Technology IntegrationClassroom

Audio Presentation

Social Learners

“There’s not really an avenue at school for me to share, or publish my own stuff, or especially get feedback from people all over – that’s really the only reason I rush home to do Facebook so much.”

High School Honors Student

Multiple Intelligences and Technology

Dryden, Gordon and Vos, Jeannette, Ed.D. The Learning Revolution. (1999). Jalmar Press. Torrance, CA.

Social Learning

The most intense “higher-order” conversations are those that carry on in multiple avenues;

Deeper learning isn’t an individual phenomenon;

Multi-Processing

Pew Internet & American Life Project Survey of Teens and Parents, OctoberNovember 2006

Digital Shift

Text Text & Image

Information

Navigation

LITERACYLITERACY

Digital Shift

• Being Told (Authority Based)

Discovery, Experiential

LEARNING

Digital Shift

• Deductive (Linear)

Concrete & Judgment (Lateral)

REASONING

Digital Shift

• Don’t Know – Won’t Try

Don’t Know – Link, Lurk & Try

ACTION

Ed Tech Standards 2.0

21st Century Skills

New Jersey

Creating21st Century

New Jersey Schools

Phase Phase Phase

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Today’s Classroom

• Shift in FOCUS to learning in situ WITH and FROM each other.

• Learning becomes situated in action;

• It becomes as much social as cognitive,

• it is concrete rather than abstract,

• and it intertwines with judgment and exploration.

Apprenticeship of Observation

• Classrooms practices are similar to practices 50 years ago.

• We teach the way we were taught

Dan Lortie, Schoolteacher: A Sociological Study

Course, Not

• History of technology in schools

• Curriculum or instructional design models

• Learning theories

Course Objectives

• Philosophical – Change beliefs or at least open eyes

• Practical – Tech tools/resources

• Pedagogical – Framework for integrating technology purposefully

• Get you a job

Until next week…