I’ve been looking forward to this day, because I so enjoy working with folks in Texas. Many of the twenty-something TCEA regions have their own conference, many of them as big as most state educational technology conferences.
I’ll be delivering the keynote address, with an overview of Web 2.0 applications, and then a breakout session on blogging and one on podcasting.
Here are links to the online wiki handouts.
This is a two-day workshop that is straddling the Region 5 TCEA Technology Conference. Day one is with the technology facilitators of the school and district teams who will attend the second day of the summit on Wednesday. Our topics will be blogging, podcasting, RSS, social bookmarks, aggregators, and what ever else comes up.
I am also hoping to do some discussions of the participants as a negotiation between today’s classrooms and this new information landscape that many of our students have already adopted.
Wiki Handouts for this Summit
It is the season for leadership gatherings and a lot of the conversation today is about The World is Flat, by New York Times reporter, Thomas Friedman. Today, I’ll be talking about the flat world, the flattening information landscape, and even our flat classrooms. Topics will include globalization, the new web, and facilitating learning engines in our classrooms.
Handouts wiki is at:
I have certainly been looking forward to this conference. It seems that 99% of the ideas that I try to express about what and how we teach and learning point to this one thing — ubiquitous access to networked digital information. I believe that a computer at every child’s desk is as essential to making them ready for the 21st century as the textbook was to my classrooms of the 1950s and ’60s. It’s what information is today. It glows and grows and reshapes itself in so many ways. It stands still and it moves, and it is totally under our control, both individually and in mass. It comes from all over the world and beyond through the networks and it is overwhelming. All of this has about as much to do with textbooks as Cuneiform had to do with my learning — and if you don’t know what Cuneiform is, point taken.
Today, I’ll be talking about Web 1.0 and the changes that it demands in our notions of literacy for the twenty-first century and also Web 2.0 and the further changes that have occurred to the nature of our information landscape. You’ll find the online handouts for my keynote address at:
My afternoon session on Web 2.0 are supported at:
I’ll also be facilitating a roundtable tomorrow and will likely offer some wiki pages to record this conversation and its conclusions. They will be linked here at that time.
Tuesday Roundtable
I have the opportunity today of facilitating a roundtable discussion on issues that have already been raised at the conference and perhaps some that have not. I would like for this conversation to extende beyond the time and the space of this conference event, by using a wiki that might be used after the session is over and by people who are not even at the conference. To participate, click this link.
I am very happy to be working with educators in Tennessee. The only other time that I recall working in this very fine state was many years ago, presenting at an iEarn conference in Chattanooga, and most of the attendees had accents other than southern. So This is a special treat.
My keynote address is called Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century. It is based on the fact that the very nature of information has changed in just the last ten years. It has become increasingly:
These three fundamental characteristics of information lead to some fundamental changes in our notions of literacy. Certainly children should learn to read, perform arithmetic, and write. But there are additional skills needed by any 21st century citizens that are as basic and as critical as the ability to decode text, count and calculate, and write. This presentation seeks to make a case for what I call Contemporary Literacy.
I will also be doing a breakout session about Web 2.0. As the nature of information has changed over the past ten years, it has accelerated during the past two. The new web is characterized by increasing user participation in the information landscape, the readers influence over the content that they use, and the ease at which we can now connect with each other through our ideas.
This session will demonstrate a number of Web 2.0 tools, including blogging, podcasting, RSS, aggregators, and social bookmarks. Come see how I’m going to fit all of that in 😉
For the last several years, I have presented spotlight sessions about redefining literacy. My goal has been to examine, carefully, the changing nature of information, described what the basic skills for accomplishing goals in this new information environment, and expanding folks’ notions of what it means to be literate.
I often got questions from attendees, asking, “How do we make this happen?” That is what this presentation is about. We must invent and tell a new story about teaching and learning today, a story that fits today’s market place, resonates with deeply held values, and is somthing that we can model.
Wiki handouts can be found at:
Participant wiki notes can be found at:
I have the honor and the privaledge of presenting at the Gaston County Schools Teaching & Learning Conference, 2006. This is a special honor for me, because Gaston County is where I grew up. So in many ways, I’m coming home. I know that it’s too late to turn the tables and see any of my old teachers in the audience, but one can dream.
In the last conferences in 2004 & 2005, I taught teachers to build web pages, using my PiNet tool, which Gaston County contracted for in 2004. This year, one of their talented Pinnacle Teachers will be teaching that, and I’ve been asked to present Web 2.0 over the next two days. Today (Jun 29), I will present a seminar on Web 2.0 applications in general, and one on blogging specifically.
Tomorrow, I’ll present a seminar on podcasting, and then an address called “Telling the New Story”. Below are links to the wiki handouts:
Every three years, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod offers an educational technology conference for the teachers in its schools. I am honored to be one of their keynote speakers this year. My presentation will be on telling the new story. We’ll look at globalization, and the near alien nature of our children. I’ll also talk about flattening classrooms and learning engines.
I’ve been looking forward to this presentation and to learning much from my interactions with the educators in attendence.
Online Wiki Handouts
I will also be presenting a session on digital communication and information design.
Session Wiki Notes
I am very happy and honored to be back in Farmington, Connecticut for the CAIS Summer Institute. Last year I delivered a keynote address on Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century. This year it will be about Millennials, students who have almost no conscious relationship with the 20th century. In fact, in most instances, our children’s classrooms are their only direct connection to the last century, and this is not how it should be. But, I get ahead of myself.
This year, I will also be doing a breakout session on plagiarism. It’s a straight forward topic that every teacher understands. However, there are a few aspects of the practice that are not obvious, but valuable in our efforts to combat plagiarism.
I hope to also have some time to talk about blogging and other Web 2.0 applications. But we’ll see.
Wiki handout are at:
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I have the distinct honor to be speaking at the 2006 Annual ALA conference. My audience is mostly distinguished members of the American Association of School Librarians, and we will be exploring Flatism. It’s a word I would not have believed myself to be using on a few short years ago, and many have tired of its almost constant reference. Yet, New York Times reporter, Thomas Friedman’s used of the concept of flattening to describe a rapidly changing world has been quite useful in helping use to understand some of the things that are happening around us, and how we might adapt and even harness change to help us accomplish our goals.
Today, I will be talking about the flat world, the flattening of the web, and also the flattening of our schools, and how we must change the way that we think about teaching, learning, and curriculum in order to turn our changing landscape into valuable learning space.
Online Handouts are available at:
You can also access the session notes wikis at:
