- I love his picture of the ditto machine. It's an ad.
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Extra Stuff
- His slides are tweeting.
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In Glenbrook South
- 225 teachers
- Fairly affluent
- Try to involve kids in planning -- especially technology
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Open
- MP3 players
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Cell Phones
- But you don't see a lot of cell phones
- "Everybody I want to talk to iis here."
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Wireless devices
- Very few devices
- "Give is a reason"
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Tech has changed
- Mac computer $1600 is now as powerful as our iPhone
- Only 6 million kis on Webkins
- 76 million on Poptropica
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Facebook
- Is it an appropriate environment for learning?
- But they don't want it in schooling. It's their space
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Learning Spaces
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65 million dollars from 2009 - 2011
- so how are we building those spaces.
- Digital experiences enhance what kids are doing -- why not in school
- Does there need to be a "front of the room"
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Their skills
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Digitla Youth Project from Mimi Ito (read it)
- Friendship-based activities
- Interest-based activiities
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Jakes adds -->
- Academic-based
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Their good at social tech
- Jimmy learns to make self-portraits from his community on Facebook
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Not so good even at basic operation concents
- File structure
- Making video
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Richardson Halverson -> channels
- Instituional activities
- Peer-to-peer...
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Shows picture of high school students in Starbucks who are learning together
- Should we have such a pace in schools
- It's a third place
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Can learning can be independent of time, place, space...?
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Can a hallway be a place for learning
- Hallway as a street for learning
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Suggests that Pads are important to learning
- With this handy, anyplace can be a place for learning.
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Can the classroom, hallway, and library be combined to make an uber learning space?
- Showing lots of examples of new learning spaces
- Spaces are themselves agents for change. Changed spaces will change practice -- Joint Information Systems Committee
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Design
- Forum follows function
- Design informs intent
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What does it mean to be well-educated in the 21s century?
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Collaborator
- Does school space facilitate this?
- Does digital environment facilitate this?
- Etc...
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So how do we make the move in re-shaping spaces?
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Are their new literacies?
- Audience answer "Yes!"
- David sais that literacy has not changed. The skills are changing, however.
- Jason Ohler says literacy is same but with new media forms...
- David says that blogging is the hardest writing he's done.
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5 timeless skills
- Communications
- Critical thinking
- Collaboration
- Creativity
- Citizenship
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A model
- Physical
- surrounded by digital space
- within are coore skills
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If "Yes", how do we affect the change
- "Edge" John Sealy Brown
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So is there a new context for development of these skills?
- Yes!
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Mulidemensional Learning Space
- Knowledge Commons
- Course Learning Space (Moodle)
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Student Learning Space (Google Apps)
- They want access to their content.
- Blogger becomes the portfolio
- Physical Learning Space