leading and learning banks ferguson presenta 1

A Teacher's Toolbox for 21st Century Instruction

Learning with Web 2.0 Applications

A collaborative presentation byJohn Ferguson, Stephen Banks

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DigitalNatives

21st Century Literacies• Technology has increased the

intensity and complexity of literate environments, and

• Twenty-first century literacies demand that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competences.

• These literacies, from reading on-line newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms, are multiple, dynamic, and malleable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ZRDRPqoXo

Twenty-first century readers and writers need to

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Digital Citizenship

Thanks to Alec Couros for kind permission to reproduce this image.

http://thisisindexed.com/2009/10/better-than-a-poke-in-the-eye/

Wiki’s

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“A wiki…seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

The process of creation is at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Ferguson's Wiki

http://fergs-class.wetpaint.com

Ferguson's Wiki

Assignment Page

Group Work and Student Pages

Survey

Stephen's Wiki

Assignments

http://blaugh.com/

Ning

• Ning means “peace” in Chinese• A ning is a social network much like

FaceBook or MySpace• It can be closed to all but invited

members.• Students create content through profile

pages, forums, and discussion threads.

John's Ning

Image courtesy of XKCD,

 Glogs

 http://edu.glogster.com/

aymanonline.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

So..why?

Used with kind permission by M N Jorgensen - http://www.thedigitalnarrative.com/communityhp.htm

Questions?

• Please visit our wiki for a copy of this slide presentation http://banksferguson.wetpaint.com

• My email? osbanks@chinooksedge.ab.cao jferguson@chinooksedge.ab.ca

Thanks to Yvonne Mason (Ideas Without Borders) for invaluable assistance!