Day+Two


 * Welcome back-**


 * Day one you joined in this wiki, you set up your own blog, you set up a [|Stumble Upon] account and you contributed to the wiki by adding your blog address and perhaps a link to a cool site.**

http://www.2learn.ca/
 * A. Go to**

> What is the url of your interactive? > What is the name of the interactive? > What grade is this site recommended for? > Briefly explain how this site is organized - what you do? > How would you use this site to help students meaning learning outcomes?
 * 1) This web sites has links to many interactive tools organized according to grade and topic. Spend a few minutes looking at the resources available on this page.
 * 2) In the upper left side panel under **Our Student Sites** click on the grade appropriate to your teaching situation. For most of you it will be Grades 7-9 or Grade 10-12. Once you have clicked on this you will be taken to a new page. Under the header there are gray tabs labelled with a variety of subjects. Click on the subject you teach and a drop down menu of various topics will appear. Click on a topic you wish to explore. Spend some time exploring this tool. Copy the Url for the tool you have explored.
 * 3) Go to your blog and under dashboard click on Add new post. In this new post write a short critique of the web tool. Please make sure to answer the following questions.
 * 1) Create a link from your blog to the resource by
 * copying the URL of the resource
 * typing the name of the resource in your blog
 * highlight the name
 * click on the link symbol in the menu. A pop-up will appear.
 * paste the URL here and then type in the name of the resource. Check the box where it says to open in a new window.
 * remember to click on publish once you have finished your entry.

B. New Media Literacies

Yesterday we talked about Distributed Cognition or the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities. That can mean something as simple as using a ruler or calculator, or something as complex as efficiently using Wikipedia on your iPhone to access information on the fly.

Students who are literate in distributed cognition can understand cognitive activity as shared among a number of people and artifacts, and cognitive acts as learning to think with other people and artifacts. Following this theory, students need to know how to think with and through their tools as much as they need to record information in their heads. The assignment was to find a cookie recipe using no tech, low tech, and high tech..

The second literacy we will look at is Multitasking or the ability to scan one's environment and shift focus as needed to salient details. Being a good multitasker is required in our new media landscape - and that includes learning when it isn't good to multitask. Some believe that the younger generation are perfectly able to multitask and that their performance on those tasks is not effected while others hold that effective multitasking is a myth.

Read the following:

Slow Down Brave Multi-Tasker and Don't Read This in Traffic

There is probably a need for multitasking. Students must learn to recognize the relationship between information coming at them from multiple directions and making reasonable hypotheses and models based on partial, fragmented, or intermittent information (all part of the world they will confront in the workplace) But they need to know when and how to pay close attention to a specific input as well as when and how to scan the environment searching for meaningful data.

Add a comment on ways that you could teach your students where and when it is or isn't appropriate to multitask. Just click on the reply button.


 * C. Wallwisher**

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Task

Go to [|wallwisher] and create a wallwisher assignment for your own class. Once you have completed this put a link in your blog. Go to Our Blogs and check out your colleague's walls and leave them comments.


 * 1) Spend time with your partner planning what topic you will do a Prezi on and what the content of the presentation will be. Remember you can embed videos, emages, and other documents into your Prezi.
 * 2) Now one of the partners needs to go to Prezi.com and set up a Prezi account.
 * 3) In the edit mode click on meeting and choose invite to edit. Send an invitation to your partner so you can both begin working on your Prezi.