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SESSION OUTLINE

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Part 1

  1. Online Handouts
  2. Unpredictable Future
    1. The World is Flat -- Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
    2. The Rise of the Creative Class -- Florida, Richard. The Rise of the Creative Class. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
    3. The Flight of the Creative Class -- Florida, Richard. The Flight of the Creative Class. New York. Harper Collins. 2004.
    4. A Whole New Mind -- Pink, Daniel. A Whole New Mind. Basic Books, 2003.
  3. Networked Students
    1. Our Classrooms are Leaking -- http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2007/08/27/our-classrooms-are-leaking/
    2. Video Games -- (Something)
    3. Games, Learning, & Society Conference in Madison Wisconsin -- http://www.glsconference.org/2008/
    4. Machinima -- Wikipedia article
  4. New Information Environment
    1. Web 1 vs Web 2
    2. Innocentive -- http://innocentive.com/
    3. The Long Tail -- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.10/tail.html
    4. Flat Classrooms -- http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/04/10/flat-classrooms/
    5. Energy Generating Activities -- Audience Chat, "Literacy & Learning in the 21st Century." Irving School District. Dallas, TX. 14 Aug 2007.

Part 2

  1. Networked Students
    1. What is a Video Game? "Exceptionally Tasty Patterns of Reality" [blog: http://history-tech.blogspot.com/] [PowerPoint: http://tinyurl.com/27og6o]
    2. Workforce Readiness Crisis -- http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=193700630
    3. New Commission on Skills of the American Work Force -- http://www.skillscommission.org/
    4. Video Games in Education Readings
      • Got Game by John Beck & Mitchell Wade
      • The Kids are Alright: How the Gamer Generation is Changing the Workplace by John Beck & Mitchell Wade
      • What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee
      • Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning! by Marc Prensky
      • How Computer Games Help Children Learn by David Williamson Shaffer
    5. Writing Video Games: MIT's Scratch -- http://scratch.mit.edu/
    6. Video Games are about Roles & Rules, David Williamson Shaffer -- http://epistemicgames.org/eg/
    7. Othello story told in this article: The New Literacy, Scholastic Administrator -- http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=263
    8. Students as Content Builders -- [pdf: http://tinyurl.com/27tcuv] [Web: http://tinyurl.com/26batl]
  2. New Information Environment
    1. What the Wikipedia is good at
    2. Professional Blogging Engines
    3. EduBloggers to Pay Attention To
    4. Classroom-Friendly Blogging Engines
    5. Podcasting: Connect Learning -- http://davidwarlick.com/connectlearning/
      1. Podcasting in the Classroom -- Find a Resource
      2. Education Podcast Network -- http://epnweb.org/
    6. Wikis: Wikis in Plain English Video --
      1. Examples of education Wikis --
        • Wikis in Education --
        • Wiki for English Teachers --
        • Wikiversity --
        • Westwood Wiki (Vicki Davis) --
        • Using Wiki in Education --
        • Wiki Handouts --
      2. Setting up a Wiki: Wiki Engines
      3. Setting up a Wiki: Wiki Farms
    7. Other Tools
      1. Voicethread -- http://voicethread.com/
      2. Twitter -- http://twitter.com/
      3. Ustream -- http://ustream.tv/
      4. Seesmic -- http://seesmic.com/
    8. Collaborative Document Building: Google Docs -- http://docs.google.com
    9. Social Bookmarking --
      1. Diigo -- http://diigo.com
      2. Del.icio.us -- http://del.icio.us/
    10. Social Media
      1. Flickr -- http://flickr.com/ ... (cc) http://flickr.com/creativecommons
      2. YouTube -- http://youtube.com/
      3. TeacherTube -- http://teachertube.com/
    11. RSS: The Magic of the New Web -- http://wikipedia.com/wiki/rss
    12. Datamining
      1. Tagclouds -- http://tagcrowd.com/
      2. Web Site Grapher --
      3. Delicious Network Explorer --
      4. Flickr Graph --
      5. BlogPulse -- http://blogpulse.com/
    13. Mashups
      1. Google Maps -- http://maps.google.com/
      2. Buzztracker -- http://buzztracker.org/
      3. Hitchhikr -- http://hitchhikr.com/
      4. Programmable Web --
  3. Preparing our Children for an Unpredictable Future
    1. Redefining Literacy
      1. Reading expands into skills involved in Exposing What's True
      2. Arithmatic expands into skills involved in Employing Information
      3. Writing expands into skills involved in Expressing Ideas Compellingly
      4. We must teach the Ethical Use of Information
  4. Closing
    • Literacy becomes Learning Literacy
    • Teaching literacy skills becomes Teaching Literacy Habits
    • Lifelong learning becomes Learning Lifestyle