Digital Learning Presentation

1. Start with the Digital Kids website. It documents how digital kids think and learn differently due to the media-rich, mulitsensory world they've grown up in. Be sure to play a couple of the small video clips to hear from educators and digital kids. This site also redefines achievement to include more than just the 3 R's and hightlights digital tools that engage kids in learning and help them be successful.

Digital Tools for Digital Kids

2. Next go to the iLife in the Classroom site. Give an overview of iLife and mention iWork. Point out the support tutorials, tips and techniques, and other links and resources on this site. Then point out the lesson plans. Go to Social Studies and scroll through the projects to show the diversity and that there are projects from each grade level area.

Show Grass Born to Be Stepped On (probably not the whole thing, but enough so you see the depth and power of it). Optionally show another example you like or is of interest to the audience.

Then show either Gettysburg (Elem) or I Serve in the Civil War (Middle School). Then show a couple of applications students could use to research the Civil War. I suggest Visual Thesaurus and NetTrekker.

iLife in the Classroom

Visual Thesaurus

NetTrekker

3. Go back to the iLife site and show a few project examples from other curriculum areas. In Language Arts, Chasing Metaphors is a good one. And if you have primary teachers, Alphabet Photo Book or A Living Alphabet are both cool. In Science, Baffling Biomes is a good one. In the Other category, show Word of the Day.

iLife in the Classroom

4. Give an overview of the Apple Learning Interchange. Show the new Student Gallery. Show where the Alan November webcast is, and use the Ocotpus and Holocaust examples to demonstrate how kids can be taught to discriminate good from bad, or suspect, information.

Zapatopi

Holocaust

Then use Alta Vista to demonstrate some of Alan's Iinformation Literacy examples: (links, host, url)

5. Show GarageBand and the GarageBand in the Classroom site.

GarageBand in the Classroom

6. A couple of other resources to make sure they know about:

Apple Professional Development Online

Atomic Learning