METC 2010: Sessions

Wednesday, February 10: 10:50 - 11:40 AM
The refreshed National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) call for technology to be used for authentic learning and educational transformation. Technology's role shifts from "tools" to "processes" like creativity, collaboration, and social responsibility. Transparent, assumed and ubiquitous technology-embedded methods enable teachers to work on real-world learning that result in profound personal changes in students' thinking, experiencing, and being in the world.

Tuesday, February 9: 2:20 - 3:10 PM
In spite of large class sizes, and with little or no classroom technologies, students in Singapore, Japan and China score among the top 5 countries in the world in mathematics and science achievement. Based on our observations and research results in Asian classrooms, we describe valuable lessons U.S. educators can learn from Asian educators' in technology uses and student achievement.

Tuesday, February 9: 10:50 - 11:40 AM
Our students deal with an enormous number of sensory inputs on any given day. Helping them focus attention is a critical first step when engaging students. Getting their attention is only the first step. Learn how to keep your learners' interests piqued so you can keep them engaged. Find out what it will take to compel students to do things differently and how to engage with ideas, information, and each other.

Digital Kids learn from watching, showing, and sharing with others. Discover what social learning is all about and how to allow students and give learners a sense of feeling personally engaged. To provide a 21st Century Learning Environment we need to engage learners in the active negotiation of new knowledge so that new learning will be relevant to each and every contributor and will provide a memorable learning experience. If we learn how to change the learning environment the greater likelihood students will remember what they've learned. Learning is unique to each individual and we need to discover how to give the learners the skills to engage. In today's socially networked world, it's important to help students feel connected to the community.

Tuesday, February 9: 9:45 - 10:35 AM
There are so many ways to show what one has learned or what one knows, yet sometimes we forget to consider the many alternatives to quizzes, tests, and reports. This session will focus on the ways students and teachers can harness technologies to show what they know. Formative and summative evaluation using technologies as well as effective resources and tools for evaluation of student technology projects will both be included.

Tuesday, February 9: 1:00 - 1:50 PM
Powerful technologies and information systems have caused a parallel change in the knowledge base. Facts are becoming obsolete faster. InfoWhelm is causing societies to reorganize their knowledge, break down the boundaries between conventional disciplines and fundamentally alter themselves. Yet schools remain largely the same as they have for decades.

This session outlines exactly what InfoWhelm is and why it's essential that students develop the 21st century Fluency skills needed to operate in this new world. Learn how Informational, Technological and Media Fluency can be taught in the same structured manner that traditional subjects are taught-embedded at every grade level, in every subject area, the responsibility of every teacher throughout the entire school experience.