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Dowling College School of Education

EDU 6633 Video and Telecommunications Spring 2012 Dr. George Maurer gmaurer22@gmail.com maurerg@dowling.edu 516-237-2501

Week 2 - March 24, 2012

Welcome to class. Here is this week's agenda:
 * Recap of Week 1
 * Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants and the Flipped Classroom Model - see Blackboard Assignment Page for Video Presentation
 * Google Tools


 * Our Work...**

//Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky, (2001)// //From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom// by Marc Prensky, (2011)


 * Marc Prensky coined the terms digital native and digital immigrants over 10 years ago in this article. Please read this article which will serve as background information on his beliefs. Then, read the article below written in 2011 to see whether his notion has changed over the years.
 * Read the following article and respond to the questions posed in the discussion tab at the top of this page.

The Flipped Classroom
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Google Tools
As you know, Google offers a powerful set of tools for educators and students alike. Google documents, GMAIL, Google Plus are just some of the web-based tool available to use. Today we are going to spend some time talking about Google Reader. Please view these brief video explanations of Google Reader.

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Getting Started with Google Reader...the basics....
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Now that you have an understanding of Google Reader, let's talk about how it can be a useful tool. Google Reader will allow you to stay current on topics that are important for you. You can have topics that relate to your hobbies and interests, along with topics that relate to your work. We will be focusing our attention on getting started with populating our "educational technology" feeds. You will see that as you begin with just a few webpages or blogs to follow, your feed list will grow as you become exposed to other educators referenced by those you are following. Like what others have to say? Add them to your Reader and start following. Below are a few people I suggest you follow. They will provide you with a plethora of great ideas that you can use in your classroom.

Vicki Davis - Cool Cat Teacher Blog Wes Fryer - Moving at the Speed of Creativity Larry Ferlazzo - this is an ESL / ELL site, but many of his ideas are cross curricular David Warlick Richard Byrne - Free Technology for Teachers

Once you have added these sites to your Reader, review their sites and see what they have to offer. Once we are all set up in Reader, I will explain how we will build our capacity to share knowledge with one another as a small learning community.