Digging Deeper So our students can CONNECT CREATE

Digging Deeper So our students can… CONNECT. CREATE. COLLABORATE

Designer’s of 21 st Century Classrooms: �Pull, don’t push. �Create from relevance. �Stop calling “them” soft skills. �Allow for variation. �No more sage on the stage. �Build learning communities. �Are anthropologists, not archeologists. �Incubate the future.

“Dig” Into Bloom’s Digitally Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Remembering • Bookmarking “Favorites” • “Googling” Understanding • Blog used as a daily journal • Commenting on Web pages or documents Applying • Uploading/ Collaborating/ Editing via Web sites • Operating programs/ hardware to obtain a goal Analyzing • Validate Information on the Web • Mashing/ Linking several data sources to one Evaluating • Blogs used to reflect, evaluate material, interact • Moderating – variety of perspectives, assess value, assess appropriateness Creating • Capture, Create, Mix content for unique projects • Directing and Producing Churches, A. , Educational Origami, Bloom’s and ICT Tools

Tools for the Designers: �Glogster �News. Maker Software/ Webcams �Flip Cameras/ Moviemaker �PB Works �Your Design and Creativity

Where’s the Beef? �Effective communication starts with content worthy of sharing. �Educators need to help students…go beyond repackaging existing information. (example) �Does the content have substance worth sharing? �Are your students projects demonstrating what they know and understand beyond the facts? Or are their digital products primarily demonstrating the acquisition of technology skills? �Whatever the tool prioritizing rigor and content will benefit students when tools become obsolete. �Students must become designers of learning tasks, consumers of assessment information, and take responsibility for what comes next for them. Where's the Beef? Adding Rigor to Student Digital Projects; by Bernajean Porter; Learning & Leading with Technology, September/ October 2010

The Project � http: //stpedtech. pbworks. com � What do you have to say about the oil spill based on what you have learned in school, experienced in your community, and researched here in this wiki? Activities � Watch provided videos and do research with your group. � Choose an issue or idea about the spill that concerns your group. � Create a glog and compile your supporting evidence/ research about your topic. � Write, direct, and produce a video in "news reporting" style to illustrate your concerns and possible solutions

The Rubric �Scoring Guides for Digital Products http: //www. digitales. us/evaluating/scoring_guide. php

Step 1: Research Video �NASA Satellite View �Satellite View Progressive Animation �Effects on Wildlife �Effects on Birds �Impact on Fisheries

Listing Bullet Pointing Highlighting Bookmarking Google Searching Identifying Remembering

Categorizing Commenting Advanced Searching Blog Journaling Subscribing Twittering Summarizing Understanding

Implementing Hacking Uploading Operating Sharing Editing Playing Applying

Linking Validating Mashing Integrating Cracking Reverse-engineering Comparing Analyzing

Blogging Commenting Collaborating Posting Reviewing Testing Moderating Evaluating

Remixing Blogging Publishing Animating Filming Podcasting Wiki-ing Creating