A Vision of Students Today

 

 

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

~ Roger Schank

 

 

For the next two weekends we will be exploring how Web 2.0 tools can be integrate into social studies to extend learning and deepen understanding. During these sessions you will learn about:

 

• the shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and how these changes can benefit learning in social studies.

• how the read-write web supports collaboration, contribution and community.

• how these tools and changes have the potential to extend your students' thinking and learning engagement with the challenging themes found within Alberta's Social Studies Program of Studies.

 

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 weekends.

Session One

What Students Should be Able to Do.pdf 

 

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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?

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

 

 

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