Multi-faceted Refractions

Well, the Illinois Technology Conference for Educators has now ended and I am back home. I am wiped out and exhausted. I am also exhilarated from all that I have learned. I want to thank the conference for inviting me to share during the conference. Sometime this weekend, I will share reflections from my sessions and reflections from my conference experience.

But tonight, off to the opera to watch my daughter perform with the students at Northwestern University in a performance of A Midsummer’s Night Dream by Benjamin Britten. I hope I am able to stay awake for the performance.

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From the Chatzy Room created for the purpose of sharing this site:

vvrotny: Welcome to Tim Tyson’s first presentation
vvrotny: Limited attendence - too bad
Michelle from x.x.x.210 joined the chat 43 minutes ago
Michelle: thanks vinny
sharonp from x.x.x.33 joined the chat 42 minutes ago
vvrotny: Lead off with the Phantom Tollbooth
vvrotny: Scence with boy is is three feet up in air, grow downward so that feet touch the ground
JenW from x.x.x.186 left this message 41 minutes ago:
vvrotny: Milo grows up, changes perspectives, other boy always sees same
vvrotny: At age 30 35, 40, 50 do we see things in different ways?
Gerry from x.x.x.32 joined the chat 39 minutes ago
vvrotny: Grandmother, first principal in small town Ala, lived at the same time as Dewey, a man with “strange
ideas”. Didn’t change the way school is done. Now town is worse place to live
vvrotny: town gone downhill
vvrotny: Dewey - engaged in meaningful authentic tasks. Constructing artifacs that lead to usnderstanding
vvrotny: His question for teacher at Mabry - Who owns learning? Almost always is teacher
vvrotny: big challenge, get teachers to give up power
vvrotny: work, play, communicate, maintain relationships, conduct business, percieve lives has been
dramatically changed by technology
vvrotny: classrooms remain the same
vvrotny: What would you do differently if students really wanted to learn?
vvrotny: Students wanted to create content?
vvrotny: Make a real contribution?
vvrotny: School help them do that to help them in ways that are exciting and engaging
JenW from x.x.x.186 joined the chat 36 minutes ago
vvrotny: student at a school where teachers were going to attend sought out Tyson’s web site and
communicated about how cool it would be.
JenW: Tim is where again??
vvrotny: students believe most of what goes on at school is irrelavnt to their future
vvrotny: I think Tim retired from his school in Mabry, Georgia. On the circuit now
zemote from x.x.x.100 joined the chat 33 minutes ago
vvrotny: The is a time of metamorphis and transformation
vvrotny: times changing the destiny of civilization. We have chance to guide. School to be different
vvrotny: Passive compliance
vvrotny: students create something which is valued. Self directed learners
vvrotny: connectedness meaningfulness signifigance contribution. How do empower children
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vvrotny: example of student how wanted to come in on first day of summer vacation, to continue to work on
project he got an A on. Wanted to have global distribution through school, not via youTube without guidance
vvrotny: maybryonline.org
vvrotny: Tyson Convinced a new concept of childhood
vvrotny: when does meaningful start?
Amy Kenyon from x.x.x.32 joined the chat 19 minutes ago
vvrotny: Topics covered include:
vvrotny: Human Embriyonic Stem Cell Research
vvrotny: Commercialization of Drinking Water
vvrotny: Children’s Slave Labor on Ivory Coast
vvrotny: Saving lives in africa from Malaria
vvrotny: Poverty in China
vvrotny: Immaigration in the United States
vvrotny: projects done by 7th graders
vvrotny: It is all about relationships
vvrotny from x.x.x.32 joined the chat 40 seconds ago

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Hall Davidson

Kids brains are different.

Television commercials shrinking from 60 to 1 second.

Radio shrinking from 5 seconds to 1 second

Ads in airports - kiosks run 5 second ads

Get attention with short linked videos - then move to lesson with more reflection.

We have technology to create short videos (6 seconds) about Warren G. Harding. Why was he elected president?

In old days, needed water, industrial revolution needed fuel, today we need images.

Showing Cable in Classroom (cic.org) - sponsored by Comcast.

Kids IQs are rising, technologies have changed, from phones to ovens. More problem based learning.

[Need to leave early]

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Karen Thompson

Live Blogged - forgive any awkward wording and mispellings

Springfield, IL
35 Schools - 1500 students

When came to technology - had passion and and wonder

Where are we going, what does it look like?

Rolled TV Rollout - showed students Comic Life, iTunes, GarageBand and cool multi-media tools from the start.

“Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else has changed”

Seeking the sweet spot

Putting Skills together with Strengths with a mix of  Spark

Using Comic Life to use with experiment procedure.

Alphabet Book that kids put together

Last year, damage, more teachers than students had damage

Professional development is a huge aspect.

Look for the aha moments. Don’t have to change everything. But can set it on its edge slightly, through the use of videos. Let to greater engagement

Use GaggleNet to facilitate conversation over the weekend via forums. Shifts learning so that they can take greater control of their learning.  Share the environments and learning styles.

Each classroom has TV studio, beginnings of a Global Communication Center.

In PE, students created workout plans, with sound motions.

Students can create review files so that they can listed while on the bus, etc.

Wanted to create podcasts - 8 mins 2 science in new, 2 science in classroom, 2 science at home, 2 misc science

Week before Christmas, put students in team, each group creates a rap about the science topic. Two things happened. ALl students were engaged in creating their raps/projects. Week after Christmas break, played at Middle School Dance.

Carts in High School environment. Put together the visual.

Created books. Created videos about the distributive property works with 6th Grade boys.

Create Heroes videos to document. Sharing with community.

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On Thursday, February 28th and Friday, February 29th, I will be at the Illinois Technology Conference for Educators (IL-TCE) a session entitled, Building Personal Learning Networks. Here is a copy of the presentation that I used for the session:

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dfj8qmj_37drcn2q9j

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