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=Alan November: Digital Learning Farm, Students as contributors= Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:03 PM


 * He has been to every ISTE conference for the last 26 years. "We have been having a tech conversation since"

Participants will be able to design "learning jobs" for their students. These jobs challenge students to create content to help other children learn. For example, students can use screen casting software to contribute to a library of math tutorials. Six learning jobs will be outlined: Article: Digital Learning Farm: Students as Contributors, Alan November [] Alan's message at the last session was about having jobs for your students in class. 1 - a notetaker - they take notes on what happened in class and post to your blog. 5 minutes before the bell rings the class goes over them and approves them. 2 - the reasearcher - responsible for a myriad of tasks that might come up during class. 3 - the networker - responsible for finding email addresses of people the class might what to skype with, etc...then at the end of each week the students create at tutorial with some sort of screencst software about something they learned that week. In effect their class website becomes rich with their learning. The end up writing the textbook for the class.
 * Outline**
 * Tutorial Designers
 * Official Scribes
 * Researchers
 * Global Communicators
 * Learning Documentary Producers
 * Solvers of Real Problems
 * Supporting Research**
 * Kids will ask kids for help before they ask a teacher. Learning is social, not individual.
 * If you want to improve learning and learning is social and kids will get help from each other. So we should focus our energy on getting kids to talk together.
 * A student creates a tutorial instead of doing her homework. She spends 2hrs creating the video on factorization and says thank you.
 * Make homework relevant. Don't give grades for tutorial.
 * Don't give grades for any creative work. Don't use a grading system - no grades for purposeful work,
 * Learn how to screencast. Teachers need to learn how to create tutorials.
 * But Leah asks - why invent a new tutorial when it is already out there? Shouldn't we be
 * Here is how alan thinks the first day of school shcoul go. (hea advises for High tech high).
 * First day - give them the top 10 most difficult questions in your content - then tell them to go to youtube and google and find tuturoials for these - tell them you need their help on gathering the information for you.
 * A shift from the teacher improving learning to the students in teams to improve the learning. We hav eto shift the control to the students.

We need to empower the kids to do the learning. We need them to find purpose. Google podcasts room 2008. Students document the learning each day. Have a student each day be the scribe for the day and post to the blog. Rotate scribes - at the end of the week they can create tutorials to post. Rotatoe scribes Wolfframalpha.com Use celll phones to take pictures of the content around you. Document learning team, toutorial design team. Social bookmarking team, google team. Go to google custom search. - under google - more - even more - can create your own search engine for your content area. Student asks - can I go answer my question, too? Isn't it interesting that the students don't think they can go find their own answers, but instead wait for us. Need a kid with a job that’s only job is to do the classroom research. Need another job - the global communicator - this person goes and finds critical email address of people. Kiva.org - based on a nobel prize in economics. Kids adding value to the world beyond their classroom. Leah - think stugo. Kids debate who to help in the world. ePals - Tim is founder and is in this room. Legacy Novemberlearning.com blog
 * 1) 1 - create tutorials.
 * 2) 2 learn documentary producing