Using Existing Technologies to Engage Students Leveraging student use of multiple personal digital devices in the classroom.

Goals Identify Participatory Culture Edudemic Ideas Try Voicethread, Padlet, Inspiration, Popplet, GarageBand

Engage Today’s college students use the following platforms of participation: Publishing Media Communication Tools Resource Sharing Social Networking Collective Knowledge

Henry Jenkins Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture - Media Education for the 21st CenturyConfronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture - Media Education for the 21st Century

Jenkins A participatory culture is a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby experienced participants pass along knowledge to novices. In a participatory culture, members also believe their contributions matter and feel some degree of social connection with one another (at the least, members care about others’ opinions of what they have created).

Participatory Consumers Collaboraters Producers EDUDEMIC

Universal Design Many different learners in the classroom. Technology leverages access to all of them. Affords opportunities for various means of expression.

Example Lets learn a little more about Autism. Facts, Images, Video, Audio, Interviews Resources Timeline Groups work together to collect information and come together to build presentations.

Consume Monitor multiple twitter streams, hashtags responses via tweetdeck.tweetdeck. Trace a character’s journey in a work of fiction with Google Earth. Google Earth Visualize how certain themes or motifs emerge from certain geographical regions, and infer the cause effects relationships that may contribute to that with Google Earth.Google Earth. View presentations that model elaborate multimedia idea development with Prezi.Prezi.

Consume Skim Channels to identify non obvious but real examples of “academic” ideas, bias, scientific methods, allegory, modern civil rights issues etc using YouTube.YouTube. Listen to podcasts to gain context on an issue via Downcast. Downcast. Practice math or economic problems as pure test prep with Khan Academy.Khan Academy. Take notes and record lecture and group discussion using CaptureNotes2.CaptureNotes2.

Collaborate Evaluate credibility of a website, blogpost, or social media comment with Skitch.Skitch. Curate relevant tidbits or sources - and then collaboratively reorder content with Pearltrees.Pearltrees. Plan necessary project details with Wunderlist.Wunderlist. Peer supported writing process with Google Docs.Google Docs. Connect with Mentors or experts via Twitter.Twitter

Collaborate Collaboratively pin images of a competitor’s design when mock-planning a startup via Pinterest.Pinterest. Backwards plan projects and related due-dates using iCalendar. iCalendar. Record group work daily for reflection, self assessment, and digital portfolio curation with Evernote.Evernote Aggregate constant information streams to skim via Pulse. Pulse. “Crowdsource” implicit themes or character development in the study of a novel with Edmodo.Edmodo.

Produce Create layered documents that use hypertext to embed supporting sources or media with Google Docs.Google Docs Create a concept map to explain the relationship between a YouTube video and the suggested YouTube videos.YouTube Collect visual evidence of a problem, issue or event using Instagram.Instagram Demonstrate the spread of a philosophical idea using Google Maps. Google Maps Liveblog a personal or academic event via Storify.Storify.

Produce Create infographics that further expository writing where one form provides information and the other struggles to using visual.lyvisual.ly Create photo collage to demonstrate impact of pollution, litter or even genocide using Diptic.Diptic. Create podcasts to communicate with students (dates, projects, exams, learning targets) using Audioboo.Audioboo. Reflect on metacognitive progress through a unit or project using representative images via Flickr.Flickr.

VoiceThread Voicethread is a media aggregator that allows for posting of media for community feedback. Voicethread in the classroom enables digital discussions that can extend beyond class time or create opportunities for the next class meeting.

Voicethread Please create a voicethread with the person sitting next to you.

Padlet An online writing wall intended for gathering ideas and displaying them in real time.

Back Channel A program that opens up the back conversations in a classroom and brings them to the screen in the front of the room.

Inspiration Graphic organizer to support writing and brainstorming in the classroom.

Popplet Mind and concept mapping program available online and on mobile devices.

Garage Band Garageband is a music editing / recording program that enables podcasting and digital storytelling.

iMovie Digital storytelling movie editing program.

Google Docs The Google writing program that enables collaboration in real time or online away from the classroom setting.

Contact Sandy Ayala, PhD School of Education Stevenson 2013C