Slides from presentation by Stacy Nockowitz for OAIS Tech Talks on October 21, 2013

1. Moving Students from
Consumers to Creators
of Content
Stacy Nockowitz
Middle School Library/Media Specialist
Columbus Academy
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2. Do this:
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3. http://bit.ly/WUXXZh
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4. What skills did you use
to complete this task?
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5. Aren’t these the real world skills
we want our students to learn?
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6. Information
Writing
Technology
Literacies of the
21st Centuries
Media/Visual
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Oral/Presentation

7. Future fields
Business
Education
Government
Medicine
Engineering
Research
The Arts
Lippincott, J. K. (2007). Student content creators: Convergence of literacies.
Educause Review, 42(6), 16-17.
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ALL will produce
digital content
Documents
Podcasts
Videos
Multimedia
Data Sets
Simulations
Games
New stuff
we’ve yet to
imagine!

8. How did this work
with 8th Graders?
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11. Time
given
Product quality
(Totally unscientific chart)
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12. Real world problems
Multiple modes
of completion
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13. “By connecting classroom activities with realworld problem solving you bring relevance to the
learning experience. Students will be less inclined
to ask, ‘When will we need to know this?’ and
more apt to dig into an inquiry experience that
matters to them.”
-Suzie Boss,
Author, PBL advocate, Edutopia contributor
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14. Make PROBLEM SOLVING &
CREATION the foundation
of what you do in the classroom!
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15. 1
1% create
content
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9
9% curate
content
90
90% only
consume
content

16. Don’t confuse information with knowledge.
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17. At home: Do the research.
In class: Discuss, justify your sources of
information, create new content.
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18. At home: Consume.
In class: Create, with YOU as their guide!
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19. How does creating
content help students?
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20. Create what?
• Programming, art, animations.
• Digital storytelling, creative writing,
explanations/tutorials, ebooks.
• Mashups of content from multiple
sources that connect fields, ideas,
concepts.
• Podcasts, vodcasts, blogs
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21. Some project ideas:
-Creating campaign materials (commercials, social
media promotions, etc.) for an election.
-Developing a visualization (infographic, dynamic
chart, etc.) of experimental data
with accompanying text analysis.
-Producing an interactive ebook about
a global issue/crisis.
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22. Audience matters!
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23. Get away from this!
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25. You must address issues of
copyright and fair use!
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26. The best way to avoid
copyright infringement?
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27. The best way to avoid
copyright infringement?
Make it yourself!
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28. Dan Pink: “The ability to give the world something
new is the central cognitive ability of our age.
Give the world something we didn’t
know we were missing.”
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29. 3 Keys to Motivating
Students to Create:
1. Autonomy
2. Mastery
3. Purpose
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30. Autonomy:
Give kids sovereignty over what they do
and how they do it, and they’ll be engaged.
“Intense, undiluted autonomy” leads to great
things!
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31. Mastery:
The opportunity for mastery
is a great motivator and engager.
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32. Purpose:
If kids don’t know why they’re doing
something, they’ll either be defiant or
compliant but not engaged.
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33. Join the Maker Movement!
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34. “Making is a way of bringing creativity, authentic
design thinking, and engineering to learners.
Tinkering is the process of design, the way real
scientists and engineers invent new
things...Creating opportunities for students to solve
real problems, with imaginative new materials and
technology, makes learning come alive...”
-Sylvia Martinez, co-author of
Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
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35. Use design thinking:
1. Define a problem.
2. Research and create a solution
and a prototype.
3. Implement the solution.
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36. How are educators using makerspaces
in their schools?
Go to makerspace.com.
Download the Makerspace Playbook,
and get started!
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37. Resources:
http://makezine.com/2013/08/21/stocking-up-school-makerspaces/
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/creating-makerspaces-in-schools-mary-beth-hertz
http://makezine.com/2013/08/11/key-qualities-for-a-school-makerspace/
http://www.edutopia.org/media-literacy-skills
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/ (Wes Fryer)
http://bit.ly/17x4pfd (A library proposal for a makerspace)
http://bit.ly/1bWYc3H (Design Thinking, Deconstructed)
http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/copypol2.html (Fair Use)
http://bit.ly/SBuu4F (Students as Content Creators)
http://www.danpink.com/
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38. Do we have time for you to give this a try?
Come up with a task, a project, an idea
for your classroom that involves CREATION
rather than consumption, a real world task
instead of something that will only
satisfy YOU!
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