Student Starships: Teaching and Learning in the New Millennium   By Annette Lamb   Innovators unite! It's time to use the tools and resources of technology to reach for the stars. Explore effective ways to integrate Internet into the classroom, match standards and instructional development ideas with teaching and learning strategies, and consider ways to meet the individual differences of your students. The Internet can be the great discriminator or the great equalizer. You decide. Give students the tools to build their own student starship and set a unique course into the new millennium!

Books + Technology

Set in a place where innovation is a crime

The Worst Band in the Universe - Graeme Base

Innovators Unite!

Tools & Resources

Books

CD-audios

Computer software

Video recordings

Digital cameras

Internet resources

http://www.brainpop.com

Opportunities

Interaction - students, adults, experts

Collaboration - across grade, class,country

Try find a way

http://gaggle.net

Musical Expression

Oral History of Music Listeners

Writing of Music Lyrics

Science of Instruments

Music of the Millennium

Kid's Guide to the Millennium - Love & Drake

Why Internet?

daily updates

timely activities

connecting kids

teacher ideas

http://eduscapes.com/42explore/milenn.htm

http://eduscapes.com/42explore/millenn2.htm

http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/mill/index.htm

http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/an2000_uk/

http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000/

http://www.yakscorner.com/yaklennium/index2.htm

http://www.keo.org/keo2/index.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/index.shtml

http://www.dot.gov/mtp/

http://www.mars2030.net/

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5127/

http://www.irving.isd.tenet.edu/good/millennium.htm

Seek out new worlds

What is technology integration?

Designing Learning Environments

Great Inventions - Discovery Company

New learning worlds

Match desired outcomes (standards)

to instructional development

to teaching to learning

Finding Resources

Starting Points for children, young adults, adults

http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

http://eduscapes.com/42explore/invent.htm

Pick 4 Starting Points

Find Project Headquarters

Information Resources

Databases

Links Sites

Activities

Lessons

Experts

http://web.mit.edu/invent/index.html

http://inventors.about.com/

http://www.inventored.org/k-12/

http://www.invent.org/inventure.html

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm

http://www.patentcafe.com/kids_cafe/index.html

Select Age Appropriate Resources

Readability

Text & Visual Presentation

Maturation

Activities

http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/

Share Student-Produced Projects

Use projects by kids for kids

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5847/homepage.htm

Use Meaningful Activities

Integrate Games

Match to curriculum

Springboard

Info Presentation

Practice

Review

Transfer

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/inventions/

Mix On/Off Computer

Internet: Live information and communication, Saved, Printed

Real materials

Digital cameras

http://www1.shore.net/~biy/parade.htm

Think Management: Individually, Pairs, Groups

http://www.discovery.com/stories/history/toys/toys.html

Do it Regularly: Daily, Weekly,Quarterly

http://colitz.com/site/wacky.htm

Join In: Contest, Project, Program

http://www.nsta.org/programs/craftsman.htm

Multimedia: Text, Audio, Video, Graphics

http://genxtvland.simplenet.com/SchoolHouseRock/song.hts?hi+mother

Reach Out: Ask an expert: Email a friend

http://inventors.about.com/education/sciphys/inventors/library/blexpert.htm

Build/Use WebQuests

Introduction, Task, Process, Resources, Product, Closure

http://www.dowslane.org/inventions.html

http://mason.gmu.edu/~mnichols/quest.html

http://husky.port-huron.k12.mi.us/socstud/vincent/index.html

http://mustang.coled.umn.edu/inventing/inventing.html

Locate Teacher Resources

Search for "lesson", "unit", "guide", "teacher"

http://www.noogenesis.com/inventing/pencil/pencil_page.html

Technology Starships

Multiple Intelligence & Tech

Verbal, Mathematical, Visual, Kinesthetic,

Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal

Shade's Children - Garth Nix

A Few Rule the World

Young Adult Fiction

Technology -good and bad

People - good and bad

Varied Resources: The Role of Women

Books, Documents, Videos,

Discussions, Images

Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride - Pam Munoz Ryan

http://www.pammunozryan.com/amelauth.html

http://www.cspan.org/mmedia/booknote/lambbook/transcripts/50442.htm

http://smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues97/jul97/flight.html

http://www.nytimes.com/specials/magazine4/articles/earhart.html

http://www.cmgww.com/historic/earhart/earhart.html

http://www.ionet.net/~jellenc/eae_intr.html

http://www.shore.pvt.k12.ma.us/upperschool/eighth/upload/earhart/intro.htm

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/womenenc/womenenc.htm

http://pbs.org/stantonanthony/

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

Internet Starships

The great discriminator? OR The great equalizer?

Discriminator

Limited Availability

poor, rural, low tech areas

Restricted, Filtered Access

Unfocused Info Skills

Equalizer

Invisible past and present

name, clothes, race, history

Reach outside school

communicate, share

vast info/people resources

Interdisciplinary

Mythology, Solar System, World Cultures

Technology: information, communication

Moontellers - Lynn Moroney

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-m&img=Moon.evif

http://www.windows.umich.edu/

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/luna.html

http://peacock.tnjc.edu.tw/MOON/moon.html

http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/myth.html

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

http://www.globalschoolhouse.com/pr/index.cfm

http://www.epals.com/

Student Starships

Give students the tools to build their own starships

Nova's Ark - David Kirk

http://www.scholastic.com/titles/novasark/index.htm

http://eduscapes.com/

The New Millennium - Set your own course

 

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This workshop is a companion to the book, Building Treehouses for Learning.

This workshop contains elements from the following presentation: Technology Tools in Teaching and Learning.

Developed by Annette Lamb, 11/99. Updated 3/00.