Day+2

= DAY TWO = = = = =

= ** 9:00-12:00 The Digital Learner: Tools That Transform ** =

media type="custom" key="8117426" = = =**I. A Day in the Life of a Digital Learner- Angela and Sandy**=
 * 1) Questions to Respond/React To:
 * What did you notice?
 * What "roles" did you recognize?
 * What functions did the "tools and "platforms" support?
 * How does this compare to the day in the life of students in school?
 * 1) The Networked Learner Resources

**II. Separating the Nouns and Verbs of 21st Century Learning**

 * 1) Function Matrix

21st Century VERBS


 * INVOLVE - listen to, live the social web, understand it, this cannot be faked
 * CREATE - make relevant content for communities of interest
 * DISCUSS - no conversation around it, then the content may as well not exist
 * PROMOTE - actively, respectfully, promote the content with the networks
 * MEASURE - monitor, iteratively develop and respond or be damned!

III. Tool Comparison Chart
 * 1) My Top Five List

What Makes a Tool Great: So what makes a tool great? Or, a better question than that: **What should we do with tools to make them great?** Here are some thoughts and feadback is appreciated, this is not an exclusive list!

1.Give students **choice**.
We don’t assess the tool, we assess the criteria, and we want students to meet specific learning outcomes.We can provide students with a choice of tools or even a choice of projects, and not every student in the class needs to meet the same outcomes in the same way.

2. Give students a **voice**.
Classroom discussions are great, but how else can we provide students with an opportunity to share? What venues can we provide for them to be heard?

3. Give students an **audience**.
So often we give students an audience of one… the teacher who marks their work. As a teacher, I told students ‘write to your audience’ but I never truly understood those words until I started blogging. If you want students to write to their audience, then give them a legitimate audience.

4. Give students a place to collaborate.
This comes with a caution: A place to collaborate does not in and of itself create good collaboration. You might be using a great collaboration tool, but do your students know how to collaborate effectively? Do they have specific roles to play? Do they have the skills to learn cooperatively?

5. Give students a place to lead.
Whether it be by choosing a tool, or teaching you a tool, or simply choosing their own topic to study, let your students be the lead learner and even the teacher as often as possible.

6. Give students a digital space to learn.
I’ve talked about [|blogs as learning spaces]. Stephen Downes says, //‘To teach is to model and demonstrate, to learn is to practice and reflect.’// Give students a space to practice and reflect that is not limited to the confines of a classroom or notebook, and one that helps them build a community, or rather a network, of teachers and learners.
 * A tool is just a tool!** **It’s not the tool, but how you use it that matters.**

3:00 - 3:30 Sharing
Related REsources:


 * [|It’s not about the Tools…It’s about the Skills- Wikis]
 * [|It’s not about the Tools…It’s about the Skills- Blogging]
 * [|It’s not about the Tools…It’s about the Skills- Podcasting]
 * [|It’s not about the Tools…It’s about the Skills- Digital Storytelling]
 * [|It’s not about the Tools…It’s about the Skills- Video Conferencing]
 * [|It’s not about the Tools…It’s about the Skills- Set of all Five]