Back channel available at http://todaysmeet.com/timeandspace
History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme [Mark Twain]
You don't need to be working in the same space or at the same time ... consider these applications ...
- Google Docs
- Second Life
- DimDim
- Eluminate
- Skype
- Geocaching
- Museums
- Blogs
- Wikis
Pedagogy vs content ..
Book: How People Learn, lead to ... How Students Learn
Students come to the classroom with conceptions of numbers ground in their whole-number learning that lead them astray in the world of rational numbers.
Knowledge is networked - understanding requires factual knowledge and conceptual frameworks. Networks are social ... you need to converse to learn He says to his students ... "if you are not talking you are not learning - learning is a conversation"
Metacognition
Should Bloom's Taxonomy be rewritten the other way up .. thus, start with 'Create' ??
Now introduce the technology aspect into the pedagogy vs content debate - think of three circles [content, pedagogy and technology] ... where they overlap is TPACK [the total package].
LOTA Design videos - illustrate that things don't have functional fixity.
Darren shows examples of his class blog - a window through the walls of his classroom - an interactive learning ecology for students and parents in his Pre-Cal Math class. They can visit and post comments freely! But students are also asked to write a class blog and every day, one student writes a different page >> Class Scribes. He monitors contributors by means of a 'scribe list' and crosses students off it when they have contributed their daily class blog. This almost amounts to a text book online! [Students feel a responsibility towards this and do it for 'social credit', not just to earn better marks/grades!]
Answertips [at Answers.com] widget on right hand side - speaks a highlighted word and gives a definition. He's also incorporated a facility for creating maths images [equation editor] ... see www.sitmo.com
Students also publishing BOBs [blogs on blogs] to reflect upon their learning - what's of more value are the comments from other students and prompts when amendments/additions need to be made.
Darren never asks students to write notes - all the resources are published on the blog and therefore, class time devoted to conversation or online blogging. Next year, he will encourage students to publish videos and fill the gaps which are not covered by those on YouTube.
He shows us a website called Kick YouTube for downloading videos from YouTube.
All students get Delicious accounts and save their bookmarks with the tag pc40sw09 and then you can pull in the most recent tags with that tag.
What are you going to do with your classes?
Darren shows how our photographs posted above are incorporated into his wiki, along with a musical soundtrack downloaded from www.jamendo.com
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