Technology:

It’s not just a tool

Jane PerzykMarygrove College

August 11, 2011japerzyk@gmail.com

@MBAmom

We look at technology as a tool, but our students

look at it as an environment.

http://www.techlearning.com/article/Blogs/20460

Kim Cofino

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=120

2011 CDW-G 21st Century Campus Report

2011 CDW-G 21st Century Campus Report

2011 CDW-G 21st Century Campus Report

2011 CDW-G 21st Century Campus Report

2011 CDW-G 21st Century Campus Report

How Do You See It?

TOOL

• something I use when it suits me

• something I control

• something I don't need or want around me at all times - only when it's necessary

• something small, manipulated by its user

• something that's all around us, in use all time

• something we can not directly manipulate or control

• something necessary to live, and ubiquitous, like air

• something we are immersed in, even if we're not specifically thinking about it or intentionally "using" it

http://www.techlearning.com/article/Blogs/20460

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/275872080/sizes/o/

Why the Difference?

How Digital Immigrants Teach

• Delivering content• Presenting and telling• Telling Linear stories• Doing one thing at a time• Insisting one size fits all• Communicating face to face

Marc Prensky – BLC, 7-2007

Porter MI classroom, 1960 http://www.portermn.org/education_history.html

How Digital Natives Learn• Being engaged• Doing group activities• Being involved in game play• Exploring options• Multi tasking• Experiencing personalized learning• Communicating online

Marc Prensky – BLC, 7-2007

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mukluk/563045791/sizes/m/in/photostream/

Technology for Content Delivery?Old wine in new bottles?

PowerPoint instead of Overhead Transparencies?

http://tinyurl.com/3stney3

Interactive Whiteboard instead of Projector/Screen?

http://www.wis-group.co.uk/images/large_product/interactive_whiteboard_steps_01.jpg

Write Letters to a Subject Matter Expert?

http://murcha.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/skype-with-jeff.jpg

Create A Virtual Learning Environment with Skype

Conduct Classroom Discussion? (pulling teeth)

Backchannel Discussionin the Classroom

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/education/13social.html?_r=1

Backchanneling during Class

Use TurnItIn to Detect Cheating?

• Offer choices of assignment type• Permit students to choose topic• Require collaboration• Ask for early outline, several drafts• Familiarize yourself with their writing

style• Other ideas?

Or Design Assignments that can’t be Plagiarized?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/nyu-prof-vows-never-to-probe-cheating-again%E2%80%94and-faces-a-backlash/32351?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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Teach to “The Middle”?

http://www.ohio-share.coxnewsweb.com/multimedia/dynamic/00637/61959397_-1_637442g.jpg

Or Flip Your Classroom(with Khan Academy YouTube Videos?)

http

Preparing students for success in the 21st century requires teachers to retool their skills to meet the changing needs of their students.

Shaping the future of learning for our students in Michigan is not the sole responsibility of the classroom teacher, building principal, district superintendent, or graduate programs, but rather it is a collective, shared responsibility among all stakeholders.

http://tinyurl.com/c4ok46

What technologies do you…

• know about?• participate in?• live?

Share with those around

you

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/344832659/in/set-72157603986790944/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/344832591/in/set-72157603986790944/

21st Century Teacher Network

http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams#swaters

21 Things – Online Professional Development Based on NETS-T

http://www.21things4teachers.net/

Join MACUL(Michigan Association for Computer Users in

Learning)

• Network with other educators interested in educational technology

• Attend regional conferences in spring and fall

• Participate in MACULSpace Ning

www.macul.org

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