August 2-3 Teaching the Elementary Grades with Technology Workshop - Harvard

Introduction

Personal introductions

Respond to pollev.com/bholland poll (instant response system)

The 21st Century Classroom & C-R-C-D

Why/What are 21^st century skills? 

How do they apply to the elementary classroom?

Why Technology? 

What is the advantage to using technology?

Can paper....speak, search, auto-correct, manipulate, contain video, self-publish...???

Technology is....

• Fully Accessible
• Anywhere/ Any time
• Customizable
• Mistake Tolerant
• Multi-Modal
• Experiential

The CRCD Framework from Leonardo's Laptopby Ben Schneiderman

• Collect: students research information
• Relate: collaborate to solve problems
• Create: construct content and demonstrate understanding
• Donate: contribute to a community

Easter Egg Hunt - technology tips & tricks

• Tabs & Windows
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Speak Text
  • Mac - System Preferences>Speech>Text to Speech
    
    • Choose your keyboard shortcut to have any text read to you
  • Windows - Control Panel>Speech> Text to Speech
    
    • MIcrosoft Support Article
      

Phase 1 - Collect

The Google Presentation below contains details about all of these topics.

What is the web and how do we use it?

• Defining Web Site
• Using, modeling, and teaching search techniques
• Alternatives to Google
• Complete the Search Challenge in the Google Presentation

Collaborative Bookmarking

• Pinterest
• Diigo
• Great sites for teachers & students
• Complete the Collecting Resources Challenge in the Google Presentation

Phase 2 - Relate

Digital Citizenship - Copyright & Creative Commons

• Copyright, Citations, and related plagiarism issues
• The Copyright Act of 1976 and “Fair Use”
• Modeling good Digital Citizenship
• How to license and search for Creative Commons content
  • Creative Commons in Plain English video from CommonCraft 
• Google Advanced Image search: Usage Rights
• Digital Citizenship Resources:
  • EdTechTeacher Resources
  • Pearson Foundation
  • Common Sense Media
  • Digital Citizenship site from the American School of Monterray

Public vs. Private, Parents, and Acceptable Use

• Best practices for protecting student privacy
• Alternatives to direct publishing
• Opening up students to the world
• School culture and Acceptable Use Policies

Blogging and Educational Blogging

• What is a blog?
• Why blog?
• Which blog?
• Complete the Blogging Challenges in the Google Presentation below

Google Docs for Creating the Collaborative Classroom

• What are Google Docs?
• Why Google Docs?
• Hands-On Synchronous Activity
  Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4
• Complete the Google Docs Challenges in the Presentation below

Phase 3 - Create

I want my students to....

• Jigsaw Activity with ThingLink, SoundGecko,Meograph, Kerpoof, Wordle, QR Codes, other Great Tech Tools, and The iPad As...

Phase 4 - Donate

• Formative Assessment with Socrative/Polleverywhere and ClassDojo
  • ClassDojo Presentation
• Assessment & Rubrics - EdTechTeacher Resources
• Build your Personal Learning Community (add Twitter info from last newsletter)
  • Building your own PLN with Twitter 
  • PLN Challenge #3: Using Twitter to Build Your PLN

End of Workshop Survey

Please complete this surveybefore you leave!

Grad Credit Assignment

Please download this Word file. You will need to do the readings, respond to the discussion questions, and complete the project. Please email this document back to grad-credit@edtechteacher.org by August 17th.