Foundation
Respecting Students and Their Culture
Collaborative Notes
PEW Research on devices owned in 2015
Last Generation to remember life before the Internet
Generation Z doesn’t want to be called Generation Z
8 Key differences of Gen Z
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 the community, text for parents, Facebook for public
Activities
Search the new skill
Information Landscape Today: Search
- Eric Schmidt
- Wikipedia vs Textbooks
- Is Google making us feel smarter?
- Let’s Search
- A Google A Day
- Domain Extensions by Country
- Newspaper Archives
Math and Science
- Wolfram Alpha
- Wolfram Alpha for Educators
- Google Apps for Science and Math Teachers
- Ratio/Percentage Spreadsheet (GSheet) (Excel)
Information Landscape Today: Wikipedia
- Use the Talk Page
- Wikipedia’s Good Article criteria
- Wikipedia’s Quality Scale
- 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.
- Wikipedia Infographic
- WikiWand: Making Wiki more visually appealing
- Wikipedia real time edits
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Getting students started with Wikipedia
- WikiJunior
- Wikibooks
Lesson Plans:
Visual Literacy
Common Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies
Zero to Eight Children’s Use of Media in America (PDF)
Activity 1
Step 1: Open Deconstructing Images Worksheet
Step 2: Open Tetsu Yushida image
Activity 2:
Explore some Image-Rich Resources
- 500px
- Google Art Project
- The Big Picture
- Flickr: Interesting
- In Focus
- The Flying Japanese Girl
- Dancers Among Us
- Eyewitness App
Tools and techniques to add text to images:
Additional Resources
- Image Analysis
- Deconstruct an Image or, How to Analyze an Advertisement (questions to help foster an awareness to analyzing images)
- Doodling & Math video here
- A Brouchure Without Words
- HSBC Airport Ads (the power of one word with an image)
- Scorcese on Visual Literacy
- Digital Images in the Mathematics Classroom
Resources for Finding Creative Commons Media:
Resources for Citing Creative Commons Work & adding text
Activity 3:
Presentation Ping Pong
- Find a Creative Commons image that inspires you
Click here to access the Presentation
As a whole class, create a collaborative presentation.
Goal: create a seamless story presentation where each individual slide is created by
one person (without knowing what everyone else creates). The story is told “on the fly” as slides pop up during the presentation.
Process:
- Each person creates one slide with one image, properly cited
- As they are created, each person knows that they will speak about one slide, but they won’t know which one
- Once all slides are created number off so that each person is assigned a slide
- Give everyone a minute to look at their slide,
but they might not know what the person before they will say, so don’t give too much time - Everyone gets up and stands in a line in their number order
- Each person speaks about their one slide, creating one seamless story from all of the diverse slides in the presentation
Create a Social Media Card
YouTube Resources
- 35 minutes to create and upload
- Turn-in Video Here
- Get the spreadsheet if you want it.
ScreenCasting
YouTube 101
- Searching YouTube for channels and playlists
- Creating playlists
- Participant time to search, find and create playlists
Install Screencastify extension in Chrome
Create Types of Screencast
- Webcam video
- Webcam of analogue document
- Voice over slides or simulation
- Tech tutorial
- Annotation tools
Screencasting and video resources for exploration
Story Mapping
Google My Maps
Resources
Teacher Donnie Piercey’s MyMap resources
Resources
Some mapping tools
ArcGIS for Schools – mapping tool
NatGeoInquiry – mapping resources from Nat Geo
Mapping Sites
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Google MyMaps Challenge
Import this population density data spreadsheet into a MyMap.
(This data came from the World Bank here.)
Play with the settings to display the markers in different ways.
You can get more public data here.
Google My Maps
My Wikipedia is Better Than Your Textbook
Information Landscape Today: Wikipedia
- Use the Talk Page
- Wikipedia’s Good Article criteria
- Wikipedia’s Quality Scale
- 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.
- Wikipedia Infographic
- WikiWand: Making Wiki more visually appealing
- Wikipedia real time edits
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Getting students started with Wikipedia
- WikiJunior
- Wikibooks
Follow Jeff
The book has something for teachers just ready to dip their toes into the pool of tech-leaning pedagogy as well as those who have been thriving in online spaces for years. The authors consistently push forward an important message: it isn’t the tools, it is all about the intentions.
The extended readings would allow any middle leader to use this text and run a workshop or facilitate a discussion on the go. I’m already tempted to suggest this text for a staff PD book club, and I know the authenticity of the examples would not disappoint.
What I love about the book is that it models ‘voice and choice,’ each chapter, each idea comes with a variety of avenues to pursue–the authors are practicing what they preach. I challenge anyone to finish this book without an abundance of inspiration pushing them to share their copy with a favorite colleague immediately.