TEN DISRUPTIONS TO TRANSFORM YOUR CLASSROOM
1. Smart Phones
- one school in province… class of grade 8’s (?) given SmartPhones (by SaskTel) to see how/if to use it in classroom
www.polleverywhere.com
free service (text plans apply) 172million texts in January in SK
2. Low Cost Computing
- ~$200-250 for a netbook. Replace textbook budget?
3. Cloud Computing
- no need to store it locally (GoogleApps)
4. Live Streaming
(ustream) or skype
5. BackChanneling and MicroBlogging
- sharing the ‘notes’; learning from it
- benefit: more attentive… public forum/chat
6. Immersive Environments
- teen second life
Pedagogical Thoughts:
7. Privacy
- how do we deal with the fact that a good chunk of our lives will be online?
- rate my teachers . com
8. Time Shifting
- what is ‘face-to-face’ good for?
- Notes/podcasts for lecture. Classrooms are for working.
9. OpenCourseware
- ‘Academic Earth’
- Entire courses online
- CCK08 EC&I831 (these are courses)
10. Outsourced Instruction
- differentiated instruction
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