EDMT and Beyond

Macul 2013 Conference – March 20-22, 2013, Cobo Center – Detroit MI

Thursday, 3/21/13
Hands-on Workshops – $40 fee per workshop. Pre-registration required. All hands-on workshops are eligible for SCECHs.

• 08-10am –  Edmodo: Anytime, Anyplace Collaborative Learning with Social Media - Toni Jones & Nancy Copeland, Professors, EMU Room W2-68)
• 10:30a-12:30p – Collecting Data with Google Forms - Anthony Buza (EDMT  alum), Instructional Technologist, Genesee ISD (Room W2-68)

Friday, 3/22/13

• 10-11am – Math to the Core, Dude! - Michael Maffesoli (EDMT alum), Teacher, Melvindale-Northern Allen Park Schools (Room O2-38)
• 01-02pm – SmartBoards in the Classroom – Christina Sims, Asst Principal; Amy Pope, Teacher (EDMT student) & Jessica P’Simer (EDMT student), Tech Instructor, Trillium Academy
  (Room D3-16)

I found an infographic on the edudemic.com website that shows the results of a survey taken by 100+ European and North American teachers (small sample I know, but this is interesting).

Here are the results of those who responded very interested.

• Web-Based Tools for Educational Purposes – 69.7%
• Online Educational Resources – 68.6%
• Digital Literacy – 65.3%
• Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) – 56%
• Blended Learning – 54.6%
• Social Media Education — 44% )
• E-Moderation – 42.6%
• Mobile Learning – 42%
• Digital Games In Education – 28.7%
• Interactive Whiteboards – 27.7%

How do these trends rank with you? Which do you think will facilitate engaging learners in authentic assessment? Take a look at the entire infographic (click it to make it larger).

The Winter 2013 EDMT Newsletter is available. Take a look at the upcoming course schedule for summer and fall 2013 and read about the EDMT Happenings!

EDMT student, Pingping Liu, posted a very good link on her Diigo bookmarks called A Teacher’s Comprehensive Guide to Social Networking in Education. Although it is not as comprehensive as I was expecting, there are a lot of informational nuggets to be gleaned.

According to the site, in “a study conducted by the University of Minnesota on student use of social media, students who are already engaging in social networking could benefit from incorporating it into curriculum.”

It’s not “a PowerPoint” but rather it’s a “presentation.”

This is something to keep in mind when you begin planning lessons in schools that have BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies.

Ron Milliner gave a great presentation on the use of Device-Neutral Assignments in a BYOD School at a recent FETC conference. Among his recommendation was to consider that you will either have to modify all your existing assignments to suit a broad range of devices from iPads to Android phones or you can modify the language in your assignments and let the students find the application that will accomplish the task.