Weekly Tech Tip - "Teaching Digital History: Enhancing Active Learning With Technology"

This past Monday I had the pleasure of presenting with Vivian Johnson, Cara Hagen, and Scott Schwister at the Northern Lights Teacher Academy held at the Minnesota History Center Museum. Our session was called Teaching Digital History: Enhancing Active Learning With Technology. This week's tech tip is a recording of our presentation (except for Cara's portion which because of contract conflicts I have substituted a video of Bernie Dodge talking about WebQuests). We created a wiki which we used for our presentation and as a resource for teachers. Our talk was focused for an audience of Minnesota middle school history teachers but the strategies and resources shared have broad applications across all disciplines and many age levels.

Weekly Tech Tip:

• Introductions

• How people learn

• Historians Use Primary Resources & Collaborate
  

• Historians Publish (Voice Thread) & Collaborate

• Historians Inquire (WebQuests) & Collaborate

• Historians Debate (Wikis) & Publish
  

• Resources

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Link Stew:

• Globe Genie - "Teleport yourself anywhere in the world" - Fantastic Google Streetview Application
• Video Galleries on Education - Interviews and video stories on education news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade. (From Education Week)
• Zendit - Possible replacement for Drop.io (Drop.io was acquired by Facebook and will be shut down)
• GOP victories could affect education funding, ed tech (eSchoolNews)
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Blog Carnival:

• Poor Pedagogy + Technology = Accelerated Malpractice by Joe Bower on For the Love of Learning
• Why Should she Work for you? by Gary Stager on the Huffington Post
• A Different Angle for Technology Integration By Neil Stephenson on Thinking in Mind
• Teaching Kids To Think Using Scratch by Chris Betcher on Betchablog
• Questions I’m no Longer Asking by George Seimens on elearnspace
• strength is its own kind of power by Scott Schwister on Higher Edison
• The Gardener or the Greenskeeper by Ben Grey on The Edge of Tomorrow
• K-12 Spending in Minnesota Again Below the U.S. Average By Jeff Van Wychen on Minnesota 2020

Retweetable Tweets:

• Need pedagogy? We need refresher course in Dewey, Bruner, Gardner & # of other thinkers who understand what learning is and can be #abedless than a minute ago via Twitter for iPadJoe Bower
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Weekly Tech Tip: Technology-Enhanced Active Learning Strategy - Backchanneling

This will be my final Weekly Tech Tip from Goodhue Public Schools. I start a new job on Monday as technology integration specialist for the East Metro Integration School District (EMID). For readers of my blog, I will still be doing weekly tech tips but they will be done from a different location and will likely address a slightly different set of needs. For Goodhue Staff getting this tech tip in an email, it has been a rewarding three years and I will continue to forward my Weekly Tech Tips to you as I embark on this new adventure.

This week's tech tip is my second installment of Technology-Enhanced Active Learning Strategies. Enjoy!

Weekly Tech Tip:



Twitter in the classroom?
The Twitter Experiment - UT Dallas

Related Post: Weekly Tech Tip - Technology Enhanced Active Learning Strategy - KWL

Link Stew:

• Yapper - Make your own iPhone or iPod Touch app.
• Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds on TED
• Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation
• 10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports
• Think Piece: Changing Thinking about Learning for a Changing World
• Journal of Educational Technology & Society
  
• The Online Learning Imperative: A Solution to Three Looming Crises in Education
• A New Foundation for 21st Century Learning: Education Technology Investments in the 2011 Budget - From the US Dept. of Education
• New Metaphors of Learning: Going Beyond "Constructivism "
• The gigantic horrible lie about education
• Storyjumper - tool you can use with kids to create their own books online
• The Digital Dictatorship on the Wall Street Journal
• Typography by Ronnie Bruce
• What the Internet knows about You
• The Virtual Revolution: How 20 years of the web has reshaped our lives from the BBC
• Leonardo Da Vinci's Resume
• JimGroom - Part01 The introduction and first few minutes of Jim Groom's keynote at #ITC10
• Northern Exposure: The Great Mushroom (scene) Ed talks about the computer.
• Kevin Kelly tells technology's epic story on TED
  

Blog Carnival:

• The Three Important Lessons Banning Cell Phones Teaches Kids by Lisa Neilson on The Innovative Educator
• Why Teachers Should 'Friend' Students Online by Ric Murry on Murry’s World
• Teachers as Master Learners by Will Richardson on Weblogg-Ed
• Words Matter | Worksheet By David Jakes on The Strength of Weak Ties
• NY teacher making over $100K, hasn't taught since 2001 on Detention Slip
• RI Superintendendent fires entire staff at high school on Detention Slip
• Is Tenure a “Toxic” Influence? By Sara Bernard on Change.org
• School Uses Laptops to Peer into Students' Bedrooms By Alex DiBrancoon Change.org

Weekly Tech Tip - Technology Enhanced Active Learning Strategy - KWL

Weekly Tech Tip:

Online interactive whiteboards are online tools that let multiple people collaborate in real time on the same blank page. These tools can be useful for facilitating different collaborative learning activities. In this video I demonstrate how they can be used to facilitate an active learning strategy known as KWL. These whiteboards can be found in the Digital Backpack under "Diagrams/Concept Mapping."




Link Stew:

• Illuminations - Illuminations is a fantastic math curriculum site.
• Open Thinking Wiki - Digital Storytelling resources by Dr. Alec Couros
• Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay - BBC
• English Companion - online community of English teachers.
• Tony Vincent's learninginhand.com - great resource for information about mobile learning
• Umapper - tool that lets you turn any photo into an interactive map
• Building Maker - Create 3D buildings online
• Recording of a session on video games in education
• Best Online Collaboration Tools 2009 - Robin Good's Collaborative Map - MindMeister Mind Map

Blog Carnival:

• Why backward social-network-banning education authorities are wrong - by Ewan McIntosh

• 16 Top Augmented Reality Business Models | PERSONALIZE MEDIA

• Acceptable Use Policy for teaching with laptops - Learning in Maine

• Teacher layoffs: Should seniority rule? -Dangerously Irrelevant

• SpaceFish and the Primary Crowdsource- Ira Socol