12. What’s your Technology Profile? Have things changed in reality since 1997?

14. These continuums can help you plan content, process, and products for gifted learners, as well as other learners with diverse needs. They are not a recipe, but rather a guide for your thinking. In general, students who are gifted in a given subject or very advanced in a particular topic need to function toward the right end of the continuums. There will be exceptions, of course. For example, a highly able learner may at times need to work at a slower pace to study a topic in greater breadth or depth. At the beginning of a complex study, even a highly able learner may need to work at simpler tasks, toward the left of the continuums will need to move toward the right. Simple Complex Resources, Research, Issues, Problems, Skills Concrete Abstract Examples, Illustrations, Applications, Conclusions Single – faceted Multi – faceted Problems, Applications, Solutions, Approaches, Disciplinary Connections Small Leap Great Leap Application, Insight, Transfer Closed Open Solution, Decisions, Approaches Less Independence Greater Independence Planning, Designing, Monitoring Foundational Transformational Information, Ideas, Materials, Applications Slow Quick Pace of Study, Pace of Thought Continuums for Planning Differentiated Lessons ASCD, 1994

19. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25482/

20. Let’s explore http:// learninginhand.com /

30. Integrating Technology into DI How Do I Do That?

33. Where’s the Content?

34. Technology and Content

35. How do you use technology to differentiate content?

38. NASA Sci Files

39. Canadian Space Agency

40. Online lessons Teacher background resources

41. Ology site map

42. Collections Primary Documents-journals More depth of content

45. Technology and Process

47. Technology and Products

49. Robotics Robolab Mindstorms

56. Tools for the Fluid Classroom Flexible Learning Spaces Adjust to your audience

58. Multiple Devices in One

74. Free Powerpoint Templates Digital Footprints: Are Students Aware of the Possible Consequences of Their On-line Choices?

88. Summary You Can’t Undo Your Digital Mistakes There is a sense of urgency. I wanted you to also have a sense of urgency. Do you? What we’re teaching is; how to use a computer, how to use a cell phone, how to use an iPod, but what we need to be teaching is the thought that, “ What I am about to do is public and permanent”

89. Resources to help you…

91. For Younger Students

93. Resources Videos: Sexting on CNN - http://iroc2.com/video/iroc2-on-cnn You can’t undo your digital mistakes - http://iroc2.com/video/you-cannot-undo-your-digital MTV broadcast - http://iroc2.com/video/sexting-in-america Research/Articles: Social Media and Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults , Amanda Lenhart, Kristen Purcell, Aaron Smith, Kathryn Zickuhr, February 2010 Much Ado About Sexting , Miranda Jolicouer and Edwin Zedlewski, June 2010 Sex and Tech , The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, CosmoGirl.com Website(s): http://www.iroc2.org/

94. Could you go without your laptop, cell phone or iPod for a day? Or until Saturday?

95. 24 hrs: Unplugged Media Addiction Presentation by: Heather and Peter Crouse

96. Addiction : being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming.

97. University of Maryland Phillip Merrill College of Journalism Dr. Susan Moeller (Project director) The study - “24hours:Unplugged ”– was conducted by the university’s International Center for Media and the Public Agenda. Between Feb 24 – March 4 , 2010 students had to go media free for 24hrs. 24 hrs : Unplugged

99. Study’s top five highlights Students use literal terms of addiction to characterize their dependence on media. isolated alone secluded lonely Fidgety deserted jittery anxious bored distracted frustrated unbearable Addict - someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms 1

100. ; ( . . . . Students hate going without media. In their world, going without media, means going without friends or family. Student's news awareness comes from nontraditional sources. Students do not make fine distinctions between news and more personal information News via facebook, twitter, blogs,.. 2 3

101. 18 -21 year old college students are constantly texting and on Facebook . A phone call or email have become a distant second as a way of staying in touch. 4

102. Students could live without their TV's and the newspapers, but they can’t survive without their I Pods. 5

104. Social Implications John Fang from the journal Physics Today , July 2009 recommends stepping away from the computer. “ Play in the real world and stop looking for answers on the Internet.” What are the social implications of being “plugged in” for : Elementary students? Middle level students? High school? Adults?

105. Seinfeld CrackBerry Quiz CBC interview with Jesse Hirsh Click Here Click Here Click Here Related Links

106. Resources Fang, John (2009). Step Away from the Computer. Physics Today, Jul2009, Vol. 62 Issue 7, p12-13:,2p Domar, Alice (2010). Do you have an Unhealthy Tech Addiction. Redbook, Mar2010, Vol. 214 Issue 3, p96-96:,1p Moeller, Susan . (n.d.). A day Without Media. In undefined. Retrieved January 22,2011, from http://withoutmedia.wordpress.com/ .