Teacher and Technology Jan. 23 2014

SB Attendance

We have one student who needs a presentation group. Anyone need a partner or 3rd member? Please see me or the twitter feed message.

John Finch - LwICT - Manitoba Education

Next class - how to cite materials in your web space, Creative Commons, more Big Ideas.

First Meta-Topic Question

Describe one or more 'metateachnition' experiences you have had (or will have in the next week!!). What do you end up noticing? What is important to you? What do you notice about other people? Does this help you understand yourself as a prospective teacher? Please do not use real names.

RWL for Jan 28-31

13 REASONS WHY DIGITAL LEARNING IS BETTER - READ THIS SHORT ARTICLE AND BE PREPARED FOR THE TEST. HOW MUCH OF THIS IS DIFFERENT?

At least TWO of the following and bring your notes:

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You - http://www.sustainable-city.org/intervws/mander.htm

Videos:

http://fora.tv/2006/11/28/Paradigm_Wars#fullprogram - You can watch just segments of this using the choices listed. It would not play in Firefox for me, but was fine in Chrome.

General videos by Mander - or do your own search

Metaphor

Lakoff and Johnson - Metaphors We Live By - and a summary and Bower's critique

Lakoff video of how this started

Lakoff  video - Framing

Neil Postman - Five Things we should Know About Technological Change

- from an educator’s point of view?

In class we will watch videos about waste disposal, cell phone minerals and farming.