May+20


 * Sharing**
 * Education Eye - Randy
 * The Digital World of Young Children: Emergent Literacy (pp.11-14) -Cindy
 * F-shaped Pattern for Reading Web Content - Cindy
 * 10 Things You'll Want To Read This Summer - Randy
 * Blogs Worth Reading -Adam
 * Wordle - Doug

Understanding the Digital Generation - Discussion of Chapter 3

Personal Learning Networks (PLN) - What are they?

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Posting PLN diagram to wiki

Populating Google Reader with RSS feeds - What are your personal and professional interests?

Thinking about putting a network together (from Will Richardson):
 * 1) Can you identify the fifty smartest or most accomplished people who share your passions or interests, regardless of where they reside?
 * 2) How many of these people are currently in your professional/personal networks?
 * 3) How many of these people have you been able to engage actively in an initiative related to your shared passions or interests?
 * 4) To how many of these people would you feel comfortable reaching out and mobilizing in a new initiative related to your shared passions and interests?
 * 5) For these fifty people, how effectively are you using social media to increase your mutual awareness of each other’s activities?

Blogs by Subject

Google - search strategies
 * Google Blog Search
 * Google News Search

Using the wiki - editing; adding links; uploading files

** Next Meeting: Tuesday, May 25 - 4:00-7:00 PM New Topic: Sharing, Discussion of Chapters 4 and 5** **//Understanding the Digital Generation//** **, reading/commenting on blog posts, add to RSS reader.**
 * Assignments for Tuesday, May 25**
 * Chapter 3 in //Understanding the Digital Generation// contains some strong belief statements about how students learn, think and behave today. Let's see what our students think! Based on what you have read so far in Chapters 1-3, generate a list of 3-5 questions that you will ask in an interview with 2-3 students you teach or know (could be relatives). Submit your questions via your personal wiki page by Sunday evening, May 23. I will provide you with feedback (via the discussion tab) on the questions. Also, you may wish to visit the wiki pages of your classmates to see what kinds of questions they are asking. During the week of May 24, choose 2-3 students to interview. These conversations can be as short as 10 minutes. Reflect on your conversations through the lens of the material presented in Chapters 1-3. For Tuesday, June 1, you will develop a blog post in which you present evidence from your student interviews that supports or refutes the assertions made by the authors. In class on June 1, we will attempt to synthesize all of your responses in relation to the notion that our students' brains are "wired" differently. This activity will address three areas: (1) the inquiry process; (2) challenge our assumptions about our students; (3) provide an opportunity to collect, analyze and synthesize data focused on a topic related to our course.
 * Read Chapters 4 and 5 in //Understanding the Digital Generation// and post "added value" content to the wiki as done previously. Please visit the Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 pages and investigate the links posted by your classmates.
 * Your RSS reader will be the core of your personal learning network. Using the questions outlined above, collect a half dozen feeds in your Google Reader that are personal to you.
 * Develop a blog post describing what you have discovered through your reader related to your personal and professional interests. Describe any new learning that has occurred and how your new learning might change or enrich something about your learning passions. Here is a [| rubric] you can use as a guide. REFLECTION is key. Good writing is important, too. Length is whatever works best for you and the story you want to tell.Visit the blogs of your classmates and post comments or critiques.