Jacob Reflections

• Tuesday was jammed packed with conference sessions, most of which were standing room only. We started the morning with political speech writer Daniel Pink. I have included the notes from the session as well as my notes from the sequential sessions I attended through the day.

Daniel Pink

Asia-Automation-Abundance

Machines replaced the muscle. Software has now replaced the left-brained aspect of the brain, not the right side.

Right answers are free now- we need to teach our students to think creatively and innovatively

Learning in Virtual Worlds:

5 Principals of all Ed Technology:

1. Course content must come first

2. Content cannot be watered down in order to make it fit to the technology

3. Students should be responsible for their learning as much as possible (authentic learning)

4. Assessment is critical

5. Students need to be able to build on what they have learned

6. (Collaboration)

Harvard- Cyber one project

Everyone can have a mini-notebook:

· Cost is equal to the cost of a textbook

· $99.99 for an Acer mini laptop

· Too many limits to validate the cost, I feel.

Teaching Math with a Digital Camera:

· Slope lesson: have the students determine slope through a picture. Use google Sketchup (a 3D drawing program)

· Imported the picture/ drew a line over the rise and google will give the length of the line/ then have the students determine slope.

· Geometry: Golden Rectangle in various artworks.

· GeoGebra.org to teach line symmetry

· www.misterteacher.com

· Word problems- Photograph Math

For a complete resource list: course.wilkes.edu/digitalphotography

We also viewed the Student Showcase where students created a poster session of their technology projects. It was interesting that most of the students presenting were in the elementary and middle levels. I would like to see and bring more high school students to the showcase. This is especially true because of all the funding being distributed for CFF.