Updated and expanded presentation given at the Cornerstone Schools, Detroit, MI on March 16, 2012. Most underlined links are clickable and will take you right to the named resource!

1. Modernizing Education
The State of Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
Lucy Gray
The Cornerstone Schools
March 16, 2012
http://www.lucygray.org
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2. Agenda
• Learn about current trends in education,
particularly related to technology.
• Social Media, 21st century Skills, Generational Diversity, Learning
environments
• Discuss change.
• Focus on global collaborative projects.
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3. http://sg.sg/modernizingedu
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4. Lucy’s Questions
• What kind of technological resources do you
currently have?
• Are teachers leveraging social media?
• Are faculty familiar with TED Talks?
• Do you have a system for collaboration and
for publishing student work?
• What are the goals of the institution in the
next few years?
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5. You know it is not
real ed-tech staff
development unless
your head feels like
it is going to
explode!
- Jennifer Cronk
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6. Experiences
• Graduate of Lake Forest
Country Day
• Worked at University of
Chicago
• Apple Distinguished
Educator
• Google Certified Teacher
• Founder, The Global
Education Collaborative
• Co-founder, The Global
Education Conference
• Multiple Opportunities to
visit and work with schools
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7. Another Nation at Risk
Moment ?
How do we improve teaching and learning?
What is truly innovative?
How do we effectively assess students?
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8. The Power of Social
Media
Flickr
YouTubeTwitter Facebook
LinkedIn Google+
Diigo
SlideShare
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9. SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP
AT BOARD RETREAT
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10. “The Highly Connected
Teacher”
The National Educational Technology Plan
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11. The K12 Horizon Report
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12. The New Media Consortium
Horizon Report 2011
K-12
•1 year or less
• Cloud Computing
• Mobiles
•2 to 3 years
• Game-based learning
• Open Content
•4 to 5 years
• Learning Analytics
• Personal Learning
Environments 2011 Report
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13. Why Change?
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14. Why Evolve?
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15. Shift Happens: Iowa, Did You Know?
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16. http://www.onlineeducation.net/students-love-tech
Add more student data ?
Maybe project tomorrow?
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17. Project Tomorrow’s
SpeakUp Survey
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18. Via John Pfluger
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19. The Reality
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20. Public Schools
• Increased pressure
via Race to the Top,
AYP, RTI
• Less funding
• Less Time
• Emphasis on
standards and high
stakes testing
• Teacher Proof
curricula
• Less instruction in
the arts, World
Languages, etc.
• Longer school days
• Technology seen as
a content delivery
Mechanism
• Constant seeking of
silver bullets
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21. Independent Schools
• Time
• Resources
• Streamlined
bureaucracy
• Organizational vision
• Community Consensus
• Administrative and
collegial support
• Authentic curriculum
• Recognition of the
Importance of 21st
century skills
• Professional
development
• Teacher autonomy
• Prepared students
• Commitment to
developing the whole
child
• Parental support
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22. What do effective schools
seem to have in common?
• A WIDE RANGE OF EFFORTS TOWARDS
CULTIVATING 21ST CENTURY SKILLS AND
IMPLEMENTING ROBUST TECHNOLOGY
PROGRAMS
• THE SUCCESS OF ANY PROGRAM DEPENDS ON:
• VISIONARY LEADERSHIP
• STRATEGIC PLANNING
• COMMITMENT TO CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
• THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SCHOOL IS PRESSURED
TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR A CHANGING WORLD
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23. My Experience as a
Parent
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24. The School at Columbia
• K-8
• Columbia University faculty and local kids
• Innovation driven
• 1 to 1 laptop program
• 3 technologists plus tech staff
• Extensive Google Apps for Education and new
media use
• Other: field trip guides, computer programming,
robotics, conference
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25. Known as “THE”
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35. Science Leadership
Academy
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36. Educon 2.4
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37. Jennie Magiera
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38. Check In
• What is old news?
• What is new news?
• Can individual teachers incorporate some of
the things we’ve seen thus far?
• Is anyone using social media for informal
professional development?
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39. Personalized
Learning
Mobile
Technologies
21st century
skills
generational
Diversity
Learning
environments
Design
Thinking
Cloud
Computing
Textbook
Revolution
Curated
Learning
New Media
Literacies
Flipping
The
Classroom
Global
Collaboration
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40. 21st Century Skills
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41. A Pedagogical Shift
• New models of teaching and learning are emerging
• Rigorous content + 21st century themes
• “Sage on the stage” to “guide on the side”
• New literacies need to be taught strategically
• Examples:
• developing a search mentality
• Student personal learning networks (PLNs)
• Standards and accountability still are important;
assessments need revision
• Going global is within reach using current technologies
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42. The Partnership for
21st Century Skills
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45. The Global Achievement
Gap
Critical
Thinking and
Problem-
Solving
Collaboration
Across
Networks and
Leading by
Influence
Agility and
Adaptability
Initiative and
Entrepreneuri
alism
Effective Oral
and Written
Communication
Accessing and
Analyzing
Information
Curiosity and
Imagination
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46. Check In
• What 21st century skills do you focus on in
your institution?
• Is there anything you would add? Delete?
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47. Managing
Generational Diversity
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48. Teachers and Students
• Adults have different learning styles. How
are we taking this into account in terms of
professional development and human capital?
• Baby Boomers
• Gen Xers
• Gen Yers
• Kids have had different levels of exposure to
technology. The period of time at which our
schools have been wired is fairly short.
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49. Basic online entertainment
(online videos, playing games)
E-commerce
(online shopping, banking, and travel reservations)
Research and information gathering
(product research, news, health and religious information searches)
Email and search
Active engagement
with social media
(visit SNS, create SNS profile,
create blogs)
More advanced online
entertainment
(download videos, music and
podcasts)
More advanced communication and
passive social media use
(instant messaging, visit SNS, read blogs)
From: State of the
Internet 2009: Pew
Internet Project
Findings and
Implications for
Libraries
The vast majority of
online adults from all
generations uses email
and search engines.
While there are always
exceptions, older generations
typically do not engage with the
internet past e-commerce.
The majority of teens and Gen
Y use SNS, but fewer maintain
blogs. Online adults older than
Gen X are less likely to use
SNS.
Online
activity
pyramid: by
generation
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50. Beloit College’s
Mindset List
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51. Project Tomorrow
Recommendations
• Un-tether learning and leverage mobile devices to extend
learning beyond the school day and meet all learners in their
own world
• Create new interactive, participatory learning spaces using
tools such as online classes, gaming and simulations, online
tutors, and virtual reality environments
• Incorporate Web 2.0 tools into daily instruction especially
those that develop collaborative or social-based learning and
provide unique opportunities for students to be content
developers
• Expand digital resources in the classroom to add context and
relevancy to learning experiences through new media tools
• Get beyond the classroom walls and make learning truly
experiential such as using high tech science instrumentation
and creating podcasts with content experts
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52. 0%
25%
50%
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100%
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K-12 Classroom Internet Connectivity
Classroom Internet Connectivity
2007
Coming Soon to Campus: The New "Free
Agent" Learner
Julie Evans, CEO-Project Tomorrow Campus
Technology 09
Jul 27, 2009
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53. Class of 2011 – just graduated seniors
8th grade
Class of 2013 – your rising juniors
6th grade
Class of 2015 – your current incoming freshman
4th grade
How digitally “native” are these students?
What are their expectations for learning?
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54. Implications for Schools
• Need for strategic human capital planning
• Need for increased targeted, sustained,
personalized and thoughtful professional
development
• Need for long range planning for students’
use of technology. Requires schools to think
of skills sets needed by students at various
points in their academic careers while gauging
the future of technology.
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55. Check In
• Have you assessed technology usage by your
students? At home?
• Are you using any benchmarks?
• How important is that kids use technology in
your school?
• What’s the long range plan for your
students?
• How do your colleagues learn best?
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56. Learning Environments
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57. NYC’s The School of One
• Summer school pilot
• Middle school math
• Flexible space
• Personalized curriculum
• Regular assessments
• Variety in delivery of instruction
• Lesson plan bank
• Partnered with publishers
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58. Re:Imagine Ed
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59. The Third Teacher
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60. You Media
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61. Check In
• How important is the learning environment in
the grand scheme of things?
• What can individual teachers do to create a
positive climate in their classrooms?
• What role does technology play in learning
environments?
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62. So what?
• Networked learning: You must be open to at least letting
your kids drive the technology use in your classrooms. Be
willing to engage them in the ways that they learn best.
• Generational diversity: Change is not going to happen
without schools working as teams to examine at
longitudinal goals.
• 21st century skills: The art of teaching comes through via
the weaving of 21st century themes into core content. You
need to provide guidance and be thoughtful when designing
classroom activities.
• Learning environments: Just as we’ve looked at the whole
child, we need to start emphasizing the whole learning
environment. Personalized learning for both students and
teachers is important.
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63. BRAIN BREAK!
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64. Getting Started
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65. ISTE Standards
Students, Teachers, and Administrators
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66. Technology Integration Framework
Woodstock (IL) CUSD 200
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67. Various Approaches
• LoTI
• University of South
Florida Matrix
• Arizona matrix
• Using Technology with
Classroom Instruction
that Works
• Challenge Based
Learning
• TPACK
• SMAR
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68. University of South Florida’s
Tech Intergration Matrix
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69. Grappling’s Technology
and Learning Spectrum
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70. "...the future belongs to
the nation that best
educates its citizens…"
-President Barack Obama
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71. A world class education system
should call for
globally connected schools
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72. Where the h*** is Matt?
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73. •The influence of new media
•The push for 21st
century skills
•The “highly connected
teacher”
•The urgency presented by
complex global problems
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74. 21st Century Students
(and Teachers)
New Connections
Connected
Individuals
New Communities
Virtual
Communities
New Content
Collaborative
Communities
Connected in innovative and new ways
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75. Millennials Want to
Learn…
✴With technology
✴With one another
✴Online
✴In their time
✴In their place
✴Doing things that
matter
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76. CCSSO and
Asia Society’s PGL
• New resource on
global competence!
• Download a copy
here.
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77. From Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World
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78. From Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World
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79. High Noon
• Issues involving
the global commons
• Issues requiring a
global commitment
• Issues needing a
global regulatory
approach
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81. Esther Wojcicki and Michael Levine
Teaching for a Shared Future: American Educators
Need to Think Globally
EdWeek: Global Learning blog by Tony Jackson
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82. How Do You Prepare
Students?
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83. Edutopia
February/March
2008
http://www.edutopia.org/sage-advice-world-citizens
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84. First you help them define the term “citizen of the world”.
Then you help them learn what being a good citizen means
-- to themselves, to loved ones and family, to the school
community, to the surrounding community. One’s actions
can be directly linked to one’s values (beliefs, feelings, and
actions that are important to us), so starting with a basic
understanding of one’s values is essential to any
meaningful discussions on citizenship. The global
context is meaningless unless students are good citizens of
their own nation.
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85. Right before our eyes, all that the education sector has
controlled, dismissed, manipulated, validated, embellished,
fictionalized, and ranked within an aura of tradition and
ritual may be accessed by point-and-click. We need to
stop chasing exponentially expanding content.
Inquiry, problem recognition and solution, creativity,
knowing one’s strengths and weaknesses, communication,
and relationships are what students must be prepared for.
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86. Becoming a world citizen requires knowledge and
experience of other cultures; U.S. schools do not
provide knowledge or experience. Rather, they
provide a cursory glimpse of others in order to exemplify
how not to be American. “Diversity Day” does not create
world citizens, it patronizes cultural difference and touts
xenophobia, and always winds up pandering American
culture as Eurocentrically defined. Only travel and
immersion in other cultures creates world citizens.
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87. Prepare students to be citizens of the world by being one
yourself. Teach from a global perspective.
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88. Arlington Heights
School District 25
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90. 90Monday, March 19, 12

91. THINK GlobalSchool
12 countries in 12 trimesters
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92. Connect All Schools
iEARN
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93. YOUR EFFORTS?
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94. Take This Survey
http://tinyurl.com/21stcenturyskillssurvey
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95. View Results Here
http://tinyurl.com/21stcenturyskillssurveyresults
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96. Apple Distinguished Educators
Global Awareness 2006
The World is Flat
AWhole New Mind
Berlin & Prague
Rethink. Global
Awareness.
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97. My Story
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98. Classroom 2.0
Link
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99. Global Education Conference
http://globaleducationconference.com
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100. 481,334 unique visitors
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101. 9,902 members from over 115 countries
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102. GEC Features
Searchable member list
Latest activity
Forums and blogs
Links to resources
Events
Project database
Videos and photos
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103. Apple Distinguished Educators
ADE Institute Asia 2008
Visited six Singaporean
schools
Worked with educators
from Singapore, Hong
Kong and assorted
international schools
Worked in teams to
create collaborative
projects
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104. The Education Project
Bahrain
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105. Global Education Conference
http://globaleducationconference.com
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106. Steve Hargadon
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107. Closing Session
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108. 2010 - Brian Mannix
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109. 2010 - Polar Bears
International
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110. 2010 - Catlin Gabel School
• Program Information
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111. 2011 - Pam Allyn - LitWorld
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112. 2011 - Greg Jacobs - Louder
Than a Bomb
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113. 2011 - The Shoah Foundation
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114. EXAMPLES
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115. Earth Day Groceries Project
Mark Ahlness
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116. Projects By Jen Jen Wagner
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117. Around the World
with 80 Schools
Silvia Tolisano
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118. Google Lit TripsJerome Burg
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119. Sample VideoValerie Becker
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120. WikiValerie Becker
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121. A Whole New MindKarl Fisch
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122. The iEARN Project Book
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123. Three Cups of
Controversy
• Greg Mortenson
• Central Asia
Institute
• Pennies for Peace
• Three Cups of Tea
• What Mortenson
Got Wrong
• American Institute
of Philanthropy
• Better Business
Bureau
• Charity Navigator
• Great NonProfits
• GuideStar
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124. Tools of the Trade
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125. Apple Inc.
Tools of the Trade
• Photobooth (photos, video, greenscreening)
• iChat AV (videoconferencing, desktop sharing
recording)
• Garageband (recording, podcasting)
• iPod, iPod Touch, iPad - microphone
attachments & apps
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126. Suggested Toolkit
• Still or video camera - Kodak cameras
• Web Cam - Logitech
• Chat client - Skype (free)
• Digital recording device or web site
• Collaborative workspace - Think.com
(Thinkquest), blogs, wikis
• Networks - Twitter, iEARN, ePals, Global Ed
ning
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127. Recommendations
• Learn to network; network to learn
• Keep it authentic
• Start small and design very structured
projects
• Join an existing group project
• Develop a customized vision of 21st century
learning for your classroom, school and
district
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128. Where the h*** is Matt 2?
Text
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129. WHY NOW?
@oline73: Can you distill why globally connected classrooms are vital in 2010?
Photo source
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130. We have urgent problems that
need to be addressed and, in order
to prepare our students to work on
these problems, we must connect
them globally. We must teach them
how networked learning leads to
networked problem solving.
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131. Final Check In
• How important is it to connect your students
to the world?
• How does this fit into your mission?
• What tools are available to you?
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132. http://sg.sg/modernizingedu
lucy@lucygrayconsulting.com
Twitter: elemenous
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