Using technology to engage today's learners
Engaging Digital Minds
Nouns
Verbs
How should we approach technology use?
Marc Prensky talks about Nouns v. Verbs.
What do you want your students to DO?
List the verbs that are most important for your students. Consider:
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Common Core
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Bloom's Taxonomy
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Gardner's 5 Minds for the Future
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21st Century Skills
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Discipline-specific objectives
What tools are available to help students do that?
Which tool (of the many) will work best in your environment?
Nouns change, verbs don't
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PowerPoint
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Keynote
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Google Presentations
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Prezi
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Projeqt
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Haiku Deck
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Educreations
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Glogster
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Comic Life
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Enhanced Podcast
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Vidcast
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Digital Storytelling
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Websites
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etc.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas (Anchor Standard)
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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.5 Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.
Common Core ELA RI.8.7. Grade 8 students: Evaluate the advantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.
Tools that facilitate presentation (nouns)
Example: Present (verb)
With all of the tools out there, how do we decide what to use?
Time to investigate.
Choose a verb that is important to you and your students. Use the Internet to research tools that you might use to have your students perform that verb. Choose one that you are interested in and create a brief presentation about it using the presentation tool of your choice.
