ISTE+2010

Cool at ISTE Arc software Understanding digital generation - book Jules website - committedsardine.com Infosavvygroup.com The digital diet book by jukes

win 7 speakwisdom.com

Project ideas - wiki.thethinkingstick.com 23 things - maybe do a weekly quick tutorial to help with professional development stager.org/iste mid 1990s laptop program in melborne australia (methodist lady school?)

20 lessons 1. determine who as agency? computers for the learner, comptuers for the system, computers for the teacher. LEARNER 2. what sore of laptop school are you? pioneer, marketeers, neighbors(got one because school next door got one) not a pilot, experiment, etc. its a choice 3. set high expectations 4. the laptop goes home 5. behave as if the laptops are PERSONAL computers. let them put stickers, etc. on them. don't restrict software... 6. children need real multimedia portable computers. needs something they can do anything they can imagine save your money and choose right computer 7. laptops make good teachers better. it amplifies abilities in all directions. great teacher even great and bad teacher even worse 8. the network is NOT the computer. make sure your school has internet and network resources 9. every childs laptop is a studio, laboratory, publishing house... 10. 1:1 is cost-effective - nobody washes a rental car. laptop carts are the same. if its yours, you'll take care of it better. don't govern what they can do on the laptop. 11. every laptop needs open-ended creativity software, but less is more if fluency is the goal. 1:1 computing is not about hardware, its about software 12. seize the impossible. the magic of computing by daniel hillis "The pattern on the stone: the simple ideas that make computers work 13. that's what it looks like if students have time. let them spend their time on the computer doing something they are interested in. its their time, not minegive them time and teach them how to program. teach them how to have command over their laptop.allows more kids to be engaged in createive process - missyhiggins.com 14.Entire cohorts of students need to get laptops at once. prevents inequities. 15. there is zero benefits in giving laptops to teachers first. NEED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 16. Professional development must be focused on benefiting learners 17. work with the living and do no harm. find the teachers who will succeed and focus on them. highlight them. praise them...young teachers are not always the best 18. you need sustainable leadership and vision. have set scheduled meetings where teachers bring in examples and best practices and cool examples of what their kids did.book - never mind the laptops 19. expect everything to change. laptops are a window onto the future and magnifying glass on current practice. should embrace change and recognize that we don't know where it will take uslearning is growth and change 20. we are done arguing There are millions of schools that have one to one Less us and more them. Give students computers not teachers The already have laptops 10 things to do with a computer

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book - Never Mind the Laptops: Kids, Computers, and the Transformation of Learning - Bob Johnstone (Author)

computational thinking - thinking about solving problems that have analogies in computing and (probably) could be done by a computer (better?) CT - precursor skills for computer science, 77% of future jobs require these skills

iste & CSTA NSF Grant - finding agreed definition and classroom use of computational thinking. their definition - to build consensus for descriptive language that can be understood, valuded and implemented by K12 practitioners. A description/framework that i clearly connected to the componennts of the k12 environment that are key to implementation

computational thinking framework components 1. concepts, capabilities, etc

music integration smart music - software music ace - software technological pedagogical content knowledge ( TPACK ) mixcraft - software myna aviary - online software jam2jam sfskids.org musescore - free noteflight - free online metronome and tuners michael hopkins string pedagogy notebook

global projects brendasherry.com iearn.org teachersconnecting.com ncs-tech.org osapac.org peterskillen.org youthvoices.adobe.com http://futurelab.org.uk/ danish assessment - access the internet during exams - undervisnings ministeriet book - the boy who harnessed the wind

Web literacy for the digital generation http://getpivot.com/h3 microsoft class search project - searced@microsoft.com - email them to test slideshare.net/teachtec video - crap detection 101 microsoft.com/education/criticalthinking/

cloud computing http://www.skoodat.com

open source http://www.k12opensource.com/ http://www.pencil-animation.org/