NMSA2010 Getting The Most Out of Your Students in the Networked World

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Session presented by Todd Williamson for Middle School Portal 2 at the National Middle School 37th Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD, November 2010.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Students in the Networked World

Todd WilliamsonTwitter: @twilliamson15

http://www.multiurl.com/l/3Kz

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Native/Immigrant Paradigm“Junk” DetectionWhat the Web is Good ForNetworked Learning

Caveats of Networked Learning

Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants

Another View…

Growing up with a computer strapped to your hip …doesn’t

make you hip to the use of computers

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Communication Tools

•Skype•Skype an Author Network•Contact Experts in the Field you Study•Other Classrooms: SkypeInSchools Wiki

•Edmodo – private Facebook-style network for education

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Learn from a Network

I know nothing…

What I know

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PLN – Personal Learning NetworkPLN – Professional Learning Network

Informal Learning NetworkNIHCTTAR – Network I Have Come to Trust and Respect

Whatever you call it…you need one…

Learning Network Names

Networking Tools…New and OldConferencesWorkshopsTeacher’s LoungeJournal

SubscriptionsListservs

TwitterBlogsSocial BookmarksPodcastsFacebook

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You don’t learn to swim by sitting beside the pool

You can’t learn about networks without diving in, either.

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Reading List (Digital or Dead Tree)

Reading List (Digital or Dead Tree)

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