Community School - T21 Program

T21: Teaching for the 21^st Century

Tom Daccord: tom@edtechteacher.org, @thomasdaccord

Greg Kulowiec: greg@edtechteacher.org, @gregkulowiec

Beth Holland: beth@edtechteacher.org, @edtechteacher21

I. Introduction/Student-Response System

• Personal introductions • EdTechTeacher Community Network (Ning)
• explanation of online lessons at https://www.itslearning.com/ Go to..."EdTechTeacher"
• Socrative student response system and Polleverywhere
• Todaysmeet.com (backchannel) -
 

II. Conceptual Framework (CRCD)

• "Collect - Relate - Create - Donate" - Professor Ben Schneiderman
• Why/What are 21st century skills? A changing world with changing needs. Professor Richard Murnane (Harvard) on expert thinking and complex communication in a 21st century context

III. Collect: General Resources

• EdTechTeacher: Great Tech Tools

• EdTechTeacher Webinars

• EdTechTeacher Video Tutorials on Vimeo

By discipline:

• Teaching History with Technology

Teaching English with Technology  Great Science Websites Great Math websites

others:

Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers

Larry Ferlazzo's "Best of"lists 

IV. Collect: Search 

The Future of Research:

• Harvard's Libraries Deal with Disruptive Change
• Stanford Ushers in the Age of Bookless Libraries

Advanced Google search
Google Search Education
Ref Seek academic search engine

Sweet Search search engine for kids
Google books and ebook libraries (+Librivox)
Real-time search - Twitter search, diigo search
Wolfram Alpha computational search engine

Website Credibility

• Whois? - Who owns that domain?
• Wayback Machine
• Kathy Schrock's Critical Evaluation Guides 
• Noodle Tools: Choose the Best Search
• Alan November Workshop handbook
• Best ideas for Teaching with Technology - Tom Daccord & Justin Reich

• EdTechTeacher video tutorials (on Google Advanced Search, Website Evaluation & more)

V. Copyright & Fair Use

• Copyright act of 1976 and “Fair Use” defined

• how to license and search for Creative Commons content

• Google Images Advanced Search (by usage rights)

• Citations; modeling

• EdTechTeacher Public Domain Image Sources

• FreeTech4Teachers: 9 Sources for Public Domain & Creative Common Images

• FreeTech4Teachers: 5 Sources for Free Sound Effects & Music

New ways of presenting and interacting with sources

• Turning the Pages Online Gallery (British Library)
• Student Created ebook:
  • Sound and the Fury (Wix.com)
• Digital Vaults (National Archive)
• EdTechTeacher guide to ebooks

VI. Relate - Create: Digital Storytelling

• Digital Storytelling Intro
• Teaching History with Technology - Digital Storytelling
• Pixar's 22 Rules for Phenomenal Storytelling

• Infographics & Audio-Visual
  • New York Times infographics
    
    • Infogr.am
  • Fotobabble (app, too)
  • Thinglink 
    • ex. Declaration of Independence
  • Vocaroo (or audioboo)
  • Soundcloud
  • Voki 

• Presentation

  • VoiceThread (app, too)
    • Voicethread Challenges
    • Voicethread Video Tutorial
    • VoiceThread examples (wiki)
    • VoiceThread in Action (blog post)
    • 100 Ways to Use VoiceThread (VT)

    • Hands-on: teachers create digital story or virtual tour with VoiceThread

      VoiceThread in Chapter 8 of Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers, by Teachers

  • Animoto 
    • education section

• Screencasting
  • Jing Project 
  • Screen-cast-o-matic 
  • Screenr 
  • Showme, Educreations, Explain Everything (apps)

VII. Relate - Create: Blogging

• Teaching History with Technology - Blogging
• How to Comment Video - Mrs. Yolis' Elementary School Students
• Blogging Challengesusing Blogger (Google's Blogging Platform)
  • Beginner & Advanced
• Advanced Bloggers Challenge
  • Posterous Collaborative Blog
  • Collaborative Class Project
  • Collaborative Research Blog

• Note: Blogging in Chapter 2 Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers, by Teachers
• EdTechTeacher video tutorials (on Blogger, Classroom Blogging Examples & more)