Riding the Waves: Facing the Future with Emerging Technology

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1 Eduscapes Home Riding the Waves: Facing the Future with Emerging Technology It s the best of times and the worst of times be an educator. Each emerging technology comes with new opportunities to address individual needs, alternative ways to motivate students, and innovative approaches to learning in an expanding world. At the same time these new tools and resources can have financial and program implications, trigger social and ethical concerns, and present professional development challenges. How are you dealing with the endless waves of technology pouring into your school? No longer does one technology or a single solution fit everyone s needs. This session explores strategies to balance the enthusiasm associated with new technology with the real-world programmatic and curricular implications. Blogs, wikis, podcasts, videocasts, and open source software are just a few of the emerging technologies prompting discussions about social networking, censorship, misinformation, plagiarism, and the role of technology in our schools. Are you riding the waves to exciting new places or drifting out to sea? This session will help you set a course for successful infusion of emerging technologies. Twenty Trends: The Balancing Act Trend 1: Mix and Match - Balance Tools and Spaces Reading WITH Content Writing WITH Content Technology Tools and Learning Spaces Example: Use books, audiobooks, maps and technology together such as Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. Example: The Geo-Literacy Project Trend 2: Open Source Software - Balance Quality with Cost 1 of 7 11/22/06 8:20 AM

2 Freedom to share and use Open Source Links Examples: TuxPaint, CMAP Trend 3: Freeware Enhancements - Balance Loyalty with Cost Free but proprietary Window's Genuine Advantage Program - PhotoStory, MovieMaker Apple Software Program - iphoto, imovie Example: Photostory 3 for Windows is only available on Windows. Trend 4: Starters - Balance Structure with Creativity Pathfinders WebQuests Templates PowerPoint Sidekicks Photo Starters Example: Photo Starters that provide starters on two viewpoints (see right) Example: PowerPoint Sidekicks Trend 5: The Social Web - Balance Academic Rigor with Engagement Social Intelligence Social Technology Identify standards-based, engaging objects for discussion Example: Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman Example: The Smithsonian Encyclopedia of Life is a collaborative project by the US National Museum of Natural History to document the earth's diversity by scientists and citizens of Earth described by E.O. Wilson in The Creation. A related project is Consortium for the Barcode of Life. Check out the Barcode Blog. Trend 6: Visual Literacy - Balance Testing with Individual Needs 2 of 7 11/22/06 8:20 AM

3 Digital Photography Butterflies and Moths of North America Grinnell Glacier First Gov - data, photographs Google Earth Wikipedia - Retreat of Glaciers National Park Service Trend 7: Communication - Balance Skills with Ethics Content Areas Standards ISTE NETS Ethics Across the Curriculum Trend 8: High Tech Gadgets - Balance Cool with Practical Do I really need this? How does it compliment what I already have? Example: 3D Visor Example: Celestron SkyScout Trend 9: Blogs for Everything - Balance Novelty with Purpose What are really effective applications of blogs? Event Blogs - turtle nesting, conferences Blooks - using a blog to post a book for comments Web 2.0 Booklet Example: Plants that Bite Back Trend 10: RSS - Balance Info Need with Info Overload RSS Feeds for news, blogs, podcasts, videocasts Example: Bloglines Eduscapes Trend 11: Wikis - Balance Authority with Collaborative Ownership Wikipedia 3 of 7 11/22/06 8:20 AM

4 Example: Nile Kinnick Example: Wikispaces - Digital Photography Trend 12: Participatory Projects - Balance Primary Sources with Quality Info Oral Histories Family Histories Local Histories Plant and Animal Studies Human Genome Project Example: Pearl Harbor Survivor Stories Trend 13: Collaborative Writing - Balance Individual and Group Authoring Google's Docs and Spreadsheets (Writely) Thinkature Trend 14: Crowd Sourcing - Balance Quality and Junk Move from in-house to outsourcing to crowdsourcing The Rise of Crowdsourcing Trend 15: Simulations & Gaming - Balance Motivation with Time & Cost Immerse Learners Rules, Roles, and Responsibilities Content Knowledge Consequences Intrinsic Motivation Example: Knowledge Matters Trend 16: Personalize, Customize, Folksonomy - Balance Standards with Evolution Example: LibraryThing Example: Pandora Trend 17: Desktop vs Network vs Web-based Applications 4 of 7 11/22/06 8:20 AM

5 - Balance Setting with Security Google Earth RSS Readers Databases and Stand-Alone Apps Example: Reunion, Heredis, Roots Magic, Family Atlas (Gedcom file) Trend 18: Multimedia - Balance Access with Bandwidth Accessing, Creating, Sharing Example: Can I Have a Word? Example: Podcasting: Young Hoosiers Trend 19: Interactive Whiteboards Apps - Balance Cost with Use Example: National Gallery of Art Example: Grapher Example: Read about Chinese letters Beyond the Great Mountains and use the Calligraphy tools to learn Japanese. Compare it with Korean. Trend 20: Virtual Social Worlds - Balance Real with Virtual Life Second Life Second Life - International Space Station & Planetarium Second Life - Library Example: Second Life The Challenges Challenge 1: Storage Student Test Data Student Portfolio Space Student Workspace Student Collaborative Space Instructional Materials Space (i.e., templates, visuals, United Streaming) 5 of 7 11/22/06 8:20 AM

6 Teacher Spaces Communication Space Issues Security Levels of Access Challenge 2: Dynamic Web Reloading issues with proxy Filtering issues Spamming issues Challenge 3: Bandwidth Virtual Worlds Streaming audio and video Challenge 4: Software Updates Auto-updates Network-wide considerations Specialty software Challenge 5: Authority Who says? Who's the author? Challenge 6: Evidence Demonstrate effectiveness, efficiency, and appeal Challenge 7: Anywhere, Anytime Access Digital divide Update rules to address social networks Students need varied communication tools Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs ALA - Immigration Stories Putting It All Together 6 of 7 11/22/06 8:20 AM

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