Emerging Technologies in the Adult Education Classroom

1. Emerging Technologies in the Adult Education Classroom Tim Ponder & Nell Eckersley

2. This PowerPoint • http://slidesha.re/ZNOQh5 #COABE13

3. WelcomeEmerging Technologies in the Adult Education Classroom Tim Ponder The Ohio Literacy Resource Center tponder@literacy.kent.edu Nell Eckersley Literacy Assistance Center nelle@lacnyc.org #COABE13

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5. Introductions • What do you know about Emerging Technologies? • What would you like to learn? • What is one thing would you like to take away from this session? #COABE13

6. Agenda • Why use technology? • How to integrate technology into your practice • Web 2.0 and Social Media • QR Codes • Twitter • Facebook • Pinterest • Blogs • Wiggio • PollEverywhere • Other Resources #COABE13

7. How are you using Technology? In your life? In your work? How has it changed? #COABE13

8. Why Include Technology? • 21st Century Employment Skills • Makes tasks authentic & challenging • More young people entering adult education classes • Support the diverse needs of adult learners including family digital literacy • Real life experience • Extends time devoted project • Supports collaborative work • Inexpensive, multiplatform • Help break down the digital divide #COABE13 8

9. Integrating Technology How do you include technology in your practice? • Find a tool and figure out how to use it with your students/staff • Think about what you already do with your students/staff and then how technology could deepen or expand on the lesson (POST) • Think of a challenging task and how technology might help #COABE13 9

10. POST Method • Pis People. Know the capabilities of your audience. Know what scaffolding they’ll need. #COABE13 10

11. Our “People” • Students • Staff • Self #COABE13 11

12. POST Method • Ois objectives. Pick one. Decide on your objective before you decide on a technology. Then figure out how you will measure it. #COABE13 12

13. Instructional “Objectives” • Presenting Information • Enhancing communication between student and teacher • Enhancing communication between students in collaborative or cooperative learning groups • Supporting student creation and/or student use of technology for learning • Using productivity tools for classroom management #COABE13 13

14. POST Method • S is Strategy. Figure out what will be different after you're done. Imagine you succeed. How will things be different afterwards? Imagine the endpoint and you'll know where to begin. http://www.voorhees.k12.nj.us/Page/4578 #COABE13 14

15. “Strategies” for Implementing Emerging Technologies • Collaborative Writing • Multimodal Communication • Online Networking • Mobile Learning • Productivity #COABE13 15

16. POST Method • T is Technology. A community. A wiki. A blog or a hundred blogs. Once you know your people, objectives, and strategy, then you can decide with confidence. The POST Method: A systematic approach to social strategy by Josh Bernoff #COABE13 16

17. Examples of “Technology” • Blogs • YouTube • Wiggio • GoogleVoice • Delicious #COABE13 17

18. Integrating Technology into Adult Ed Blooms Taxonomy • Creating • Evaluating • Analyzing • Applying • Understanding • Remembering #COABE13 18

19. Blooms Digital Taxonomy Pyramid #COABE13 http://www.usi.edu/distance/bdt.htm 19

20. 5 Moments of Learning • Dr. Conrad Gottfredson’s Five Moments of Learning Needs: • When Learning for the First Time • When Wanting to Learn More • When Trying to Remember • When Things Change • When Something Goes Wrong http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/17/the-practice-of-mobile-learning/ #COABE13 20

21. Why Use Social Media in Adult Ed? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyZRS0BnpAI&feature=youtu.be 21 #COABE13

22. What is Social Media • Social media includes web-based and mobile based technologies which are used to turn communication into interactive dialogue among organizations, communities, and individuals. --Wikipedia #COABE13

23. Components of Social Media • Web 2.0 #COABE13

24. Personal Learning Network #COABE13

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27. Components of Social Media • Cloud Computing • performing computer tasks using services delivered entirely over the Internet. • movement away from applications installed on an individual's computer towards the applications being hosted online. • The "cloud" refers to the Internet and was inspired by technical flow charts and diagrams, which tend to use a cloud symbol to represent the Internet. • http://mobileoffice.about.com/od/workingontheroad/f/cloudcomputing.htm #COABE13

28. Components of Social Media • Mobile Learning • The use of common handheld hardware, wireless networking and mobile telephony to facilitate, support, enhance and extend the reach of teaching and learning. • https://mobilelearninginfokit.pbworks.com/w/page/41751137/What%20is%20mobile%20learning #COABE13

29. Myths about Social Media • Only young people use Social Media • Social Media; just a waste of time • Fears about security & privacy • Hierarchy of needs; technology comes after literacy #COABE13

30. Tagging #COABE13

31. QR Codes #COABE13

32. What are QR Codes? • Q R stands for • Invented in Japan by Toyota in 1994 to track vehicles during the manufacturing process • QR code is detected as a 2-dimensional digital image by a semiconductor image sensor and is then digitally analyzed by a programmed processor. Translation: You can scan it with your smart phone or tablet. Quick Response #COABE13

33. QR Code vs Bar Code http://www.teq.com/blog/2012/05/my-qr-code/#.UJRXgMXCaSo #COABE13

34. QR Code Readers • QR Codes can be used with a mobile device like a smart phone or a tablet that has access top the internet • The device must have an QR Code reader (also called scanner) app installed • Scanlife http://www.scanlife.com/en/ is an app that works on most devices NOTE: You should NOT have to pay money or give information about yourself when selecting and installing a QR Code reader or scanner #COABE13

35. QR Code Readers The QR Code reader uses the camera on your device to scan the code and then uses the internet to interpret the instructions in the code #COABE13

36. QR Codes in Real Life #COABE13

37. QR Codes in Education #COABE13

38. Steps to Using in Education • First consider what is the learning goal • Make sure you have devices that can read a QR Code • Create the QR Codes you need #COABE13

39. QR Codes in Education • Make your own QR Code Scavenger Hunt! • Scavenger Hunt • 5 Real Ways To Use QR Codes In Education • Black & White and Scanned All Over (video) • QR Codes Connect Students to Books • Shambles QR Code Resource • Desktop QR Code Reader • QR Codes in Education Livebinder • 50 QR code resources for the classroom #COABE13

40. Make Your Own QR Code • Bitly https://bitly.com/ • Google http://goo.gl/ • Kaywa http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ • ScanLife http://www.scanlife.com/en/ #COABE13

41. Shortening Links for Your Tweets You can use BitLy to shorten URL’s without creating an account. https://bitly.com/ #COABE13 41

42. Make Your Own QR Code And with or without an account you can make any of the shortened URLS into a QR Code by adding .qr at the end #COABE13

43. Twitter #COABE13

44. What is Twitter? • Microblogging;140 characters maximum • http://twitter.com/ • Hashtag #AdultEd • Unlike most social media, just because I “follow” you, you don’t have to “follow” me #COABE13 44

45. Why Use Twitter • Meta-Cognition • Accessible from many places • “Snackable” education • Follow people you can learn from #COABE13 45

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47. What Can You Say in 140 Characters? #COABE13 47

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49. Retweeting • RT @Username #COABE13 49

50. HashTags #COABE13 • #COABE13 • #AdultEd • #GED2014 • # EdTech 50