For our group inquiry, Denee, Dane, Jessica, and I looked at using Apps in Outdoor Education.
Here is a screencast of our slides! Feel free to pause and look at the slides as you go!
Category: Tech Tools
Keiro’s presentation – stop-go animation
stop motion (can be downloaded)
used imovie to fade into the graphic
Photo shop
- twinning (allows you to take two photos and then it will make it stop go in between)
Pros
- can be used in any subject to make it fun and engaging
- hits all core competencies
- simple concept that can be taken deep
Cons
- limiting technology available
- its a slow process and then technology can be difficult
- takes time and error can occur
Things to watch for
- camera stability
- time is really needed
- have fun!
REsources
- makerspaceforeducation.com
- iste.org
- onf-nfb.gc.ca
- wiobyrne.com
- waldprotfolio
- education.microsoft.com (lessons for all grades!)
- giphy.com
Google Geographic Products
Google Maps
- google: My Maps (can make own maps including points of interest, save in layers (stores, parks), can colourize icons, can share & collaborate, can change to satellite images)
- can add photos and videos of places, could upload audio and link it to places
- map out: different places in the world using language of place, map fictional settings.
- Street view : can look at natural wonders, talking about being able to go through museums
- Google Cultural Institute – information about cultures, arts, natural wonders, repository of historic documents
Google Earth
- experience – high resolution 3D imagery, can be used for immersive experiences in the class
- find your house – to get them excited about looking at the world
- flight simulator – flying around
- view the past – going back 15-20 years, looking at development land-use change, agriculture, growth
- Layers: different data can be looked at over layed on maps
- Im feeling lucky – click button and get sent to a place
- google moon (immersive interactions with apollo missions, landers, narrated by astronauts), mars, and sky (planets, galaxies, view from telescopes around the world)
- Voyageur : nasa, the bbc, jane goodall, and sesame street teamed up (narrated tours of places around the world)
Lesson Ideas
- 20-questions (pick a place, ask questions have students guess)
- math – maps, measuring, distance
- explore different environments
- can make own tours
- scavenger hunts (coordinates, clues, pictures)
Lessons – My Maps
- Grade 4 curriculum;
- following routes travelled during Euro-western exploration
- make own road trip
- add journal entries in my maps, historical timelines, distances measured
Privacy
- Google can track you if you don’t opt out
- corporations selling information to sell you products
- benefits – convenience
- creation/erasure of national boarders
cartography has nationalism built into it. Originally the way that countries were delineated.
Digital Literacy
Information Literacy
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- what is fake and what is real? how to recognize, quality and credibility
- awareness and critical thinking. who benefits from what is being said, is there bias?
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Ethical use
- citing, use, etc
Understanding digital footprint
- what are you sharing, cookies, ip address, passwords, service provider, etc
- what are you leaving behind when you use the internet?
Protecting yourself online
- you have to be critical or what is offered and what you want to leave on the internet.
- vpns, data encryption and hacking
- self-regulation, awareness, screen time
Handling digital communication – cyberbullying
- the internet is a public space
- don’t be a dick
- there is a history of what you say
- would you say what you are about to say to peoples faces? if not, don’t say it
Pros & Cons
Risks
Strategies, Tips, and Best Practice
- Crash Course ; youtube series – navigating digital media (10-11 videos in series), media literacy (amazing for middle school – more intellectual)
- fact checking – double check your info and teach students how to do this
- lateral reading – when discovering new information, looking into who is writing articles, when was it written, is there corporate backing/who published this?
- evaluating evidence
- Mediasmarts.ca
- Canadian specific content (know Can Law, applicable to Canada and BC) includes resources for all stakeholders
- some outdated information
- Choice & Voice
- creation v. consumption (more creation = more interesting, increased awareness)
- multimodalities (diversify, diversify, diversify) – pick meaningful things, but many
- collaboration
- accessibility – make sure learners are given skills to use technology (physical) and apps, go over them
- crowd-accelerated learning (citizen science – using people’s brains to categorize and process; ie NASA sorting galaxies) – involve outside school that are meaningful and authentic
- social learning – spend time on this peer-to-peer interaction, acknowledge role as a social guide.
Parents and Dig Lit
- assume ignorance, figure out parents involvement in their child’s digital life
- is part of BC curriculum (21st century citizens)
- communicate with parent so they understand
- digital engagement family night (class or school wide)
- risks and benefits – be compassionate, explain why, patience
Sex, sexuality and the digital world
- lots of misinformation, single stories, confusion, and shame
- awareness of this, provide positive digital resources where they can find real true information
- internet can be a safe place for all people as they explore sexuality
- common sense education
House hippo – media smarts
Jesse Miller Recap
The use of information that technology users provide is often used for another purpose.
Important to remember that technology is embedded in our colonial, patriarchal, capitalist society and to use with caution.
Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry Recap
I wonder if having a deep dive into Inquiry before we do an inquiry would be helpful? A very useful question posed by Katrina
Inquiry definition – in the reading, first time seen, as people who are all grown in a scholastic environment of tests, assignments, products, and grades this is really uncomfortable.
Book recommendation
- Dive into Inquiry – Trevor Mackenzie
Inquiry can be a meaningful way of incorporating Indigenous People’s Principles into learning.
Some words we used to describe the students at PSII were:
empowerment, eloquence, courage, enthusiasm, inventiveness, variety of skills, depth of knowledge
Rebecca Bathhurst-Hunt
Using Inquiry in the classroom – Great ideas start with a Question, Wonderwall
Trello
Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards.
App on phone
Good for keeping inquiries or ideas organized.
Screencastify
- for screen capturing and sharing videos and photos online
Notion – similar options
Graphics
Pixels – dots
Vectors – how computer stores information, can change size, has clear crisp lines. mathematically based, so just grows as size increased or decreased.
Graphic creation options: browser based – easy access for students/learners and often free or open source.
GIMP – often used, tries to replicate photoshop, but just slightly more annoying
Pixlr – right in browser.
Powerpoint
- can be used to create short video and photo graphics
- everything created in PP can be exported as an image (this is powerful)
- Can make jpegs, edit images, change images, insert text, build posters, create logos, SMARTART, vectors
- building activities – interactive, conversation, incorporate powerpoint in class room
Apps
Screenshots
Prisma – filters
Mirror Lab
Comica – turn photos into comic strips
https://bryanmmathers.com/ – Visual Thinkery
https://remixer.visualthinkery.com/
Guest Speaker – Jesse Miller @mediatedreality
https://twitter.com/MediatedReality
Jesse Works with Social Media, having the conversation with teachers and students to help them understand the internet.
Here are some interesting highlights of his talk today:
Internet/App By-Products
This can be easily looked up on the internet. All (?) but definitely most things that occur on the internet have by-products that are saved and used for another purpose. Google “internet by-products” “saved information from free apps” to find more information
An Example of this:
Captcha (Prove you are not a robot by picking all the cars in this 9×9 grid)
- by-products of when people verify that they are not a robots are in fact used to teach computers (Artificial Intelligence) to recognize objects, people, lights, powerpoles, etc to be used in self-driving cars in the future.
Sometimes the conversation around the internet will only focus on internet safety, but we need to talk about our networked citizenship.
It is important to ask yourself – what is your_______?:
- Digital Identity – online; multi-versions of ourselves.
- Digital Rights – screenshots & sends to a thousand photos (2014) – intimate images act; can’t show photos to people legally.
- Digital Literacy – people and behaviours changing, what is “normal dialogue around technology,internet”
- Use – Personal, Professional, and Social
- Safety
- Security of self
HEADLINES – designed to get people to click by causing an emotional response.
Some examples of headlines:
Should Your Child Have a Social Media Account?
This article is BIASED but this is a questions that everyone should be asking
- differentiated between needs and ages.
- how is media being used? what platforms, apps, media do people choose based on their use and preferences
Why Social Media is Not Smart for Middle School Kids
- good science, under developed and not prepared. don’t have enough data.
The Kids (Who Use Tech) Seem to Be All Right
- anxiety linked to social media
“We shape our tools and, thereafter, our tools shape us” – John Culkin
A Double Edged Sword
Media and technology can be a positive addition to our lives but also has a lot of potential to be misused.
August 1941 – movie horrors & radio crime – “radio is causing nightmares” – content is what is the problem, not the technology, how did that technology shift society. double edged sword.
Cyber Bullying – important to know how to deal with bullies, who to talk to, how to avoid providing opportunities to a bully.
#teacherproblems
teachers fired over social media incidents
check with your school and district about appropriate communications. Understand policies and expectations.
any social media issues, texting, communicating – the more discussed and boundaries and expectations set the better it will work. Think of social perceptions.
Today in class we learned about video editing and audio recording.
Rich McCue lead this class. He posted instructions and links on how to use a couple different platforms for video editing and audio recording on his blog which can be found here: https://richmccue.com/
We discussed a couple ways that humans have historically used video for learning:
- slowing down to see things we can’t see with the human eye.
- speeding things up (taking multiple frames) to see a long process in a short amount of time
- Khan academy – videos of math problems for repetition and ease
Audio Editing
I recorded a small clip on Audacity, which is a free open-source cross-platform audio software. It, and more information about it, can be accessed on the website https://www.audacityteam.org/
Here is a small sample recording I made in class (the first 5 seconds are silent) :
Video editing
There are a couple options for video editing which are listed below.
- imovie – mac specific, need an apple product
- windows – similar but different – davinci resolve https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
- screencastify – free version of captasia
Today was the first time I had ever used the program, imovie. I was able to successfully figure out how to make the following video. I used files provided to us by Rich Mccue. The first clip was of chickens in front of a green screen, the second was the fish swimming in the coral reef, and the third file was the audio file of the ocean sounds. I learned how to splice them together and add audio. I found this platform fairly user-friendly and though not intuitive for me I was able to sort through the steps and make it work.
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