Crandrews67's List: PSU Online Media course

• It means that I can store all my resources in one place-my computer, I can share resources more easily with my colleagues as well as edit them to improve them… Using digital resources also enable me to include sound and pictures and to create resources that are more engaging for my students. Using social bookmarking, I can also be sure that my knowledge of how new technologies are applied in my area of work is also up-to-date. Social Bookmarking made me discover new tools such as Wordle or Voki….
• Did Social Bookmarking enable you to be more innovative in the classroom ?
  Yes, by using relevant You tube videos, by using audacity to do some recordings for my students, by using voki, wordle, by using live web pages to illustrate a point, teach vocabulary or a grammar item-for example, showing an interactive weather map in Spanish while teaching phrases to discuss the weather.

• However, what I am doing now is creating those projects and learning activities for students to discover that knowledge more independently. They are no longer relying on me to provide them with the information. Instead, I provide them the tools and skills to go and find that information themselves.

• • I do want students to use this
• Prezi beca
• Those standards, known as the National Education Technology Standards (NETS), have several benefits including:
• Improving higher-order thinking skills, such as problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity
• Designing student-centered, project-based, and online learning environments
• • yes, skills. the same approach I believe is appropriate for science - science process skills

• For example, Prezi is the trendy presentation tool that many teachers want their students to use. There are definitely pros and cons to using Prezi. It can deliver certain types of messages in a way that PowerPoint can’t. But what if we only teach our students how to push the right buttons and where to click to add video and text?

   

  Furthermore, there are best practices for what makes a good presentation. None of them include reading a paragraph off of the screen with the student’s back turned to their audience. If this is how your students present in your class, it won’t matter what program they are using.

   

  Ask yourself this question, would you ever consider a grading scale on a presentation that gave your students two options?

   
   
  • Present with Prezi and the maximum possible grade is an A
   
  • Present with PowerPoint and the maximum possible grade is a B
   
   

  Why? Where does your answer place the emphasis of the assignment? Is the goal for the student to learn the content or the technology? The only exception would be if you are teaching a class that only teaches students how to use technological software, programs, and tools. For the vast majority of teachers, this is not the case.
• Let’s look at this example form a different perspective. First, teaching students how to evaluate websites/tools to choose which one is best for the message they want to convey does two things. It targets higher order thinking and it prepares students with a skill they will undoubtedly utilize in the future. Next, students who know what it takes to make an effective presentation can be successful using any medium.

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• • problem with this is that all students can't learn just from watching a video
• He also reiterated the primary goal of Khan Academy: a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.  Free, universal and global education may seem like a radical idea, but Khan believes (and I concur) that the right elements to make this a reality are already in place. More evidence that we have entered into a new era of digital learning…

• Teach students to understand and contribute to the online information commons rather than just saying no to Wikipedia;
• • This would be great for critical thinking exercise and information literacy all at the same time...check out the discussion of how a particular wiki page was created

• Large-scale studies show that the technology itself doesn't necessarily make a difference. What does make a difference is well-designed technology coupled with well-prepared teachers,
• adding that when tech skills are taught this way, in isolation from other teaching methods, they are less effective.
• ric Miller, a teacher of sixth-grade social studies at Eckstein Middle School in Seattle, remembers a graduate school project for which he created a website to teach a history lesson. The website asked users about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and provided links to other websites. Users would click on the links to read both related and unrelated information and then sort out the correct response.

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• • I like the idea of facilitating...I try to do this as a tutor as well as in the design of the shared learning course. It is inherent as an instructor for bio labs. How do I make the FYS course this way?
• Schools for the new economy must focus on having students learn critical thinking skills to create, imagine and innovate, that will require generating a culture where teachers become facilitators. Some are now using “classroom flipping” where students watch lectures at home and do homework in school. It allows teachers to help those who need it and allows students to work and learn together. Just like in today’s workplace.

• Young people are desperate for learning that is relevant and part of the fabric of their social lives, where they are making choices about how, when, and what to learn, without it all being mapped for them in advance. Learning on the Internet is about posting a burning question on a forum like Quora or Stack Exchange, searching for a how to video on YouTube or Vimeo, or browsing a site like Instructables, Skillshare, and Mentormob for a new project to pick up. It's not just professors who have something to share, but everyone who has knowledge and skills.
• • Both my husband and I scour YouTube for music instruction videos

• eachers or administrators decide what is most important for the students to learn with little regard to the student interests.
• tudents would learn passively
• Education 3.0 is based on the belief that content is freely and readily available. It is self-directed, interest-based learning where problem-solving, innovation and creativity drive education.
• • Good reference

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• • This highlights the engagement that online media can offer students. Would this student have gotten this involved without those tools?

• • Not just the online tools that make the big class project amazing...the student polls were very revealing and interesting