Google Summit

Keynote - Joseph Du Fore "Our Technology, Our Brains, Our Future"

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The future is here. We need to figure out how to navigate it.

More data is added every hour to YouTube than all of the info in the Library of Congress.

Every two years the speed of the bandwidth doubles.

What about over stimulation?

Students are getting the same  amount of face-to-face time as they always did, but now they never disconnect. Technology is wonderful, but it is not everything.  The brain, like any other muscle needs time to work hard, but it also needs time to relax.

For the last seventy years each generation is smarter than the previous one.

IQ is going up, but creativity is going down. 

Kids do so much better when they learn in the environment they are used to. Those students who spend 4-5 hours watching tv or playing video games should learn that way.

Must Haves

Cloud - collaborative and assistive

eLearning

Flipped Classroom

Digital Resources

Mobile Learning

We can catch up to our students in technology.

Find stuff. Learn, find knowledgeable friends, websites, beg, borrow ideas

Learn yourself

Encourage others. 

Extended Keynote: "Common Core and Digital Education"

Handouts should be on AEA website

ISTE-NETS - maps out what you should be mastering in technology - teachers, students, administrators etc. 

Four Types of Ways to Communicate

1.  Professional- needs to be proofread

2.  Productive - doesn't have to be in proper form

3.  Personal

4.  140- texting culture

Common Core Language

Produce- Docs, presentation, Spreadsheet, SketchUp, Go!Animate, Pixlr- photo editing, 

                Screen Capture - Jing, Camtasia, videotapes your screen, whatever you do and say

                 Explain Everything - app for iTunes, Infogram, wevideo, Animoto,   

Publish - blogs, ePubs (File or mats publishing companies use), Google sites, blogger, gives       

              purpose to writing, creating content for Wikkipedia, YouTube, (unlisted means it's not   

              searchable), Facebook ( the world's worst privacy policy - steamiest underbelly of all)

Collaborate - Voice Thread, Quizlet - digital flash cards, Diigo,

Evaluate - WOT - Web of Trust - used to verify websites

       

Present -  Prezi, Edcanvus, Mindomo, Cacoo- the best concept map ever

Integrate- LiveBinders

Enhance - Nearpod, 

Are we a Google Apps for Education school?

I talked to Ryan Loots, Thomas Jefferson HS. He encouraged me to explore the Google Chrome store. He sent me an email showing two tools: one to limit distractibility and one to read text aloud. 

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