IT Summit 2009 Keynote: Telling the New Story Live
with Dean Shareski, Kathy Cassidy, Clarence Fisher, Darren Kuropatwa
todaysmeet.com/newstory
thenewstory.wikispaces.com
Shareski:
The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman = Great Book!
I like how he is using the Identity 2.0 presentation format with lots of pictures in his slideshow.
Conversation format is interesting. Darren is live on a TV and not here in person and the others are sitting on chairs at the front of the room.
Clarence: making global connections made him aware of the world being a big place and needing to connect with others.
Kathy: started blogging and someone else commented meaning that someone else was reading it. Connected globally with New Zeland. Importance of getting kids getting globally connected.
Dean: nothing like getting kids to talk to other kids about what they are really living instead of learning everything from a book.
Darren: Alan Levine BloggerShop was inspiration for getting active online with students. Now blogs with students and professionally.
Sharing of their classrooms: what a day looks like in their rooms. Tech is integrated as part of what the students are doing all day in the classroom.
Authentic, real learning is done through sharing and world partnerships.
I like the idea of having students "writing their own textbook" that is good enough that learners can educate themselves reading the book. Darren has a "How To" for setting up the online textbook in the class.
How do you find the time? Everything is a choice. Making online learning a priority. You have to give some things up in order to change the classroom.
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