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Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives

 * for the most part, we're using educational facilities and methods developed in the Industrial Age
 * most teachers are digital immigrants (this is changing)
 * we're teaching students who were born in and will work in the Information Age (they're digital natives!)
 * consider this...

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What Does This Mean for Teachers and Teaching?

 * in the Industrial Age, a person could learn everything there was to know about a subject
 * knowledge was transferred from the teacher to the student
 * in the Information Age, we cannot hope to know everything
 * therefore, the ablility to think critically and the abilities to find, analyze and sythesize information are increasingly important
 * knowledge is built, shared, changed, edited, mashed, rearranged

Literacies and Baby Steps

 * students still need to know how to read, write and do math!
 * they also need to become fluent in digital literacy
 * most kids can surf the web, send emails and use a word processor - what next?

Digital Storytelling

 * primary and intermediate levels
 * Kid Pix
 * Microsoft Movie maker (with help from a buddy class, maybe?)
 * Power Point (again, possibly with help)
 * have kids work in pairs or with an older buddy
 * examples



Ryohei's PSA

Blogs
[|Grade 7 blog]
 * blogs have lots of educational uses
 * the great thing about blogs is that they give kids a chance to publish their work online for a large audience
 * blogs can also be used as simple web pages to give information to parents and students
 * there are lots of free blog hosting sites online
 * not all of them are great for elementary education
 * have to talk to kids about internet safety and not using "real" names (I use two letters of first and two letters of last and I assign their passwords)

[|Wiki on Educational Blogging] (some cool links!)

If you want to start your own blog, try going to [|ePals SchoolBlog]. You will need to set up an account and it does take a few days, but it's a great, safe, free site!

Wikis
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 * the term wiki comes from the Hawaiian bus called a "wikiwiki" and means quick
 * wikis are a quick way to create and share information
 * the most famous one is [|wikipedia]
 * the great thing about wikis is that they are collaborative
 * this is a wiki!

Grade 7 Socials Wiki

If you want to set up a wiki, I recommend Wikispaces. It's free to K12 educators if you are using it for educational purposes and it's easy to use for the kids! Here is a great PowerPoint put together by the people at Wikispaces that you can use to help you out! In addition, if you ever have questions or need help, they are, without a doubt, super-fast at getting back to you!



Great Online Resources
I thought we could use these pages as places where we could put links to great online resources we find!

Math Resources

Socials Resources

Science Resources

Language Arts Resources Other Resources LAC Resources Professional Resources

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