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Teaching the iGeneration: 5 Easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills With Web 2.0 Tools

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Teaching the iGeneration
5 Easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills With Web 2.0 Tools

You know what the iGeneration in your classroom looks like. They're the students willing to experiment their way through anything, confident that trial and error can crack the code better than reading manuals or following directions. They're turning to the Internet first and the library second when assigned research projects. Their minds are working fast, but not always as deeply or as accurately as the adults in their lives would like. Yet teachers can capture the attention of the iGeneration and help them grow by integrating technology into classrooms in a way that focuses on the skills that have been important for decades.

Teaching the iGeneration shows how to integrate proven instructional strategies with 21st century tools to make learning more accessible to today's technology-savvy students. Each chapter identifies an enduring skill that students need to acquire—information fluency, persuasion, communication, collaboration, and problem solving—and offers a digital solution to enhance, rather than replace, familiar practices to teach that skill. With this book, educators can make learning more efficient, empowering, and fun.

Authors William M. Ferriter and Adam Garry provide:
  • Practical solutions for using technology to teach essential skills
  • A guide to understanding the pros and cons of Web 2.0 resources
  • Over 70 handouts and activities for each skill and digital tool

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: The iGeneration
Chapter 1: Managing Information in the 21st Century
Chapter 2: Writing Open Letters to World Leaders
Chapter 3: Telling Powerful Visual Stories
Chapter 4: Studying Challenging Topics Together
Chapter 5: Collaborating to Solve Problems
Epilogue
Appendix: Technology Permission Slip
References
Index

REPRODUCIBLES

Chapter 1
Google's Wonder Wheel
Spotting Websites You Just Can't Trust
Judging Quality Web Links
Social Bookmarking as a Research Tool
Shared Annotation Checklist
Reflecting on Diigo Annotations
Scoring Shared Annotation Efforts

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Using Feed Readers to Organize Student Thinking
Diigo Social Bookmarking Directions for Teachers
Diigo Social Bookmarking Directions for Students
Social Bookmarking Roles
Diigo Shared Annotation Directions for Teachers
Diigo Shared Annotation Directions for Students
Shared Annotation Roles
Additional Information Management Tools and Resources

Chapter 2
Recognizing Different Perspectives
Collecting and Respecting Different Perspectives
Exploring Misguided Arguments
An Introduction to Convincing Evidence
Evaluating Persuasive Letters
Convincing Evidence Tracking Sheet
Persuasive Letter Organizing Template
Persuasive Letter Scoring Rubric
Leaving Good Blog Comments
Teacher Checklist for Blogging Projects
Blog Entry Scoring Checklist

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Studying Poverty: Infonation Comparison Activity
Studying Poverty: Infonation Comparison Summary Notes
Do Something Funny for Money Day
Lending to a Woman
Lending to a Group
Giving a Gift Certificate to Another Class
Which Country Should We Loan to?
Kiva Loan Questions
Kiva Loan Questions: Your Notes
Persuasive Speech Organizer
Rating Kiva Loan Opportunities
Directions for Posting Blog Entries
Additional Blogging Tools and Resources

Chapter 3
The Characteristics of Memorable Images
Checklist for Creating Influential Visual Images
Public Service Announcement: PowerPoint Slide Scoring Rubric
Scoring Influential Visual Images
Public Service Announcement Scripting Template
Examining a Video
Teacher Digital Video Checklist
Public Service Announcement: Video Scoring Rubric

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Assembling Your Public Service Announcement
Video Editing Applications

Chapter 4
Learning About Conversation Behaviors
Targeting Conversation Behaviors
Previewing an Asynchronous Conversation
Commenting in an Asynchronous Conversation
What Can Digital Conversations Look Like
Scoring Student Participation in Asynchronous Conversations
Reflecting on an Asynchronous Conversation
VoiceThread in Action
Asynchronous Conversation Checklist
Teacher Videoconferencing Checklist
Tracking Your Videoconference
Student Videoconferencing Preparation Checklist
Skype Skills to Master
Reflecting on Digital Conversations
Additional Sources for Studying Videoconferencing and Skype

Chapter 5
Understanding the Problem
Evaluating Potential Solutions
Rating Potential Solutions
Problem-Solution Introductions
Writing Solution Paragraphs
Rating Problem-Solution Pieces
Exploring Wikis in Action
Characteristics of Quality Wiki Pages
Wiki Roles for Student Groups
Teacher Checklist for Wiki Projects
Wiki Tasks for Student Groups
Wiki Scoring Rubric

Online Only
Popular Wiki Services
PBworks Directions for Teachers
PBworks Directions for Students

VIDEO TUTORIALS
You will need Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player, or VLC Media Player to view the video tutorials.

Blogger
Creating a Blog
Starting and Entry
Adding Labels
Adding a Video From Your Computer
Adding a Video From the Internet
Images
Linking
Publish
Signing In

Diigo
Introduction
Adding Bookmarks
Adding New Annotations
Browsing Links
Create Student Accounts
Create Student Groups
Following Annotations on the Homepage
Installing a Toolbar
Sorting and Speaking
Tag Dictionary
Viewing and Responding to Annotations

MovieMaker
Assembling Your Video
Create Image Slides
Create Text Slides
Importing Content
Saving Slides as Images

Pageflakes
Introduction to Pageflakes
About RSS
Adding a Blog
Adding RSS Feeds
Creating Tabs and Navigation
Editing Flakes
Message Board and To-Do List
Publish, Pagecast
Skimming

PBworks
Adding Comments
Adding Pictures
Create a New Page
Creating Free Wiki
Creating Student Accounts
Editing Wiki Pages
Embedding Content
Exploring Wikis
Inserting Links
Monitoring Wiki Changes
Reverting to Earlier Changes
Workplace Security Options

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Content Aggregators
Google Reader
Netvibes
Pageflakes
Teacher Pageflakes

Collaborative Research Tools/Social Bookmarking Applications
Blackboard
Blogger
Delicious
Diigo
Diigolet
Edublogs
Ning
Sidewiki
SnipURL
TypePad

Teacher Blog Examples
The Line
Joint Online Projects

Visual Content
Adobe Premiere Elements
Animoto
blinkx
blip.tv
Flickr
Flickr Creative Commons
Hulu
MorgueFile
Slideshare
Truveo
TeacherTube
Wikimedia
Windows Movie Maker
YouTube

Internet Safety
Childnet
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Television Shows
To Catch a Predator
Growing Up Online

Synchronous Applications
Chatzy
Dimdim
ePals
Skype
tinychat
TodaysMeet
Twitter
VoiceThread

Skype Resources
Skype in Schools Wiki
Skype Other Classrooms

Videoconferencing Resources
50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom
Met Any Good Authors Lately?
Videoconferencing Out on a Lim

VoiceThread Examples
Genocide in Darfur
Learning About Adaptation and Mutation
Why Do People Hate?

Wikis
PBworks
Wikispaces
Wetpaint

Student Wiki Examples
The Blurb
Carbon Fighters
Horizon Project 2008
The Global Warming Girls
The Green Squad
The Monster Project
PBworks Directory of Wikis
The Solution to Pollution

Kid-Friendly Social Networking Sites
Club Penguin
DimensionM
LEGO Network
Webkinz

Student Involvement in Social Issues
CIA World Factbook
Kiva
The Letters to the Next President project
United Nations' Infonation Tool

Articles
Afsana's Story
Obama on Poverty
Poverty Facts and Stats

Photos
Homeless in Sugamo 1
Save Our Children

Video
Poverty Matters

SUGGESTED RESOURCES

Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond
ccMixter
Clicker
ClustrMaps
Evian Roller-Skating Babies
Free Forever, Dog Island Hoax
GarageBand
Google Gadgets
Google Squared
Tree Octopus Hoax
Zappos Advertisement


ABOUT THE AUTHORS