This is a Pre-K through grade 8 independent school in Houston, Texas, and it took a long time to get here yesterday in a little jet, cramped up beside a man who was at least as large as I am.
Today is mostly about the kids. I started off talking about the millennial generation, how the children in our schools are a different breed — literally wired differently by their rich information experiences. That will be followed by a long session on Web 2.0 applications, the main goal being to demystify these technologies (blogs, wikis, podcasting, social bookmarks, RSS) and to suggest ways that faculty can uses many of these tools to create powerful learning experiences for their students. Finally, I’ll do a session on video games as learning engines. I continue to learn more about this topic, though at a more fundamental level, like, “What is a game?”
Here are the online wiki handouts:
