Meeting the New Challenges for Education
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. The Summer Institute of Tech-Know-Madic (TKM) Learning will provide ways to face these challenges, and establish methods on how to stay ahead of the ever changing digital learning environments.
As educators 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 and learning. People today work with multiple devices from laptops, cell phones and tablets. It is not so much about downloading an app. It is about how students and the workforce are using multiple devices to research the riches of the world as they're stored on the web. To meet these challenges educators will need to understand how these newly formed digital worlds of consumable text are reforming the landscape of mobile learning environments. |
The TKM learning experience is designed to help educators formulate an understanding on how to create personal learning networks through the use of social networking tools. TKM learning is about the new workspaces that have created the possibility of sharing knowledge infinitely. This three day workshop is designed to explore the latest technology tools and solutions available to help schools build connected learning environments that motivate and engage today’s students.
Statewide Teacher In-service
The 2013 Summer Institute of Tech-Know-Madic (TKM) Learning is designed for those who are pursuing the most recent developments in 21st Century education. The three day institute, sponsored by Dodge City Community College (DC3) will provide participants with a guide for teaching digital literacy in a connected learning environment. The July 22 through 24 Summer Institute of TKM Learning will offer participants with ideas on how to construct student centered learning environments through the use of facilitated instruction. Participants will gain knowledge on methodologies on how to create, publish and push out digital content for project, and problem based units of learning. Participants will also be given an assortment of activity guides that correlate with the three domains of digital media literacy. These activity guides are designed to help teachers in their quest for integrating technology tools while blending the standards of required learning as applied to real world learning tasks. The summer institute will include the principles of facilitated learning as it applies to teachers as designers of learning as a digital compilation while defining best practices in learning analytics.
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Professional Development Benefits
Participant Pre-requisites
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21st Century Benefits:
In-service fees of $350 due upon acceptance of application. Notification of acceptance will be on or before June 30, 2013
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Application ProcessApplications for the Summer Institute of Technology will be awarded to 40 off campus and 10 on campus applicants. Application deadline will be June 30, and all off campus accepted participants inservice fee will be $350.00 paid to Dodge City Community College.
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DAY ONE: Monday JULY 22ND
Social Networks to Curate & Aggregate Digital Content
DESCRIPTION: Day 1 will offer participants background information and the essential tools on how to use Social Networking to set up a multi-platform, personal learning environment. Digital tools will include Facebook, TodaysMeet, Google Moderator, Twitter, Paper.li Scoopit and Google+. During each of the hour long 4 in-service sessions participants will learn how to maximize a personal learning network for Curating and Aggregating digital content within specific disciplines of learning interest. Demonstrations and activity guides will be provided as a resource for instructional use throughout this daylong event.
DAY TWO: Tuesday JULY 23rd
CONSTRUCTING REPOSITORIES OF LEARNING
DESCRIPTION: Day 2 will provide participants with resources and digital tools to create collaborative repositories of learning. These repositories of learning are useful for creating problem and project based units of study. Participants will learn how to set up and edit a wiki for collaborating and storing digital artifacts by using various plugins which includes html coding. Google Sites will be highlighted as a blogging source in an open and safe learning environment that is both static and collaborative. Key concepts in this session will also include how to set up an design a Weebly as an avenue for a flipped classroom.
DAY THREE: wednesday JULY 24TH
Creating, Publishing and Disseminating Digital Content
DESCRIPTION: Day 3 will encompass an array of resources to expand the personal learning environments that were created in Days 1 & 2. Participants will learn how to create information graphics or Infographics as a visual tool for representation of data. Learning how to use infographics in the classroom will help participants organize and gather information for a project to use comparative data for a presentation. Participants will learn how to organize data, select color schemes and design information into a one page visual representation on factual information. A second digital tool will be introduced to construct an interactive point of view by establishing a result for a thesis statement as an interactive project. Storing and Publishing Digital Content explores the resources available to publish, share, and access media without using valuable memory space. For the latest in collaborative productivity, Google Drive will provided ways to produce digital content in multiple formats. Additionally providing a means for accessing online materials at home without the Internet has become essential as more and more classroom resources go online. With free conversion tools to make any website an ebook, as well as converting documents to pdf files, students can now take home online content even if they don’t have access to the internet at home.
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Mike King PresenterMike King
Mike King has been a teacher and principal for thirty-three years, demonstrating his commitment to advancing learning with technology and his firm belief that digital tools can help students unleash their creativity and construct knowledge. This belief provides the foundation for creating the Classrooms without Walls program, in which students participate in a universal learning experience, utilizing mobile tools to continually access and create multidimensional patterns of explanations of the world around them. (See Digital Portfolio)
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Mike King on Digital Transitions Project 24 Alliance for Educational Excellence
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Mike is a National consultant for the Alliance for Education Excellence (Digital Learning Day) as a member of the Project 24 team. He has served as an adjunct professor at the graduate school of education at Oklahoma University and Northwestern Oklahoma State University. He is coauthor several published supplements for his works in “Developing School Programs and Policies.” His most recent publication, “Digital Storytelling,” appeared in the October 2012 issue of Principal Leadership magazine. Mike received the NASSP Digital Principal Award in 2012 and was named the 2010 KGCT (Kansas Gifted, Talented, and Creative) Administrator of the Year. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Kansas Association of Middle School Administrators, the Kansas Secondary School Principals Association, and the KGCT. In 2012, he was appointed to the Kansas State Department of Education Accreditation Advisory Board. Mr. King holds a graduate degree in public school administration from the University of Oklahoma.