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Required Submissions Checklist for Lesson
6: Email your instructor that you would like an invite to Dropbox.
____Post
your advice via our class listserv on
directions and innovations the C2C should consider for Alaskan pilot
projects . Include “FCC Lesson Six” in the subject line of your
message! (One
hour)
Review the social media resources in our shared dropbox, and review the dropbox features via their online help links.
____Post your Jing link as a reply to the Jing Info-diets forum at our Ning social network site; http://loneeagleacademy.ning.com
(One hour)
No one knows as much as all
of us!
This
course is a living example of the exponential benefits of effective peer
sharing process in action. Many of the resources used in each lesson come
directly from the participants the week before, with the Connectivism video and
the following links as examples. Please keep the contributions coming!
VIEW: Connectivism:
The networked student (5 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XwM4ieFOotA
An
excellent explanation of the new roles for teachers as modeler, learning
architect, change agent, synthesizer, learning concierge, connected learning
incubator, and network Sherpa. Thanks to Adell Bruns for sharing this resource.
Note
many excellent related videos are presented on the same page, and that’s where
I found this one from the Univ. of Alaska Fairbank’s Skip Via:
VIEW Skip
Via on personal learning networks for educators (5 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=q6WVEFE-oZA
As Skip shows you elements of his personal learning network, think about your own ability to use graphics
and sound to hold the viewers attention in your own videos and jing presentations.
VIEW Sara Hepner’s Jing Describing the Alaska Future Problem Solving Program (three minutes)
http://screencast.com/t/b8ZHFXp1tF
Teaching
kids how to think, not what to think. Community and Global Public Problem
Solving programs are available at http://alaskafpsp.org
EXPLORE:
Create your own multimedia magazine: Scoop.it at http://www.scoop.it/
Scandinavian Standards Suggest New Priorities for
America
Read U.S. Educators Seek Lessons from Scandinavia: A Scandinavian alternative to No Child Left Behind: (15 minutes)
http://lone-eagles.com/cosnarticle.htm
Read Teaching 2.0 – Are We There
Yet? (5 minutes)
http://www.skipvia.com/blog/?tag=teaching-2-0
CoSN’s
observations speak volumes about the current state of US public schools. In
Scandinavian schools, students begin formal education at 7 years, having spent
the previous several years in preschool programs aimed at personal
responsibility and social development rather than on academics. By the time
they get to formal schooling, the situation looks like this:
[CoSN] found that educators in Finland,
Sweden, and Denmark all cited autonomy, project-based learning, and nationwide
broadband internet access as keys to their success… Grading doesn’t happen
until the high-school level, because they believe grading takes the fun out of
learning. They want to inspire continuous learning.
What the CoSN delegation didn’t find in
those nations were competitive grading, standardized testing, and top-down
accountability—all staples of the American education system.
Immaculate Integration
Teaching the “Love of Learning” to be sustained lifelong by our students has been a challenge in the past. Today, smart use of mobile learning will reap rewards as personal mobile devices are becoming more interconnected, more powerful and central to the daily lives of us all. “The New Normal” is learning to do more with less, and out of necessity the economic scalability of mobile learning and smarter collaboration will produce “solutions of necessity.” A constructivist approach, where students build their own knowledge while developing multimedia skills, is likely to be more motivating than sitting in a traditional classroom. This is true for educators, too.
Read:
Now
that we have established everyone and everything is becoming increasingly
interconnected and integrated, and that everyone must somehow adopt the “love
of learning” as a lifestyle choice, let’s review our opportunities for
innovation.
1. Integrated
units allow us to “do more with less” while meeting required standards, and the
more standards we can address
in a single unit, the better.
2. Motivation
comes from what we can learn to do, not from what others do for us, or “tell us
to do.”
Bill
Gates wrote in his book “The Road Ahead” ten years ago that there were three
big emerging industries; entertainment, social services, and education. If we
integrate these three big money-makers we get “Fun, Social, Learning.”
Explore: Peer 2 Peer University
http://p2pu.org from diyubook.com
Learn
anything with your peers. It's online and totally free. At P2PU, people work
together to learn a particular topic by completing tasks, assessing individual
and group work, and providing constructive feedback. "Browse groups and courses; Start your Own." Note
the four schools of study referenced at the bottom of the screen.
Explore: PBS Kids Design Squad: Start a
Challenge, and Build and Share Your Fidgits. http://pbskids.org/designsquad/games/fidgit/index.html
250,000
students enrolled in virtual High Schools last year, up 40% from 2008, as
reported by NBC Nightly News, Nov. 27, 2011.
Optional (Video online at www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619 )
VIEW: Did you know
4.0 – social media (4 minutes) *Another
version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8&feature=related
(Note all the similar video “mashups” on
the right sidebar) The sheer number of similar videos is testimony to the
imminent evolution that social media is undergoing on a minute-to-minute basis.
You might begin to think about developing your own music and graphics
capabilities, starting with broader use of Jing’s image capture feature, and
Jing Pro’s editing capabilities.
Xplanevisualthinking (Optional)
http://www.youtube.com/user/xplanevisualthinking
Here’s
a company specializing in – what do you think they are specializing in exactly;
Visual explanation similar to Commoncraft.com?
Starting Your Own Global TV
Broadcasting Station – At No Cost
Anyone
can create their own youtube channel in a couple minutes. You can upload videos
up to 15 minutes in length. But, did you know you can join Youtube’s partner
program which offers enhanced roles that allow you to post longer videos and
learn how to monetize your videos? Google is a global Internet advertising
company, owns youtube, and will make money if you make money. For Free, you are
offered your own global broadcasting station. As all video will soon be
available online, this will prove to be an outstanding opportunity for
educational entrepreneurs with a video for positive world change.
READ: YouTube for Profit (15 minutes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/media/11youtube.html
Youtube.com/edu
is their educational division, but there are many competing video sites who
would also like to help you make money from your creative videos. The more you
learn about how others are profiting from their creative and instructional
videos, the better you will understand your own opportunities.
More
links are at our class wiki’s video resources pages.
Facebook as International
Platform for Innovation
Facebook,
a curiosity in 2006, is now the largest (yet) online phenomenon valued at $100
billion. Like it or not, Facebook is the leading global platform for social
marketing with hopes to become the leading platform for meaningful
collaborative activities of all types. Their strategy is to move fast, and
innovate aggressively, in direct competition with the other tech giants.
Like
it or not, already most businesses and government agencies invite you to follow
them on Twitter and Facebook, if not an additional listing of similar social
media feeds.
Assess
the level of valuable information and interaction that is, or is not, taking
place on this important Alaskan Library project’s Facebook page. Click “Info”
on the left sidebar to read a short summary.
Review: Alaska
OWL Project Now on Facebook (15
minutes)
The
Alaska Online With Libraries (OWL) project now has a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alaska-OWL-Project/286626654693376 . This page is intended for project
participants to gather and share success stories, project ideas and any other
information they please about the project. The public is welcome to drop in and
see what’s going on.
As
of this writing, the OWL page has stories about how OWL bandwidth and equipment
are empowering research and homeschooling in places like Lake Minchumina and
Hollis. Pictures of people receiving OWL equipment and training sessions are
also available.
More
at the OWL web site: http://www.library.state.ak.us/dev/owl.html
READ: The
Great Tech War of 2012 (30
minutes)
https://www.fastcompany.com/1784824/great-tech-war-2012 This article is a good demonstration that the pace of change
is accelerating, and change is happening in such a way it is integrating
technology, society, education, the economy, and more. Literally, our daily
lives and info-diets are undergoing constant reinvention. But, are we in
control of our own lifestyles? Are we thinking for ourselves or are the media
tricksters in more control over what we think and believe than we are?
Immaculate
Integration Activity: Speed-dating for Integration Ideas (one hour)
Consider
the following explorations activity as speed dating with new ideas and themes
to integrate in your K12 topical units. You have been commissioned to innovate
with social media for building closer Alaskan school and community ties to make
Alaska THE national model for the FCC Connect-to-Compete initiative.
Service Learning
Read (optional): How to reduce student dropout rates: link volunteering to studies
http://lone-eagles.com/cosnarticle.htm (15 minutes)
Educational service learning not only may
engage students in their community but also help keep them on track for
graduation, according to a Civic Enterprises report. John Bridgeland, the
nonprofit's president and CEO, says 77% of students in service-learning classes
reported the experience as strongly motivating them to work diligently, and 64%
credited such classes with playing a role in keeping them in school.
Review (optional) Rural Revitalization in New Mexico: A Grass Roots Initiative Involving School and Community (Optional)
http://www.ruraleducator.net/archive/28-3/28-3_Pitzel.pdf
Explore (optional) Working Together:
School-Family-Community Partnerships
A toolkit for New Mexico school
communities
http://www.cesdp.nmhu.edu/toolkit/index.html
Read:
(optional) Online Bullies Pull Schools into the Fray
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/style/28bully.html?pagewanted=1
Mentoring Models
Explore the Mentoring resources http://lone-eagles.com/mentor.htm with emphasis on your preferred
topic areas. Consider searching for additional resources on online collaboration
and mentoring to see the extent of available resources. Hint: search for
“mentoring manuals” PhD science
and math mentors from India are available online to mentor your students for
$10/hour.
READ: (optional) http://lone-eagles.com/mentoring-mission.htm
Character
Education Web tour, and other topical webtours for integration.
http://lone-eagles.com/webtours.htm
Citizen
Schools
Enlist
the expertise of local citizens and businesspersons as guest presenters in your
school.
Youth
Entrepreneurship
Youth Entrepreneurship sites applicable to both educators and
students at
http://lone-eagles.com/entrelinks.htm
and http://lone-eagles.com/entrelinks2008.htm
Electronic
Student Portfolios
Explore
the merits of student portfolios as a means of sharing student
performance with parents; at http://electronicportfolios.com
see what you can find searching for "electronic
portfolios"
Electronic
Democracy
Explore
the Electronic Democracy WebTour http://lone-eagles.com/democracy.htm
The highlights are the Virtual Activist
Curriculum found on the homepage for http://netaction.org
specifically www.netaction.org/training
The Thomas Jefferson Government
Resources http://thomas.loc.gov is
your window into the workings of the U.S. congress. Look at each of the four
community networks listed at the end of this web tour.
STEM Immaculate Integration Themes for NSF, USDOC, and all Stewards of the Earth
Citizen Scientist PPT
Facebook Basics: (15 minutes)
Explore: Facebook Top Level
Help:
Look over Facebook Basics
Look at Ads and Business
Solutions
Explore: Give and get help
by connecting with others on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/help/community/
Facebooks “Causes” are now
called groups.
Optional
Facebook Resources
Facebook Connect is the software by which most online
systems can interface with Facebooks growing number of features. Facebook
recognizes their future hangs on demonstrated meaningful applications in both
the social outcomes areas, as well as the money making activities.
Review Integrating Websites
with Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=223862724291967&ref_query=facebook+connect
Facebook
Connect won’t use that name anymore, as everything is changing quickly. Here’s
their latest update:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/web
Facebook Insights are analytics to show you how effective
you are creating a following – for either your social good, mercenary, or
combined social enterprise goals. READ “What are Insights?” http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=116512998432353&ref_query=insightes
Book: “The Facebook Effect” is a look at what
is going on behind the scenes at Facebook.
Facebook Power Tips for
Businesses
http://www.fastcompany.com/1796284/5-facebook-power-tips-for-small-business?# Fastcompany.com is a thought leader and good sources
for short, timely articles on Facebook and tech startups and hot trends.
Facebook apps for education
http://www.interactyx.com/blog/facebook-apps-for-education
Video announcing new Facebook App for Ipad
http://t.co/jk0lf4cN
The Facebook Blog http://blog.facebook.com
Facebook app article:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/at-long-last-facebook-releases-an-ipad-app/
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