Well, here is the second posting dealing with Alan November, so I'm looking forward to seeing how this presentation differs from the last. As a fan of his book, Web Literacy for Educators, I'm always eager to see what Alan has to say about technology in the schools and how students and teachers use it. Maybe one day I'll actually make it to his conference.
Alan "Someone told me that only 15% of students are taking accurate notes at a given time in school."
If that's the case, then what if we doll out projects on note taking to several students through Google Docs?
1. Write down questions
2. write down stories
3. Write down all websites
4. Teacher has document up and checks periodically to see what's happening
Then publish the document as a webpage and link that web address to the classroom website. Or use tinyurl.com to make a managable address.
At a Captain setting, where does that happen with kids taking notes? How does computer location allow this or disallow it? Two other kids are researchers. Other kids are keeping up those global connections.
www.easywhois.com Shows you who owns a web site. Important for research. Another aspect that he's spoken about is how Google ranks pages. (look into this) and how that contrasts how students and teachers perceives Google to rank pages.
Alan has a call for students to be web literate. That becomes more important for research issues...gettting to information. If you can't do that, how can you understand that information, process it, synthesize it, solve problems, or use it in any other way if they can't get to the information?
archive.org site has the wayback machine to look back at it's past looks. When you find a dead page, go to the wayback machine and see if you can find it.
Every classroom should be a global communications center. Every teacher should work to get students to understand different perspectives. For example, in fifth grade, what is the British version of the "American Revolution"? How do we search for that? Search within .ac.uk for academic institutions within the the UK. (Do this search later: "American Revolution" "General Gage" site: ac.uk) Could I wrap this into a lesson on searching within the fifth grade curriculum.
"I would teach web literacy before I teach anyone how to use PPT." in relation to elementary settings. When should you start tearing apart the internet? (to understand the parts and pieces) His response: "When do you start to teach reading?" So we're talking about kindergarten here. "Knowing url etensions is like knowing the alphabet."
If kids are using facebook as soon as they get home, then that means that what they really want to do with technology is to talk to other people. Then they come to school the next day and we let them talk to no one. So students want to be collaborative, and to look at an earlier comment, they don't take good notes. Shouldn't every teacher, every day, have a team a scribes working in Google Docs. And you should go over the notes, as a teacher, to make sure notes are accurate. Ask students to
How do you globalize the curriculum? How do you connect students with others around the world?
Copyright Law: Newest ruling on copyright law with regard to schools (fair use) "If you create a new use of the content and it does not compete in the marketplace, then you can remix it. The original intent was to create a balance between society and users Check out this Blog Link in School Library Journal (great blog by the way...I follow it)
When anyone uses facebook, you give up your rights to all of that content. Check this out! Facebook is blocked, but we don't teach the dangers of Facebook. They could be doing damage to themselves personally & professionally and we're not doing anything about that. Filtering social networks is an incomplete solution at best and very harmful at worst.
Check out the Number the Stars Book Trailer on youtube. What if students create that? What would that do for motivation? Also, "every teacher should go into youtube and find information that relates to their subject matter. They should use that in meaningful ways in the classroom to see how that content can be utilized."
Look at Michael Wesch in youtube. No specific video's highlighted, but referred to with regard to students being producers of content. Warning! Scroll below the video and the commentary is not all nice. So the question is if kids put up content on youtube outside of the classroom, then how do they know how to deal with nasty comments when they do happen. Would we rather be talking with students on how to deal with these type of anonymous comments inside of the school instead of them dealing with it on their own?
Talking about Nings. Here's an example. Use it to create a community for student work.
We must teach kids web literacy. They have to be critical thinkers on the web. We have to globalize the curriculum. The role of the teacher should be to build community. Replicate what works on social networks wrapped around rigorous academic content. We should be taking advantage and leveraging content on the web instead of blocking it. Students should be doing curriculum research. What are the most difficult concepts? Send students out to find answers and solutions.
Last tidbit: Why homework should be done at school and schoolwork should be done at home: Video
Check out others' notes for the presentation at http://bit.ly/27S4oT
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