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 * Creating a New Culture of Teaching and Learning: Student as Contributor: Digital Learning Farm and Leadership: Managing the Transition**

Alan November, [|November Learning] June 18, 2008 [|Students as Contributors: The Digital Learning Farm] - Article with links included.

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Are we teaching kids the right type of skills? For example, search for headlines from the country of origin, not from the Western perspective. host:tr - limits search results to Turkish sites (alta vista or advanced search in Google) Country codes at http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/.
 * Maybe it's not about technology - about information.**

Information architecture is important knowledge.
 * Make the technology invisible.**

http://scholar.google.com displays Recent Articles after a search and then has a Since Year box to restrict search to more recent scholarly writings. Another option is to use the view:timeline in a Google Search.

Hiring educators that don't understand the web 'is the medium' is a problem. November has [|Web Savvy Quizzes] for use with/by teachers. When sites come up Not Found, use [|Archive.org] or the Way Back Machine to bring up missing content. Another use is check the validity of a site and its content.

Book Content does not change - Times are different, now content is constantly changing. The meaning of literacy has been redefined.

In the past, **Literacy** meant you understand the architecture of paper. Reading the web as if it was paper is a mistake. You have to let go of (unlearn) your literacy tactics.

Demonstrating another point of view piques interest. Example - # of colonies is one to try. Use .ac.uk in you host search with American Revolution and General Gage. .ac is for academic settings and replaces .edu. Here is the find: [|http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mert2049/history/ash-uscolonists.shtml]

Teach kids that you have to research in order to do research. ~ Sue Sheffer

__**4 Levels of information**__
__//(highest to lowest)//__ Wisdom - Ask questions you have not asked before. Challenge to the way you think. Recalibrate your schema. Knowledge - Ability to apply information to solve problems Information - organized data (the web is mainly all information) Data - unorganized, raw

Systems Thinking Link - adds Understanding between Knowledge and Wisdom http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm.

The more information you have, the more you need educators to make sense of the information. The role of the teacher is very important.

Connecting globally is important. [|Skype] makes this possible. Critical Thinking - understanding of grammar and syntax of the web - structure of the web.

2nd graders in England have email accounts. - //Need reference article for this.// November opinion: Children should manage their own learning. Most schools have teachers own the learning. Example - cell phone use not allowed because it disrupts the teacher.

**Seven Steps...**
Daily Researcher - shift from teacher to student Daily curriculum review team - podcasting can be used here. Official Scribe Team - note taker Contribute beyond classroom - see Pitot House entry on Wikipedia, kiva.org Teach children to be global communicators (ePals) across the curriculum Tutorial Design Team - Screencasts - Students create tutorials on topics/concepts Curriculum research team- Ongoing team
 * to Transfer Ownership of Learning to the Student**

Every classroom is a global communication center. Connect students to people around the world. Other countries are desperate to connect with people around the world. Americans are not desperate for that. We need to develop that sense of desperation for our children + it's fun:)

link back example link:www.nasa.gov host:edu venus

Role of teacher must change Teachers should not answer questions in class - appoint a web researcher per day/period.

Wikipedia
Think of wikipedia as a publishing community rather than just another type of encylopedia. See the Pitot House entry started by third graders following a field trip.

Recommended Sites
Kiva.org - donation site where you can contribute small amounts of money to help others. You get emails about progress and you get the money back into your account.

Tools & Tips
High quality recording, Apple - Audio Hijack Pro and PC - Programmo. Strips audio, allows you to podcast the audio. Search tips
 * url:text (the text after colon has to be in the URL
 * host:full url and a keyword will show results for that keyword in the domain URL
 * use country code to restrict search to results with that code in the URL

Podcasting
Paper only gives you a local voice. Podcasting can make a second grader into a global powerhouse. Room 208, http://www.bobsprankle.com/welcome/welcome.html. Uses podcast for a weekly review.

Google
Docs - Revision history in Google Docs allows an English teacher to see the exact progression of a document. Custom Search - Google tool to build your own search engine from scratch. Idea - create one per elementary school and give access to families of those students. Cuts down on distraction of Google. http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

How to get teachers to change:

[|Hopes and Fears]
Ask the worst fear, best hope post it note activity scenario of technology - impact of technology Online courses exploding, etc... As going through tools - meet the hope list and if fear list is met, then make a change Ethnographic approach to learning, rather than workshop. Allows teachers to guide you, rather than you guide them.
 * Validate fear first to move ahead with change.
 * Ask what they like to teach- passion. (Why?) Meet them at their level of interest - see what technology can do to make their investment greater.
 * Where do kids struggle?

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