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Spotlight Summary
Overview & Objectives
Particpants will be able to:
1) Identify three strategies that all teachers could use immediately to engage students in a more Real, Rich and Relevant learning experience.
2) Locate Web sites and software that can support 100% adoption of such engagement.
3) Join a network of other educators committed to achieve The Drive for 2005.
Outline
I. Introduction - setting the scene for ubiquity
II. the new WWW: whatever, whenever, wherever.
III. What we can learn from educational and cognitive psychology
IV. The Drive for 2005
A. Hotlists
B. Class Act Portals
C. Intentional Learning Designs
V. The Drive for 2005 network
V-NECC-Virtually Extending NECC Over Time and Place
In order to maintain momentum and celebrate participation in the Drive for 2005, a Web site and online mailing list will be launched.
Ubiquitous Internet Access
2005 marks the 10th anniversary of many people’s first experience of the World Wide Web. In that decade “WWW dot” has transformed the way we live, work and play. Yet research reveals that less than half of teachers who have Internet access in their classrooms use it for instructional purposes. An even smaller percentage use it to connect students to a more vibrant and authentic world of learning beyond classroom walls. Avoiding the Web hurts both students and teachers because its most valuable attribute for education is that it can make learning more Real, Rich, and Relevant. Ubiquitous connectivity and hardware make the integration into the classroom the last real challenge. Pioneers in educational technology have been doing amazing things for years, but 2005 can be the year all our colleagues join in. We'll do it one teacher, one school, one district at a time.
Student Voices
Connected by a broadband personal device, students becomes kids in a candy shop of media entertainment. Movies, music, gaming and instant communications hold both the capacity to empower and ensnare. Motivated and self-confident students will use the environment to create and collaborate while those who may have been dulled into apathy will merely consume. By engaging students in meaningful, real world tasks, we help them develop an appreciation for authentic experiences that can become touchstones for using the digital abundance to achieve self-fulfilling lives. Those left to a superficial world of immediate, but fleeting, stimulation are in danger of descending into a self-indulgent inertia. This is a generation of learners where teachers must aspire to a true calling of education and help youth develop a meaningul place in the world.
Presenter Background & Qualifications
Tom March has presented successfully at NECC conferences since 1998. As a co-developer of the WebQuest model and other Web-based learning formats, he has contributed to thousands of educators moving onto the Web for learning. He writes articles and presents frequently on various aspects of working the Web for education. Tom March is the initiator of the Drive for 2005 and its launch in Australia. This NECC presentation launches the iniitative in the US for the 2005 - 2006 school year.
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