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Hook 'em with Tech: Using 21st Century Tools to Engage Kids in Your Content
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Transcript of Hook 'em with Tech: Using 21st Century Tools to Engage Kids in Your Content
Glenn WiebeESSDACK ©2008
Using 21st Century Tools to Engage Kids
in Your Content
Hook ‘em with Tech
• Download handouts at:www.socialstudiescentral.com
• “Workshops”
• “Hooked on Tech”
• Download presentation at:slideshare.net/glennw98
75 minutes!? Are you kidding me?
Disclaimer!
“To succeed in our struggle to build technology and new media to support learning, we must move far beyond the traditional view of teaching as delivery of information.”
John Seely Brown
Sticky idea?
Technology is an absoluteessential for your toolkit
Who are your kids?
So what?
are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.”
Marc Prensky
“Today’s students
What is integration?
It’s about doing, not sitting
It’s connections to the real world
It’s about skills and content
Changing the way you teach
Changing the way kids learn
Change is hard!
Google Earth
Let’s crack the code!
Where are we from?
What are your standards?
•Dust Bowl articles
How does the media influence politics?
How does politics influence the media?
How does a time period influence both?
HS CG B4I1, 4, 7
HS US B3I2-6, 8
HS US B5I1-3
World War II posters
PhotoStory 3 / iPhoto
The American Revolution: A Digital Timeline
Your tools?
Some tips
• It’s not a silver bullet
• It’s not a silver bullet
• Don’t re-invent the wheel
• It’s not a silver bullet
• Don’t re-invent the wheel
• Give up some control
• It’s not a silver bullet
• Don’t re-invent the wheel
• Give up some control
• Always have a backup ready
• earth.google.com
• www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/01/crackcode.html
• www.googlelittrips.org
• www.gelessons.com
• del.icio.is/glennw98/googleearth
• teamtreks.org
• letterpop.com
• bibme.org
• newspaperarchive.com
• stopdisastersgame.org
• www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp
An idea I’ve had . . .
A tool I like . . .
Something I will do with this information in the next week . . .
Glenn [email protected]
Tech integration questions? Social studies issues? I would love to hear from you!
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