Brian Cole

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WELCOME

• Brian Cole
• Chris oneal

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Technology Today
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Tuck This Thought Away 2

• Theres not really a time or place at school for
  me to share, or publish my own stuff, or
  especially get feedback from people all over
  thats really the only reason I rush home to do
  MySpace so much.

High School Honors Student
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21st Century Students

• Survey of 1,100 young people between the ages of
  12 and 17 and their parents
• More than half of them go online every day
• 81 percent of wired teens play games online,
  which is 52 percent higher than four years ago
• 76 percent of online teens get news online, which
  is 38 percent higher than four years ago

Pew Internet and American Life Project July 25,
2005
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21st Century Social Networking

• 66 of Online Teens say their profile is no
  longer visible to everyone, only screened friends
• 32 of Online Teens were contacted by strangers,
  with 65 of those stating that they ignored the
  contact, deleted, or reported it
• I'm really careful with the whole MySpace
  thing...I've heard of employers not hiring people
  because of it. I dont post anything that I cant
  show my mom or grandma.

Pew Internet Project, April 2007
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Todays Internet Users - Video

• Online Video Whos watching what?
• 57 of total online adults have watched videos
  online
• 76 of the 18-29 age bracket consume, upload, and
  share video
• News comedy for the young adult group

Pew Internet Project, July 2007
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Todays Internet Users Social Video

• Video Social video viewing
• 57 of the total surveyed population watch video
  with others
• 73 of the young adult group does so
• YouTubes blogging/commenting sections are the
  most popular

Pew Internet Project, March 2007
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Decision-making online resources

• In 2005, 60 million adult Americans said the
  Internet played a MAJOR role in making decisions
• Career training and/or changes
• Helping another with a major illness or medical
  condition
• Choosing school (for self or child)
• Bought a car
• Made major investment/financial decision
• Found a new place to live
• Dealt with ones own major illness or medical
  condition

OECD, May 2007
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21st Century Information Access
Where people report getting most of their science
and news information
OECD, May 2007
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Todays Users - Information Online

• 44 of the 18-29 age group use Wikipedia to look
  for information
• Of all online users surveyed, 50 of those with
  at least a college degree consult Wikipedia,
  compared with 22 of those with only a high
  school diploma
• Wikipedia is now the top free online educational
  reference site
• 5.3 million total entries

Pew Internet Project, April 2007
Hitwise, March 2007
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Social Networking
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MySpace / Facebook Skills

• Writing
• Creating
• Producing
• Collaborating
• Communicating
• Reading
• Decision Making
• Socializing

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National Tech Standards 2.0

• NETS-Students recently refreshed and released
• Address higher-order uses of technology
• More aligned to problem-solving, communication,
  collaboration

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NETS S

• Which of these are already well addressed?
• Which of these would be toughest to implement?
  Why?
• Where could your department begin? How?

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Technology Changes and Web 2.0

• Web 2.0 simply means an Internet that is more
• Customizable
• Interactive
• User-Centric
• Controllable
• Mobile
• Socially Motivated

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Students and Blogging

• A 5th grader, when asked about her blogging
  experience
• My teacher measured the readability of my posts
  from the beginning of the year until now. I went
  from lower 2nd grade to 5th grade this year. What
  did I learn? Well, I pretty much found out that
  the more detailed descriptions I used in my post,
  the more comments I got back. Now I just cant
  find enough time to write as much as I want!

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Todays Agenda

• School 2.0 Resources
• http//schooltwopointo.wikispaces.com