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CIE: Education 2.0

Emergent Technologies in EducationLucy Gray

The Center for Urban School Improvement

The University of Chicago

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PDF of presentation available at:http://lucygray.org

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What do you think?

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“... if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.”

-John Dewey

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KnowledgeWorks Foundation:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas

Gen Y Attributes

Unbundled Education

Participatory Pedagogy

Personal Digital Media

Media-Savvy Youth

Technologies of Cooperation

Media Rich Pervasive Learning

Integrating Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

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Learning 2.0

Society Today: Influential Buzz Words

Attributes of Today’s Kids

Emergent Technologies: Technologies of Cooperation and Collaboration

Digital Schools and Programs: Participatory Pedagogy

Policy for Tomorrow

The Digital Divide

Critical Questions

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Influential Buzz Words

The World is Flat

A Whole New Mind

NCLB

Web 2.0

21st Century Skills

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

American Association of Librarians

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Evidence

Pew Internet & American Life Project

NetDay Speak Up Day

NSBA Report: Creating and Connecting

Grunwald Associates: Kids’ Social Networking Study - more detailed than NSBA; available for purchase

SETDA - Maximizing the Impact Report

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Summary of Pew Findings

93% of 12 to 17 year olds use the internet

87% of parents are online

73% of families have high-speed internet access

89% of online teens have access at home

75% have internet access at school

51% of online teens go online every day

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Summary of Pew Findings

75% have internet access at school

51% of online teens go online every day

94% of online kids use the internet for school research

41% of online students use email or instant messaging to talk to teachers and classmates about school work

18% of online students know someone who has cheated

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Today’s Teen - Born 1990

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First Grade - 1996

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Fourth Grade - 1999

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Middle School - 2001-2003

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High School - 2004

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Sophomore year - 2005

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Junior Year - 2005-2006

More than 100 million accounts created

Third most popular site in the U.S after Yahoo and Google

55% of online teens use social networking sites

55% of these kids have posted a profile

Of those who use social networking sites, 48% visit these sites at least once a day

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Senior Year - 2007

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Pew did not include...

Twitter

Pownce

Gaming

Email

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According to the Pew Report...

4 Key Teen Realities:

Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a wired world.

Mobile gadgets allow them to enjoy media and communicate anywhere

Teens know that ordinary citizens can be publishers, movie makers, artists, song creators, and story tellers

Teens are multimedia multi-taskers.

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NetDay SpeakUp Survey

Known as Project Tomorrow-NetDay

Top devices for K-12 students: computers, cell phones and video game players

Top concerns: spam, digital access equity, online cheating

Students want schools to relax rules about email, IM, cellphone and online use and to consider laptops for home and school use.

54% of middle schoolers have outside online friends and most have never met face-to-face

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NetDay - ParentsOver 50% of parents are satisfied with the amount of technology at their child’s school and the online safety protections in place

A majority of parents (52%) do not believe that their child’s school is doing a good job of preparing their child to compete for jobs and careers of the 21st century

2/3 of the parents are not satisfied with the priority placed on technology use at their school, the amount of time their child spends using technology at school and how well technology is integrated into core academic subjects.

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NetDay - Teachers

Over 50% say technology affects the quality of teaching, lesson planning and student engagement

75% say the use of technology has increased student achievement and performance

Time is the biggest obstacle to tech integration

Teachers use computers for housekeeping tasks

Only 28% has used email as a regular communication tool

with students, but 79% have communicated electronically with parents.

47% of teachers believe that their school is doing a good job of preparing students for the 21st century

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Technologies of Cooperation

PersonalPowerfulPervasive

Web 2.0... The Machine is Using Us

Web 2.0 is....

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Blogs

Wikis

Podcasts

Photosharing

Chat

Video

Google Tools

Social Networks

Simulations

Virtual Reality

Tools

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Blogsusually an individual journal

Types Examples

Teacher/Admin

Student

Professional Development

Cool Cat Teacher Blog

From the Principal’s Desk

The MUS Lower School Blog

Newly Ancient Consumer Math Class

Collaboration Nation

Weblogged ITM Dangerously Irrelevant

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Wikisused for collaborative work

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Wiki Examples

Type Examples

Teacher/Admin

Student

Professional Development

Educational Wikis Shift Happens 50 Ways to Tell A

Story

6th Grade Computer

ScienceFlat Classroom Global

Collaborations

Digital Native Wiki

Alabama Best PracticeCenter

School Computing Wiki

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Media Sharingweb-based tools for organizing & publishing

Audio (podcasts)

Photos

Videos

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Media Sharing Examples

Tools Examples

iTunes

Flickr

YouTube

VoiceThread

iTunes U Coulee Kids Room 208

Map of Migrations

Best Word Book Ever

Merode Altarpiece

Did You Know? TEDTalks Women in Art

Poems by Ms. Gross’s Students

Knuffle Bunny Stories

K-20 Educators

Exploring SL

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Did You Know?

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Chatcommunicating with audio, video, and text

Sightspeed Skype

Twitter Flashmeeting

uStream.tv eCamm software

iChat AV Many other tools....

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Googleonline collaborative software

Tools Examples

Google Earth

Docs & Spreadsheets

Custom Search

Summer Tomatoes

Teacher Project

Google Lit Trips

Scavenger Hunt

Palo Alto High School

Alex Ragone’s Skype Preso

Mrs. Gray’s Sites

Elementary Language Arts Global Voices

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Simulations & Virtual Reality

Second Life

ISTE

Discovery Education

Global Kids

Second Life Teen Grid

Skoolaborate

Quest Atlantis

The River City Project

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MySpace

Facebook

Ning

Orkut

Club Penguin

Imbee

Webkinz

Whyville

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Social Networks

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Social Networking - Pew

Web pages where people post information about themselves, connect with others and share media

55% of online teens using social networking site

Older girls are more likely to engage in these sites

Teens are increasingly savvy about privacy issues

32% of teens say that they have been contacted by strangers - 23% of these were uncomfortable

32% report have experienced cyberbullying

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NSBA/Grunwald Associates Report

9 to 17 year olds spend just about the same amount of time on SN as on TV

96% have accessed some sort of SN technologies; 71% use it weekly

School is a frequent topic of conversation despite schools banning SN

“Explosive growth” in student authoring

Schools have extensive rules against social networking and are leery of the label.

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NSBA, continued

Nonconformists are student leaders, producers of content, and users of new media.

Families report few problems with unwelcome encounters and cyberbullying than “school fears and policies seem to imply.”

There’s a discrepancy in perceptions. 52% of districts say their students have a problem with providing personal info; 3% of kids report ever giving out personal info to strangers

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Participatory Pedagogy

Rethinking Bloom’s Taxonomy

Schools & Programs

Digital Youth Network

Science Leadership Academy

Generation YES

Flat Classroom Project

MoLLIE

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Digital Youth Network

MacArthur funded intiative

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Benefits & Pitfalls

Personalized learning

Ubiquitous computing

OLPC

Censorship

Teacher Asssesment

Research

What else can you think of?

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