This installment from FETC 2011, called Next-Generation Computing: Using the Cloud to Build Innovative Learning Environments, is presented by John Kuglin. The program guide says of this presentation:
It is obvious that our country will continue to compete in a global economy that demands innovation. To ensure 21st century readiness for every student, we must fuse the three Rs and four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation). To answer this challenge, a new category of web-based technologies are emerging that uses the the new capabilities of the internet. This revolutionary development is called "cloud computing." Educators need to understand and benefit from these new cloud-based capabilities. Cloud facilitates new levels of collaboration helping to attain higher levels of academic achievement. Join John Kuglin as he navigates through numerous cloud-based applications, and the promise they hold for educators. Discover new collaboration tools, distribution techniques, and innovative presentation methodologies. You will leave with many pioneering and cost-effective tools you can use the next day in class!
Audio File of Presentation (mp3, 18.1 Mb - right-click to download; click to play)
- Personal Productivity – think and work differently with cloud computing
- Focus – advancing student achievement: that's what's important
Our policies are antiquated: no electronics in school
Do our schools meet the needs of a new generation of learners...?
T.H.E. Journal cover: the social classroom
The Cloud allows educators to give students MORE than what the time allows
Knowledge of core content is necessary, but not enough any more. Now need to also be able to:
- communicate
- collaborate
- analyze
- create
- innovate
- solve problems
Why The Cloud is Important
New Bloom's Taxonomy is verb-based, action-based (Bloom's Digital Taxonomy)
Move away from print resources so you have more $$ for digital resources
Cloud Tools:
- Google Docs – collaboration tools
- Google Earth – Geo-Reference Curriculum
- Innovative Storage
- Google Sites – Digital Presence
- Screencast-o-Matic – Custom Online Tutorials
- Collaborative Mind Mapping – Curriculum Plannint Tools
- Sliderocket – Innovative Presentation Tools
Intel Teach Program
Kuglin's 10-day or 3-day workshops
The new iPad...
The beginning of BYOT – bring your own technologies
Cloud Computing
Google Apps Marketplace EDU
Learning.com – SKY – Digital Learning Environment
(to help get textbooks out of the classroom)
- custom curriculum publishing
Spoon.net – serving the cloud
- Oregon Trail
- back to the future
Pogoplug – build your own cloud
$90 on Amazon
desktop connect – iPad app to control computer desktop
Online tutorials – Screencast-o-matic.com
mindmaster
Now what's in a child's backpack?
Not books!
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