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Michael Walker

Concord.org - The Concord Consortium - 1 views

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Concord Consortium software physics science

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  • Michael Walker on 18 Nov 09
     
    Science resources and FREE software
Michael Walker

techLEARNING.com | Technology & Learning - The Resource for Education Technology Leader... - 0 views

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mobile learning environment education 1-to-1 Soloway Norris

shared by Michael Walker on 12 Dec 08 - Cached
  • If you go to a situation where the computers are one-to-one, where every child has a computer, be it a cell phone computer or a mini laptop computer, then all the learning activities, all the learning resources are on that device. It becomes the conduit then for the curriculum and for the artifacts the student creates. In some sense it does replace or certainly augments the paper and pencil materials. As Cathie pointed out earlier, the problem was that the computer was used as an add on. The major part of the lesson was still done on paper and there might be one activity that you did on the computer but that activity wasn't integrated with the rest of the pieces of paper. The computer wasn't playing an integral role to the lesson. But with one to one, it becomes possible for the computer to play an integral role. CN: Which is the way it is in business. Most business people do the majority of their work on their computer. Pencil and paper tends to be an aside or an add on for notes. When we start talking about teaching children 21st Century Skills, teaching them how to use the computer for the bulk of what they do is certainly a 21st Century Skill. ST: Certainly, so long as it's not just teaching the technical means to do a PowerPoint presentation or write a paper. It's about the critical thinking that goes on.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 12 Dec 08
       
      I think this is the key! Remember the first day...Make the laptop disapear!
  • The teachers who are out of control when students have handhelds are the same teachers who are out of control when the students have pencils and paper. I was a classroom teacher for 15 years and back then the threat was that computers were going to come in and replace all teachers. All of the good teachers felt that any teacher who could be replaced by a computer should be. There is always room for and a place for good teachers. In this case the role of the teacher is different. It's not necessarily a role of handing out the information. You don't open up students' heads and dump in the information. Rather, teachers provide direction and contextualize things for students as they do their lessons. Students are not sitting there like little birds waiting to be fed. To create autonomous learners you must contextualize things for students as they find them or as they run into difficulties trying to fit pieces together because you've structured the lesson for them. ST: You're singing my song. One of the things we often say at our organization is that a child is not a vessel to be filled, but a flame to be kindled. What you're speaking to is how do you create that spark and engage that 21st Century Learner.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 12 Dec 08
       
      Classroom management and teacher's role
  • Well that's true. One of the things that I worry about with Smart Boards is people are just porting all of their book based content into static PDFs to be displayed on Smart Boards. There's nothing engaging there about that solution. CN: Right. Children are simply watching something bigger. We were in Mexico and we saw that Mexico had adopted the Smart Boards in all the classrooms. At one meeting we attended, they demonstrated how they were going to be using the Smart Boards in the classroom. A teacher had a book opened, displayed on the Smart Board, going through the lessons with the book on the Smart Board. It was just a bigger book, the children are still being passive learners. They simply watched her as opposed to engaging with a technology that fits them, moving up and around, it's a completely different learning environment. ES: This was a very powerful learning experience for both of us. Here is a country trying to move into the 21st century. They were going to equip their classrooms with all these expensive, electronic whiteboards. All they were doing was the same thing that they had done with books in the past and that wasn't particularly interesting to the kids. Displaying the book a little bigger is not going have any impact whatsoever.
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  • We see a trajectory with this issue of one-to-one computing. The entire notion of one-to-one is going to change. The term is inappropriate. It's a dominant term now because it comes out of the laptop world. It still focuses on the technology as opposed to what the kids are going to do with the technology. I think over the next few years, the notion of one-to-one as a term will disappear. What's going to happen is that it will be a given that all the children will have a computing device. It probably is going to happen faster than most people think. Right now, a large percentage of schools in the United States, ban cell phones. But once this dam breaks, when schools see that kids are already bringing computers to school and schools don't have to pay for those computers, the light bulb within administrators will light up. Administrators will begin to notice that one child brings a Motorola, another brings a Nokia, and yet another brings an iPhone. The solution? You just put a layer of software on top of the phone that makes all those non-homogeneous devices homogeneous with respect to the teacher and the learning activities. Just like a Dell and a Sony and a Gateway. They're different computers. You put a layer of software on top of them and now they're all the same. That's the same idea that will happen in the cell phone computer world. And when this happens, we think it's going to happen very quickly. Not in five years, more like two to three years.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 12 Dec 08
       
      A view of what the future may hold!
  • Michael Walker on 12 Dec 08
     
    Cathleen Norris and Eliot Soloway discuss issues with teaching in a one to one environment
John Kraus

Edina Technology Integration: Dr. Burke visit to Mill Creek Middle School: Kent, WA - 0 views

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  • Mill Creek Middle School
    • Dean Dahl
      Dean Dahl on 07 Nov 08
       
      This would be a great place to visit ... if it weren't in Washington!
    • John Kraus
      John Kraus on 08 Nov 08
       
      I see it is hinted at in this blob… But, since we have been sending people to visit schools with 1to1 programs I can't help but wonder what list of information are we making sure we gather from each school. And where can I see a comparison of this data. Of the top of my head I would want details on the computers used in each school. Do teachers and students use the same type of machines? Are there any schools using multiple platforms? What software programs they are allowing students to use as well as any software/abilities that are being blocked? What regulations for student use is being enforced? What are the consequences for violating the computer policies? Is there data on the number of violations they have had? Home many computers (a percentage) are lost/need to be replaced each year? What was their schedule for training staff, students, parents, etc? Can we have copies of any of their training materials? What are the limits for data saved on the school's network drives (for students and teachers)? What expectations are there for teachers to incorporate 1to1 curriculum in their classes? Looking back what is the one thing that they feel must be done to implement a 1to1 program? What is the one thing they with they had done to implement their 1to1 program?
  • Smartboard LCD projectors Color & B/W printers. Document camera Each room has a wireless hub. All students have e-mail.
    • Melissa Kalinowski
      Melissa Kalinowski on 07 Nov 08
       
      Wow! This is amazing. I wish that we had all these things in our classroom! We will need to have some of these things to make one-to-one successful - like wireless hubs!
  • 6 middle schools
    • Dean Dahl
      Dean Dahl on 07 Nov 08
       
      How did the middle school work together in this journey?
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  • All students have e-mail. District has 26,000 students
  • Students can loose access to laptop for 3 days for code of ethics violation plus detention
    • michelle terry
      michelle terry on 07 Nov 08
       
      I think that this is a great way to force students to use the technology appropriately. Would this work in Edina? I can see parents getting really upset if their student looses a laptop for a few days. I can just see the argument from them that their student will not be able to do their homework. I do think that we need to have some consequence though. I also wonder who is in charge of enforcing this as in is the teacher in charge of always checking or is this done by the tech department.
  • Students can loose access to laptop for 3 days for code of ethics violation plus detention.
    • Melissa Kalinowski
      Melissa Kalinowski on 07 Nov 08
       
      Is it okay to take away a student's primary means of learning as a punishment?
  • First thing they did was to write a 10 year tech plan with vision, revisions are made every year.
    • Chris Peterson
      Chris Peterson on 07 Nov 08
       
      Does Edina have a "tentative" 10-year plan???
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 07 Nov 08
       
      Edina's Tech Plan runs from 2008-20012. It can be found on the Media and Technology Site off the main district page.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 07 Nov 08
  • Take laptop away, create a public service announcement, have to have a parent or peer monitor, reapply for drivers license.
    • John Kraus
      John Kraus on 08 Nov 08
       
      I have concerns with taking the computer away. How does this change their productivity in class? Limit, monitor, block - there are other things that could be done. But if they do not have the computer in a class that is relying on 1to1 how will the student remain productive?
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