1. Jared Cavagnuolo Wilson Middle School Learning Center Teacher jcavagnuolo@natickps.org Mary Moynagh Ashland Middle School 8 th Grade Social Studies Teacher mmoynagh@ashland.k12.ma.us

2.  Online Reading Comprehension Using creditable and accurate print and digital sources to support analysis, reflection, and research.  Online Content Construction Using technology as a means to demonstrate learning.  Online Collaborative Inquiry Using technology to collaborate with others.

3. What has changed?  Economy: agrarian to industrial to technological  Jobs and needs of employers have gotten more complex  Blue-collar positions now done electronically or have been eliminated  More complex, technologically advanced white collar positions  More advanced thinking skills required

4. What will the students be asked to do?  Think critically and creatively  Work collaboratively  Take risks constructively  Understand connection to the world  Use technology to research and communicate with others  Work in teams  Assume leadership responsibilities School Reform in the New Millennium: Preparing All Children for 21 st Century Success. Massachusetts DESE. November 2008.

5. Workplace of the Future “We don’t care where and how you get your work done. We care that you get your work done.” Dan Pelino, IBM Health Care / Life Sciences ABC News: The Workplace of the Future

6.  What do we need to do to get the kids ready for this “new world?” ◦ Develop “good” Digital Citizenship Skills ◦ Develop 21 st Century Literacy Skills across the content areas

7.  Digital Etiquette and  Digital Rights and Responsibilities What is a good digital citizen?

8. 5. Digital Etiquette: Electronic standards of conduct or procedure. … We recognize inappropriate behavior when we see it, but before people use technology they do not learn digital etiquette (i.e., appropriate conduct). … It is not enough to create rules and policy, we must teach everyone to become responsible digital citizens in this new society. 7. Digital Rights & Responsibilities: Those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world. … Digital citizens have the right to privacy, free speech, etc. Basic digital rights must be addressed, discussed, and understood in the digital world. … Users must help define how the technology is to be used in an appropriate manner.

10.  What is “out there” about you? Search for your digital footprint …Search for your digital footprint  How can you begin to build your footprint? Positive Digital Footprints “Everything you do now ends up in your permanent record. The best plan is to overload Google with a long tail of good stuff and always act like you’re on Candid Camera, because you are.” ~ Seth Godin

12. They need the 3 “Rs”: Reading Writing ‘rithmatics But they also need the 5 “Cs”:  Creative Problem Solving Skills  Collaboration skills  Communication skills  Content  Critical Thinking

13.  Integrates technology into our practice of teaching and learning  Accesses curriculum resources and information using technology  Provides additional ways for students to demonstrate their learning using technology

14. Technology can be used to enhance mastery of content and not distract from it.

16. Students’ lives are online in increasingly mobile and social ways. Surveys show students want learning and schools to follow suit.

21. TED Talk: Will Richardson

22.  “[Kids] are not waiting for a curriculum to deliver to them the things they want to learn; they’re simply going out and learning those things when they want to.” ~ Will Richardson  So how do we harness our students’ natural motivation to learn?  Give them some autonomy over… ~ What they do ~ When they do it ~ How they do it ~ Who they do it with  “20% Time” Projects ◦ Project proposal form Project proposal form ◦ Student ideas Student ideas ◦ Example Example

24. What is Online Collaborative Inquiry? 1.Work with your tablemates to create a definition using online resources (dictionaries, Google search, etc.) 1.Share your definition with the large group.

25. Classroom of the Future (i.e., September 2012) Goomoodleikiog

26. If you take a little bit of GOOgle for research… maybe add a MOODLE platform for online content delivery… use WIKIpedia for information or create a WIKIspace for collaboration… and add a little “OG” for a classroom blOG… you too can have a classroom of the future.

27. * Bring Your Own Device Laptop iPad Flash Drive Cell Phone iPhone iTouch iPod

28. These tools are the ultimate enablers of collaboration -- in and out of class. by Grace Rubenstein

29. 1.Based on the resources and ideas discussed so far, what are some ways you might use tools like Google, Moodle, Wikis, and blogs in your classroom? 1.What are some of the advantages these tools could have for instruction? 1.What challenges do you foresee in using them?

30. Wiki Discussion: Using information from the Goomoodleikiog video, the Rubenstein article, and your table discussion, respond to the following questions: How can you use technology in your classrooms to encourage collaboration and enhance mastery of content? How can we harness the technology the students bring to school every day?

31.  Click on the link for your day’s session below and respond to the questions there. Monday Tuesday Wednesday  Then respond to two of your fellow participants' posts.

32.  Your table group will be assigned a strand of the College & Career Readiness Anchor Standards from the new framework.  Read over your group's standards with your tablemates.  Drawing on your own teaching experience and using what you have learned from the resources and activities in this session, work together to answer the following question:  How can teachers use tools and resources for online collaborative inquiry to address specific anchor standards?

33. Click on the link for your day's session below to post your group's answer to a Google doc. Monday Tuesday Wednesday