ISTE Conference Day 3

Keynote: Innovation & Excellence
- Buzzwords or Global Imperative?

Spotlight : Empathy - 21st Century Skills

Challenge every teacher to network with other teachers. Students should graduate with networks that they can utilise for the rest of their lives.
Who works harder? Teachers or students?
Who should work harder? Teachers or students?
In China and India, the students work harder. It is not technology but work ethics.
When asked what is the most important skill of the global business. The answer of the CEO of a bank was empathy. ie. ability to understand other cultures, points of view

Watch youtube: Michael Wesch

Westpoint the articulated mission was Win the War the new mission is Win the Peace. This change in mission is very powerful. What is our mission?

When you don't know you don't know. That's worse.
Compare a Google search
- turkey pope riots islam vs Pope speech riots site:tr islam
- site:sch.uk "American Revolution" (when searching on information American Revolution from the perspective of the British students/teachers)

Challenge: teachers to create assignments that they have never tried before.
E.g. connecting the teacher who created the site from Britain and getting the kids in US and UK to debate "Was the American Revolution necessary?". The students will work even harder to find the facts so that they are able to engage in the debate.

After showing a video project done by a US student on "Number the Stars" in Denmark, the audience shared the pictures portrayed does not truly reflect the times from their perspective. We need to connect our kids with kids in Denmark.

We're using internet tools as tools and not as a global tool.

search twitter.com

Prepare kids for more than contents but to manage global relationship. They are struggling and trying to figure out how to do it using social networking tools. Our response is to block them.

http://novemberlearning.com/an-interview-with-rahaf-harfoush-part-2-of-2/

BYOL: Early Childhood Virtual Field Trips
Presenters' Site: http://givememoretech.org
http://todaysmeet.com/virtualfieldtrips
youtube: A vision for 21st Century Learning by ameyers3727
Students' virtual field trip - imnews

Engaging our students in virtual field trips, putting learning into context. To educate, manifest it in their lives.
2nd Life virtual field trips
Pre-activity prior to field trips: e.g. PowerPoint slide show of animal prior to visits to the zoo. This gives them prior knowledge and enhance their experience.
Videos for younger students should be slow moving as their eye muscles are still developing.

Assessment for learning

SIG Session - Using iPod touch and iPhones for Teaching and Learning

Useful iPhone/iPad Apps
simplenotes, foursquare, fingerpiano(music), edmodo (social networking), US Geography by Discovery(Geography), LanSchool(Controls on other ipad/iphone), icell (shows cells in 3D), good reader (download pdf/Google apps and read them), Mathsnacks (Animation on Math Concepts), Dragon Dictation, iplayand, Easy Relax, ibanner, quick office connect, magcanvas, doodle buddy, kidphone, iwritewords(letter recognition), newton's craddle, trace(problem-solving), Alien Equation(Math Drill&Practice), ABC Tracer and more, Calibre (converts pdf into e-book), band, easyguitar

Free
louvre (art education), Brainpop, edutecher, video science, touch goal, what's the word on the street, pendugeo(geography hangman game), cyberbullying
E-books: Toy Story, three little pigs lite, twilight lite

These SIG, Birds of a Feather Sessions, are really great. Like-minded individuals coming together to share what they have found useful for teaching and learning. This builds the resources as well as capacity. At grassroots level, teachers helping teachers. Will recommend this for future ICTlt or even cluster professional development.