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VSTE 09 Keynote — Matt Monjan December 1, 2009

VSTE 09 Keynote
The Content-Creating Classroom
Matt Monjan, Discovery Education

1. Up until the 20th Century
   • We were consumers
2. In the 21st Century
   • We became creators of content
3. How much content is out there?
   • 1 Trillion unique URLs
   • 150 URLs per person on Earth
   • 20 Hours of content is being uploaded to YouTube every minute
4. If info is ubiquitous and can be accessed so easily…
   • We need to transform our classrooms into hubs of creativity
   • http://www.theblueschool.org/multimedia
   • MIT Media Lab
5. Finding, Analyzing, and synthesizing information
   • we have to teach it in a way that is meaningful to our students
   • we also need to be able to communicate in their language
6. Digital Immigrant
   • Digital Camera
   • Browsing
   • Email
   • Phone (land line)
   • CD Player
   • Internet
7. Digital Native
   • Camera
   • Google
     • youtube
     • facebook
     • myspace
   • Texting
   • Cell phone
   • IM
   • Skype
   • mp3 player
   • net
8. http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_tells_a_story_of_mixed_emoticons.html
9. Their Language (cont)
   • Write in text speak
   • research and deliver a topic in 140 characters or less (twitter)
   • Discovery Education Writing Prompt Builder
10. What if we dive deeper?
    • Creativity
    • Higher Order Thinking
    • Different Pedagogies
11. Digital Storytelling
    • Weaving multimedia into a story
    • In the classroom
      • Students demonstrate their grasp of the concept
        • Synthesized Brain
      • Creative outlet
        • Students can use a myriad of media
      • ELL Instruction
        • Associating words with images
      • It’s engaging
        • A format that the YouTube generation is used to
    • What media?
      • videos
      • images
      • sounds
      • songs
      • speechs
      • sound effects
    • Seven Elements of Storytelling (http://www.storycenter.org/programs.html)
      • Point of view
      • Dramatic Question
      • Emotional Content
      • Adding Your Voice
      • Power of a Soundtrack
      • Economy
      • Pacing
    • Students are not the only ones creating content…Educators create content too…
12. Web 2.0, Students and Content Creation
    • 64% teens engage in content creation
    • 47% posted photos
    • 89% receive comments
    • In the classroom
      • Create content to transmit info or ask questions
      • Create a podcast
        • http://podcast.phila.k12.pa.us
        • http://phone.io (alliteration example)
      • http://edu.glogster.com
      • http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article637.html
      • Create a facebook page for a character
      • http://www.wordle.net (for political speech evaluations)
13. A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink
    • The essence of persuasion is the ability to take content and create a narrative (paraphrase)