Day 2 Summary

Review assignments day 1
Revisiting those tough introspective questions

O' Brother Where art Thou opening scene

chain gang

innovating

getting your feet swept out from under you

being resilient

"My goal in life, which has been my major activity over the last 10 years, has been to find ways children can use this technology as a constructive medium to do things that no child could do before, to do things at a level of complexity that was not previously accessible to children." 

Seymour Papert "Child Power: Keys to the New Learning of the Digital Century 1998 www.papert.org/articles/Childpower.html

"Never worry about solving a problem. Just find the right person." - Marvin Minsky

Powerful words to live by.

"To Boldly Go" requires a sense of adventure."

Digital Citizenship

The challenges of our time

Recapping the challenges we used to have. To much:

music, tv, talk on the phone too much...

doodling in class

The new challenges of immersion: smart phones, social media
It's getting faster all the time
Imagine what smart phones will be able to do five years from now
"Denial of service is not educational." It doesn't serve kids needs.
Engagement on 'their' challenges in life.
Preparing them for their future and the challenges in it.
If the institution isn't ready... you can be in your classroom.
You can get the conversation escalated to be 'educational.'

Ryan Patrick Halligan Story

informational site

tips

Or just carry on with a conversation! No worries... it came back on ; )

Finding people, finding knowledge, and parsing

Twitter!

personal thread, hashtag searches (#edchat), and following others
A tremendous resource for personal and professional learning

Try searching for hashtags that interest you

ie. #photoshop

See who others are following!
Great way to fond resources
Build your PLN (personal learning network)

Complete guide to Twitter hashtags (lists many... but "complete"?

13 Twitter chats for educators

Search review: Build skills, find answers to...

Google Apps Overview:

gmail: rules, search, from: , to: , sent box searches, labels, filters

calendar: creating new calendars, sharing

collaborative editing

Inquiry and Perplexing Questions: Dan Meyer: CUE (full video embedded above)
'The tool effect'
Parsing volume for quality is the key... but keep trying some new things!

Finite resources <--------> Infinite tools

"What is your edtech mission statement?"

Boredom

Confusion
Capturing perplexity
Share perplexity
Resolve perplexity

RSS Feed introduction
https://feedly.com/i/welcome

subscribe to:
http://practicaltheory.org/blog/
http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/education/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/education/

What does ‘Digital Citizenship’ look like in your school? In your class?
What could it look like?

Your Project work

Strategy and planning: Research and collaboration