For the next two hours we will be exploring how Web 2.0 tools can extend your students' thinking and learning engagement with the challenging themes found within the Grade 8 Social Studies Program of Studies.

 

This wiki will serve as our session's hub, a resource that you can return to later. Be sure to expand the HotLinks side bar on the right-hand side of this page. I will post many of the links I refer to over the next two days.

ENTER

The Machine Is Using Us

 

 

 

 

"Technology is not additive, in that it doesn't change some things, it changes everything."

~ Roger Schank

 

.... then learning has to be impacted when we begin to use different methods and cognitive structures for processing information.

 

 

 

Culture of Remix

Mix, mix again, remix, reshape, tweak, merge, morph, bootleg, pirate,
plagiarize, enrich, sample, break down, reassemble, repurpose,
decompose, recompose, erase borders, reform and then finally feed
forward (which means to launch it out for other to begin their own
remix process). Out of the activities of remixing, tweaking, merging
etc. will come the innovative solutions, inventions and ideas of the
future. Although some of these words don't belong in a healthy
knowledge network (ex: bootleg, piracy, plagiarize) some of them may
have the makings of 21st century skills that we should be teaching the
students. How do you go about teaching students the skill of tweaking
or repurposing an idea? Do we give students practice decomposing an
idea or concept and then recomposing it? How do you take two
distinctly different ideas and merge them into a new one? When does
the line between morphing an idea or a series of words become
plagiarism?²

~ Richard Flordia (author of The Rise of the Creative Class)