TLT 450 - Technology in School Settings - Record of activities
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Session 1 - Tuesday, 26 August
Before class
- Complete reading
During class (ppt)
- Intros
- Tour of course infrastructure
- This wiki, its care and feeding
- Blackboard
- List of ever-expanding, tagged course bookmarks.
- Other handy course links
- Technical
- Journals
- Syllabus
- Course map, timing of assignments
- "Tools in schools" discussion
- Course project discussion
- Closure
After class
- Reading -- note: NO writing to learn expectation for this week.
- Oppenheimer, 1997 (a qualified pessimist, well worth reading)
- Prensky, 2007 (out there...grain of truth in there, but take with a grain of salt?)
- Assignments
- "Tools in schools": Propose a topic via a fresh handy webform. We'll discuss the results next week.
- After-class bonus! Optional: Use this handy webform to request topics -- what's something you'd like to see someone talk about?
- Course project: Continue brainstorming / identifying contexts and problems you might address.
- "Tools in schools": Propose a topic via a fresh handy webform. We'll discuss the results next week.
Session 2 - Tuesday, 2 September
Before class
- Complete reading, no WTL expected.
- Assignments
- Propose a topic for your "Tools in schools" presentation.
- Continue to brainstorm and/or operationalize your course project topic. I'm going to ask you to commit to something next week and get going on it.
During class (ppt)
- Housekeeping
- Writing to learn is up and running -- here's how
- Any organizational tips?
- "Tools in schools"
- Not everyone has posted a "bid," no?
- Scheduling
- Modeling
- ...so if you haven't already suggested what YOU would present on, please do so!!!
- ...and feel free to request topics as well!
- Writing to learn is up and running -- here's how
- Conceptual work: Schools and technology via their...
- ...history
- ...stakeholders
- ...standards
- ISTE / NETS.
- Content-area associations
- Math: NCTM.
- English: NCTE.
- Social studies: NCSS/CUFA.
- Science: AETS.
- PDE standards
- The science standards have interesting examples of IT standards, tech-within-content-area standards, philosophy / history of technology -- you name it!
- Big Picture / closure
- Course project: I've set up a web form (natch) for you to "commit" to a project here.
After class
- Reading
- Culp, Honey, & Mandinach, 2003
- ISTE NETS
- Levin & Arafeh, 2002
- Lenhart & Madden, 2005 -- I recommend saving this one for last...
- Assignments
- If you haven't already volunteered for a "Tools in Schools" presentation, do so!!!
- Fill out the "commitment" form for your course project
Session 3 - Tuesday, 9 September
Before class
- Complete reading
- Fill out forms (linked above) for "Tools in Schools" presentation and course project commitment.
During class (ppt)
- Housekeeping
- ...notice my snazzy new course links in Blackboard? H/t to Bobby S.
- "Tools in schools" schedule up.
- Topics can be negotiated.
- Dates cannot be negotiated.
- Dates can be traded--just come to me after you've Made a Deal.
- Conceptual work
- Case study: 1-to-1 computing initiatives in K-12 settings
- I'll be drawing upon five implementations. I won't be addressing the lit on all of them (or at least not in any depth), but if you want to read further, here is a smattering of additional info
- Apple Classroom of the Future (ACOT) lit.
- Henrico County (VA) articles
- 1 Feb 2002.
- Statement from school district (undated).
- User survey from 2004, conducted by SRI.
- Supposedly they're coming out with student outcomes data? Report due this fall. 6 July 2008.
- Lowther, Ross, & Morrison, 2003 (available in Blackboard)
- Maine Learning Technology Initiative, described by the Maine Learning with Laptops Studies.
- Bethlehem Area School District, using this publicly-available report by Dr. Cates (2007). A secondary-level report is still in the works.
- ...and if you still want to plunge around, here's a pretty comprehensive listing / summary (circa 2004) of 1-to-1 initiatives, thanks to the University of South Florida (as always, an impressive place -- I keep running into their good (and impressive) works.
- I'll be drawing upon five implementations. I won't be addressing the lit on all of them (or at least not in any depth), but if you want to read further, here is a smattering of additional info
- Demo "Tools in Schools" lesson: PrimaryAccess -- see Blackboard "Discussion Forum" for materials
- How'd I do? Presentation checklist for assessment.
- Case study (and model invention study): PowerPoint vs. PrimaryAccess / Outcomes low-scaffolding and high-scaffolding student projects. Note that this has its own separate ppt.
- Case study: 1-to-1 computing initiatives in K-12 settings
- Closure
After class
- Reading
- Lowther, Ross, & Morrison, 2003 (this is a seminal work on 1-to-1 initiatives; let me know if you want to read more)
Hammond, under review (not yet posted to Blackboard!)-This has to be scrapped for now, unfortunately...too many other writing projects have come to a boil...
- Assignments
- If you haven't already, start posting to your fieldwork blog (in Blackboard wiki, second column)
- Do any WTL, as it suits you
- If you have a "Tools in Schools" presentation coming up soon, prepare!
Session 4 - Tuesday, 16 September
Before class
- Complete reading
During class (ppt)
- Housekeeping
- Apologies for a lack of monitoring the course projects & fieldwork!!
- Reminder about the "Tools in Schools" time, materials.
- "Tools in Schools" presentations
- Cindy
- Kevin
- Conceptual work: Fast-and-loose discussion of research, and a proscriptive discussion of IRB
- Research related
- Discussion of utos, UTOS, *UTOS, etc., in Foundations of Program Evaluation (Shadish, Cook, & Leviton)
- IRB-related
- Lehigh's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs page, section on Human Subjects.
- Human subjects training (and certification) from the National Institutes of Health.
- Example of a consent form.
- Closure
After class
- Reading
- Pierson, 2001
- Assignments
- Prepare "tools" presentation as needed
- Post to fieldwork blog
Session 5 - Tuesday, 23 September
Before class
- Complete the reading.
- Prep your "Tools in Schools" presentation, if necessary.
- If you presented last week, please upload your materials to the Blackboard thread (if you haven't already).
- Post to fieldwork blog.
During class (ppt)
- Housekeeping
- Plug for volunteers: Broughal Middle School, doing cool stuff with GPS units, working with great teachers. Date = Friday, 26 September, 9:30 - 10:20, and 11:10 - 12:00.
- Course projects / fieldwork blogs
- Feedback is in there, yes?
- Care and feeding and organization.
- If you need immediate (or timely) feedback, send me a linky (now that I know it can be done, thanks to Sheri)
- "Tools in Schools" presentations
- Lauren
- Emily
Jennifer-listed as day-to-day, no one will be called up from AAA to take her roster spot. In a statement released by her agent, she expects to make a contribution in the post-season. Bobblehead night will take place as scheduled.- Conceptual work: Diffusion of innovations, barriers to adoption, patterns of use
- and a BTW: If you haven't gotten hip to the Pew Internet Project, you must...
- Closure
After class
- Reading (available in Blackboard)
- Cuban, 1993
- Cuban, Kirkpatrick, & Peck, 2001
- Assignments
- Prepare "tools" presentation as needed
- Post to fieldwork blog
Session 6 - Tuesday, 30 September
Before class
- Complete readings
- Prep your "Tools in Schools" presentation, if necessary.
- If you presented last week, please upload your materials to the Blackboard thread (if you haven't already).
- Post to fieldwork blog.
During class (ppt)
- Housekeeping
- Tools in Schools presentations
Jenn -NLVM(? -pending confirmation)- Melissa - Social stories
- Becky -machinima
- Conceptual work: Pre-service and in-service training (with attention to the PCK / TPCK framework)
- Field work updates/discussion (opt in)
- Anything to discuss or report?
- Reminder about discretion in speaking/writing
- Closure
After class
- Reading
- Hammond, 2007
- Kay, 2006
- Assignments
- Prepare "tools" presentation as needed
- If you presented, upload to the Discussion Board in Blackboard
- Post to fieldwork blog
Session 7 - Tuesday, 7 October
Before class
- Complete reading
During class
- Housekeeping
- Course project "interim report"?
- Tools in School presentations:
- Jenn on NLVM
- Katherine on RubiStar
Blaze on Google Earth- to be made up asynchronously- Conceptual work: A very, very brief treatment on copyright and fair use. No ppt I can share for this, but see related links here:
- Copyright
- First, let's pose a few questions about copyright in various scenarios.
- copyright.gov/
- ...and here's a particularly soul-killing bit of text from that source: Their discussion of fair use.
- CONFU -- witness the collapse of the last great attempt to impose sanity on the process of Fair Use
- see especially their guidelines on classroom use
- see especially their guidelines on classroom use
- And for a somewhat silly, but perhaps useful treatment of the issues, steer ye ship for Fair Use Harbor!
- In case we haven't resolved this already, let's revisit the copyright prompts from above.
- Copyleft
- Go back to its roots at the Free Software Foundation
-- "code just wants to be free". The GNU Public License did something
radical: it created a "free copyright" AND it initiated the idea of
share-alike -- if you use our code, you have to make your product free
as well. Sort of a Pay-It-Forward, open-source meme....
- Go to the modern, slick advocacy folks at the Electronic Freedom Foundation
- Go back to its roots at the Free Software Foundation
-- "code just wants to be free". The GNU Public License did something
radical: it created a "free copyright" AND it initiated the idea of
share-alike -- if you use our code, you have to make your product free
as well. Sort of a Pay-It-Forward, open-source meme....
- Go to a practicable mechanism for getting copyright-accessible materials: Creative Commons.
- And another outlet: flickr.com, using the account of a friend as an example. Note the copyright; now follow that with searching within Creative Commons-licensed photos: flickr.com/creativecommons.
- And a quick example of this in action: This blog entry uses this photo--is it being used appropriately?
- And now to the public domain:
- archive.org: Cool site: live concerts, plus public domain films. They're old and in some cases HILARIOUS. (Sample: Visit the 60s at http://www.archive.org/details/drugs_in_our_culture).
- ...and what about National Archives (archives.gov)? The Library of Congress? ...You might be surprised--for example, go to this page and read the section on "About Copyright and the Collections"
- And finally, consider the murky case of Tolerated Use -- it's not Fair Use, but is it just as good?
- What are the routes forward for teachers and students?
- Closure
After class
- Reading: Langran, Langran, & Bull, 2005 (available in Blackboard)
- Assignments
- Prepare "tools" presentation as needed.
- If you presented, upload to the Discussion Board in Blackboard
- Post to fieldwork blog
- IF YOU WISH: Write an "interim report" for your field project. What's happened thus far? What insights do you have at this point? What challenges are you facing? What information sources are you using? How are you processing this information? Feel free to keep this
- short (2-3 pp.),
- informal (bullet points are OK), and
- open-ended (you can pose questions for me to respond to)
- ...and remember that this is an opt-in -- you don't have to do this. (However, if you are stuck or facing a major obstacle, please take advantage of this opportunity to let me know and start figuring out options! Finding a solution is easier in Week 7 than Week 13!)
Pacing break - Tuesday, 14 October -- no class
Session 8 - Tuesday, 21 October
Before class
- Complete reading (see above)
- Prepare "tools" presentation as needed.
- If you presented, upload to the Discussion Board in Blackboard
- Post to fieldwork blog
- IF YOU WISH: Write an "interim report" for your field project
During class
- Housekeeping
- "Tools in Schools" presentations
- Sheri - wikis / blogs
- Naime - online concept mappers
- Conceptual work (ppt)
- Ecological validity & internet safety -- lots of links here...I'm only listing the most dense section.
- National Center for Missing & Exploited Children -- http://www.netsmartz.org.
- Nemours Foundation -- http://kidshealth.org/index.html.
- Wired Safety -- "the world's largest online safety and help group" -- http://www.wiredsafety.org/.
- FBI pamphlet for parents -- http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm.
- From the Internet Keep Safe Coalition, "a broad partnership of governors and/or first spouses, attorneys general, public health and educational professionals, law enforcement, and industry leaders" -- http://www.ikeepsafe.org.
- Disney online safety materials -- http://home.disney.go.com/guestservices/safety.
- AT&T internet safety-themed video game! PLAYS MUSIC THAT, WHEN LOOPED ENDLESSLY, IS HIGHLY ANNOYING -- http://www.att.com/Common/images/safety/game.html.
- "The Leader in e-Safety Education" -- all of the above are in second place, because these guys are THE LEADERS!!1! Plus they have a very, very restrictive process in place to keep you from getting at and using their materials. Are they trying to teach us an object lesson about internet safety? -- http://www.isafe.org.
- For further consideration: Michael Berson at USF focuses on internet safety -- see his site on the topic here, especially the links page.
- And some food for thought: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i03/03c00101.htm.
- Closure
After class
- Reading: Berson, Berson, Desai, Falls, & Fenaughty, 2008 (available via Blackboard) -- if you're interested in educating about Internet safety...
- Assignments
- Prepare "tools" presentation as needed.
- If you presented, upload to the Discussion Board in Blackboard
- Post to fieldwork blog
Session 9 - Tuesday, 28 October
Before class
- Complete Internet safety reading if you're interested in the topic. Do some WTL.
- Prepare "tools" presentation / share to Blackboard.
- Post to fieldwork blog.
During class
- Housekeeping
- Project discussions, project presentations
- Structure for discussion
- What's the question?
- What's the story thus far?
- What steps remain before you can start writing?
- Sign-ups
- Tonight
- Next week
- Outside of class time?
- "Tools in Schools" presentations
- Paige: Audio capabilities in Blackboard
- Xaoli: Videoconferencing
- Conceptual work: Wrapping up, looking for themes. Technology in schools: Big truths and little truths
- Closure
After class
- Assignments
- "Tools in schools" presentation work (as needed)
- Work on field project -- prep to meet, think about writing.
- If you'd like to give me a interim report or an intermediate product, I'd be happy to see it.
Session 10 - Tuesday, 4 November
Before class
- If you have a "Tools in Schools" presentation, prepare!
- If you had a "Tools in Schools" presentation, upload, etc.
- Work on field projects!
- If you have a meeting with me this week, prep. Keep in mind the three questions: What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite color? (OK, see below for the real questions.)
During class (ppt)
- Housekeeping
- Who's meeting with me tonight
- Scheduling fieldwork presentations for next couple of weeks
- Kevin has volunteered to go next week...any takers?
- Time limit / expectations for field work presentations
- Remember: This is NOT a presentation of "final" work -- this is in-process, just where you are right now.
- NO MORE than 15 min of you talking
- 5 - 10 min of discussion.
- Suggested format for your presentation
- Topic / question / problem addressed
- Context for exploration (e.g., setting, participants)
- BRIEF discussion of data and analysis
- What you found (or think you're finding) thus far
- Next steps
- Should I generate a feedback sheet? Alternate strategy: webform, for those of you with machines in the room.
- "Tools in Schools" presentations
- Bobby: teaching via games, specifically Roller Coaster Baron
- Jess: UnitedStreaming
Ysais: Quizlet- Project meetings
- Questions
- What is your question / problem being addressed?
- What's the story thus far? What do you think the data is telling you?
- What are your next steps?
- Times
- 8:00-8:15 Naime
- 8:15-8:30 Jenn
- 8:30-8:45 Lauren
- 9:00-9:15 Kevin
- 9:15-9:30 Becky
After class
- Assignments
- "Tools in schools" presentation work (as needed)
- Work on field project -- if you have a presentation next week, prepare!
- If you'd like to give me a interim report or an intermediate product, I'd be happy to see it.
Session 11 - Tuesday, 11 November
Before class
- Complete reading
During class (ppt)
- Housekeeping
- One last "Tools in Schools" presentation! Ysais on Quizlet
- Field project presentations
- Becky
- Emily
- Closure
After class
- Work on field project presentations, papers
Session 12 - Tuesday, 18 November
Before class
- Complete reading
During class (ppt)
- Housekeeping
- Field project presentations
- Katherine
- Kevin
- Ysais
- Paige
- Sheri
- Closure
After class
- Work on field project presentations, papers
Session 13 - Tuesday, 25 November
Before class
- Complete reading
During class (ppt)
- Housekeeping
- Final due date for papers = Tuesday, December 9.
- If you want formative feedback on your paper, please give me something by Tuesday, Dec 2 and I'll get it back to you.
- If you need more time beyond Dec 9, I'm open to that, but let's establish a condition: I need some form of a rough draft from you by Dec. 2. What I don't want to do is fly blind and accept on faith that you'll be able to wrap up your writing and turn in successfully some time after Dec 9.
- Field project presentations
- Naime
- Lauren
- Cindy
- Bobby
- Closure
After class
- Work on field project presentations, papers
Session 14 - Tuesday, 2 December
Before class
- Complete reading
During class (ppt)
- Housekeeping
- Field project presentations
- Jess & Melissa
- Jenn
- Xiaoli
- Closure
After class
- Finish up your field project final paper!
- TBA: "Early" submit date (can submit, get grade + feeback, then re-submit)
- TBA: "One shot" submit date (turn it in, get what you get)
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