TWT+2012-Session+7

TWT 2012 - Session 7: Technology, Passion, and Learning: One Teacher's Journey into the Digital World of 21st Century Learning
Shirley Rinaldi srinaldi@poughkeepsieday.org† Humanities teacher Poughkeepsie Day School Grades PK-8 Subject areas: All Level of experience recommended: Basic † // Students are empowered when working collaboratively and by sharing their work globally through social media. Using a class blog, teaching Wikis, Google Docs, Twitter, Skype and Edmodo, participants will observe how students encompass many Web 2.0 tools to help them become collaborative, creative and flexible thinkers. These tools have become galleries for a variety of learning projects, including student led teaching, showing how content understanding becomes content creation; and learning how the world of the past is made powerfully alive by the emerging tools of the present. // // † // // After taking this workshop, participants will gain a stronger understanding of how to incorporate a variety of web 2.0 tools into the curriculum. Attendees will see that very little technology training or support is needed...just a willingness to jump in and try. // † Instructions for attendees: No equipment required.

Link to my prezi from today

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