This document discusses how Fred Haas, an English instructor, has adapted his teaching for the digital age. It outlines his personal journey developing a digital footprint and learning ecology using various online tools like blogs, podcasts, social networks and YouTube. The document emphasizes that teaching in the 21st century requires new skills like managing information overload, collaborating in online communities, and developing an "operating system for the mind" to navigate constant change. Students must learn participation, curation and cooperation to thrive in this environment.

1. Digital Footprints
Becoming a 21st Century Teacher

2. Fred Haas
Hopkinton High School
English Instructor
fhaas@hopkinton.k12.ma.us
haaslearning.wordpress.com
akh003 @ Twitter

3. Story
Back

4. Personal
Experience
Process/ Reflection/
Methodology Conclusions
Conclusions/
Results

5. Century
21 st
Skills?

6. Default Habits &
Behaviors for
Ever-changing
World

7. Complex
≠
Complicated

8. “text”

9. Media Evolution

10. Media Evolution
Live

11. Media Evolution
Print
Live

12. Media Evolution
Analog
Print
Live

13. Media Evolution
Digital
Analog
Print
Live

14. Core Literacy
Expanded Literacy

15. We are all Harolds
reading and writing
our world into existence

16. Takeaways
• Henry Jenkins - Confronting the Challenges of
Participatory Culture
• College Board AP Central - English &
History
• Wesley Fryar - Moving at the Speed of
Creativity
• Marco Torres

17. It’s not about the
technology
as much as it is about how
technology
impacts the way we think

18. It all starts with
you

19. Personal
Learning
Environment

20. Play
Purpose
Speed

21. Tools

22. Tools: RSS
• Google Reader
• Pageflakes
• NewsGator
• Bloglines

23. Tools: Podcasts
• iTunes
• Odeo
• Podomatic
• Podcast Alley
• Direct Sources

24. Tools: Ning
• Steve Hargadon - Classroom 2.0, Future of
Education, and LearnCentral
• James Burke - English Companion
• MIT - Project New Media Literacies
• Connie Weber - Fireside Learning

25. Tools: YouTube
• Channels
• Michael Wesch
• Stephen Heppell
• Google Talks
• Universities

26. Tools: Twitter
• Real-time Short Messaging
• Following
• Being Followed
• 3rd Party Extensions

27. Tools

28. Tools
1999

29. Tools
1999 2000

30. Tools
1999 2000 2004

31. Tools
1999 2000 2004
2005

32. Tools
1999 2000 2004
2005 2006

33. Everything is
changing so fast.
It’s all new.
We are all novices.

34. Meta
Data
Age

35. Learning Ecology
networks
data tools
people knowledge media
experience information
skills

36. How do you
drink from a
fire-hose?

37. Everything
is
Miscellaneous

38. Filtering Mechanisms
•Personal Inquiry
•Managing Stop Points
• Social Networks
• Reflection

39. We are all
creators,
editors,
reviewers
perforce

40. Takeaways
• David Weinberg - Everything is Miscellaneous
• Michael Wesch - The Machine is Us/ing Us
• Alan November - November Learning >
Resources

41. Participate
Beyond
Boundaries

42. Closing
the

43. Closing
the
Participatory
Gap

44. Collection - Collaboration - Cooperation
Community
Participatory Communities
Mentorship Policing

45. Anyone
Anytime
Anywhere

46. You do not
have to
reinvent the
wheel

47. Takeaways
• Youth Voices
• Flat Classroom Project
• Global Education Collaborative
• Network of Professional Communities

48. 21 Century
st
Skills
Operating System
for
the Mind

49. OS for the Mind
• Managing data and information
• Tracking the change
• Select, collect, and prioritize
• More types of reasoning used
• New skills
• Demands are greater

50. Thank You
Fred Haas
Hopkinton High School
English Instructor
fhaas@hopkinton.k12.ma.us
haaslearning.wordpress.com
akh003 @ Twitter