Integrating Media

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Integrating Media Technology into the Classroom
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Young Childrens Use of Screen Media by Age, 2006
In a typical day, the percent of children who use
screen media, by age
0-1 year-olds
61
2-3 year-olds
88
4-6 year olds
90
SOURCE Kaiser Family Foundation, The Media
Family Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants,
Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Their Parents, May
2006.
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Time Spent with Selected Media Types for Children
Age 6 and Under, 2006
Among those who use each medium in a typical day,
average amount of time spent by children age 6
and under
157
119
118
055
050
Using screen media
Watching TV
Watching videos/DVDs
Playing video games
Using a computer
SOURCE Kaiser Family Foundation, The Media
Family Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants,
Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Their Parents, May
2006.
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Media use by kids

• Kids 2-17, watch television on average almost 25
  hours per week or 3 ½ hours a day.
• Almost one in five watch more than 44 hours of TV
  each week
• Television is the top after school activity
  chosen by children ages 6 to 17
• The average American child may view as many as
  40,000 television commercials every year

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Media, Youth and Education
52 of Americans can name at least 2 members of
the Simpsons family while only 28 can name 2 of
the freedoms granted by the First Amendment.
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Screen-agers

• Screen-agers are techno-savvy young people,
  reared on television and computers.
• They see media not as discrete products that can
  impact them or their culture, but as elements
  of a multimedia mosaic that is their culture.
• Douglas Rushkopf

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How do we engage the screen-agers

• Lets use what students are already doing to our
  advantage
• Awaken their prior knowledge of MEDIA
• Internet
• TV
• Movies
• Video Games
• Cell Phone text messaging

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Teaching with Media

• Movies, advertisements, and all other visual
  media are tools teachers need to use and media we
  must master if we are to maintain our credibility
  in the coming years.
• Jim Burke, author of The English Teachers
  Companion

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If students are engaged and working, the result
will be GROWTH
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Integrating Media

• Disney and NASA send Buzz Lightyear into space
• Magical Mountain News

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They know the storiesteach students the correct
terminology and they will take off on their own

• Plot
• Setting
• Point of View
• Conflict
• Characterization

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Go Diego Go Theme Song
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Teaching with Film

• Who says movies aren't valuable instructional
  tools? When students are engaged with the content
  through a medium they love, they learn better and
  retain more.
• Middle Ground October 2006
• Focus On Film Learning It Through The Movies
• Agenda

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Media Creators and Producers

• 54 of those surveyed said they are making
  their own entertainment content through editing
  photos, videos or music,
• 45 said they are producing that content for
  others to see,
• 32 said they consider themselves to be
  "broadcasters" of their own media.
• State of The Media Democracy, December
  2007

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Our students are like us

• Personalize
• Screens, pictures, audio, font, ringtones

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Collaborate

• Interpersonal Exchange
• Email, e-pals, answering questions
• Information Gathering and Analysis
• Data collection projects
• Problem Solving
• How do we create a better community?

• Learning Networks

• Make
• Connections
• Contributions
• Conversations
• Requests
• Agenda

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Create

• Blogs
• Wikis
• Podcasts
• Videos
• Messaging

• Become an active participant instead of a passive
  user
• Learn about tools
• Lurking
• Participate
• Become a contributor
• Agenda

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Teaching with Images
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Images as Sources of Questions
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Images as sources of Learning

• Have students use a digital camera to take
  pictures that generate questions
• Help them move to higher-order thinking
• Visual of factors of 10
• Take a picture of something at -
• 1 meter
• 10 meters
• 100 meters

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Commercial Scripts

• Fed Ex advertisements

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Writing Screenplays

• "If video is how we are communicating and
  persuading in this new century, why aren't more
  students writing screenplays as part of their
  schoolwork?" Heidi Hayes Jacob, Educational
  consultant

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Digital Storytelling Kids Vid
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What are you already doing with technology in
your classroom?
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What do you wish you could be doing with
technology in your classroom?
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Why aren't you doing it?
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Additional Technologies

• WebQuests
• PowerPoints
• Interactives
• School Website

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Are we going to be providers of information or
cultivators of learning?
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Now its your turn

• Choose one area to explore
• Find an idea you can take back and use in your
  classroom
• 5-10 minutes exploring
• Share with the group
• How will you use it in your classroom?
• Agenda

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Dawns Role in the District

• To be a RESOURCE for each of you
• Collaborate with you to support your content
  standards
• Help you find what you need
• books, media and technology resources
• Assist you in integrating technology with subject
  area content standards
• If you dont understand the technology - ASK
• Model strategies for accessing and using
  information technologies