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By Graci Gillming on February 23, 2010
Internet Safety & Digital Citizenship Workshop
April 8, 2010
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
ESU 10 – Kearney
Register: https://odie.esu10.org/workshops
As the digital world changes and new technologies arise, kids eagerly grasp on to the latest tool or web application with no fear or hesitation. During this workshop we'll explore the safe use of the Internet and digital technologies, i.e. computers, cell phones, mp3 players, etc. We'll also discuss social networking, cyberbullying, digital citizenship (the rights and responsibilities in a digital world) as well as related online curriculum.
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By Deanna Stall on February 10, 2010
This workshop's agenda can be found at http://tr.im/cteagendafeb.
Please share with the group, by adding a comment below, what is your favorite website, lesson plan, or activity!
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By Carol Smith on January 26, 2010
This workshop is designed to demonstrate and utilize technology integration tools specifically for the career and technical education classrooms. Featured throughout the day will be web resources, software, and other technology that encourage the use of 21st Century skills for students.
Conference Rooms E & F - South Wing
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
This workshop is one that was rescheduled from December due to the weather.
Click to register https://odie.esu10.org/
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By Deanna Stall on January 13, 2010
Here are a few web sites that I thought you would like.
This last link is a video from a student demonstrating how her 7th grade science class is being run. This looked like a very engaging science class!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEls3tq5wIY&feature=youtu.be&a
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By Deanna Stall on October 14, 2009
Yesterday many of you were talking about doing the school newsletter/newspaper online. I have had this link for awhile and I know there is one teacher in our area that is using this. Here is the link to create your own online magazine http://www.openzine.com/aspx/HomePage.aspx. I don't know if there is an educational version to this but I wonder if you can't just set up the magazine and then students would only go to that site to edit rather than the main site. They may also offer an "educational version" of this if there are enough requests. I don't think it is a bad site just doing my initial scan. Check it out! Are there other sites out there that would work for doing the same thing? Does this have any other features that Word Press doesn't have?
Share your thoughts on this site! What does your school's web presence entail?
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By Deanna Stall on October 13, 2009
Tell us about your favorite lesson, activity, web site, or tech tool! Click "Post Comment" below to leave your information!
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By Deanna Stall on October 2, 2009
ESU 10 has purchased 15 Garmin eTrex Legend GPS units for teachers to checkout and use with their classroom! They can be checked out through ODIE!
More can be found in the description on the Media Library:
https://odie.esu10.org/library/MediaItemDetails.aspx?MediaItemID=54607
Also at: http://blog.esu10.org/gps Here you can find out more about the Global Positioning System devices as well as how-to's and instructional materials to go with the GPS's.
Let us know what you think! How will YOU use the GPS Devices with your students? Are you already doing a GPS project that you would like to share? Share this and other instructional materials here on this community!!!
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By Adam Griebel on August 17, 2009
What do 21st Century Students look like?
You have seen them walking down the street in any town, big or small, with pockets full of gadgets
and talking on their cell phones. All that technology that we adults can't even identify. These are the 21st Century
students. These are the next generation of earners, families, and voters in the United States. As I was reading the article Syncing Up With the iKid: Connecting to the Twenty-First-Century Student by Josh McHugh in Edutopia, I
was thinking about when I was a kid and boom-boxes were a hot item.
Everyone had one and they were all shapes and sizes. But it was a
little embarrassing on those Saturday
nights when my parents would bring out the record albums to torture us
with this outdated technology, not to mention the polka music they were
playing. Thankfully, the Walkman came along and I could listen to what
I wanted, when I wanted. That meant, no more polkas
for me! It also meant that I missed out on the family time together
and the opportunity to let my parents know that I didn't like their
music. In reminiscing, I realized that is probably
what today's kids think of the adults in their lives. They want the
latest and greatest technology for reason's they aren't sure about;
they want it personalized; of course, they want to be able to tell you
that you are old and out of touch with the world; and they still want
to be accepted and part of the family.
A group called Partnership for 21st Century Skills
developed a vision of 21st century student success. Nine states have
taken part in this initiative. Nebraska's Department of Education has
been in talks about it as well. The skills, knowledge, and expertise
students should master to succeed in work and life are outlined on their site.
- Core Subjects & 21st Century Themes
- The core subjects they have included are English, reading or language
arts, world languages, arts, math, economics, science, geography,
history government and civics. They also include that
interdisciplinary themes of global awareness; financial, economic,
business and entrepreneurial literacy; civic literacy; and health
literacy.
- Learning and Innovation Skills - These skills include creativity & innovation; critical thinking and problem solving; and communication and collaboration.
- Information, Media and Technology Skills
- Because of an abundant amount of information the skills students will
need are information literacy, media literacy, and ICT literacy
(Information, Communication and Technology)
- Life and Career Skills -
Employers will be looking for these skills in any area and in all their
employees. They are looking for flexibility & adaptability;
initiative & self-direction; social & cross-cultural skills;
productivity & accountability; leadership & responsibility.
In
order for us to get students to succeed with these skills, four things
must be in place. First, standards and assessments are critical;
that's not a problem in Nebraska. Second, curriculum and instruction
should support these 21st century skills. Third, teachers need to be
provided adequate professional development in these areas. And lastly,
where students learn affects what
they learn so learning environments which support 21st century skills
is the final critical piece of the puzzle. Statistics say that students
of today will have fourteen different jobs by the time they are 38
years old. It is vital that our students have these skills in place
before they leave our schools. Did You Know 2.0 and A Vision of Students Today are great video representations of many statistics like these.
What do 21st Century Teachers look like?
Why
upgrade to color televisions if the black and white worked just fine?
Why get a cassette tape player when your eight-track player did the
job? Well, ok, the eight-track may be a bad example. I bet you can come
up with a few of your own examples. The world has upgraded in every
way, shape, and form. 21st Century Teachers are going to look
different as well. We must upgrade to provide a quality education for our students.
International
Society of Technology Education (ISTE) created standards for
educational technology for students and teachers. In June of 2007,
ISTE unveiled the NETS-National Educational Technology Standards for Students. This last June, ISTE released the NETS for Teachers. In June of 2009, ISTE will complete the NETS for Admininstrators.
You are probably thinking, "More standards? I'm going to scream!"
Before you do that, let's think about what these standards are really
asking us as teachers to do for our students. Here are some
explanations and ideas you can try in your classroom to promote 21st
century learning in your students.
- Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity - Many of you already do this every day with kids. The word facilitate
is really a tough one to truly put into action. How do we let go of the
reigns in our classroom and still control the behavior, student
interaction, and learning while they are there? My kids always want to
be responsible for the big stuff like mowing the
yard instead of just doing the dishes. The same applies to students in
the classroom. If you want kids to do something, they need to know it
is important enough and that you trust them enough to be in charge of
it. Allow students to be in charge of their own learning! Give them
guidance so they know how to do the research and let them find all the
resources they can. Let them create their own visual model of their
understanding so you can see it too. You will be surprised at how deep
the learning will be! If you don't know how to use the technology, ask
someone to help you or be willing to let the kids figure it out on
their own. Letting go of the reigns is an exhilarating feeling for you
and your students!
- Design & develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments
- For weekend work, have students take pictures that represent your
current vocabulary words and share those pictures with the whole
class. Think they don't all have cameras? They will take the pictures
with their cell phone or will borrow a camera. Have you ever had your
students make a movie for your class? If you aren't ready for Final Cut Pro,
have students use their digital cameras to take enough pictures to
create a movie (kind of like making a cartoon). If you want to dive in
a little deeper, try out Movie Maker on Windows or iMovie on the Mac to have students create commercials, public service announcements, or summary videos of classroom events.
- Model digital-age work and learning
- Most schools now have some sort of information system such as Power
School so many of you are using that for keeping grades. Try adding
one new tool to your repertoire this next school year. If you get
stuck, ask a student! They will be glad to help you, and it is a great
way to build that trusting relationship with students. Keep your
bookmarks on Delicious or Diigo and then share them with your students. Take pictures of your class and post them on Flickr or Picasa. Save your Power Point slides as .jpg or .png and post them to Picasa so students can access them anytime.
- Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
- Talk to kids in every class about internet behavior. Preteaching is
the best! Tell them ahead of time what they can expect on an
assignment and then, how you expect them to complete it and how it will
look. If they are doing research, teach students how to do responsible
research on the internet. Take the next step and talk to them about
the difficult stuff. Talk about the internet, social networks, and
what might be out in the world. This is no different than talking
about drugs, alcohol, or relationships. Even if kids hear it from
their parents and then hear it again from you, keep talking!
- Engage in professional growth and leadership
- Going to workshops is always a good thing but we here at ESU 10 are
very aware of the obstacles you face when trying to take time for
professional development. What can you do then, if you are unable to
take those days? For starters, find a small group of people you trust.
They don't have to teach in the same curricular area that you do or
even the same grade level. Gather your group frequently for short
sharing sessions even if it is only 10 minutes a week maybe in the
morning or after school. Start by sharing your favorite web sites,
next teach each other how to use a web tool. Finally try longer
training sessions for instructional strategies or applications. You
might even try learning a new tool together with the help of online
training such as Lynda.com. or Atomic Learning. Your new group (PLN - Personal Learning Network)
will keep you going through the school year. ESU 10 also offers many
workshops in Kearney. Those trainings can be brought to you and your
school by our trainers at ESU 10! Please call or email
if you are interested. We will also be implementing a new training
delivery method in the form of a webinar. We have four planned for
October and November covering Google tools. They are one-hour sessions
after school. We hope this new technology will make it easier for you
to get the training you need, when you need it. Additionally, there
are online communities just for teachers! From the makers of ODIE, ESU
10 is developing communities
for workshop participants and member schools. (More communities are in
the works!) These communities will be used for collaboration, sharing
resources & lessons. There are also web sites such as Classroom 2.0, a Ning site where teachers gather to collaborate and share. If you are really ready to dig in, try Twitter! Twitter is a microblogging site where you follow and are followed only by the people you give permission to. Read more about Twitter and how it is being used in a new article on Edutopia! Professional development is viral so pass it on and cheer each other on!
If you are wondering where you stand with your technology integration, ISTE has created a classroom observation tool
that can be downloaded. You will need to sign up for a free account.
Use this tool when making lesson plans or observing teachers. The last
two pages of the .pdf might trigger some other great lesson ideas for your classes.
21st
century kids may look a little different than we did at that age but
they didn't get there by themselves on purpose. They are the result of
a changing society. America and the world will continue to change,
grow, and develop new technology. For our students to be ready for
that change, ready to be proper citizens, run a government of which we
can be proud, we must be willing to work toward these skills for
ourselves first.
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