Notice

This entire presentation, as well as several resources selected to supplement today’s

workshop, are available at:

technoliteracy.wikispaces.com

Teach-NologyUsing Technology to Teach Social Studies

Background

• Tony Pennay– Tech Liaison, Cal State Northridge Writing Project– Curriculum Resource Teacher, SCVi Charter School

• 4 week summer institute• Collaborative professional development• Write, research, explore best practices for

literacy instruction• Get paid and earn credits for attending• http://www.csun.edu/writingproject/

GOAL

To share and explore effective uses of technology in literacy instruction, with attendees leaving with ideas and tools that they can implement in the classroom on Monday.

Why teach technology? 21st Century Literacy

• As society and technology change, so does literacy.

Why teach technology? 21st Century Literacy

• The twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies.

Why teach technology? 21st Century Literacy

• These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable.

21st century readers and writers need to:

• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology • Build relationships with others to pose and solve

problems collaboratively and cross-culturally • Design and share information for global communities to

meet a variety of purposes • Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of

simultaneous information • Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts • Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these

complex environments

Develop proficiency with the tools of technology

Tools of Technology

• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology – Blogs – Wikis– Podcasting– VoiceThread– Digital Storytelling – YouTube

BLOGGING

Why Blog?

I Know

Please No!

• I most appreciate the 1st amendment. Not many countries around the world have free speech, press and religion. Many people in other countries could get thrown in prison or get executed if they spoke freely. In America we could petition against the president and not get shot. I think that U.S. citizens definitely take advantage of the amendments. Some don’t realize how lucky they are to live in this country. And that’s pretty much all it is, is luck. People in poor countries are unlucky. They didn’t do anything to be in a cruel, poor country. That’s why we shouldn’t take for granted what we have because for all we know if there was a turn in history that could be us in that unlucky situation.

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Jobs

According to Did You Know?

• The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004.

• We are currently preparing kids for jobs that do not exist and technologies that haven’t been invented in order to solve problems we haven’t yet encountered.

– Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman

Audience

• I’m so– glad that I didn’t get republican. But I also think that this test is really sexist. They called me a Disadvantaged Democrat just because I supported the poor.I am so *MAD*! Guess what they said. They said that because I want social services for the poor I must be a woman and I must be poor too. And that I get paid lower than 20,000 thousand a year and that I must be a part of a worker’s union. So what they are really saying is that if you have a well-balanced life and are wealthy, you can’t support the poor.

• I disagree where K***** stands, she thinks that helping the poor is about giving away money. !!!THAT IS NOT WHAT IT IS ABOUT!!!! Yes I think that it is wonderful to help people, but most people are just leaching off of healthcare. It should not be about supporting people financially, but about putting in place a system that can teach people how to work for their money. Instead of just giving them money which just weakens the economy…

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Me: “What makes this strong writing?”Student: “Well, the writer uses specific examples to develop her

argument. Plus there is emotion in her voice. You can tell she is really upset about the issue.”

Student 2: “I didn’t know you could put in your feelings. I thought you just had to answer the question.”

Me: “Well, in this example, is the author answering the question?”

Class: “Yes.”Me: “Does this give any of you ideas about how you might be

able to further elaborate on your answers?”Class: “Yes.”Me: “Pull out your notebooks and feel free to add to your initial

response.”

Standards Based

• Enumerate the powers of government set forth in the Constitution and the fundamental liberties ensured by the Bill of Rights.

• California State Social Studies Standards, Grade 8

Getting Started

• Find a blog hosting site -- Edublogs gets through most filters.

• Establish ground rules: Check district’s fair use policies and user agreements.

• Create a task, set a deadline, and go. – Blog assignments can easily support content

standards.

Ideas for grading blogs

• Credit/ No Credit– A chance to practice writing and explore ideas.– Express opinions on reading material.

• Points– Clearly defined parameters and expectations. – Model and celebrate excellent responses.– Have students share in class.

Tied in to Writing Next

1. Writing Strategies, which involves teaching students strategies for planning,revising,and editing their compositions

2. Summarization, which involves explicitly and systematically teaching students how to summarize texts

3. Collaborative Writing, which uses instructional arrangements in which adolescents work together to plan,draft,revise,and edit their compositions

4. Specific Product Goals, which assigns students specific,reachable goals for the writing they are to complete

5. Word Processing, which uses computers and word processors as instructional supports for writing assignments

6. Sentence Combining, which involves teaching students to construct more complex, sophisticated sentences

7. Prewriting, which engages students in activities designed to help them generate or organize ideas for their composition.

8. Inquiry Activities, which engages students in analyzing immediate, concrete data to help them develop ideas and content for a particular writing task.

9. Process Writing Approach, which interweaves a number of writing instructional activities in a workshop environment that stresses extended writing opportunities, writing for authentic audiences, personalized instruction, and cycles of writing

10. Study of Models, which provides students with opportunities to read, analyze, and emulate models of good writing

11. Writing for Content Learning, which uses writing as a tool for learning content material

Podcasting

• Writing and sharing with an authentic audience.

• Helps writers with revision.

• Helps with reading fluency.

• Collaboration leads to writing improvement for all involved.