21st Century Learners
Web streamed.\n\nMonday, May 12: "Internet, the Private Mind?" by Steven Berlin Johnson, author of "Everything Bad is Good for You."\n\nMonday, June 23: "The Anthropology of YouTube" by Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University.\n\nMonday, June 30: "Screenology" by Douglas Rushkoff, author of "Playing the Future: What We Can Learn from Digital Kids."
CommonCraft now has their entire collection of "Explanations in Plain English" videos posted to their own YouTube Channel. See: social networking, twitter, blogs, wikis etc.
Chat with authors, record podcasts, and cover reference—all online and for free—with Skype. - [School Library Journal, Jan 08]
The K12HSN Professional Development Cafe is a series of videoconferences around a variety of areas of interest for K-12 school personnel. Participation in these sessions is available through videoconferencing or through web streaming.
The K12HSN Interactive Desktop Solution (KIDS) program provides free Polycom’s PVX desktop videoconferencing software in order to bring videoconferencing into the classroom. The program is available for all K-12 educators working for a California school.
As blogging becomes more pervasive, schools have begun establishing ground rules for teachers who blog. [David Warlick]
As a joint effort of CDE, CTAP and CUE, the Student Technology Showcase serves to inform parents, teachers, administrators, legislators and higher education representatives about curriculum-based student technology projects being undertaken in Kindergarten through grade 12.
When Christopher Laub was in the third and fourth grades, chemotherapy treatments for his leukemia kept him out of school, feeling sick and weak. But through a close collaboration between Bel Aire Elementary School and Apple — as well as a creative use of iChat AV — Laub was able to continue with his classes. Thanks to the system that he dubbed “iCan,” the young student remained connected to his classmates and his studies.
Here is an ambitious effort by the Saddleback Valley Unified School District [California], which has 39 schools in the district. They have their own Online-TV Station! Check out their news section and how they presented AERIES to their teachers. Very clever.
Environments such as SECOND LIFE can both stimulate and educate, experts agree. Online gaming can help students develop many of the skills they'll be required to use upon leaving school, such as critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity.
In collaboration with several content area organizations, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills developed a series of ICT Literacy Maps illustrating the intersection between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy and core academic subjects including English, mathematics, science and social studies (civics/government, geography, economics, history). The maps enable educators to gain concrete examples of how ICT Literacy can be integrated into core subjects, while making the teaching and learning of core subjects more relevant to the demands of the 21st century.
Phenomenal global collaboration project involving students from 15 countries. Teaching assignment is replicated across continents. Last year's project, Rock n Sol, was featured in the California K-12 Technology Showcase. This year's project, "Are You Game" focuses on digital storytelling. Students collaborate to compose music, make movies, podcasts, and experiments and met in face to face video-conferences. Using Garage Band, kids annually create a collaborative song that has been touched in every continent in the world. Each week, each group contributes 30 seconds with a specific musical instrument. Even blind students are involved in the project.
Videostream of a forum that was held in December 2007 and hosted by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to celebrate the publication of the MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning.
nternet2 is a non-profit membership organization of 208 universities working in conjunction with government and industry to operate a private national Internet Protocol (IP) network reserved for the exclusive use of the US research and education (R&E) community.As the national R&E backbone, the Internet2 Network provides connectivity between institutions and connectivity to international research and education networks thereby providing access to the global research and education community. While there are many benefits of using Internet2 in the classroom here are the top three for K12: <br />1. Immediate access to experiences and expertise <br /> 2. Access to rich multi-media digital collections and resources<br /> 3. A truly global education network at your fingertips. <br /><br />In California, we have a localized statewide version of this effort called <a href="http://www.k12hsn.org/"> K12 High Speed Network/K12HSN</a> <br /><br />
Service Learning. TakingITGlobal provides a portal for young people to find inspiration, access information and get involved in improving their local and global communities.
Anybody can post information on the Internet, making it possible to find "proof" of any ideas or beliefs you can imagine. Yet to many students, "If it's on the Internet, it must be true." Alan November has put together some very cool examples of web sites to use when teaching students to authenticate information that they find online.
April 2008 : THE Journal. Students see a distinction between the writing they do for school and the writing they do in their personal lives. While the vast majority of 12- to 17-year-olds (85 percent) engage in some form of electronic writing--IM, e-mail, blog posts, text messages, etc.--most (60 percent) don't consider this actual writing.
Survey points to a new trend you need to understand
This teacher had his physics students describe Einstein by creating his Facebook profile. Since they couldn't access Facebook at school, he had his students create a mock-up of the profile using Microsoft Publisher. He provided the students with a Publisher template, some screenshots of actual Facebook profiles and links to Einstein information to get them started.