The Wonderment of great tech infused lessons
While researching South Hamilton's 1:1 laptop initiative I stepped into a whole pile of awesome. iTunesU has hundreds of resources from universities, museums, and other professional educational sources. The one that I found was through the University of South Florida College of Education. There are tons of videos and descriptions of technology infused lessons available for download and the best part... they are all free.
There are many universities with classes available through iTunesU; Texas A&M, MIT, Harvard, Yale, USF,UC Berkley, UofM, and Stanford to name a few. ALL of the information in iTunesU is free. Topics range from the very complex to the simple. If you don't already have iTunes get it here (BTW it's free too).
Showing posts with label 1:1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1:1. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
1:1 Update
Update on 1:1 work
Over spring break Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Large, Mrs. Huegerich, and Mr. Hehr all visited Westside High in Omaha Nebraska. Westside has been implementing a 1:1 for 5 years, this year moving into the 8th grade as well as 9-12. The school support 2500+ student laptops. This was a very enlightening experience and I was blown away by the great integration strategies I saw and the complete openess of student education. I only hope that a SHCSD laptop initiative would be as successful as the one that was visited. More visits and workshops are planned for other teachers to see how we need to teach in a 21st Century classoom.
A 1:1 laptop committee was started to help brainstorm and think about implementing a 1:1 at South Hamilton. Ten teachers and administrators were selected to be a part of this descision making group. They will tackle many differnet topics and questions that have yet to be solved. There are many questions yet to be answered; insurance? Professional Development? Legality? Internet in homes? I hope that as a committee these questions can be answered.
My hope is to present my final proposal to the School Board at the May meeting. There will be much more information to come out on this topic, please check back for more posts about the 1:1 here at SHCSD.
Over spring break Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Large, Mrs. Huegerich, and Mr. Hehr all visited Westside High in Omaha Nebraska. Westside has been implementing a 1:1 for 5 years, this year moving into the 8th grade as well as 9-12. The school support 2500+ student laptops. This was a very enlightening experience and I was blown away by the great integration strategies I saw and the complete openess of student education. I only hope that a SHCSD laptop initiative would be as successful as the one that was visited. More visits and workshops are planned for other teachers to see how we need to teach in a 21st Century classoom.
A 1:1 laptop committee was started to help brainstorm and think about implementing a 1:1 at South Hamilton. Ten teachers and administrators were selected to be a part of this descision making group. They will tackle many differnet topics and questions that have yet to be solved. There are many questions yet to be answered; insurance? Professional Development? Legality? Internet in homes? I hope that as a committee these questions can be answered.
My hope is to present my final proposal to the School Board at the May meeting. There will be much more information to come out on this topic, please check back for more posts about the 1:1 here at SHCSD.
Bloom's Taxonomy Redux
The Wonderment of the changing student mind
One of the many reasons that we are looking at giving every 7th-12th grader a laptop is because the minds of students are changing and how we educate them also needs to be changed. For years (since the 50's to be exact) understanding and learning has been placed on a continuum called Bloom's Taxonomy. Educators were asked where does the students' level of learning fall in Bloom's Taxonomy?
Bloom's Taxonomy circa 1956
Knowledge: Recall data or information.
Comprehension:Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.
Application: Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the work place.
Analysis:Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences.
Synthesis: Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.
Evaluation: Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.
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Bloom's Revised Taxonomy:
Remembering: Recalling information
Understanding: Explaining ideas or concepts
Applying: Using information in another familiar situation
Analyzing: Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships
Evaluating: Justifying a decision or course of action
Creating: Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things.
Allowing students to create and evaluate based on their levels of understanding gives educators a clear picture of weather the student is on the right track or re-teaching will be required. Below is a great little piece on Bloom's Taxonomy in a digital natives world of learning.
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A Take on Bloom's Digital Taxonomy:
Andrew Churches has taken Bloom’s taxonomy, which was written and developed in the 1950s and adapted it to modern day instructional technology. The end result is a 44-page document uploaded by Churches to Scribd and free to download and read at your leisure.
Blooms Digital Taxonomy v2.12
More links to further learn about Bloom's Taxonomy and other references used:
More on Bloom's Taxonomy
The Digital Native (wiki article)
Digital Natives
Scott Church
One of the many reasons that we are looking at giving every 7th-12th grader a laptop is because the minds of students are changing and how we educate them also needs to be changed. For years (since the 50's to be exact) understanding and learning has been placed on a continuum called Bloom's Taxonomy. Educators were asked where does the students' level of learning fall in Bloom's Taxonomy?
Bloom's Taxonomy circa 1956
Knowledge: Recall data or information.
Comprehension:Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.
Application: Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the work place.
Analysis:Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences.
Synthesis: Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.
Evaluation: Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.
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Bloom's Revised Taxonomy:
Remembering: Recalling information
Understanding: Explaining ideas or concepts
Applying: Using information in another familiar situation
Analyzing: Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships
Evaluating: Justifying a decision or course of action
Creating: Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things.
Allowing students to create and evaluate based on their levels of understanding gives educators a clear picture of weather the student is on the right track or re-teaching will be required. Below is a great little piece on Bloom's Taxonomy in a digital natives world of learning.
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A Take on Bloom's Digital Taxonomy:
Andrew Churches has taken Bloom’s taxonomy, which was written and developed in the 1950s and adapted it to modern day instructional technology. The end result is a 44-page document uploaded by Churches to Scribd and free to download and read at your leisure.
Blooms Digital Taxonomy v2.12
Publish at Scribd or explore others: Academic Work Internet & Technolog Education-Teaching Business-Annual-Repo
More links to further learn about Bloom's Taxonomy and other references used:
More on Bloom's Taxonomy
The Digital Native (wiki article)
Digital Natives
Scott Church
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
More on 1:1
The Wonderment of 1:1 (cont.)
Apple has always been a big proponent of computers in education and has been at the front with curriculum initiatives and PD to help best integrate technology in the classroom. There have been schools that have gone before us that have already paved the way for 1:1 computing and working with Apple to make them work well. Apple has created a few videos to focus on some goo implementations with insightful reflective pieces. I have will post the link below.
Apple Education Videos
Apple has always been a big proponent of computers in education and has been at the front with curriculum initiatives and PD to help best integrate technology in the classroom. There have been schools that have gone before us that have already paved the way for 1:1 computing and working with Apple to make them work well. Apple has created a few videos to focus on some goo implementations with insightful reflective pieces. I have will post the link below.
Apple Education Videos
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Wonderment of 1:1
At last nights school board meeting (2-9-09) a discussion was had about moving South Hamilton into a 1:1 Laptop program at the MS/HS building. A 1:1 Laptop program will mean that every student enrolled in grades 7-12 at South Hamilton will be giving a laptop computer to take between home and school for the duration of their years at South Hamilton.
I am including a few links for research on 1:1. Please take a few minutes to post a comment about your feelings on a 1:1 at South Hamilton.
Links:
Maine's State-Wide Laptop Initiative
Stillwater Public Schools
This would be a very large program and initiative to start so please if you have any comments post them so we can start a discussion.
I am helping add info to a State-Wide 1:1 wiki that will have more information too, feel free to check into it. It currently has only a little information.
1:1 Wiki
I am including a few links for research on 1:1. Please take a few minutes to post a comment about your feelings on a 1:1 at South Hamilton.
Links:
Maine's State-Wide Laptop Initiative
Stillwater Public Schools
This would be a very large program and initiative to start so please if you have any comments post them so we can start a discussion.
I am helping add info to a State-Wide 1:1 wiki that will have more information too, feel free to check into it. It currently has only a little information.
1:1 Wiki
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