flipping the elementary classroom with digital media public class saturday, august 18 2012 4:00 pm...

Flipping the Elementary Classroom with Digital Media

Public Class

Saturday, August 18 2012 4:00 PM (EST)

Moodlemoot 2012

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Presented by

Dr. Christel Broady

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Roadmap

Elementary children love technology. They are motivated to use it and show great creativity when having access to computers, tablets, or other devices. In this presentation we will examine:

1. Why this is the case2. Why teachers should address this learner need3. And how they can do it

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Why Do Kids Love TechnologyOr do they?

Kids are born into a world of digital stimuli:Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Smilin' Smart Phone

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Baby Toys > 6 Months

Tiny Love Tiny Princess Electronic Book

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Toys for Birth to 12 Months

At Toys R Us (http://www.toysrus.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=10811240&view=all)

Almost all have some digital component

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Other Toys: Formerly Known as Stuffed Animals

Source: http://www.webkinz.com/

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Real Stuffed Animals

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Baby IPad

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Laugh & Learn™ Apptivity™ Casefor iPad® devices Ages: 6 months & up

$35.00

This sturdy case will protect your iPad, iPad 2 or iPad 3 device from dribbles, drool, and sticky little fingers. Busy beads and a handle are great for go-anywhere play. And free Laugh & Learn™ apps mean plenty of learning fun!

Your device locks securely inside case to protect against:

Baby’s dribbles & drool

Teething

Unwanted pressing of home button

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• Fun Fisher-Price learning apps—just right for baby!Download from the App Store—no purchase neededDevelop & LearnOn-screen activities

• Help baby practice eye-hand coordinationTextured handle & rattle beadsEasy for baby to grasp, enhancing fine motor skillsLearning appsFree downloads offer lots of baby-appropriate learning. Rocker base makes apps even more interactive!

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Kids Reading

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Who Are Our Kids?

Video:

Today's kids are born digital - born into a media-rich, networked world of infinite possibilities.

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Kids Learn from Their Parents

• How do parents read?

• How do they find places?

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How do Parents keep in touch with family and friends?

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Family Memories? Photos and Videos?

Parents share them like this:

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How Do Parents Shop?

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Clipping Coupons? Think Again!

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Comparing Prices and Products

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Need a Plumber?

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Paying Bills? Deposit Checks?

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Miss your Favorite Song?Don’t buy a CD!

Download it and save it on your cloud:

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Storing Data? Forget that Ol’ Hard Drive

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How do Mom and Dad Communicate During the Day?

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How Do Adults Watch Movies?

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Making a Family Movie?

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Being Creative? Recording a Song? Forget Renting a Studio like Elvis did!

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How Do Schools Communicate to Families?

A secure website updated daily with info on everything about the child:• Schedule• Teachers• Contacts• Grades• Messages• Reports• Cafeteria• etc.

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Why Did I Provide So Many Examples?

You guessed it!

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What Do We Know About Kids?

• Kids learn by observing their environment• They want to be like the grown-ups• They love to manipulate items with their

hands• Kids have a different perspective on reality• For them, reality extends into the virtual world

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• Kids love instant access to information, games, or social interactions

• They are used from baby days on to control learning

• They are not afraid of learning• They learn by trial and error• They map text differently• They multi task

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The Thing About Changing the Brain: Neuroplasticity Research

• We know from brain research that brains change depending on the input and use

• We know that kids are brain digital natives• We know that their learner needs are different

than their elders is• We know that traditional learning does not

connect to such children• We know that :

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Not Addressing Digital Natives’ Learner

Needs Will Create Barriers

to Learning and School Knowledge

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So Baby Grows up And Comes to School

And then?

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Disequilibrium

Kids are confused and bewildered

Video: Exploring the changing expectations of our

students

Video: A Vision of Students Today

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What Else Happens?

School is too easy, students reportBy Greg Toppo, USA TODAY

7/9/2012 11:43 PM

The findings, out today from the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank that champions "progressive ideas," analyze three years of questionnaires from the Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress, a national test given each year.

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Three Things to Unlearn About Learning

said Will Richardson, a veteran educator author and consultant, at a talk at ISTE

2012To that end, Richardson proposed a

challenge to educators to unlearn three important things that have been taken for

granted as immovable, unchangeable ideas.

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1. DELIVERY:

Kids will not put up with delivery too much longer. They’ll expect something much different

Rather, educators must hand over control of learning to kids, and understand that there are lots of ways to learn what they need to and want to learn.

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• We have to stop being in charge of the curriculum and allow kids to create their own education

• Educators should ask themselves: how am I helping kids develop important skills, dispositions, and literacies they need to create their own curriculum, to find their own teachers, to create their own artifacts that will more closely align with ways they’ll work when they leave school?

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2. COMPETITION:

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• Rather than comparing test scores and grades of schools and of teachers, we should drive education forward on the basis of cooperation.

• We should use the best ideas of what others are doing, other classrooms and other schools. “Do we fear someone else is going to take what we’re doing? But isn’t that a good thing, if it’s good practice?” Richardson asked. There’s a larger gain by being transparent. “We can’t fight the greater world problems as well through competition as we will through cooperation.

3. ASSESSMENT.

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3. ASSESSMENT

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Richardson, an outspoken critic of standardized testing, pressed the point that current assessments measure fact memorization, not students’ skills. And with automated essay scoring being used, the range of knowledge is becoming more and more narrow, he said. “If we don’t assess what we value, we will end up valuing what we assess,” he said. “As a system, we’re not assessing what we value.” Richardson does not even favor “open book” or “open Internet” testing, asking the simple but unsettling question: “Why are we asking them questions they can easily find?”

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• As educators grapple with the shift you might feel anger, grief, or excitement that kids will learn in a lot of different ways,” he said. “But you have to look at your own learning practice and innovate.”

• Try assessing one thing differently, he suggested. Ask students to tap into all the sources they have, then bring other teachers into the classroom and let them influence the discussions. And, of course, engage others in these discussions.

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We Must Change

A brief section of the Understanding the Digital Generation presentation by Ian Jukes.link

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How Digital Literacy Can Tear Down Traditional Silos in School Programs

• Technology can be seen as a globally shared culture. • Children today use technology in ways deeply woven into the

tapestry of their lives. • They express themselves differently from their elders using

technology and social media.• They use language differently than previous generations.• There is a worldwide way of “writing” by way of texting and social

media use (Understanding the Digital Generation). • As a matter of fact, digital natives even use different eye movements

in information gathering and analyzing (The Eyes Have It). • Last, technology has the ability to seamlessly interface with best

teaching practice since the possibility of differentiating and accommodating are endless.

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Hear a Teacher’s Voice:

Teachers' Views on Technology in the Classroom

The Times asked teachers to submit videos on how the use of technology has changed the way they teach

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Why We MUST Change:

Tomorrow's Innovators need 21st Century Skills. 21st century skills-such as collaboration, problem-solving, and critical thinking-were critical to Ajay Bhatt's success co-inventing the USB. Ajay, Intel Fellow, Chief Platform Architect, and Intel "Rockstar", talks about the importance of these skills for tomorrow's innovators and why Intel is a supporter of quality education.link

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Following is a List of Resources

• Section 1: Miscellaneous ones • Section 2: App-Based

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Dr. Broady’s Blog• 3D • affective/emotional issues • apps for educators • apps with no educational valu

e whatsoever

• art • Blogs for educators • bring your own device policy • cognitive issues • common core • Computer-assisted language le

arning

• creativity • digital and audio tools • digital anthropology • digital assessments • digital citizenship • digital divide • digital immigrants • digital learning • digital literacy/digital native

s

• digital presentations

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Dr. Broady’s Blog

• digital writing • e-boooks • early childhood • ESL • fliping the school • game-based teaching • Gender • global education • government initiatives • grading

• higher ed learning • higher education • high school • innovation • ipads • iphone • K-12 Education • language learning • literacy and technology • math

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Dr. Broady’s Blog• meetings • mobile learning • movie making/editing • online education • pedagogy digital learning • portfolios • preparedness in K-12 • professional development • professors getting ready • reading instruction • research • resources for teachers • rethinking schools

• safety • science resource • social media and learning • special needs • STEM • students and technology • tablet • teaching to digitl

natives/removing obstacles to learning

• teaching with technology • tech tools • technology In the classroom • Uncategorized

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Examples Used in Real Schools

This is an excerpt of a presentation at the 2012 International TESOL convention in Philadelphia

by: • Andres Suarez, Technology Coordinator, Cobb

County GA School District• Duysevi Karan-Miyar, Teacher, Daton County,

FL• Christel Broady, Kentucky, Teacher Trainer

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For Questions or Comments

Christel Broady, Ph.D.

• Blogs: http://broadyesl.wordpress.com/ http://digitallearningandteaching.wordpress.com/• Twitter: GeorgetownESL http://twitter.com/#!/• Miscellaneous Webpageshttp://www.academia.eduhttp://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=tab_pro• E-mail: Christel_broady@georgetowncollege.edu