Scott McLeod (@mcleod)

This page contains resources from my work with the Albert Lea (MN) Schools. These materials are made available under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution-share alike license, which means that you are both allowed and encouraged to use them! Please contact me if you have any other questions about these resources.

August 26, 2010

• Group Notes 1 (Groups 1–7)
• Group Notes 2 (Groups 8–14)
• Group Notes 3 (Groups 15–21)
• Group Notes 4 (Groups 22–28)

Two big shifts (and one big problem) 

• Scott’s slides (pptx ppt)
• The status quo no longer suffices: An open letter to the Ames (IA) School Board
• Creating the new paradigm: Educational technology policy priorities
• The Iowa series — Wrap-up
• Notes from India — My TEDx talk
• Many service jobs will become globalized piece work
• Does your school organization reflect our new digital information landscape?
• Don’t teach your kids this stuff, please? 

NCTE literacies

• Take the survey
• See the results

Shock and awe

• Signs for end of continuum
• List of technologies (pdf docx)
• Facilitator questions 

The future of technology-mediated learning

1. Learning climate assessment
2. Video — James Gee on games and learning
3. Play this serious game
   1. 3rd World Farmer (Read about the game)
4. More serious games
   1. Ayiti
   2. Oiligarchy
   3. Royal Society of Chemistry Games (particularly Masterminding Molecules)
   4. Map countries and cities (then read about research)
   5. Against All Odds
5. Serious games resources
   1. Games for Change
   2. Serious Games Initiative
   3. Social Impact Games
   4. Super Smart Games
   5. Serious Games Source
6. Learning climate assessment (gaming) survey results
7. Preschool Teachers Can Use a Media-Rich Curriculum to Prepare Low-Income Children for School Success: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
8. Doug Gentile’s research on gaming
9. Check out the Quest to Learn School
   1. A school built around video games
   2. Video overview
   3. Text overview
   4. See curriculum samples (Spartan Spy, Invisible Pathways, Writers of the Digital Roundtable (start at p. 11), etc.)
10. Check out Conspiracy Code
    1. Read the overview
    2. See the syllabus
    3. Video overview
    4. Learn more (particularly the product overview)
11. Students can make their own games / challenges
    1. Sploder Game Creator
    2. Scratch
       1. Getting Started Guide
       2. Scratch for Educators
       3. Download Scratch
    3. Microsoft Kodu (see also video overview)
    4. Alice
    5. StarLogo TNG
    6. XNA Creators Club
    7. Lego MindStorms
       1. Components
       2. NXTLog
    8. 2DIY (see also this script archive)
    9. Wikipedia — Video game level design
    10. YouTube — Make own levels
    11. Getting started with videogame development
12. Books on gaming and simulation
13. Other resources
    1. Learn math or die trying
    2. Moving Learning Games Forward
    3. DeVry University — Game and Simulation Programming

The future of technology-mediated assessment

1. Rhode Island Diploma System
   1. Overview
   2. Portfolio toolkit
   3. Exhibition toolkit
   4. A field trip for state policy leaders
2. College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA)
   1. Overview
   2. Sample report
   3. Teaching to a test worth teaching to in college and high school
   4. Assessing critical thinking, analytical reasoning, problem-solving, and writing in high school
3. ETS Criterion essay grading software
4. ETS iCritical Thinking certification (also see video overview)
5. The School of One
6. Ed Sector — Beyond the Bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
7. The Kappan — Assessment around the world
8. Book — The Flat World and Education 

Every educator should have a listening station

• Caitlin (at the Extreme Biology blog)
• Kathy Cassidy’s classroom blog (see also Dalton)
• VoiceThread: Who was Helen Keller?, Chemistry Experiment
• Wikis: Primary Math, Science Alive, Flat Classroom Project
• Podcasting: Portable Radio, Jamestown
• Skype: Inclusion, Brian Crosby
• Online video: Mabry Middle School Film Festival, SFETT, Meet Roger Wilcox, YouTube QuickCapture
• Cell phones in learning
• Google Maps: street view, add own data, add own photos
• SlideShare
• WallWisher
• Mind42
• Flickr
• The Number Warrior
• Teaching The Civil War With Technology
• RSS in Plain English
• Google Reader
• Blogs
• Subject-specific blogs
• Great blogs for busy administrators

July 27, 2010

• Learning climate assessment
• GROUP NOTES A

 NCTE 21st century literacies

• Survey (see results)
• Overview
• Framework

The future of technology-mediated learning

1. Video — James Gee on games and learning
2. Play this serious game
   1. 3rd World Farmer (Read about the game)
3. More serious games
   1. Ayiti
   2. Oiligarchy
   3. Royal Society of Chemistry Games (particularly Masterminding Molecules)
   4. Map countries and cities (then read about research)
   5. Against All Odds
4. Serious games resources
   1. Games for Change
   2. Serious Games Initiative
   3. Social Impact Games
   4. Super Smart Games
   5. Serious Games Source
5. Learning climate assessment (gaming) survey results
6. Preschool Teachers Can Use a Media-Rich Curriculum to Prepare Low-Income Children for School Success: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
7. Doug Gentile’s research on gaming
8. Check out the Quest to Learn School
   1. A school built around video games
   2. Video overview
   3. Text overview
   4. See curriculum samples (Spartan Spy, Invisible Pathways, Writers of the Digital Roundtable (start at p. 11), etc.)
9. Check out Conspiracy Code
   1. Read the overview
   2. See the syllabus
   3. Video overview
   4. Learn more (particularly the product overview)
10. Students can make their own games / challenges
    1. Sploder Game Creator
    2. Scratch
       1. Getting Started Guide
       2. Scratch for Educators
       3. Download Scratch
    3. Microsoft Kodu (see also video overview)
    4. Alice
    5. StarLogo TNG
    6. XNA Creators Club
    7. Lego MindStorms
       1. Components
       2. NXTLog
    8. 2DIY (see also this script archive)
    9. Wikipedia — Video game level design
    10. YouTube — Make own levels
    11. Getting started with videogame development
11. Books on gaming and simulation
12. Other resources
    1. Learn math or die trying
    2. Moving Learning Games Forward
    3. DeVry University — Game and Simulation Programming

The future of technology-mediated assessment

1. Rhode Island Diploma System
   1. Overview
   2. Portfolio toolkit
   3. Exhibition toolkit
   4. A field trip for state policy leaders
2. College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA)
   1. Overview
   2. Sample report
   3. Teaching to a test worth teaching to in college and high school
   4. Assessing critical thinking, analytical reasoning, problem-solving, and writing in high school
3. ETS Criterion essay grading software
4. ETS iCritical Thinking certification (also see video overview)
5. The School of One
6. Ed Sector — Beyond the Bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
7. The Kappan — Assessment around the world
8. Book — The Flat World and Education

Every educator should have a listening station

• Caitlin (at the Extreme Biology blog)
• Kathy Cassidy
• The Number Warrior
• Teaching The Civil War With Technology
• RSS in Plain English
• Google Reader
• Blogs
• Subject-specific blogs
• Great blogs for busy administrators

Designing for our new learning environment

• Comprehensive, anytime/anywhere access to information (open / free / multimodal)
• Comprehensive, anytime/anywhere access to other people
• Technology-mediated teaching, learning, and assessment
• The Internet of things
• Designing for our new affordances (pptx ppt)
• GROUP NOTES B

Wrap-up

• Group Notes
• Wrap-Up Survey (see results)
• Stay in touch and contact me if you’re interested in CASTLE’s surveys for students, parents, teachers, and administrators [NOT for public dissemination, please]

Resources

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• CASTLE
• Dangerously Irrelevant

Recommended reading

• The Global Achievement Gap
• Curriculum 21
• Disrupting Class
• Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
• 21st Century Skills (Bellanca & Brandt)
• Here Comes Everybody
• Everything is Miscellaneous
• What Would Google Do? 
• Caught in the Middle [if rural]
• Hollowing Out the Middle [if rural]
• Cognitive Surplus
• 21st Century Skills (Trilling & Fadel)
• Tough Choices or Tough Times
• Blown to Bits 
• Everyware 
• Wikinomics 
• A Whole New Mind 
• Born Digital 
• Grown Up Digital  
• Growing Up Digital  
• and more…

Recommended viewing

• 21st century pedagogy
• Learning to change
• Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations
• Information Revolution
• Generation We
• Digital Kids @ Analog Schools
• Welcome to Your World
• We Think
• A Brave New World-Wide Web
• Networked Student
• A View of 21st Century Learners
• Kevin Kelly at TED
• Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF
• Sir Ken Robinson at TED
• Brewster Kahle at TED
• Free Range Learning
• The Human Network
• The Fourth Screen
• The Essay

http://elps.qualtrics.com/CP/Report.php?RP=RP_eghzxkp8R1lHqWU

Designing for our new affordances

• Scott’s slides (pptx ppt) – download to access Web links inside!

Classroom technology integration: How do we know if it’s good or not?

• Technology and learning spectrum (from Bernajean Porter)
• Option 1: Some key questions from CASTLE and Tech&Learning magazine
• Option 2: Powerful Ingredients administrative walkthrough rubric
• Option 3: ISTE Classroom Observation Tool (ICOT) [have to register at ISTE; see blank form]
• Observation 1: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (from Promethean Planet)
• Observation 2: Teaching Motion with Probeware (from the Apple Learning Interchange)

Wrap-up

• Scott’s slides (pptx ppt)
• Findability slides (pptx ppt)