Communicating with Digital Natives: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

August 27th, 09
Pine Manor

Following today's presentation I have added more links at the bottom of the page including the Cite is Right link. I also would like to invite you to 'pick my brains' about any technology integration issues in your syllabi. If you have a syllabus and would like to discuss which technology tool is best for you, we can discuss that. Feel free to email me or come visit me at my desk at NEIA.

NOTE: please don't hate Second Life!! there is so much that you AND your students can benefit from just by being there such as attending conferences and talks etc... More importantly, you need to realize that there are approximately 150 universities on Second Life. [My talk was just ONE single bad experience to make a point - that not all technology is good with everybody].

Resources

Marlyn’s:

• My blog which includes sessions from the conferences: http://hakawitech.wordpress.com
• My school’s website: http://www.wdimedia.net
• Email: mtadros [ @ ] aii.edu

Educational repositories

• Merlot: http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
• NMC: http://www.nmc.org/

Tools and examples:

• Voicethread: http://voicethread.com/  my example: http://voicethread.com/share/586705/
  http://voicethread.com/share/590725/
• Agentsheets/gamelets: http://www.agentsheets.com/education/teacher-material/games.html
  http://www.agentsheets.com/education/index.html
• Webquests: http://www.webquest.org/
• Second Life
• Digital storytelling: http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
• Online games:
• Searching information: http://21cif.com/rkit/newRkit/operators.html#actionzone
• Viruses: http://www.onguardonline.gov/

Recommended reading:

• Marc Pensky: http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/
• The future of education: a digital map of education

NEW sites added after the presentation:

• The Cite is Right! [powerpoint presentation/game] Download the powerpoint from that site.
• The Cite is right web page [link] Watch the videos
• More on digital storytelling [link] A great step-by-step resource for faculty development using Elixir
• There are also the usual suspects: Twitter, wikis, blogs
• Maps can be used extensively and in so many ways in education: eamples of sites to go to to create your own maps: DIY maps; Google maps;
• Timelines as well as mindmapping are all new tools that can be used in education.
• Second Life Educator's List If you decide to join this list, make sure you join it with a discardable email - or create a separate email for it and join that list with that new email because this is an EXTREMELY high volume list.

On the sometimes unbearable use of PowerPoint in presentations: Life after death by powerpoint.

Some tips before integrating any technology:

• remember that echnology is just a tool to help you in your performance as a faculty member and to help interactivity in class
• make sure the technology you choose is relevant to the topics you need the students to learn
• do not overwhelm youself with the all these technologies. Take one technology tool at a time, read about it, see who used it and how they used it, view examples of how it was used, and then make a decision on whether it is appropriate for you and your students or not. If yes, then leaarn how to use it youself.
• not all classes need or can use technology integration.
• do not create resources if they have already been created before. Just use the ones already there unless they need major modification.
• use it as fun exercises and do not take yourself or the technology too seriously. :)