The Speed of Normalcy
PEW Research on devices owned in 2015
Last Generation to remember life before the Internet
List the communication tools you use personally every day to work and live?
List the communication tools you use for your school communication?
What are the overlaps and where might you need to rethink your communication strategy?
62% of US Adults get their news from a social media platform
Generational Communication Channels:
65+ = Phone, Facebook
35-65 = Email, Facebook, phone
20-35 = Text, Facebook, Email, phone
10-20 = SnapChat for close friends, Instagram for community, text for parents, facebook for public
Google Apps in the Classroom
Google Maps Engine Lite
Social Bookmarking
New: Google Apps Class!
Next Cohort begins September
Gmail
Calendars
Drive/Docs
10 reasons to trash Word for Google Docs
Using Google Docs with Kinder to create an iPad book
Classroom Newspaper 8th Grade Spanish
Scripts/Add-ons used in Education
Script Developers Help Section
Organize your classroom with Doctopus and gClass Folders script
Sites
Sites as Science Notebooks – Middle School
Sites as textbook / lesson – High School
Google+
Creating a Collaborative Core Text
Our textbook
Set up Flipboard on your mobile device
Consumers to Creators
Moving from Consumers to Producers of Knowledge
Consuming + Producing = Prosumers
Matrix of Technology Integration levels
Projects by educators taught by Jeff
The Facts about Student’s Being Public
CIPA requires schools to teach and use the Internet to students
Attorney General’s Report on Cyber Predators
Ways to Create
searching
Information Landscape today
Is Google making us feel smarter?
Let’s Search
Search Lessons from Jeff
Search Lesson for K-2
Search Lesson for 3-5
Search Lesson for 6-8
Search Lesson for 9-12
Wikipedia
Use the Talk Page
Wikipedia’s Good Article criteria
Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula
Wikipedia better than a history textbook
Is Wikipedia Really Such a Bad Research Tool for Students?
Wikipedia is arguably subject to more rigorous review practices than are many scholarly publications.
WikiWand: Making Wiki more visually appealing
Activity
Reach – Jeff Utecht – FREE Book!
Change Improve
What can HS students contribute to wikipedia?
Compose/Create
14 year old creates #1 game in App Store
Combine/Mash-up
Student made mashup video on Anorexia
Hypothesize/Predict
Examples of Creation and Sharing
YouTube Resources
- Install the app above to Chrome
- Create a 30-45 second reflection on your learning today
- Reflect on how you might be able to use this in your classroom
- User Percentage by Age
- 18-24 – 11%
- 25-34 – 23%
- 35-44 – 26%
- 45-54 – 16%
- 50-64 – 8%
- 65+ – 3%
- unknown age – 14%
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