Receptive+Teaching_Accepting+HighTech+Learning+Innovations

Presenter: Gary Stager General Overview
 * The computer is the tool for innovation
 * Think about thinking
 * [|www.thepulse.com]
 * Why do some teachers have ideas?
 * Can others learn to have ideas?
 * What are the teachable moments?
 * How do we seize them?
 * Things you wonder about
 * How? Why?
 * Hear on the radio
 * See on TV
 * Read in a book
 * Where do you get ideas?
 * What you see in your day
 * The Redmen Museum
 * Czech bakery
 * Curiosity index
 * Things you wonder about
 * Things that make you go "hmm…"
 * Why are shoe samples a size 9
 * Eragon
 * Publisher website
 * Homeschooler website
 * Involve kids in information literacy
 * Raw footage and pro/con writing
 * Curriculum Connections/Tech fluency should be a part of Curriculum study
 * Desktop archaeology with InspireData
 * Celestia
 * Collaborative writing with wikis, swikis, and blogs
 * Microworlds projects
 * World War II
 * Score archival audio with a published speech
 * Way beyond WebQuests
 * Inspire questions about the questions
 * webQuest alternative
 * Look beyond the obvious
 * The Challenge
 * Where do you want to go in Solar System on vacation
 * Build a website advertising your destination
 * Photos, websites,
 * Connecting to the world of kids!
 * Designing video games
 * Acknowledge the world of children
 * iPods
 * Kids already have them!
 * Kids are already using all of the cool technology outside of school