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Digging Deeper:Online Collaborative InquiryJared CavagnuoloWilson Middle School Learning Center Teacherjcavagnuolo@natickps.org

Mary Moynagh Ashland Middle School

8th Grade Social Studies Teacher mmoynagh@ashland.k12.ma.us

Online Reading Comprehension Using creditable and accurate print and digital sources to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Online Content Construction Using technology as a means to demonstrate learning.

Online Collaborative Inquiry Using technology to collaborate with others.Digging Deeper Sessions What has changed?

Economy: agrarian to industrial to technological Jobs and needs of employers have gotten more complex Blue-collar positions now done electronically or have been eliminatedMore complex, technologically advanced white collar positionsMore advanced thinking skills required

The Times They Are A-Changin3What will the students be asked to do?Think critically and creativelyWork collaborativelyTake risks constructively Understand connection to the world Use technology to research and communicate with others Work in teams Assume leadership responsibilitiesSchool Reform in the New Millennium: Preparing All Children for 21st Century Success. Massachusetts DESE. November 2008. 4Workplace of the FutureWe dont care where and how you get your work done. We care that you get your work done. Dan Pelino, IBM Health Care / Life Sciences

ABC News: The Workplace of the Future5What do we need to do to get the kids ready for this new world?

Develop good Digital Citizenship Skills

Develop 21st Century Literacy Skills across the content areas

How do we begin this process? Digital Etiquette and Digital Rights and Responsibilities

Digital Citizenship: Using Technology Appropriately

What is a good digital citizen? 5. Digital Etiquette: Electronic standards of conduct or procedure. We recognize inappropriate behavior when we see it, but before people use technology they do not learn digital etiquette (i.e., appropriate conduct). It is not enough to create rules and policy, we must teach everyone to become responsible digital citizens in this new society.

7. Digital Rights & Responsibilities: Those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world. Digital citizens have the right to privacy, free speech, etc. Basic digital rights must be addressed, discussed, and understood in the digital world. Users must help define how the technology is to be used in an appropriate manner.ISSUES TO CONSIDER REGARDING WEB IDENTITY

With great power, comes great responsibility. -- Peter Parker's (aka Spiderman's) Uncle

The main issue is not participatory media, but how we use these social networking tools! With great tools, comes great responsibility and a need to think critically and constructively about how we use them. They can serve us well in terms of developing our personal and professional online image.

What is out there about you? Search for your digital footprint How can you begin to build your footprint? Positive Digital Footprints

Everything you do now ends up in your permanent record. The best plan is to overload Google with a long tail of good stuff and always act like youre on Candid Camera, because you are. ~ Seth GodinWhat is your digital footprint?

Back to the classroom .

They need the 3 Rs: Reading Writingrithmatics 21st Century StudentsBut they also need the 5 Cs: Creative Problem Solving Skills Collaboration skillsCommunication skillsContent Critical Thinking Integrates technology into our practice of teaching and learning

Accesses curriculum resources and information using technology

Provides additional ways for students to demonstrate their learning using technology How the new literacy addresses the 5Cs

Technology can be used to enhance mastery of content and not distract from it.

Things to think about

Students lives are online in increasingly mobile and social ways. Surveys show students want learning and schools to follow suit.

Points to Ponder ..

And the kids are saying ..

School considerations

Social Media is Collaboration A New Generation of Learners

TED Talk: Will Richardson[Kids] are not waiting for a curriculum to deliver to them the things they want to learn; theyre simply going out and learning those things when they want to. ~ Will Richardson

So how do we harness our students natural motivation to learn?

Give them some autonomy over~ What they do ~ When they do it ~ How they do it ~ Who they do it with

20% Time ProjectsProject proposal formStudent ideasExample

A New Generation of LearnersBack to Online Collaborative Inquiry

What is Online Collaborative Inquiry?Work with your tablemates to create a definition using online resources (dictionaries, Google search, etc.)

Share your definition with the large group. 24Classroom of the Future (i.e., September 2012)Goomoodleikiog

25If you take a little bit of GOOgle for research maybe add a MOODLE platform for online content delivery use WIKIpedia for information or create a WIKIspace for collaborationand add a little OG for a classroom blOG you too can have a classroom of the future.GOOMOODLEIKIOG

* Bring Your Own Device

Laptop iPad Flash Drive Cell Phone iPhone iTouch iPod Have you thought of your classroom as a BYOD* environment?These tools are the ultimate enablers of collaboration -- in and out of class.

by Grace Rubenstein The Way of the Wiki: Building Online Creativity and Cooperation

Based on the resources and ideas discussed so far, what are some ways you might use tools like Google, Moodle, Wikis, and blogs in your classroom?

What are some of the advantages these tools could have for instruction?

What challenges do you foresee in using them?

Table Discussion

Wiki Discussion:

Using information from the Goomoodleikiog video, the Rubenstein article, and your table discussion, respond to the following questions:

How can you use technology in your classrooms to encourage collaboration and enhance mastery of content?

How can we harness the technology the students bring to school every day?

Click on the link for your days session below and respond to the questions there.

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Then respond to two of your fellow participants' posts.

Discussion Activity on the WikiYour table group will be assigned a strand of the College & Career Readiness Anchor Standards from the new framework. Read over your group's standards with your tablemates.

Drawing on your own teaching experience and using what you have learned from the resources and activities in this session, work together to answer the following question:

How can teachers use tools and resources for online collaborative inquiry to address specific anchor standards?

Online Collaborative Inquiry and the New MA Curriculum FrameworkClick on the link for your day's session below to post your group's answer to a Google doc.

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