Exploring New Exploring New Frontiers:Frontiers:

How Technology How Technology ChangesChanges

the Way We Do Businessthe Way We Do Business

Steven MoskowitzBrewster Central School District

GENERATIONS

RapidChange!

Digital Natives?Digital Natives?

Hardware Tech Trends…

Netbooks

Web 2.0 is here!

Empowerment…

Web 1.0   Web 2.0

Read Only

Read/Write/Share

CNN Wikipedia

News Sites Blogs

Homepages Facebook

Personal websites YouTube, Flickr

“90 % of College Students use Facebook”

New York Times MagazineBrave New World of Digital Intimacy

Published: September 5, 2008

Social Networks

Brewster is now on Twitter!

@brewsterschools

Teenage Tech Trends…

“91 percent of people under 30 respond to text messages within an hour and are four times more likely to respond to

texts than to voice messages within minutes”

“people take longer to reply to voice messages than other types of communication” and 30 percent of voice messages

linger unheard for three days or longer”

Texting:

Voicemail Findings:

Source – New York Times, April 1, 2009

Texting overtakes calling

Ages 13-17

Writing, Technology & Teens:

Pew Internet & American Life Project and

The National Commission on Writing

Amanda LenhartEducation Writers Association

April 25, 2008Chicago, IL

“Parents are concerned that the quality of writing by young Americans is being degraded by their electronic

communication, with its carefree spelling, lax punctuation and grammar, and its acronym shortcuts”

Source - Pew Research Center, 2008

If we teach today's students asIf we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we taught yesterday's,

we rob them of tomorrow."we rob them of tomorrow." John Dewey

If we teach today's students asIf we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrowwe rob them of tomorrowJohn Dewey

They Still They Still Need Us!!Need Us!!

Training

Software Texting and Writing

1 to 1 Computing

Web 2.0

Filtering

Wireless Access

Cell Phones in Schools

$ Funding $

Policy

Demonstrations......

• Podcasts – Matt Schnitlzer, WMS

• Blogs - Deborah Elk, CVS

• Wiki – Peter Lamoreaux, BHS

Why Podcast Anyway?

Objective: Design a book jacket with two (2) drawings (one on the front and back) as well as text on the end flaps. The text for the end flaps will contain a summary and

review of the book.

Well, that’s neat … but now

what?

Wednesday 3/4 Scripting/Groupwork

Thursday 3/5 Finalizing/Recording

Friday 3/6 Production (Computer Lab)

Thursday 3/12 Final Production

Well, that was fun …

what’s next?

Wiki Management

Section

Literature ReviewWiki

SectionAuthor

Literature ReviewWiki

Wiki – Physics in the News

Link to a currentevents article

Comments by the student posting the article

Comments by other students

Wiki – Laboratory Reports

Wiki – Laboratory Reports

Applicable Web LinksPictures

Embedded Videos

Data Graphs