These are Dr. Wesley Fryer's presentation slides on December 3, 2013, at the Interactive Learning Institute in Norman, Oklahoma. The presentation description was: Digital literacy today means much more than searching the Internet and using Microsoft Office. To be digitally literate, teachers as well as students need to be able to create and share online a variety of different multimedia products. These media products can be “mapped” to your curriculum, and if you’re in a Common Core state in the United States, to the Common Core State Standards. Interactive Writing, Narrated Art, 5 Photo Stories, Narrated Slideshows, Screencasts, Quick Edit Videos, and eBooks are a few of the media products learners should be able to create and safely share online. In this session, we’ll view different examples of student media products and learn about tools and strategies for helping teachers become digitally literate as “media mappers” specifically with iPads. We’ll also explore how librarians and instructional coaches can use the “Mapping Media to the Curriculum” website as a roadmap to help teachers and students create media products as assignments for class and as artifacts in digital portfolios.
14. “Australia’s Telstra and its mobile
network supplier Ericsson have
completed a live network trial of
a new LTE technology that
essentially splices two entirely
different parts of the
electromagnetic spectrum
together, creating a kind of superconnection to the mobile
network... To put it in perspective,
it’s about four times as fast as
anything we have today in the U.S.
and two or three times faster
than networks in Europe or
Canada. But North America and
the old world aren’t too far
behind... As for the technology’s
practical use, the obvious
advantage is speed, though at
certain point there’s not much
difference between a 15 Mbps
connection and a 50 Mbps
connection on a smartphone.
http://gigaom.com/2013/08/12/asias-turbo-charged-lte-networks-show-whats-in-store-for-the-u-s-europe/
15. <1> Challenge
your ideas about iPads & learning
<2> Inspire
you to CREATE with your students
<3> Persuade
you to RADICALLY share your work
16. 15 FREE copies of my latest!
eBook for today’s!
attendees
“Mapping Media to the!
Common Core”
$14.99!
(June 2013)
http://maps.playingwithmedia.com/ebook/
17. sadly many adults just see devices as“arcades”
www.flickr.com/photos/rogerimp/3902464739
25. I know from watching and listening all over the country in schools
and in workshops, however, that many educators have become less
creative, more timid and unimaginative, and have indeed lost pride in
their work in the face of how heavy-handed the states have been in
promulgating this retro and harmful “accountability”. Why is not the
state responsible for ensuring that the incentives are right and the
resources are available to do the work well? States should have to be
accountable for how local leaders interpre their mandates. But states
wash their hands of the problem of change; they merely issue
mandates. So, teachers become brow-beaten by scores, encouraged
to do test prep, and in general, down the authority line, to teach
worse rather than better – somehow in the name of “standards.”
http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/standards-yes-current-implementation-no-how-we-have-re-invented-soviet-era-wheat-quotas/
26. too many people today believe
in the power of
TECHNOLOGY & TESTING
rather than the power of
WORDS & PASSIONATE
PEOPLE
www.flickr.com/photos/jemimus/4824411391
27. “If you just
buy this...”
“your test!
scores will!
look like this:”
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f8pXcUqZgA8/TG7TCB1j4cI/AAAAAAAAAos/nIbsPJ_g2ys/s1600/iwanttobelieveel4.jpg
32. It starts in kindergarten:!
“With prompting and support, describe the relationship!
between illustrations and the text in which they appear!
(e.g., what person, place thing, or idea in the text an!
illustration depicts).”!
In 4th grade it becomes:!
“Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g.,
visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent
understanding of a topic or issue.”!
In 8th grade students must:!
“Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different
mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a
particular topic or idea”!
And in 12th grade students must:!
“Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in
different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in
words in order to address a question or a problem.”
Wood, Joe. “Digital Writing & Common Core.” JoeWoodOnline, November 15, 2011.
www.joewoodonline.com/digital-writing-common-core/.
33. Are you going to
let your students
CREATE stuff?
If not, why not?