Preparing Students for Their Future....Not Our Past

2. Engaging today’s students means tapping into what is important to them.

3. We have a responsibility to prepare them for their future, not our past.

7. How students live with technology Different kinds of experiences lead to different brain structures. Dr. Bruce D. Perry, Baylor College of Medicine

9. When I Become A Teacher

12. Applied skills refer to those skills that enable new entrants to use the basic knowledge acquired in school to perform in the workplace.

14. • Professionalism/Work Ethic , Teamwork/Collaboration and Oral Communications are rated as the three “most important” applied skills needed by entrants into today’s workforce. • Knowledge of Foreign Languages will “increase in importance” in the next five years, more than any other basic skill, according to over 60 percent (63.3 percent) of the employer respondents. • Making Appropriate Choices Concerning Health and Wellness is the No. 1 emerging content area for future graduates entering the U.S. workforce as reported by three-quarters of the employer respondents (76.1 percent). • Creativity/Innovation is projected to “increase in importance” for future workforce entrants, according to more than 70 percent (73.6 percent) of employer respondents. Currently, however, more than half of employer respondents (54.2 percent) report new workforce entrants with a high school diploma to be “deficient” in this skill set.

17. Welcome to Web 2.0

21. Impacting the Classroom With Web 2.0 Tools

23. Not this type of network

24. But a professional network of educators

25. Impacting the Classroom With Learning Management Systems

32. www.hotchalk.com

33. Impacting the Classroom With Wikis

37. Wikis http://whsbulldogs.wikispaces.com

38. http://mehs-slockuk.wikispaces.com/Friends

40. www.wikispaces.com Now we're taking the next step - we want to give away 100,000 free K-12 Plus wikis. That includes all the features and benefits that normally cost $50/year - for free. No fine print, no usage limits, no advertising, no catches.

41. Impacting the classroom With Blogs

43. http://www.classblogmeister.com/

44. http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=26813

45. Make your own blog! www.edublogs.org

46. http://hpenicholas.blogspot.com/

47. ePALS SchoolBlog

50. Google Blog Search

51. Impacting the Classroom With Digital Storytelling

53. Impacting the Classroom With Social Bookmarking

57. Impacting the Classroom With Slideshare

58. http://www.slideshare.net/lwright3768/web20-webinar

59. www.slideshare.net

60. www.slideshare.net

62. Don’t prepare us for your world, prepare us for our world.

63. Questions