Presentation given at Alan November's BLC09 in Boston highlighting inexpensive and free ways to support Project Based Learning, 21 Century Skills, NETS Standards, and the Core Curriculum.

1. The Hook

2. Twenty First Century Skills On The Cheap Transforming Education Virtually Two Bits At A Time! Michael J. Gorman Alan November BLC 09 Conference Johns Hopkins University Cohort Southwest Allen County Schools MJ Gorman 2009 For personal use only

3. Education for the future! Free and inexpensive ideas!

4. I am honored to present at BLC09! It is my goal that each and every one of you walks away with not only a new idea but a changed paradigm

5. And a treasure chest of free and inexpensive resources For all educational learning communities including classrooms, schools, and districts

6. All resources in this presentation are available at my 21 CenturyEDtech Wiki at: http://21centuryedtech.wikispaces.com/

7. Tomorrow’s great educational ideas are reinventions of what already exists today! Technology gives educators the ability to improve, refine, articulate, and make more productive!

8. Case In Point The invention of a device that allows instant play of music, on demand, from various artists, from a large collection of data bases.

10. Technology improves, refines, articulates, and makes the jukebox more productive! The Result

12. The million dollar question with a virtual two bit possibility! Is education today closer to the jukebox or the iPod?

13. Is education today closer to the jukebox or the iPod?

14. That is another presentation In the meantime You decide! iPod Jukebox Make A Turn

15. With this quick foundation we will investigate resources that help you: Transform Education A Virtual Two Bits At A Time!

16. Incorporate resources that emphasize 21 st Century Skills

17. What do students need for the 21 st century?

22. So how do we make it happen with ongoing budget cuts?

23. Look for National Programs already in existence Use your technology and an exemplary program to improve, refine, articulate, and make the jukebox more productive!

24. The Future City Example How one school incorporated a national competition into the school curriculum Explore my wiki

26. Highly Engaging SimCity 4000 Software

27. With these programs take aim at the standards!

36. But Don’t Stop With The Core Curriculum

37. Include Fine and Practical Arts

38. The Model Building High Level Thinking and Construction

39. Do Not Forget

42. AND

44. Create a professional learning community that Is founded on a vision based on real student achievement!

49. Real achievement puts learners in the middle! Must involve student centered learning

52. Colaboration Twenty-first century communication century skills

54. Other National Programs “We The People” Explore my wiki

56. We The People Possibilities

58. We The People Discover a site that allows for differentiation

59. The West Point Bridge Project See My Wiki

61. Engaging, high level thinking, and less than two bits!

62. Google is great and its free! But, don’t forget Arc View from ESRI Visit my wiki

63. ESRI’s Arc View has been supporting the K12 community for years with great GIS and GPS ideas!

64. Newly published books with great support for all levels Arc View Our World GIS Education Books - Winner of the 2008 Geography Excellence in Media (GEM) Awards by The National Council for Geographic Education. Each book provides a description along with links to Workbook Support, Teacher Resources, Podcast with Authors, Thinking Spatially Using GIS Mapping Our World Using GIS Analyzing Our World Using GIS Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS

65. Book 3 : Analyzing Our World Cost $30-50 Comes with 1 Disk of Lessons and Files 1 Disk allowing 50 Machine License for 365 days

66. Aligned to standards

67. Across the curriculum

68. All part of each ESRI book!

70. Scratch from MIT See my wiki

72. After two weeks of Scratch at school And hours at home!

73. Along with Scratch Many students like using Carnegie Mellon’s free Alice

74. Try Gimp Photo editing and creation that costs nothing!

76. Gimp Projects Projects can include making sniglets, idioms, story writing starters, photo compositions, superimposes, original animals, mock ups. These can involve all areas of the curriculum. An idea from my Wiki (complete document instructions available) Use Gimp and the three pictures above to make this mock up

77. A Gimp Look

78. Elevating the Spreadsheet Reinventing new ways to use old tools to upgrade the jukebox into an iPod, on the cheap! See my wiki Excel or Open Office Calc

80. Spreadsheet Problem Solving See my wiki Spreadsheets are a great way to have students work in collaborative groups to problem solve mathematical operations Example: (A collection of spreadsheet style story problems are on the wiki site) When Malcolm was visiting his Grandpa's farm, he saw that the farm only raised hens and hogs. Malcolm counted 38 heads and 100 feet in the barnyard. How many hens and how many hogs did his grandpa have in the barnyard?

81. Problem Solving Students use Moodle to discuss problems Students use Google Doc to collaborate

82. Learn to tell a story with data It seems we all use bar, column, line, and pie graphs but students are not as familiar with donuts, radar, stacked, double line, and bubble. See my wiki

84. Two Bit Engineering Sketch Up Discoverengineering.org Autodesk Education Coming to the wiki

85. Auto Cad Ideas Basic Geometry Angles Obtuse Acute Right Constraint Triangle Circumference Circle Diameter Radius

87. High Tech Building Blocks The Final iPod Coming to the wiki Final Student Product Using CAD

88. Intel Thinking Tools Visual Ranking -Identifying and refining criteria for assigning a ranking to a list Seeing Reason – webbing, complex system relationships, mapping Showing evidence – supporting opinions, hypotheses, and thesis arguments Student collaboration with in groups and between groups with ability for teacher interaction, overview, monitoring, and assessment

89. Intel Thinking Tools Visual Ranking A close up See my wiki

90. Integrate it all on the cheap The Big Caribbean Book Store Decision Your team is employed by the Island Book Company. This company wants to start a series of book stores in the Caribbean. They have employed your team to come up with at least three countries that would give them a successful start. They want your team to send them at least four excel worksheets with graphs to compare all the Caribbean countries in these four categories Literacy rate Percent of GDP spent on education WS GDP Per Capita Group Choice

91. Now use different technology to make the jukebox an iPod for virtually two bits! Worldwide Web Research – CIA World Factbook Analyze and collect data – Google Docs/Open Office Collaborate with group – Project Moodle Compare and assess – Intel Thinking Tools Present – Picture Story See my wiki

92. And Facilitating Twenty First Century Skills On The Cheap Then You Really Will Be Transforming Education, Virtually Two Bits At A Time! Michael J. Gorman Alan November BLC 09 Conference Johns Hopkins University Cohort Southwest Allen County Schools MJ Gorman 2009 For personal use only

93. Final Student Reflections Here is to their future!

94. Feel Free To Network With Me Email: mgorman@sacs.k12.in.us Wiki: http://21centuryedtech.wikispaces.com

95. The Future Will Be The Only Assessment