I was up until after midnight and up again at 4:00 AM, preparing for this presentation — not an uncommon occurrence for a teacher. Today will be a buffet of topics, folded expertly into a sufflett, so subtle, yet bold, that it will change the way that you think about education — I hope!Topics will include some rather surprising facts about economics in the 21st century and the challenges they place on our schools. Your personal online handouts will be available through this link.
There are also a healthy amount of new literacy issues mixed in for spice.
Finally, we delve into the world of the New Web, or Web 2.0. This will include some blogging, some exploring of RSS and aggregators, and podcasting.
Conference number two in the Arizona Technology Education Alliance series. This one is in beautiful, and very western, Tucson — and do they ever know how to make guacamole here.The focus of this conference is the what that students should be learning, so my keynote address is Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century. I’ll also be doing presentations on podcasting and Web 2.0 applications.
Acacia Dixon, of the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction (my old employer), invited me to her monthly meeting of technology directors in Southeastern North Carolina, asking me to present on Web 2.0 technologies, one of my favorite subjects right now. The site is one of my favorite cities, Wilmington, NC.
This is my first experience a delivering a conference presentation virtually. The conference is actually taking place in Kansas, but I’m at home, in my basement office, presenting into my iSight camera. I hope that it goes well.My topic is the flattening of the web, about Web 2.0 technologies and the increasing democratization of our information enivornment. The online handouts are a wiki page, that you are invited to contribute to, if you have ideas that would be of value to the rest of the audience.
After delivering a workshop (through ESC Region 10) on new literacy for teachers in the Dallas, Texas area a couple of months ago, the educational technology staff asked me to return to work with the staff of the center. The workshop is divided into two parts. A presentation of new literacy (Contemporary Literacy) with the entire staff in the morning. And two breakout sessions in the afternoon on Web 2.0. Here are the links:
The one thing that is constant in this day and time… is Change. Compare your life as a child and the technologies that we took for granted, to those of our students, and think about how different their world is from the one we were taught in 10, 20, or 30 years ago.
