Thursday++2010+MassCue+sessions

Keynote: Peter Reynolds He is a twin. He encourages us all to have a "twin" or critical friend to bounce ideas off. Used an app called //**polleverywhere.com**// to take interactive polls with us in real time (free?) Fablevision is his company. New product: Animation-ish App To come from Fablevision: //**Big ScreenBooks**//: to enlarge picture books online **Session 2**:11:30 -**10 things I wish my teachers knew about technology**: Characteristics of middle and hs students today: achievement oriented They want a better work/life balance than they might see in their parents" lives. Socially: team players  Don't think of consequences  May not like school, but enjoy group projects  Expect success  Have a lot of stress: balance sports and schoolwork and social life  Translates into:  Want to tell stories digitally  They are digital learners who want to be engaged.  Think, create, evaluate, analyze  Connected digitally: twitter, diigo? face book what else?? Don't usually email, they text.  Kids are texting and tweeting, not reading email  What other options: besides face book? Edmodo, moodle  How about a class page on facebook  They want feedback, not just a grade-what feedback??  Short attention  Creative in school  Risk-taking  We are not political-don't see the global picture always  ** What teachers need to do with Tech to teach us better: ** YouTube video "Teacher education and 21st century skills": Create innovate think evaluate Richard Garner wrote an article about kids being hard to teach-research this Suggestions: Put your standards on cards and then see how you can address more than one at a time Onus on teachers to reinvent their lessons, not use the same thing over and over. Title of new article: //**Culture on the teen brain-Harvard Research-**//find and read this. Digital disconnect: Between students and teachers use of tech Kids need to be able to use their cell phones. Assignments should not be so cookie cutter that students can copy and paste: Make it more original and tailored so no two assignments will be the same. Cannot use my cell phone pr MP#- 51% School filters block websites I want touse-41% Teachers limit our technology use Too many rules Internet access is too slow (from project tomorrow 2009) Use my cell phone Have my own laptop MCAS emphasizes content and therefore doesn't really feed into kids answers here in this workshop. Collaboration needed. Building Homes**: A step up: Can bring in their house to iMovie and do a walking tour.** Step 1: Use the XtraNormal app-**set up an account there** Another app: Mindfor 2 ? Another idea of tying into Build a Home App: Google YouTube famous homes. Another idea: For English: (Gr. 8 ) Give interior room photos and have the students describe who lives there based on that room. Used Glogster too?? Discovery videos can be gotten directly from where? iPad? Also Netflix video comes thru on iPad now. iPad does email, movies, etc. Big new idea is that you can read a book on it. Big ramifications for schools. At present an iPad is an access device, not a content creation tool. But this is evolving and will change. **IPad Pilot Projects. (See linked website above)** Document camera: IPEO camera at cost of $69 Apple has a gesture based multi touch button. I Pad now connects with Verizon to internet-but not a phone. (3G signal) Can use Skype (uses wifi)-but still not a phone chip Battery charge of 10 hrs. a day-really good-exceeds the usual 7 hr. for other devices. The small **microscope** (Airlink2??) can project to all the iPads in the room. You can take a picture of this. Pasco Company: another device that is used .with iPad. Uses Bluetooth-science probe Houghton Mifflin has taken Algebra textbook onto iPad. With videos and interactive feature. Pearson Company put their Social Studies curriculum into iPad in Virginia schools California Free Digital Textbooks Initiative-now have 10 math text books CK12 Foundation_ in ePub format-downloadable-we can do this???- (California standards in Math-but many will be the same as Mass.) How you get apps: iTunes in a computer or the app store on the iPad. Ergo: iTunes is tres important ITunes itself is free iBooks use ePub app (sp?): Not now text to speech capability BUT-can enlarge font, change brightness settings, ass a note which become bookmarks for you. Has embedded hyperlinks in (California math book) Must enable accessibility to read it aloud (contradicts what he said before).Key for blind user. Another type of book: stand alone book purchase: **Bike Ride**. Can record your voice, Can change colors in pix. This is a separate app-find it in iTunes. Another company; **Inkling** (app?) McGraw Hill has a lot of these. Can open up whole book or selected chapters. You go to iTunes to get **Inkling.** Then you go to the Inkling store to buy books **Inkling** pages go up and down, not left and right. I am noticing science diagrams are coming through in color!!-not possible in kindle!! Question: Discovery apps come from discovery, not iTunes. Education industry is using this apple tool (iPad) now Publishing to bring in their own books and then download (not sure exactly how) Can use Apples' Pages app ($99) .
 * Session 1: ** Not memorable, resulting in my session hopping
 * What they need help with: **
 * Net Day speak up survey to collect data. **
 * Biggest student complaints: **
 * What do students want? **
 * Session 4: **
 * What happens when kids go digital? **
 * This program cuts across learning style abilities with a likelihood of success. **
 * Moodle: **
 * Evaluation **
 * Using NETS: National Education Technology Standards: **
 * ISTE Standards: **
 * Source: **
 * hhtp://www.graphiisoft.com/education **
 * Session 5- I Pads in education **
 * Dan DelVecchio ** K-12 system engineer in Mass: presenter
 * [] Gave us good links at this site.**
 * Books: **
 * Two big take aways: **