I have been looking forward to this, ever since presenting at the Laptop Institute a few weeks ago. It will be so nice to return to the fantastic folks at the school. But I am also excited about the day. I’ll be giving three presentations, each followed by breakout extended activities.
The first part of the day will be devoted to looking at contemporary literacy as a focal point for making better use of each student’s laptop, rather than focusing on integrating technology. That address is called,
The faculty of the school will then breakout into groups and collaborate in building a school-wide wiki document to help in making better use of their 1:1 setup.
That breakout will be followed by a presentation on Millennials, this generation of children who are, on almost every measure, unique in history. That presentation is called,
After that presentation, the faculty will have lunch, during which, they will each establish a list of three new words that they will use in their welcoming messages this year, words that address the unique characteristics of today’s youngsters and their experience. Then they will meet in smaller groups, where the technology staff of the school will help them to set up a blog and then write a welcome message to their incoming students.
The final address will be about Web 2.0. I’ll talk about the history and philosophy of blogging, the new shape that information has taken, and specific tools such as RSS, wikis, aggregators, social bookmarks, social media, and others. That address is called,
This will end the day, but the technology staff will continue to work together to devise ways that they might make their one to one school, a school 2.0.
