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Volume 1,
Number 2
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Activate:
The Journal of Technology-Rich
Learning
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Spring
2001
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to Eduscapes
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- Technology
Landscapes:
- Adapting
to Changing Learning
Environments
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- Explore the changing landscape of
learning. Regardless of whether you feel
like you're alone in the arctic or with
friends at the beach, this session will
help you climb the mountain of success
with your technology projects. Survive in
unknown technology territory by applying
your knowledge of good teaching practice,
adapting your current skills, and forming
new relationships.
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- After reading the introduction below,
explore the following discussions of
technology landscapes:
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- Let's begin with a book. Reading has
always been and will continue to be an
important part of the learning
environment. The 2000 Newbery award
winning book called A Year Down
Yonder, by Richard Peck focuses on a
teenager growing up in the late
1930s.
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- My parents were born during the 1930s,
so my only understanding of that time
period is oral history and literature.
Combining a book and Internet can bring a
new dimension to learning about the past.
For example, in the book, the teenage girl
leaves on the train from the Dearborn
Station in Chicago. You can use the
Internet to see what the station
looked like in the 1930s and what the
Wabash
Blue Bird train looked like. Some
children in Illinois did wonderful
oral
history reports on the 1930s you can
read on the web including information
about the CCC
and other work programs discussed in the
novel. Our main character enjoyed
listening to Kate Smith on the radio. Who
was Kate Smith and what did she sound
like? You can see and listen at the
Kate
Smith website. When you read the
online biography of the author, Richard
Peck, you can learn even more about
what life was like going to school in the
1930s.
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- The landscape of education has changed
since the setting of A Year Down
Yonder. My parents experienced school
in the 1940s and 1950s. I experienced
school in the 1960s and 1970s. My children
witnessed schools in the 1980s and 1990s.
A friend recently sent me a wonderful
picture of her class in Hudson, Ohio using
laptops in the classroom. Times have
changed. As a child I saw the use of the
film and reel-to-reel audio player. As a
teacher I saw the introduction of the
microcomputer and CD player. The
technology has changed, but has the
learning environment changed? You
decide.
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- A Year Down
Yonder
- Richard Peck
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The "A's"
- Seeking Help from
Technology
- Adapting to
Change
- Changing the Landscape
- Return to
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