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=**Technology Learning Space**=

**Contact:** **brucel@casady.org** Casady School, Oklahoma City, OK www.casady.org**
 * Larry Bruce**
 * Director of Information Technology


 * My Goals**: A gathering place to discover, learn and share technology, discuss pedagogy and to discover technology tools for teaching.


 * My Journey:**
 * **Parent**
 * **Teacher**
 * **Administrator**
 * **Consultant**
 * **IT Director (present)**
 * **Member of ISTE [|www.iste.org/]**

During the past 25 years I have witnessed and participated in the explosion of the "Age of Information Technology". I began this journey in 1993 as a full time technology director. I have had the opportunity to experience about every kind of connection to the Internet. Browsers of every version, connection speeds from 300 baud modems to huge "pipelines". I have experienced the growth of computing power from a [|Radio Shack TRS3] to our present day computers and hand held devices that hold a host of applications and processing power. Software in its infancy has grown from [|VisiCalc] to [|Office Excel '07]. In just a year the [|IPhone] has had over 1 billion downloads of its 25,000 + apps. In every general retail store computer, software and supplies can be found. A far cry from the early 90's. The de-malling of our malls has changed so drastically that you can virtually shop for anything on the "net" and have it on your doorstep within 24 hours. Educators are besieged with decisions on what to use to enhance learning with technology. Everyday a new application hits the market, a new hardware device promises enhanced learning. As Charles Schultz's Charlie Brown would say would say "ahhhhhhh".

My goal is to provide you with a place to discuss, ask questions and discover those technologies that appear in our ever changing world. I want you to find just a few key items that you can become excited about and incorporate into your everyday teaching experience. Applications, hardware and ideas to prepare you and your students for learning with technology.

Our students are using technology in so many ways we as educators stand in awe as our students text tiny keyboards, check their Face Books, Google locations and Blog their way as [|digital natives] As we struggle as digital immigrants we need to ask ourselves, "What should we be doing as teachers?" Do we need to instruct our students in better ways to use these [|Web 2.O] apps? Should we lead by example or turn the other way and hope it goes away.
 * Today and Tomorrow**

[|Sir Ken Robinson spoke] at our school a couple of years ago and he stated in a previously recorded TED Talk that UNESCO says there will be more "educated people" in the next 30 years than in the sum of human history to date. Sir Ken says that creativity is as important as literacy. Are we being creative in our classrooms? Using technology to deliver a powerful point or are we just doing the same hum ho things from year to year.

[|Will Richardson] compiles the following points:


 * “This is a period of prolonged and profound transition in the ways we relate to communication and information.” [|Henry Jenkins]
 * [|Toyota] overtakes GM in world auto sales.
 * In just a decade’s time, we’ll have gone from half the world never having made a telephone call to half the world owning a phone. [|(Mark Pesce)]
 * The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that most American workers will change jobs between 10 and 14 times by age 38.
 * "Hypertransparent and hyperconnected world." [|Dov Seidman], How The Change: The Read/Write Web
 * It's as easy to create and publish content as it is to consume it. * "[|Web 2.0]"


 * The Web is Changing Politics**
 * [|Barack Obama] --500,000 members, 8,000 affinity groups
 * [|ObamaTwitter]
 * [|The Machinery of Hope] (Rolling Stone)
 * [|Obama YouTube site]
 * [|Find Groups on Obama site]
 * Kansas Senate candidate [|changes fund raising models]
 * [|We are empowered]. (Ira Socol, [|WSJ article])


 * The Web is Changing Government**
 * US Intelligence Agencies are using wikis to communicate and collect information more effectively. [|("Open Source Spying")]
 * Australian Government Caught Editing Wikipedia [|(The Age)]


 * The Web is Changing Journalism/Media**
 * "[|My readers know more than I do."] --Dan Gillmor
 * [|USA Today] example (Gray Googler's article)
 * We can contribute our own reporting. [|(iReport)]
 * Newspapers are all a [|Twitter].
 * We all make editorial decisions for the group.[| (Digg.com)]
 * Traditional models for music and movies are quickly becoming obsolete
 * [|Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog] New York Times Magazine
 * Nine Inch Nails gave away its [|new collection of mp3s for free with a Creative Commons license], and it was still the [|top selling collection on Amazon in 2008.]
 * [|Surfthechannel.com] Any movie or TV show streamed to your computer.
 * Or [|MyGazines.com], where you can access any magazine you like.
 * This is a REMIX culture which pushes creativity. [|(Kutiman Thru-You)]
 * We can even have[| iPhone bands.]
 * We are the [|watchdogs].[| (Protest Death)]


 * The Web is Changing Business**
 * Markets are conversations AND relationships, not transactions or products. Advertising is not a relationship. [|(Cluetrain Manifesto)]
 * Allstate and Sara [|1], [|2], [|3], [|4]
 * Look at the conversations about [|Amazon's Kindle e-book reader]. Check out our own [|Casady author]
 * Or look at what happened to [|Spore]. What is [|Spore]
 * The [|fastest growing companies] are adopting social media.
 * Take a look at how Cisco sees the new [|"Human Network "] where "you subscribe to people, not magazines."
 * The [|Goldcorp story] (Canadian Mining Company)
 * "This generation will transform the workplace and the way business is conducted to an extent not witnessed since the "organization man" of the 1950s." Don Tapscott, Wikinomics, pg. 54
 * Accenture, which spent $700 million on education last year, says its 38,000 consultants and most of its service workers take course on collaborating with offshore colleagues. ([|Business Week])


 * Challenging Times for Educators:**
 * Our students are leading us.
 * Participating more
 * Collaborating more
 * Creating more
 * 71% of students with online access use social networking tools on a weekly basis (NSBA)
 * 75% of college students have a Facebook site
 * [|Casady Blogs]
 * [|Casady Life]
 * [|Blogs about Casady]
 * [|Casady Courier]
 * ISAS Arts Festival [|Tweet]
 * More statistics on the [|social networking divide.]
 * Their notion of [|privacy] is shifting dramatically
 * Our kids use social networks to [|grieve publicly] as well. ([|Facebook login required].)
 * Our Faculty in[| FaceBook]
 * [|Local story about teen's substance abuse issues] culled from social networking pages. (Hunterdon County Democrat)
 * Being "Googleable" can be a good or a [|bad thing]. (Virginia teachers on Facebook)
 * We are entering a time of deeply personalized, passion based learning. (John Seeley Brown)
 * "Youth using new media often learn from their peers, not teachers or adults, and notions of expertise and authority have been turned on their heads." [|(Article)] [|Living and Learning with Digital Media (.pdf)]
 * That makes our current curricula less and less relevant to our students.
 * More and more, the expectation is to create, not consume, yet we're not creators.
 * The amount of information is infinite and overwhelming.
 * Pace of change is lightspeed
 * [|Multitouch computers]
 * [|iPhone] as the "Ultimate Study Guide"
 * [|Wiis] as SmartBoards
 * [|Over 5,000 Web 2.0 apps]
 * Differing levels of access
 * 21 percent of households with an annual income of $30,000 or less had a broadband connection at home in 2006.
 * And what happens when municipal wifi gives kids unfiltered access in schools?
 * Yet we are becoming [|hyperconnected]. (Nortel study .pdf)
 * From "anywhere, anytime" to "everywhere, all the time."
 * Standardized tests still emphasize content
 * Our idea of presence is changing as well. (Facebook login required.)
 * Legal liabilities are unclear. *
 * We block instead of teach
 * Filtering does not work
 * A Melbourne student disabled the Australian government's $84 million porn filter in minutes. ([|Herald Sun)]
 * Restricting use of technologies will not work
 * As wireless becomes ubiquitous, students will use their devices in schools. ([|Local Schools Battling High Tech Distractions)]
 * Fewer than 25 percent of educators feel comfortable teaching students how to protect themselves from online predators and cyberbullies. ([|District Administration Magazine])
 * In the next 10 years, over [|18 million teachers will be needed worldwide], over 2 million of them in the US (roughly half the education workforce.)
 * Our own time is limited.


 * The Web is Challenging Traditional Approaches to How We Learn**
 * Learning is not about acquiring knowledge as much as it is about building networks. ([|Articulated by George Siemens.)]
 * . The live Web is replacing the static web. (Twitter)
 * And our networks connect our passion for learning.
 * My good fortune is that I have potential teachers visiting from around the world. (ClustrMap)
 * Contrast that to most of our kids' classrooms which are still defined by four walls.
 * We are at times teachers and at times learners. Our roles shift with each interaction.
 * Our kids are already creating their own networks. [|Fan Fiction] is one site where "affinity groups" meet.
 * They are using networks to create change around the world. ([|Taking IT Globa]l)
 * And they are using networks to make a difference in [|their communities] (Laura Stockman).
 * And like it or not, [|MySpace] is another example of kids creating their own networks.
 * But so are student role models, ([|Meg Cabot])
 * Millions and millions of people are participating in the [|new social networking services]. (Wikipedia)
 * Research is beginning to show that social networks have a [|positive influence on learning].
 * And teachers have their own as well. ([|Classroom 2.0])
 * But we can help our kids to start creating their own networks as well and [|work with people around the world.] (Nata Village)
 * We can also build networks in virtual worlds. In fact, over 70 colleges already have.


 * The Web is Challenging our Assumptions About Knowledge, Information and Literacy**
 * It's not as much about content anymore as much as it is about context. Knowledge and information used to be scarce...that's what our education system was built upon.
 * But how much of that information do we really remember and use? "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?" How many sides to a [|trapezoid]?
 * But today, I can learn anything, anytime, anywhere providing I have access.
 * Knowledge is no [|longer scarce. (MIT]) (1.4 million visitors per month from every country, 2,000 courses, 440,000 course downloads per month.) And now there is a section of content just for [|high schools].
 * Or check out the [|YouTube channel from Berkeley].
 * Or check out the catalog of podcasts from Stanford on [|iTunesU.]
 * Or this [|free physics textbook] (being used by the state of Va.)
 * We can connect to information and build knowledge from it collaboratively, and freely. [|(Wikiversity])
 * And we tend to look at knowledge as hard or unchanging...but these days, knowledge is soft. It's constantly changing. ([|Wikipedia)] To date, almost 6.5 million articles have been created in some 250 languages by almost 6 million people
 * (By the way, [|errors are everywhere]. What would you do with this [|textbook] ?) * And the collaborative construction of knowledge is effective...just ask the [|CIA. (Open Source Spying)]
 * In this world, we cannot only seek information, but information seeks us. ([|Pageflakes]) *
 * But in a world where anyone can create and publish information, [|how do we know what to trust?] (Dove Beauty)
 * How do we teach our students (and ourselves) to make sense of a much more complex literacy regarding [|who to trust] as authoritative sources. When we [|can be manipulated] or [|be the manipulator].
 * Even [|NCTE] describes literacy as "malleable." * We can no longer be "just" readers...we must be editors as well. And we [|read] ([|Diigo]) and write together.
 * More and more we are living in an information world that is digitally linked together. ("[|Scan This Book]")
 * And reading is no longer a passive, linear activity that deals simply with text. How do we read [|multimedia and hypertext]? (Flypmedia)
 * In this world, we must read with an ear for writing and responding, engaging and interacting.


 * The Web is Challenging our Assumptions about Classrooms and Teaching**
 * If teachers are no longer the arbiters of knowledge in the classroom, our roles need to change.
 * Classrooms [|can be global and anywher]e. (Supplementing my kids education.) Teachers come in all shapes and sizes. (Andrew from Perth, Scotland.)
 * Take this teacher's Tweet: "In Gr.8 - using [|Google Earth], [|Flickr,] [|YouTube], [|bbcnews], to learn about the protests in Burma .. world at their fingertips, AS IT HAPPENS!"
 * Now we have the opportunity to be connectors, to bring our classrooms to the world in a variety of ways. We can [|find other teachers]who may know more than we do. (Secret Life of Bees)
 * [|Teachers YouTube]
 * Here's another example of [|students learning from mentors]. (Polar Science)
 * We can also connect our students to other students around the world so they can learn together.(Flat Classrooms Wiki)
 * And in a world where all of our students can be content producers as well as content consumers, we need to re-envision the work we ask them to do.http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/shows/Willowcast24.html. (Radio Willow Web)
 * Our students [|can teach in powerful ways]. (Pre Cal)
 * And they can share their experiences in meaningful ways, like [|Sam Jackson's Education Blog]--12th Grade student blog about college application process
 * As [|Marco Torres] says, students' work "[|should have wings]." ("Parents")

[|Mark Pesce]--"Capture Everything, Share Everything, Open Everything, Only Connect" Those who don't understand these shifts will be "left behind." ([|2009 Horizon Report]) How do we learn to help our students leverage the technologies they are already using instead of have them check them at the door? (Especially when our students [|can get around our efforts anyway].)
 * We Need a 2020 Vision for Education (Bud Hunt)**
 * How do we change? How do we re-envision teaching for a vastly changed world?
 * What do we have to [|unlearn about schooling and education]?
 * How do we the use of these technologies in our own practice?
 * "We use social media in the classroom not because our students use it, but because we are afraid that social media might be using them - that they are using social media blindly, without recognition of the new challenges and opportunities they might create." --[|Michael Wesch]
 * Top challenges for 2009-- [|Educause] *
 * How do we begin to [|change the culture of schools]?
 * How do we begin to add nodes to our own network maps? [|(Blank ClustrMap)]
 * To make sure we're as prepared as we can be to lead our kids into their futures
 * To take advantage of these opportunities, we all need to:**
 * 1) Find our passions
 * 2) Connect to others who share those passion
 * 3) Participate
 * 4) Build learning networks with other teachers and learners
 * 5) Model our learning for others
 * 6) It starts with [|one small step.]

Slides of presentation at Casady School May 12 & 24, 2009
For Mac using Keynote For Windows PC using PowerPoint =Resources for Teachers= [|Making Teachers Nerdy] A great resource to further your wikis and blogs

[|Google Apps] What can I say "a candy store" for everyone. It is a free software suite provide by Google. When used in an educational institution, Google gives the software away completely free to an unlimited number of users. The Google Apps ecosystem includes several applications in a suite including an online email client (based on the companies very popular gmail); an online word processor which has the ability to create, edit, and share documents/spreadsheets/presentations; online calendar; a website creation tool (this can be used to create internal websites or public websites); instant messaging; and a customizable portal.

[|www.pbwiki.com] [|www wetpaint.com] www.wikispaces.com
 * WIKIS**

[|www.blogger.com] [|www.wordpress.com] [|https://www.blogger.com/start]
 * BLOGS**

[|www.podbean.com] [|www.podcasting-tools.com/] [|www.learninginhand.com/podcasting] [|Podcasts for educators]
 * PODCASTING**

[|Facebook] [|Another view of social networking] [|Ning] Let's you discover and new create social networks for your interests and passions.
 * SOCIAL NETWORKING**

[|Classroom 2.0] The social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.

[|www.edmodo.com] A site that is for educators and students only for communicating with your students and parents

[|Video Hosting Site] What do you do when family or school videos pile up because most of us lack the time or interest to master complex video tools required to convert media into compelling stories. This is why the One True Media team has worked so diligently to create a service that is both powerful and fun to use.
 * EXTRA**

__Book Making__ [|www.blurb.com] [|www.Lulu.com] [|www.endeavorPrinting.com] [|www.makingbooks.com]

Conference Sites

[|Edutopia] Not another magazine or web site can challenge you more.