I am surprise that there are not more people sitting in here! Right now there are 13 of us and David normally packs out a room for 900!! This is part of the flat classroom concept and David Warlick is a guru for Instructional Technology!
Microsoft Boku gaming software brings Higher Order Thinking Skills into the classroom! They have a lot of Problem Solving opportunities built in.
He talked about how teachers are using Second Life to use as an online classroom and staff development.
Very profound statement he just made..."We need to stop worrying about teaching the students to use paper, but we need to teach them to be digital."
New Technology
Clothes with computer adapters built in.
Accessories a phone that the mouth piece slips on your pinky and the ear piece on your thumb and you hold it up to your ear and mouth and it becomes a cell phone.
GPS Toe Rings - Plug in where you want to go on your phone or portable GPS and start walking, when you need to turn right the toe ring on your right foot vibrates, when you need to turn left, the left one vibrates.
Are we preparing our students for an unpredictable future? What are the skills they will need to prosper in a world with rapid change? The world is global and cooperative, are we preparing our students for this new world when they graduate?
Richard Florida and Daniel Ping are authors that we should be looking at. The Rise of the Creative Class, The Flight of the Creative Class and A Whole New Mind. "We are moving from an industrial world to a creative world."
"Because we are shifting to a creative world, we need to be putting more funding to teach our students how to be creative in art, music, drama, and other creative outlets."
"We have 21st century children learning in a 20th century classroom!" (AMEN!!)
The Digital Divide - The students who are online and collaborating with others and learning from others are learning more and doing more advanced learning than those that do not have technology in their home.
He spent a lot of time talking about what people are doing with Gaming software and video taping when they run it or play it through their movie software (iMovie, Movie Maker). WOW!! I was blown away by what some people have done!!
Information has changed... we see it as a consumable product and children now see it as raw data that can be used an manipulated.
64% of teenagers have created an original work AND published it to the web. Our students consider themselves more literate than their teachers.
Are our classrooms flat?? Are our students networked?? Are we utilizing the new Information Landscape?? Are we addressing our students Unpredictable Future??
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