New Tools, New Schools: Starting the Conversation about Web 2.0
Gwen Solomon, TechLearning.com with Timothy Magner, Will Richardson, Lynne Schrum and David Warlick
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Richardson
- Blogs motivate kid, real work changes classroom
- Kids need to become learning environment
- Challenges, yeah buts,
- Lack of tech, admin understanding, time
- Even though a lot of teacher who use these tools, pedagogy has not changes
- Transfer from paper to cpu
- Skills require deep understanding by teachers and admin in their own practice
- Halfway down the road
- Understand tools
- Need to understand pedagogy
Warlick
- Staff development–topic
- The kids are different, teachers are not
- It is about respecting the audience
- On-line handouts via wikis
- Share password, respect audience to add to content
- Tag presentation to draw in audience
- Aggregator for del.ic.ious
- NECC is emergence of learning, cannot turn around without learning
- No one tool, always something new to facilitate learning
Schrum–higher ed representative
- Technology is fun, but does it improve student learning
- Not a lot of evidence on the bottom line, which is unfortunately test scores
- How do we document this success
- Everyone has stories, need documentation
- How do we get the story out
- Pre-Service piece
- Need models
- Research does show that educators will do anything to help students learn if they believe a task works
- How do we do this?
- Good models specific to content
- Math, social studies, etc
- Tools and teaching in each subject is different
- Key is collaboration
- Researchers willing and desire to work with teachers who use this new technology
- Good models specific to content
Gwen Solomon
- Need for models
- Wonderful new tools, give new capabilities to teachers and kids that provide new experiences
- One thing if principals and administrators tell teachers something works
- Different if teachers tell each other, via stories
Timothy Magner
- Everyone today went through industrial education for industrial society
- None of us has idea who information school looks like
- No common entry point
- People know what school is like (football, prep assemblies, etc)
- People know what Web 2.0 is
- What is school 2.0?
- School 2.0
- Links home, school, community
- Potential to fundamentally alter school
- Cannot embrace everything or will lose mission, must embrace some to change dynamic of structure
- What are students going to do in 6 hrs that will meet their needs?
- Empowering education system not buying cool toys no one can use
- Global community discussion
- Teachers, administrators, parents–all must be involved
- Visual world, need to create a common visual of this idea
- Sketch is just that, must allow for something to be erased, added, collaboratively creative
- Gwen Solomon, www.TechLearning.com
- Send your stories, experiences to: Gwen_and_lynne_book2@yahoo.com
- David Jakes
- Five guys on skype chatting about the panel while it is going on
- Using it as idea to bounce ideas off each other
- Using web 2.0 as professional development
- Richardson
- Must use the tools to understand networking
- Myspace for better of worse is networking
- How to engage ethically, safely is question
- Teachers must be comfortable in personal, professional way
- New tools transfer the power of learning
- Teachers must engage in the technology so they can express the power of transfer to students
- Must use the tools to understand networking
- Magner
- Technology allows for a lot of informal learning
- Using Google to answer a question at lunch
- Artificial discussions b/w home learning, after school learning, in-class learning
- Technology allows for a lot of informal learning
- Schrum
- Until people are comfortable in using these technologies they will not using them
- Garrett (Gary) Brown–Sydney
- Want to embrace web 2.0, noting will be blocked
- Leadership team is required to blog as professional development
- Building schools with open plans and learning teams
- Seen bad uses of web 2.0 just for the sake of using web 2.0
- Invite anyone who wants to join
- Catholic school
- School director taken some flack for opening all site
- Principals discuss openly what myspace accounts and videos on youtube he or she has seen with students
- Deters students from improper use of such tools
- College student from Washington
- Wants social network that will allow students to work and study together
- Implementing www.scriptovia.com
- Plagiarism is an issue
- Have been working with www.turnitin.com to combat this
- Looking for teacher input
- Skip Olson, Minneapolis–retired guy
- Sees schools as spirit killers
- Unless we change the business of school as learning environments…
- 9-3, aug-may
- these wonderful tools and opportunities will be shut down at school door
- John Henderson, 32 years old
- Did not know a world where VCR was difficult
- Right now parents and students are becoming the same way
- Do not know if we can be patient enough to wait for schools to change
- Parent, created website for his kid’s school
- Website was form of communication
- Dates, handouts, volunteer opportunities
- Parents now pushing teachers to keep up
- www.Thegroupery.com
- Website was form of communication
- Parent/Rutgers University instructor
- Key is pre-service teachers
- Have no idea of Web 2.0 apps
- Google docs
- By spring they are comfortable and have their own stories
- Scott Garagan, Pennsylvania
- Job is professional development
- Face time is an issue
- Library sites are great
- Maryland create system to teach web 2.0 applications
- Step by step, check the box system
- Twenty-three tasks to complete
- Library 2.0–google to locate
- Question for panel members
- Potential entrepreneur educators, is this something on the horizon that will challenge the current design
- Lynne Schrum
- No, system of education is so engrained that it does not allow challenges
- Some charter school, but not much difference
- Tim Magner
- A lot of new models in charters, home school, etc
- Challenge is how to make alternatives within the system
- It is like diet and exercise
- Must have incentive to make change (i.e. new swimsuit)
- 2/3 People without kids in system, they do not see the need for change to system
- Gwen Solomon
- Web 2.0 tools will force systemic change
- Again hitting the need for models
- Edutopia has several video examples on-line
- Ex. acme animation hooks up students with professional animators
- Teacher from N. Carolina
- Used United Streaming to demonstrate glass blowing
- Kids where reading story, character was glass blower, they had no concept of the glass blowing industry
- David Jakes
- Two minutes to tell what it is to be an American
- http://www.jakesonline.org/
