Lifelong Learning (From CT 23 Things)
- Discover the 7 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners. This tutorial includes audio, so check that your volume is not muted or set too low. You may want to use headphones if the noise will distract others.
- Review the eleven skills that students need to be fully successful in the social networking environment. They are listed below. (From Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture; Media Education for the 21st Century by Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Play – the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
- Performance – the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
- Simulation – the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
- Appropriation - the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
- Multitasking – the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details
- Distributed Cognition – the ability to interact meaningfully with with tools that expand mental capacities
- Collective Intelligence – the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
- Judgment – the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
- Trans media Navigation – the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
- Networking – the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
- Negotiation – the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms
What is Web 2.0?
The term "Web 2.0" (2004–present) is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design,[1] and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups, and folksonomies. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them. --From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia- http://www.wikipedia.org/
So… in other words, Web 2.O represents the current state of the internet, where individual users interact to create content on the web. Think about how many times you have gone to a website and posted a comment, or made a review of a bed and breakfast that you liked, or shared photos on your Facebook wall. Anytime you have left a digital mark on the world you have participated in the Web 2.0 world.
What does this have to do with teaching and learning?
Web 2.0 represents the world into which our students have been born. In order to reach them and understand and interact with them, we must teach ourselves to be fluent in the language and function of WEB 2.0. The best part is that it is fun!
To complete Thing 1 you must:
A. Email us to join the class
B. Watch two videos on Web 2.0
C. Read the first 11 pages of an article on Media Education in the 21st Century
A. Email hepferm@wilton.k12.ct.us to join the class.
To join the fun, please send us an email with your job title, building, and an alternate email address if you have one. If you wish to get CEUs for your hard work, you need to register for this class at www.protraxx.com .
B. Watch two videos on Web 2.0.
Watch the videos below and think about the students of today and your experience as a student.
Watch the videos:
To join the fun, please send us an email with your job title, building, and an alternate email address if you have one. If you wish to get CEUs for your hard work, you need to register for this class at www.protraxx.com .
B. Watch two videos on Web 2.0.
Watch the videos below and think about the students of today and your experience as a student.
Watch the videos:
C. Read the first 11 pages of an article on Media Education in the 21st Century.
Read the first 11 pages of this article and reflect on it. What are your thoughts? What questions does this raise for you in your current role?
Read the first 11 pages of the article:
Confronting the Challenges of Partipatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
Extra Credit (not required, but included for you overachievers...)
Read the first 11 pages of this article and reflect on it. What are your thoughts? What questions does this raise for you in your current role?
Read the first 11 pages of the article:
Confronting the Challenges of Partipatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
Extra Credit (not required, but included for you overachievers...)
Click the link below to learn about the next wave of the web called Semantic Web or Web 3.0. It is interesting, and even a bit unsettling.
Extra Credit: Learn about Web 3.0
Extra Credit: Learn about Web 3.0
Never thought of the Internet/computers/technology as "Participatory Culture." The ability to be a part of a community online. I get it--especially the active creativity part--I just don't understand how people find the time to spend on the computer, their iphones etc. Do these same people/kids have time to read a good book, have creative play face-to-face with others, interact with family members in a meaningful way? I wonder...I barely have time to complete work "stuff" for the next day and enjoy a little down time with my husband before crawling into bed exhausted. I'm not sure how this all plays into my role of teaching little kids how to read. I use a computer program for increasing children's fluency. This is individual and does not involve participating in any kind of community of learners per se.
ReplyDeleteOK, so kids toaday are REALLY connected to electronics. I can't help but wonder what that is going to do future divorce rates and disfunctional children, but that is another discussion.
ReplyDeleteThe "Final Cut" video quotes all kinds of 'research" that show how poor current education is in the US.
1)I wonder what the results be to those questions if posed to our students?
2)Are we really suposed to buy that reading 200,000 text messages, tweets, and emails has the same value as reading a book?
Anyone who beleives that using cell phones in a class has never been in a classroom of teens. Why not suggest sending an alcoholic a "beer/wine of the month" subsription so they can appreciate the artwork on the cans/bottles? Kids today are addicted to thier phones and the "need" to read/answer any text imediately. I do not allow phones to be used in my class, yet every week, I confiscate at least one phone (which is sent to the dean) because the student "Had to" check the new message. Teachers in the classroom are not the only ones facing this issue. Friends in the "business world" tell me that they are now collecting blackberrys before meetings to keep particpants focused on the meeting.
Can cell phones be a tool in education? Perhaps. I remember, long ago being told that shortly every student would have a laptop. When people relaized that the laptops were being used in class for everything except for education, they quickly fell out of favor.
The article on Media Education was very interesting. It is true that most students participate in these opportunities outside of the classroom and there is a need to incorporate these powerful learning opportunities into the classroom. The reason for signing up for 23 things is to help me do just that.
ReplyDeleteI was the anonymous from April...rereading the article and reading liptackj, I do want to become more a part of the 21st century and 21st century skills, but one of the 21st century skills is the ability to collaborate--be a part of a team. I guess you could argue that you can do that via Internet, texting etc. I would argue that we need face-to-face communication. Maybe the idea is a balance. How do we achieve that? If I were at dinner with a group of people and suddently pulled out a book and started reading at the table, people would consider me rude. And yet I see people texting in restaurants all the time.
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