Discovery Education Speakers Bureau

One of the unforeseen consequences into technology’s integration in the social fabric is the creation of new knowledge, including new content and new strategies for teaching and learning. The challenges of content creation especially match 21st Century learners and the digital classroom. Jobs, global problems, and communication will be intertwined with the creation of both knowledge and content, and the ability to look at and analyze what is newly created will become a 21st Century skill. Originally created as a strategy for teachers of the gifted, this approach applies to all learners and gives a new perspective on what to do with all those digital tools

The “stand alone” method of teaching is fading and being replace by a model that taps colleagues, content, experts, and communication from both around the world and across the hall.  Collaborative projects with 'real time' elements take boldness and planning but building 21st Century Learners into 21st Century citizens makes it worthwhile . Watch some case study previews of coming classroom practice that tap Web 2.0, state curriculum standards, and student dedication .

The benefits of the digital world have arrived. State legislatures recognized dynamic teaching and assessment environments match 21st Century learning styles. As a result, laws changed in states across the country, enabling digital supplementary materials to replace traditional texts. Suddenly, differentiated instruction became more effective, along with accountability and sharing. Leaders can now build an education that lifts their students into the world where they succeed.

Going digital means significant upcoming changes in education.  Explore what this means to supplemental curriculum materials, individualized teaching and learning, and communication. Assessment and evaluation can be more effective and efficient. An overview of the near future that puts you ahead of the game and an exploration of tools you could be using today. Learn how create, publish, and effectively use media on the web.  Tap the power of Web 2.0 social networking tools for professional strength. Also, learn to effectively monitor assets like instructional media in your school or district, and ways to use your cellphone and discover its secret power to make your job easier.

Media moves up in engagement when kids and their content move, literally, onto the screen. An in-depth look at chromakey (green screen) and captioning. Chromakey allows students into curriculum videos. Captioning allows them to describe, transcribe, or transform media while emphasizing literacy skills. Both Mac and PCs solutions demonstrated.

Technology serves the needs of GATE students extraordinarily well.  It offers near-bottomless depth and complexity, materializes themes and skillbuilding in context.  Learn strategies with Google Earth and media content creation.  Build projects in literature, geography, mathematics and more. From simple code, grow wizards.  By linking instructional media to location, instruction hit many targets with a single arrow.

Web 2.0 sites, webcams, easy editors and media libraries mean you can make and remix meaningful media for the classroom.  Avatars wink, Mt. Rushmore speaks, markers circle, long videos shrink.  Add captioning, chromakey, and more to help curriculum stick for the media-minded students you teach.  A fast-paced tour of tools and techniques. Most are free, the rest reasonable. Examples from primary through high school.

There are some mysteries worth demystifiying. HTML code is the backbone behind more than just the Internet. Yet few teachers spent time on it. Basic knowledge can create new awareness and power for students.  Media players like iPods can be changed. Projects can dazzle inside Google Earth.  Videos can be inserted onto the websites, and much more.  Learn simple cut-and-pastes for beginners or experts that will pullback the curtain and create wizards in your classroom.

Communication and evaluation are critical tasks for administrators.  The job requires time and demands effectiveness.  The tools of Web 2.0  can make an administrator’s job easier, faster, and more fun. Exploit dedicated Web tools for communication, vision, and interchange. Twitter, VoiceThread, wikis, blogs, and cellphones offer unexpected benefits.  Using new tools effectively can change the way you work.    Find the tools that will better and more engagingly connect you with your staff and community.  Great classroom applications, too.  Content creation, texting, and social sites-- they’re not just for students!

You buy technology and resources.  But does your school use them effectively?  What about monitoring and mentoring? Learn how to use the amazing data digital resources generate for these administrative tasks—and more.  Digital media takes informative snapshots every, day, month, and year.  Match it with data from state tests.  Use data to increase achievement, steer in-house professional development, and increase differentiated instruction.  Learn how to maximize classroom resources and craft strategies for elevating the instructional plan using powerful tools at your fingertips. Many products have admin features. For this session, DiscoveryEducationStreaming data will be the model for district, school, and teacher data.