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November 11, 2010

The future of technology-mediated learning

• Scott’s slides (pptx ppt)
• Video: Bart Gets a Z (Part 1, Part 2)
• The rest of the videos I showed will be added tonight!
• Video: BBC – Adventure
• 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? 

Every educator should have a listening station

• Caitlin (at the Extreme Biology blog)
• Kathy Cassidy’s classroom blog (see also Dalton)
• Chorlton Park Year 2
• Mighty Writers
• VoiceThread: Who was Helen Keller?, Chemistry Experiment
• Wikis: Primary Math, Science Alive, Flat Classroom Project
• Podcasting: Portable Radio, Jamestown
• Skype: Inclusion, Brian Crosby, Around the World With Skype, Sites that connect classrooms across the globe
• Meet Roger Wilcox: Back to School, Field Day
• Online video: Mabry Middle School Film Festival, YouTube QuickCapture
• Cell phones in learning
• Google Maps: street view, add own data, add own photos
• SlideShare
• WallWisher
• Mind42
• Flickr
• SAI Training Wiki
• The Number Warrior
• Teaching The Civil War With Technology
• RSS in Plain English
• Google Reader
• Blogs
• Subject-specific blogs
• Great blogs for busy administrators

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 <a href=“http://www.iste.org/icot/index.php?q=user/register” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘http://www.iste.org’]);”>register at ISTE; see blank form]

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

Resources

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• CASTLE
• Dangerously Irrelevant
• See the NETS-A, NETS-T, NETS-S, and NCTE 21st century literacies
• Contact me if you’re interested in CASTLE’s technology surveys for students, parents, teachers, and administrators

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

• Did You Know? (Shift Happens)
• Chris Lehmann speaks to the FCC
• Learning to change
• 21st century pedagogy
• 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
• Introducing the Book