Teaching Elementary Grades with Technology 2012 - 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 Kerpoof, Wordle, other Great Tech Tools, 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

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Grad Credit

Please download the grad credit as either a Word or Pages Document, complete the assignment, and then email it back to grad-credit@edtechteacher.org by August 1st.