Post a blog on what technological trend you feel will become most prevalent in K12 learning within 5 years and why.
I think that the most prevalent trend in technology within the next 5 years will be the use of laptops mainstreamed into the classroom. I have heard about the "$100 laptop project," where they are trying to make laptops more affordable to everyone, especially students. Apple and PC should both be fighting in my opinion to try to appeal to our young youth in schools and get a laptop in there hands. Once they are trained on a it at a young age and feel comfortable with it they have a user for life!
I think that in the near future students will not be taking out there notebooks but rather there laptops. Not there textbooks, but accessing the book online in class and using the many wonderful interactive media supplements available today. Not turing there homework into the "In Basket" but rather the teacher's website with software to grade the standarized portion immediately, giving the students immediate feedback. Not to mention differientaion, stuendts will automatically know what to work on and what they need to improve on.The possibilities are endless!
Assignments
• Day 1
Read 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 2
Please 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
• Day 4
Assignment 1 - Wikipedia - see post below.
Assignment 2 - Colliding Forces - see post below.
• Day 5 and Day 6
Live 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......
Read 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 2
Please 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 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 4
Assignment 1 - Wikipedia - see post below.
Assignment 2 - Colliding Forces - see post below.
• Day 5 and Day 6
Live 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......
Saturday, October 25, 2008
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Matt, I agree. I just wonder how long it will take to make this happen. I worry that technology will increase and education won't be able to keep up.
Great blog matt! I agree that laptops for every student would be ideal and that education should attempt to partner with the private sector in attaining this goal. My nephew goes to Brophy College Prep. in Phoenix and that is the model they use for all instruction and homework. He is the most computer savvy kid I know!
Yea, I'm waiting for the day that kids will start pulling out their laptops, too. I remember back in the day during college when college students started bringing laptops. I thought they were crazy! Nowadays, it's so common to see that and so smart.
I like that. I believe that learning will enter a whole new era. Teaching will become much easier and organized. I heard of how S. Korea has provided all their students laptops in the class room and are teaching and sharing with their students in a somewhat similar manner to what you describe.
That will be interesting and exciting to see the day when all students have laptops and when they are able to use them. It is an interesting concept to think of students using the web as the main source for turning in and receiving assignments, but I guess that is already happening!:) The thing I wonder, is how are the laptops maintained? Are the students responsible for that or are the schools?
Mpatz, I think that you have great ideas about the future of technology. I think it is so important that students have access to laptops. I really try to use all of the technology I can with my students, however, I only have two hours a week in the computer lab. I would love for the kids to be able to work on PowerPoints during class, or even start a blog!
We have one school like that in the Tempe Elementary School District. It is the Scales Technology Academy and every student has a laptop, K-5. I plan to tour soon to see how they are incorporating some of what we have read about.
Matt, Personal access to some sort of device is inevitable. Right now it appears to be heading towards something between a laptop, smartphone and mp3 player. For example, the more I use my iPhone, the more amazed I get at it's potential. There are many, many examples of mp3 players, like iPods in education - from early reading to ESL to rich differentiation. I provided a Keynote to the 2005 MEC conference at ASU where I spoke of the inevitability of one to one access. The below URL, if pasted into a web browser, will launch iTunes (if you have it) and take you to a vodcast of that Keynote. It's long (about 50 minutes), but it does state what you posted - it's inevitable....
http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/asu.edu.1295435447.01373746607.1300762158?i=1836633053
As we entering the "TECHNOLOGY AGE", anthing is possible. I can't wait until that everyone of our students come to school with a laptop or an IPhone to replace pen/pencil and paper. I think students are more interested and will be engage into our instruction if they get to use what they are good at "technology skill". Even my little 15 month old baby love to have her hand on mommy little laptop. I think our students today are probably born with the skill of technology because we are so much expose to the technology around us now. Think about of the children in about 5 years. WOW, technology is a wonderful tool.
Wow! It will be an exciting day when all students have access to that kind of technology. I hope it happens sooner than later. Kids will have the world at their fingertips. Imagine the possibilities!
Great post Matt! I hope that this will happen in our near future.
My only concern is the responsibility and etiquette that the kids will need to use the tools efficiently. God knows the crap you can find online and how many hours you can waste by getting lost in it. And I'm not even talking about really dirty stuff...
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