Conference Sessions
Here are some brief summaries of some of the more meaningful conferences we saw with any idea spinoffs. Comment away!
posted by G. Marshall @ 8:09 AM
This blog will chronicle a journey of four trainers from Henrico County, VA, as they travel through time to explore new technologies and investigate new ways to reach our millenials at NECC 2006 in San Diego, CA.
Here are some brief summaries of some of the more meaningful conferences we saw with any idea spinoffs. Comment away!
posted by G. Marshall @ 8:09 AM
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Session on Engaging Online Learning Communities:
Johns Hopkins University CTE
Boomerangs: Elements of OLCs that bring us back.
Examples: Access to experts that you don't have normally. Discussion board. Relevancy. Engaging Multimedia. Folder or Dropbox. Good Organization and Rules for Discussion. Moderation?
BOOMERANGS Acrostic...
Being clear about the community purpose and expectations.
Offering valuable, fresh resources consistently. Organizing and promoting a range of engaging community events.
Modeling a positive tone to shape community communication.
Establishing and enforcing Community Protocols. Recognizing that there will ben natural moments of community "rest".
Addressing and solving conflict quickly.
Nurturing collaboration among work groups and/or teams.
Gathering usage statistics and using them!
Soliciting member feedback and striving for continuous improvement.
Is there an expectation that teachers will log in a certain number of times a semester? What are expectations for communication (e.g. I will respond to this post within 48 hours). How do you go about blending facilitated and group community work?
Success factor: Is it participant driven?
Communities of Practice Potholes:
Not having identified of prepared leaders to lead the OLC.
Training the content people to use the TECHNOLOGY associated with a OLC.
Perceiving your OLC as an ADD-on to your initiative.
Overestimating your ability to go the leadership role alone.
Throwing open the doors to a new community to all users before it's ready.
Hosting heavy hitters too quickly.
Omitting external communication.
Letting the community "run itself" after a while.
Expecting a community to grow quickly.
Stifling Member Feedback.
Providing the administrative support necessary and funding it.
Navigating around CoP potholes:
The ENHANCE cycle.
ENGAGE Strategies.
This presenter deals quite a lot with how to deal with online discussions.
How do you prepare your participants for (and hold your participants accountable for preparing for) an online discussion?
How do you FACILITATE?
Individuals, Small Groups, and Whole Community.
Make sure that the file system is INTUITIVE.
Archive and organize resources meticulously.
Part of the problem with our online learning is that the resources are left up with no maintenance over time.
http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2006/program/search_results_details.php?sessionid=13706956
From Gutenberg to Gates to Google and Beyond
Disintermediation - The middle man is cut out. Think of On-line Universities vs. brick-and-mortar universities.
Duh.. technologies are changing rapidly.
Computational power doubles by a factor of four every 12 months.
Internet content triples exponentially every year (estimates).
Information overload. (exoinformation)
ePaper is coming around to be cheaper than regular than paper made from trees.
By funneling only applicable information to people, exposure to information declines. What are the implications for this? Lack of opinions. Further ignorance. See no evil, hear no evil, KNOW no evil.
GoogZilla?
Ray Kurzwell - Full immersion virtual reality is on the way. Digital Natives (Prensky) will choose to spend much of their time in virtual reality.
"Those who live by the crystal ball shall eat glass."
Teachers replaced by a virtual world? If we are not proactive in dealing with new technologies, then we relent to replacement.
Think of our resistant teachers as a rubber band. We can stretch it all we want, but when we let go, it goes back to its same shape. Tying it together - staff development without follow up is malpractice.
Be sure to access the websites! Great information!
http://www.thecommittedsardine.net/infosavvy/education/handouts/handouts.asp?mid=1
http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2006/program/search_results_details.php?sessionid=13835260
So I walked into a session on NCLB reform to include technology as a vehicle for school reform with no mention of LoTi and I'm handed a packed as I walk in outlining LoTi? Confused?
Anyways, I had no idea that LoTi is a business(Learning Quest, Inc).
So, national LoTi levels have remained at 2 on average nationallly for the last four years!
Technology is still just seen as a supplement!
The real digital divide is still here, but it really lies between LoTi levels 2 and 3!
21st Century Learners
Digital natives
Global Thinkers
Risk-Takers
Multi-Taskers
Boomerangers
More heterogenous
NCLB
Non-traditional assessment strategies.
Challenging learning opportunities.
Leaner-based curriculum models.
Bloom's taxonomy in action.
Experiential Based Action Model
The Principal is the primary factor on school LoTi levels. Department chairs are a close second. Accountability must be maintained from administration in a school.
Sustain - Create an expectation for LoTi 3 and above campus-wide.
The LoTi project aligns multiple goals of school improvement.
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