hook 'em with tech: using 21st century tools to engage kids in your content

Glenn WiebeESSDACK ©2008

glennw@essdack.org

Using 21st Century Tools to Engage Kids

in Your Content

Hook ‘em with Tech

• Download handouts at:www.socialstudiescentral.com

• “Workshops”

• “Hooked on Tech”

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75 minutes!? Are you kidding me?

Disclaimer!

“To succeed in our struggle to build technology and new media to support learning, we must move far beyond the traditional view of teaching as delivery of information.”

John Seely Brown

Sticky idea?

Technology is an absoluteessential for your toolkit

Who are your kids?

So what?

are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.”

Marc Prensky

“Today’s students

What is integration?

It’s about doing, not sitting

It’s connections to the real world

It’s about skills and content

Changing the way you teach

Changing the way kids learn

Change is hard!

Google Earth

Let’s crack the code!

Where are we from?

What are your standards?

Newspaper Archive

•Dust Bowl articles

Traveler IQ

EASE History

How does the media influence politics?

How does politics influence the media?

How does a time period influence both?

HS CG B4I1, 4, 7

HS US B3I2-6, 8

HS US B5I1-3

World War II posters

TeamTreks

BibMe

LetterPop

PhotoStory 3 / iPhoto

The American Revolution: A Digital Timeline

Stop Disasters

Your tools?

Some tips

• It’s not a silver bullet

• It’s not a silver bullet

• Don’t re-invent the wheel

• It’s not a silver bullet

• Don’t re-invent the wheel

• Give up some control

• It’s not a silver bullet

• Don’t re-invent the wheel

• Give up some control

• Always have a backup ready

• earth.google.com

• www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/01/crackcode.html

• www.googlelittrips.org

• www.gelessons.com

• del.icio.is/glennw98/googleearth

• teamtreks.org

• letterpop.com

• bibme.org

• newspaperarchive.com

• stopdisastersgame.org

• www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp

An idea I’ve had . . .

A tool I like . . .

Something I will do with this information in the next week . . .

Glenn WiebeESSDACKglennw@essdack.org

Tech integration questions? Social studies issues? I would love to hear from you!

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