7+Shifts+to+Ponder

=7 Shifts to Ponder=


 * Agenda**
 * Did You Know?
 * 7 Shifts
 * What is the most important shift facing the classroom?
 * Start Shifting in Groups: why this shift, how do we make it happen, and what do we need to make it happen?
 * Q & A

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Given that Shift Happens, what does this mean for your classroom? your students? your curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices? - students know more than us; catching up with them - V-Show reference ~ - Yearbook students are using Facebook and MySpace - students know how to use the technology in a way that works for them - what is okay?

Seven Shifts to Ponder
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Shift #1: The World is Flat
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 * Flat Projects: The Flat Classroom Project, The Horizon Project, [|EduBloggerWorld], Ustream Presentations, and much more

Shift #2: Network and Connect for Success
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 * Network Tools: [|Delicious], [|Flickr], [|Ning], [|RSS], [|Skype], [|Slideshare], [|Twitter], [|Ustream]
 * [|Classroom 2.0]
 * Knowledge Share: [|MIT Open Course Ware], [|MIT High School], [|Open Yale], [|California-Berkley and YouTube], [|iTunes University]
 * Open Professional Development
 * [|Webinars]

Shift #3: A New Literacy
//Notes// //Resources//
 * **Instructional Technology: Blogging, Collaborative Docs, Digital Storytelling, Podcasting, Social Networking, [|Wikis], Wired Discussions, [|Wiziq], [|Voicethread], [|Trailfire], [|Asterpix], [|Sketchcast], and a host of other [|Web 2.0 tools]**
 * [|21st Century Skills Roadmap]
 * [|New Literacy Research]
 * [|iReport] **is [|CNN]**
 * [|Election 08]
 * Campaign Trail Collaboration

Shift #4: Video Games are Scholarly
//Notes// //Resources//
 * Gaming Projects: [|Revolution], Educational Uses in a Virtual World, [|Replaying History], [|PE and Games]
 * Tools: [|Second Life], [|Google Earth], and many more

Shift #5: Gaga for Google
//Notes// //Resources//: Earth, Blogger, Reader, Groups, Page,



Shift #6: A New Generation of Students
//Notes// //Resources//: //[|2007 Pew Internet: Teens and Social Media]//



Shift #7: Rise of the Right-Brainers
//Notes// //Resources://
 * [|Educators Reflect on Pink's Whole New Mind]
 * //[|Take the Quiz]//
 * //[|Friedman and Pink Interview]//