessary in education - REACH'ing beyond the walls......
So, if you want to REACH, give me the details and I will personally try to connect you with an appropriate counterpart. Then, you have the opportunity to extend your coursework learning into actual practice - the point of taking a class. Email me yay with details, or nay. What I wish for you is to REACH beyond this ASU class, throw optimism into the wind and see what emerges in your participatory networking experience.
Jeff......
12 comments:
Eric Said...
This comment is to Eschrey. I agree this is visual learning which is great for ELL students and elementary kids as well as real life learning for the middle school and high school kids. Great blog!
Rachel said...
I completely agree with you. I think you are hitting the nail on the head. I love what you said about students seeing the real life practicality; this is so meaningful for kids!
Nicole said...
Eschrey I agree that grassroot videos will be a great tool to use in the future classroom. The days of "no more pulp" are ahead and video is a great way for students to respond to what they have learned. Wouldn't it be nice one day to have a video clip of your students verbally explaining to you what they learned in the lesson in said of having STACKS of paper to grade!
TK said...
This comment is for Eschrey:
Technology will be one of the tool in our classroom in today education and we will see more of it often and will use it to educate our students.
Elizabeth, I think the possibilities are endless. When I found out about this the first thing that came to my mind was live student portfolios. A picture is worth a thousand words. How powerful would it be to show a parent their students progress at a parent/teacher conference.
Grassroots video can be wonderful tools for instruction. If the laptop trend that Matt was talking about would take off we could record all our lessons and students could watch them at their leisure. I think we could design our lessons with a higher level of thinking with this online support.
Grassroots video will surely be interesting to see as they continue to grow in use. I imagine this will be something that the students will really enjoy and use to the fullest.
I second that opinion. Good insight.
My comments here are similar to what I said in the post above on "grassroots video". However, you point to something that always intrigues me - the old if a picture is worth a thousand word, then a video ought to be worth ten thousand. Make you kind of wonder what's the best way to input/output, so one can think....
I agree and think the best thing abut video learning is that students can go back and look again. Especially for thise studnets at different levels in our classrooms, WAIT that's everyone in our classrooms!
I couldn't agree with you more. It's a great way to link learners beyond the classroom walls and to differentiate the instruction and learning of the subject matter.
Showcasing what they've learned via YouTube would definitely be less embarrassing than standing if front of a classroom.
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