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Enhanced Teaching and Learning with 21st Century Online Tools
A short documentary from KSU that deals with integration of new technologies and their impact on the academic universe.
The Millenials are Coming...Ready or Not.
They are racially and ethnically diverse
They are extremely independent because of divorce, day care, single parents, latchkey parenting, and the technological revolution that they are growing up alongside.
They feel empowered; thanks to overindulgent parents, they have a sense of security and are optimistic about the future.
A Vision of Students Today
A short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at KansasStateUniversity.
Older Than Most of Your Students
Smiley - Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman typed twenty-five years ago: "I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers :-)".
Elk Cloner Virus - In July of 1982, an infected Apple II propogated the first computer virus onto a 5-1/4" floppy. The virus was authored in Pittsburgh by a 15-year-old high school student as a practical joke. The virus replicated by monitoring floppy disk activity and writing itself to the floppy when it was accessed.
A public school emphasizing math, science, and technology, partners with Ohio State’s Stone Laboratory to give its students in-depth, hands-on, one-of-a-kind science: on and often in Lake Erie.
Wikis
adapting a document for a new audience
brainstorming
chronicle an ongoing event
class practice tests
class-produced exam study guides
classroom learning beyond the classroom
club activities
collaboration of notes
collective note-taking
computer program coding
concept introduction
content presentations
discussion questions
exploratory projects
experiments
faculty posts
favorite booklists
frequently asked questions
group collaboration on writing sentences
group presentation
favorite booklists
frequently asked questions
group collaboration on writing sentences
group presentation
group problem-solving
help-desk training
lessons summaries
individual assessment projects
instructional design plan
interactive library research
lab reports
newsletters
open storytelling
organizing audience sessions for speech class
peer counseling
peer editing
peer tutor training
poem construction
posting web quests
presentation/paper/course development
problem-solving
procedural manuals
proofreading
role playing scenarios
potential indicators
students papers
teacher editing marks or corrections
teacher collaborative on best practices
what if?
website design
Podcasts
Appeal to the Generation Y
Easy and low cost to create and distribute
Caters to different learning styles
Students review lectures before exams
Students listen in on classes they've missed
Students replay at own convenience
ESL students replay to increase comprehension
Instructors listen and improve on previous lectures
Instructors can select short, important segments to transmit
Social Bookmarking
A social bookmarking website that allows you to store and share your bookmarks on the web.
Using tags, you can organize and remember your bookmarks and access them from any computer.
del.icio.us can be used by both students and faculty to tag, share and back up bookmarks for research and collaboration.
Primarily used to store your bookmarks online, access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere.
Explore 3rd party sites that can do even more things with flickr images- create mosaics, postcards, flip albumsm card games, and more http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/265764063/
Worlds of Wordcraft: Digital Narrative and Virtual Reality from Vanderbilt University
Aggregators
From push to pull
RSS Feeds
News
Blogs
Videos
Vlogs
Photos
Podcasts
Cell Phones
GPS - student locater
Text messaging - Campus announcements and faculty/student communications
Data collection tools - Student schedules and emergency numbers
Digital Cameras and Camcorders
Document graffiti
Snap quick photos of notes on a whiteboard and archive for future use.Photos could even be posted on a class discussion board, wiki, blog, webpage or even just e-mailed for review.
Twitter
Use Twitter for backchannel discussions during a lecture.Give students a reason to multi-task
Gabcast
Record podcasts and audio announcements using a phone or VoIP with gabcast.
96% of students with online access use social networking technologies, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging, and visiting online communities such as Facebook, MySpace, and Webkinz.
50 percent say they talk specifically about schoolwork.
49 percent say that they have uploaded pictures they have made or photos they have taken
22 percent report that they have uploaded video they have created.
Students report they are engaging in highly creative activities on social networking internet sites including writing, art, and contributing to collaborative online projects whether or not these activities are related to schoolwork.
Facebook develops technologies that facilitate the spread of information through social networks, allowing people to share information online the same way they do in the real world.
Facebook has over 19 million registered users and ranks among the top 10 most visited Internet sites
The challenge for school boards and educators is that they have to keep pace with how students are using these tools in positive ways and consider how they might incorporate this technology into the school setting.
Enhanced Teaching and Learning with 21st Century Online Tools
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