Several months ago, I was asked by Gregg Festa, Director of the ADP Center at Montclair State University (MSU) to be the keynote speaker/panel discussion facilitator at the Turning on Learning: For the 21st Century Classroom conference, sponsored by the Center of Pedagogy at MSU. I was honored, and through various planning meetings, lots of rumination, and tons of collaboration with friends, colleagues, and reading edublogs, I'm excited for the event.
The morning format involves a discussion between a panel, the audience, and the internet audience (with me as the moderator) on key questions such as
- What does effective communication look like?
- How has that image changed for the 21st century?
- How does that Turn on Learning?
The morning session will be live broadcast (with the option to add comments and contribute ) at uStream http://ustream.tv/channel/tol
Over lunch, a string consort will perform via the 'net and their teacher will speak to us about the way he and they have been using technology to inspire music education. The afternoon session will be teachers and students sharing ways that they are "turning on learning" in their classrooms.
As part of my speech (which I'll post on Thursday night after the conference) I will be showing a short video. My gratitude goes out to Karl Fisch, whose Did You Know video started my interest in blogging and has become my inspiration for edu-movie making.
For your consideration is my short movie: The World is Changing (Are You Changing With It?) which is the additional question for the panel to discuss. Please comment, offer thoughts, and pose additional question to be asked of the panel.
Sources for the movie:
http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/articles/majors/popular.asp
http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?s=5770840
http://www.pewinternet.org/
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
http://www.nea.org/technology/onlinecourseguide.html
Fortune Magazine August, 2006
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/150/2015.xhtml
Music: "Back Again" by Dues from their "There is Nothing Impossible" album. Downloaded legally from www.jamendo.com
4 comments:
Good luck with your presentation and moderating! I always benefit so much from your blog, particularly the questions you ask and the relationship between tech and ed that you question.
This was posted on the Calling All School Librarians blog, created by the Colorado Association for School Librarians, a video by B. Nesbitt, called "A Vision of K-12 Students Today": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8
While the comments on the blog are geared toward school librarians, I think all educators could benefit from them, as well, as well as from watching the video. My question is, how do we best engage the students - by using media with which they are becoming familiar, or by using traditional research format and materials.
I enjoyed your edu-video and have newly subscribed to your blog. One think I thought of while watching it is: I wonder what the dropout rate comparison is between a 1:1 or technology infused school to a school without computer access or usage?
Melanie- Excellent question. All 1:1 I have read about (including that of our panelist) have all been in suburban and fairly affluent districtcs. I have yet to read about a 1:1 in an urban or Title I setting. As a result, I don;t know if there is any data to correllate with that.
Dacing Librarian- Thanks for the video and the comments. I think there needs to be a healthy mix of traditional and emerging. I think the Dewey Decimal system is history, but the idea of posing a question, and having a variety of sources to access and answer, as well as techniques to check validity and then to properly and ethically use the information-- that is timeless regardless of the medium.
Loved the video. Can you please share the full reference for the University of Florida study? I'd like to read it and share w/ my Grad students.
Thanks!
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