Wednesday, October 10, 2012

ulearn12 - Keynote 1 - Dr Jason Ohler

New Media, New Kids - New Literacies, New Citizens -- transforming learning through digital creativity

jasonohler.com - can download presentation

Open doors for students - find what makes them tick, their passions - be a door opener - students will show you what they know if you let them... Let them in with their digital technology, some students lead non digital lives at school and rich digital lives outside of school, BYOD the way to go... Let them use the software they want to use, customised workspaces, make sure to turn BYOD off and talk to each other!  We're mobile and connected, our students more so...

Who's teaching whom?  Students more than capable of teach each other...

Text to media collage shift, art has a place to play in literacy now, new foundation is media collage, shift from "black squiggles on paper" aka writing, language of pictures, movement, colour, design

Digital citizenship

Screasel - screen + easel, paint traditionally and in digital format, in digital format can erase easily

Our students need to be literate digitally...  Shift from words to visual presentation

Is writing best approach for what you're trying to achieve?  Maybe video is a better approach to get message across...

Value writing more then ever, good media is based on good research and good writing...

jasonohler.com/nextr

21C Literacies - reading, writing, maths, art

Hans Roslings youtube clip - 200 countries, 200 years

Give kids the maths to be entrepreneurs...  

In 21C, the degree to which you enjoy learning determines how smart you are...

Students are teaching themselves visual and digital literacies

In a period of exponential change at present...

Character education for digital kids - want kids to understand technology connects and disconnects

Encourage students to be problem finders not just problem solvers...

Leave positive digital footprints

Storytelling, stories stick in memory!  Has to be a problem to make it memorable, rather than just list or sharing knowledge and formulas (rolling ball story)

Give students a focus question when watching any media, encourage them to make notes

Be a discriminating consumer of literacy

A concern is a negatively stated goal!

Don't let anyone stop your students from getting the education they deserve...

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