Teaching for the Future

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In this episode I interview Dr. Scott McLeod. Scott is the coordinator of the Educational Administration program at Iowa State University and director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE). You may be more familiar with Scott's work on his blog, DangerouslyIrrelevant.org, where he discusses education and technology from the perspective of administrators and teachers.

Though it seems like I have been spending a lot of time defending YouTube, I want to make it clear that video sharing sites are not all butterflies and rainbows. YouTube has greatly effected the way interpret and interact with the media. Just think of the recent controversies in national politics. In an article in the Hartford Currant, aptly entitled "YouTube, A Blessing and a Curse". The author discusses how the permanence and the availability of video news, gives certain videos an impact they would not have had earlier. Just think of McCain's "Bomb Iran", Clinton's sniper fire, and the controversy surrounding Jeremiah Wright. How would things change if video coverage and the videos themselves were not available on demand 24 hours a day. "In past years, controversy... might have lasted a day or two before people lost interest." (Weir)

This 'on demand effect' isn't limited to the presidential campaign. What if you applied this to classroom management? More specifically issues like behavior and cheating. With little or no effort it is easy to find a ton of instructional video on how to cheat on tests and game the system. Over at his blog, Learning in Hand, Tony Vincent collected many of these interesting videos. What happens when kids have access to material that allows them to game the test and cheat their way through class? While these videos are concerning I am more interested in what I found on Scott MeLeod's Dangerously irrelevant. In this post Scott has collected videos by students taken with their mobile phones. These videos show scenes of teacher/student confrontations in class. One one hand these are an invasive look at a few bad moments in what are probably good classrooms, while on the other hand these videos could be student-citizen journalism exposing the abuses teachers. To try to make sense of all of this I brought Scott McLeod on the show to talk about his post and the changing role of YouTube in the Classroom.

LINKS:
YouTube A Blessing and a Curse By William Weir
http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-youtubepolitics.artapr06,0,4268424.story

How to Cheat
http://learninginhand.com/blog/2008/04/how-to-cheat.html

How can I cheat on the test? Let me count the ways…
http://www.teach42.com/2008/04/02/how-can-i-cheat-on-the-test-let-me-count-the-ways/

Cell phone cameras in the K-12 classroom: Punishable offenses or student-citizen journalism?
http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2008/03/cell-phone-came.html

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Today's episode is an interview I did with Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf who are the creators and the producers of the JETSET Show. They talked to for my thesis research and I had a great time talking with them and I wanted to share this interview with you.

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News:

Does Public Relations Equal Propaganda? from Ed Lee:

Ed blogs over at Blogging Me Blogging You, where he talks about social media and marketing. He points out an interesting YouTube video from a group called PR Watch. It's interesting and really well done and asks a lot of interesting questions.

Americans Devoting More Time to Media from VOA News: from the article:

"This year, the average American will spend 3,518 hours (nearly five months) watching TV, surfing the Internet, listening to the radio and reading. That's a prediction from The Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007. This is the 126th edition of the Statistical Abstract, which is published annually by the U.S. Census Bureau."

• Americans Devoting more time consuming media
  
• More content
• More delivery systems.
• iPods, Podcasts, PVRs allow people to have more control.

Education As Portable As A Pop Song from The Unofficial Mac Blog: This post looks at how portable media is changing how we look at distance learning. As media players become cheaper, this will become more prevalent.

Follow Up:
Chris Penn from the financial aid podcast sent me this link. Thanks Chris!!!
http://www.iveyfiles.com/my_weblog/2007/02/moron_tries_to_.html

Upcoming:
I'm going to be going to the Beyond Broadcast Conference at MIT this weekend. I'm going to try to get some interesting audio and video that I will share with you on the podcast. I hope to see Steve Garfield and meet Henry Jenkins.

Other Links:

• Ads Made By You, In a Click from the NYTimes
• Iraqi-American Rapper Timz on YouTube
• Armed Forces Welcome Suicidal Teens? from Neatorama
• Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
• Intellagirl's take on why Teachers Need to Understand Computers Or Risk Prison
• Bum Rush the Charts

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Posted by Dave LaMorte at 2/21/2007 10:59:00 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

This episode is an interview I did with Brian Connelly of Alive in Baghdad. We talked about the impact of the Saddam execution video, iraqslogger.com, and what's in store for the future for Alive in Baghdad and Small World News.

Upcoming:
I'll be talking with media literacy educator and author Frank W. Baker. Frank runs the Media Literacy Clearing House, which is one of the best online media literacy resources for K-12 educators.

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News:
The Daily Show - Guns in School: I found this wonderful clip on YouTube and I wanted to share it with you. We talked about messures and legislation being developed to allow teachers to carry guns in schools during Episode 48. This clip deals with some of what we were talking about and brings up a new "innovation" that uses textbooks as sheilds. David Truss left an interesting comment on Episode 48 that I do not think the Daily Show chose not to focus on.

"An angry kid that brings a weapon to school has probably had issues with police or authoritative family members already, why should teachers try to take the same 'broken' approach with these kids?"

You can find David at his elgg blog by clicking the link here.


Visual Literacy Periodic Table via the Financial Aid Podcast: Chris Penn has a nack for creating and finding neat things on the web. In Episode 452 Chris put a link to the Visual Literacy Periodic Table. This is a neat website that has a large gathering of techniques of displaying and organizing information. This is a good tool for those of you who are trying to explain concepts to the visual and mathematical learners in your classroom. This could also be a good reference for students who need to make presentations or want to better organize their ideas. I'd like to know what you think of this site, leave me a comment or email me and let me know what you think. Or better yet if you use this in a lesson or with a project, let me know how it turned out.


State of the Union Smackdown from Pluggd: Pluggd has made the state of the union available on their site. This isn't so interesting, until you see how they have allowed you to search through both the state of the union and the response. Using a simple text search bar you can search for any topic in the speeches. This is a great way to look at both sides side by side and issue by issue. This could be a real educational tool that could allow you and your students to find portions and discuss them.

Listen to Your Kids Gets Going: Julien Smith's new project, Listen to your Kids is starting to get some recognition and is having a good response. As of this episode, there have already been two "kids" who have left messages. You can listen to my interview with Julien about this project here.

Children's Songs from Afghanistan: One of my professors at Lesley University, Louise Pascale, has created an album and song book of Afghan children's music.

"After decades of political upheaval in Afghanistan, this moving collection of
16 children's folk songs is being returned to a new generation of Afghan children to be sung and passed down for generations to come. Originally collected by Peace Corp volunteer, Louise Pascale, and published by Kabul Press in 1968, the songs have all but disappeared from the culture. They have now been recorded by well-known and respected Afghan musician, Vaheed Kaacemy, and a group of Afghan children. A new, colorful version of the songbook includes lyrics in Farsi, Pushto, Uzbeki and Hazara, musical notation and a 60 minute CD. With support from the National Geographic Society, Ayenda: Afghan Children Initiative, and many generous individuals, 3,000 copies are being distributed for free to children at 100 schools across Afghanistan. Additional printings are planned to return this cultural heritage to thousands more children in Afghanistan and in Afghan communities around the world."

Upcoming:
In the next few weeks look out for an interview with Brian Connelly from Alive In Baghdad. I will also put out the panel discussion I was in at the Lesley University Technology Institute in two parts.

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Today's episode was recorded with my new iTalk. It's an attachment that allows me to record with my video iPod. I'm still experimenting with it, but so far so good.


Now that I'm using my digital still camera to do the video and the iTalk for audio I feel like I have covered all of my podcasting needs. With that in mind I'm going to be donating my old video/audio recorder to Alive In Baghdad. If you have any digital equipment you would like to donate, let Brian know because Alive In Baghdad could use some new/semi-new equipment. Even if you decide not to donate to Brian, I recommend you to donate any of your unused equipment.




News:

Teens 'turn to social websites': from BBC News.com: "The study for the Pew Internet Project involved 935 teenagers and found 55% of American youths aged 12-17 had accounts at sites such as MySpace and Facebook." Kids today are connected in a way we have never dreamed of. The study also finds kids are beginning to be smarter about how they share their personal information and how they use the web.






Social Networking Evades Schools: via think:lab: This post on the Fast Company weblog is talking about how excluding social networking in schools is leaving kids with out guidance. Maybe it is a good idea to have a policy that addresses the issue of social networking in school. This is going to be an issue for years to come and we need to start dealing with it. Just as you would talk to your kids about sex, drugs, and alcohol; you need to talk to your kids about social networking. If you don't address this with your kids someone else will.





IM/Chatting Affecting Language Wired: I was reading the Mr-Know -It-All column in the latest issue of Wired and found an interesting look at how text messaging/IM chat effects teens. Clive Thompson who writes the column argued that out fears are over blown. Where most educators and parents think chat is eroding student language skills he explains that this is probably not the case. In studies cited in the article researchers found that students made less spelling mistakes while instant messaging then in their papers.



He argues that it's due to teens not wanting to look bad in front of their friends. In my mind is all comes down to PUBLISHING. Students are not worried about being shamed for their spelling errors by their teachers so they are just less likely to proofread. Thompson's suggestion is teaching students about code switching, so they know what kind of language is appropriate and when it's appropriate. You can find this article on page 50 of the January issue of Wired.





Ads in captchas from In Over Your Head: I did not know what a captchas was before Julien mentioned them, even though I've been using them for a while. According to the Wikipedia a captcha is "an initialism for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart", trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University, is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human." Usually these are a semi-random set of numbers and letters that are used to cut down on comment spam on blogs. Recently ads and messages such as "drink coke" have been popping up in these semi-random sets. This seems indicative to the fact that people are learning to block out ads.



Because we can tune out these ads, advertisers are trying hard to slide their messages past our defenses. This worries me because I have a feeling that students who have learned to block out information may begin to tune out messages in the classroom. To your average 16-year-old information from a teacher can seem analogous to a commercial they don't want to pay attention to. More likely is that students have been blocking out their teachers since the beginning of time, but I do feel a trend.





DIY Cut and Fold Paper iPhone from Sneak Move:

This isn't news but I love a good paper project. I wanted to make my own paper iPhone, but Sneak Move beat me to it. This was just a lot of fun to make and will make for some funny flickr images.




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Thanks to Dan Flannery for the great music.





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Posted by Dave LaMorte at 1/17/2007 04:25:00 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

I created this episode as a way to promote an interview I did with Julien Smith about his new site Listen To Your Kids. I like the video format, but I still have a lot of work to do. So far so good, but feel free to tell me what you think in the comments.







Don't forget to Digg me on Digg.com's new Podcast section! It is a great way to get the word out about the show.




Thanks to Above These Cares(aka Tom Mantzouranis from The Out-Route) and thanks to Dan Flannery for the great music. Make sure you make Dan your MySpace friend.







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Posted by Dave LaMorte at 1/12/2007 10:50:00 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

I finally had a chance to go to the Boston Media Makers meeting. This was my first time going and I had a lot of fun. According to Steve Garfield who runs the group this meeting's turnout was larger than usual. The group is a great mix of podcasters, filmmakers, bloggers, educators, artists, and developers. It was great to meet everyone and find out what they were doing. For the video I used a song from my new favorite band Above These Cares who are also available on the Podsafe Music Network. This is my first time having to edit a video, but I'm really happy with how this came out.





The first part of the meeting was pretty formal. We all sat around a large table and spoke about what we are doing. After the more formal part of the meeting a few of us made a short movie. We did the film as a way of thanking Sweet Finnish for letting us use their back room for the meetings. This video was definitely a group effort. I did sound, Bre Pettis directed, Christopher Penn and Kristen Crusius acted, David Tames acted and produced, while Steve Garfield consulted.








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Thanks to Above These Cares(aka Tom Mantzouranis from The Out-Route) and thanks to Dan Flannery for the great music. Make sure you make Dan your MySpace friend.





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