Video and Presentation Responses (Humble ISD 6-6-07)
Did You Know Video
# of hits on MySpace !
What time of the day are kids visiting myspace ?
# of Google questions
Preparing for jobs that don't exist
3000 books a day are published?!
More Chinese honors kids than US kids
Continuously be learners!
How do we train for the future?
How do we make sure our kids can handle the technology?
Things have to change in the classroom! (the style of instruction)
Have to hire different thinkers, get teachers who will USE the technology
many classrooms need to be busy
Teacher and Administrator Movie, UthTV and Perspectives on Blogging
Lots of negative publicity: There are a lot of positive things that can be done with these tools
we have an opportunity and an obligation to show kids how to use the tools in beneficial ways
As adults not into this, there is SO MUCH Available out there we don't know about
teachertube.com
You really need to open up to the possibilities
We talk a good game, but do we really allow students the access they need
there is LOTS of knowledge out there
Kids are creating history online NOW
Kids are creating a digital record of their learning
ACCESS: are we allowing kids to use the technology
If we are preparing kids for jobs they don't exist, how do we do that?
we need to look at how we are preparing kids
Guidelines are good but we need to let kids be creative: give tools and resources
Part of fear is that we won't set the appropriate guidelines, what will happen if kids do something they shouldn't?
As a parent, you are scared to death by all the bad publicity
FEAR factor: having administration and teachers being able to let go and empower the kids
Fearing a lack of control is BIG, getting comfortable that if the teacher doesn't know everything about a software program that can be ok, the kids will help
The library: we expect a quiet place (library is a great place for kids to communicate and express themselves)
oral communication comes before writing, getting kids to talk about what they are writing more often is good
Question: Would be nice to see this modeled in the classroom, where can we see that?
differentiated instruction: what impact could this have on it, moving to a heterogeneous rather than homogeneous environment. How do we differentiate instruction?
Challenge of helping teachers who are not all on the same page
The power is there and it could be a great tool, key is appropriateness
It is about more than opening minds for administrators, also about opening minds of parents and teachers
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