Welcome to iPad College
Opening Session & Resources
The new challenge for education is in information consumption as literacy is redefined through connected learning experiences and in ways that students access the vast warehouses of digital content. To face these challenges, education must come to grips with how our learning culture is changing. It is believed we're living at the instant of the greatest change in human communication history. We now have the capability of communicating instantly globally. These incremental changes aren’t about how students learn, or about the pencils, papers, and textbooks. It is about how people are working. People today work with laptops and word processing tools. It is not so much about going to the library or reading a textbook. It is how students can research the riches of the world as they're stored on the web. This is about the new libraries of consumable text. It is about the new workspaces that have created the possibility of sharing knowledge infinitely.
Mark Twain’s statement of “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way, “is indicative of someone who looks at change in a haphazard way. A typical response from the majority when asked why they must make changes is, just to simply ignore it. We typically ignore what we do not understand. This means that knowing change will confront us with certain tendencies to focus on other issues; the ones we do understand. These tendencies for education are providing a foreground for what we do understand about traditional instruction and a background for what we do not understand about applying digital literacy skills to instruction. The reason this occurs is that we cannot find practical ways to deal with what we do not understand about the importance of digital literacy. In each case, confronting change may be carring a cat by their tail. Change is a process. Change has roadblocks and each of these two factors will be a part of today’s session. How do you avoid carrying a cat by its tail when initiating change?
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The Essential QuestionThis leads us to the essential question, "How well do you have to understand the technology to use it in your classroom?" To answer the question, it is not about understanding how to use a computer, it is about understanding how to access information, and use digital tools to create
new forms of connected learning. In our opening session we will take a two minute glace of how technology has influenced our lives both from an educational prospective. Secondly we will look at the counterbalance of what really happened to education while growing professionally on the edge of the technology evolution. The Evolution of Classroom Technology provides a brief look at how technology has influenced the classroom learning environment. The presentation is complete with video links, hyperlinks to live polls and a look at educational technology in the year 2040. View on your iPad
Activity: Create a Infographic showing the progression of the Evolution of Classroom Technology.
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Link to Breakout Session One: Dropbox for iPad
Link to Breakout Session Two: Symbaloo for iPad
Link to Breakout Session Three: Google Forms for iPad
Closing Session
iPad Lesson SimulationThe closing session will provide participant with a demonstration on how to Pack Your iPad for Class by Creating an App Folder on iPad. During the demonstration presenter Mike King will demonstrate how to download the in-service agenda by a method known as Posting Interactive Content to iBooks and how to use Dropbox to Access Presentation Files. Participants will also be introduced to the idea of Creating Lessons in iTunes U and Symbaloo. The second portion of the closing session will include a simulated lesson using the iPad. The lesson will include Student Classroom Orientation and iPad Expectations and Understanding Digital Citizenship and Plagiarism.
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Lesson Objectives Include
Simulated Lesson "Affinity Spaces" Download eBook"
Artifact Posting (Podcast) & Use of eBooks
Simulated Activity "Facilitation of Learning Spaces" & Virtual Jigsaw
Guided Assessment on Google Forms
Ticket Out the Door (Bridging Learning through Formative Realtime Assessment)
Use of Class Registration Form for accessing student contact information for the purpose of aggregating content
Simulated Lesson "Affinity Spaces" Download eBook"
Artifact Posting (Podcast) & Use of eBooks
Simulated Activity "Facilitation of Learning Spaces" & Virtual Jigsaw
Guided Assessment on Google Forms
Ticket Out the Door (Bridging Learning through Formative Realtime Assessment)
Use of Class Registration Form for accessing student contact information for the purpose of aggregating content
Campfires in Cyberspace iBook Mini Lecture
The mini lecture will explore the idea of participatory cultures and how these cultures provide for ideal learning environments. These participatory cultures are relatively known as Affinity spaces. Throughout this mini lecture I will provide you with some key points on future learning environments. These are the learning environments where informal mentorships are created. To actively participate in this session I would like for you to highlight and take notes on your iPad. Please only hightlight the key points of Affinity Spaces as they relate to learning. To do this you will need to open the article entitled Affinity Spaces that has been loaded into your iBooks. Your second option would be to download the article by selecting the following link.
David Thornburg introduces us to another type of space, one in which storytelling becomes the instructional medium, of redesigning spaces to match student learning needs. The article titled "Campfires in Cyberspace" Thornburg describes three diverse learning spaces that are reflected upon in ancient societies. These learning spaces are in metaphorical terms the campfires, watering holes, and caves, which are the most relevant and appropriate places to share information, conversation, concept, and context. Thornburg's representative concepts on primordial spaces are parallel to the same spaces that are needed in today's schools. These are the spaces we do not currently provide for our students, places where studentscan collaborate, share ideas, reflect and create.
David Thornburg introduces us to another type of space, one in which storytelling becomes the instructional medium, of redesigning spaces to match student learning needs. The article titled "Campfires in Cyberspace" Thornburg describes three diverse learning spaces that are reflected upon in ancient societies. These learning spaces are in metaphorical terms the campfires, watering holes, and caves, which are the most relevant and appropriate places to share information, conversation, concept, and context. Thornburg's representative concepts on primordial spaces are parallel to the same spaces that are needed in today's schools. These are the spaces we do not currently provide for our students, places where studentscan collaborate, share ideas, reflect and create.
Facilitation of Learning Spaces
Directions: In this activity participants will be provided a TodaysMeet backchannel to read and share ideas on ways to develop classroom spaces in a connected learning environment. Participants will be asked to share their assigned metaphor from Thornburg's' "Campfires in Cyberspace" as it relates learning spaces that are linked to the process of engaged activities as students are asked to perform authentic task.
Virtual Jigsaw Activity (Read the topic that is assigned and submit your answer on todays meet)
Read Topic One: "The Campfire"
Answer Question One: In a facilitated classroom the campfire can be compared to learning in what ways? Begin you statement with, A campfire is like (Submit Answer Here)
Answer Question One: In a facilitated classroom the campfire can be compared to learning in what ways? Begin you statement with, A campfire is like (Submit Answer Here)
Read Topic Two:"The Watering Hole "
Answer Question Two:In a facilitated classroom how is the watering hole being compared to a part of a lesson? Begin your statement with "A watering hole is like" (Submit Answer Here)
Answer Question Two:In a facilitated classroom how is the watering hole being compared to a part of a lesson? Begin your statement with "A watering hole is like" (Submit Answer Here)
Read Topic Three:"The Cave"
Answer Question Three: In a facilitated classroom what part of a students learning is compared to a cave? Begin your statement with "A cave is like" (Submit Answer Here)
Answer Question Three: In a facilitated classroom what part of a students learning is compared to a cave? Begin your statement with "A cave is like" (Submit Answer Here)
Read Topic Four:"Life and Application"
Answer Question Four: What role is directly associated with Life as it is applied to classroom learning? Begin your statement with "Life is like" (Submit Answer Here)
Answer Question Four: What role is directly associated with Life as it is applied to classroom learning? Begin your statement with "Life is like" (Submit Answer Here)
Follow up Activity: In the follow-up activity of "The Facilitation of Learning Spaces" you will need to write a one paragraph review summary based on the responses provided on the backchannel and your readings. In your review summary provide metaphorical reasoning behind Thornburg's position on classroom spaces. (Review Other Class Responses) Select Link to Open Question Box and Submit Answer Here .