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 * // LEARNING MATTERS //**

Meg Ormistron http://megormi.wikispaces.com/smartengagement
 * Digital Content for Digital Natives: Engaging Today's Tech-Savvy Students**

Students today have their cell phones as appendages to them. Nothing exists if it isn't on the Internet. Their reality is collaborating, texting, and communicating through their phones.

Different learners at our schools today - if they are not engaged, there is no hope of improving student learning. Give them the opportunity to use the technology they have in their hands. - move from room to room and not touch the Smartboards?

Want to keep schools the way they were taught. Lock the technology in the lockers. Behavior issues related to cell phones. Doing the same thing they have been doing for the past 25 yrs.
 * Teachers**

Schools have smartboards but not using them the way they were designed to work. Using them without a projector, thinking the board had the magic and were writing on the board thinking the board would keep the lesson for tomorrow. Have tools but not using the tools.

Changing the curriculum, restructuring the learning Blooms Digital Taxonomy

Use multimedia - remixing and mashing up

Whole district has every classroom with a whiteboard. Has increased student state scores significantly. Students expect the teacher to use the Smartboard every day.
 * District example** mhero@seq.org

Moving around the room and having the kids touch the board. Using the Slate for math! Embedding clips, and animations throughout the lesson, uploading the lesson to the webpage, students synthesize the lesson and post to the website. Students don't like to take notes but will respond interacting to the lesson if they are given the opportunity e.g. smart response - giving feedback and using them for quizzing and assess the learning and feedback.

Advantage of using Notebook

You can go back to your notes later, save in pdf file to access from the web, templates can be used and great ready made resources. Share lessons with other teachers, use the ready made lessons, develop collaborative groups within your district, free software

Don't need a mouse/stylus, software with tools, images, and ready made lessons, Infinite whiteboard space, long lifespan, can print out for others, www.express.smarttech.com

Cost of media in the classroom is equal to a Smartboard for all these together. Convert writing to text, Copy pages, drag n drop things onto the page from the Internet.

Staff Buy-in Challenges keeping lessons fresh - continue training and groups help with this
 * Training
 * Resources
 * Sharing lessons (create a group within your school)
 * SMART user groups
 * training - finding time to train the new teachers
 * keeping technology current - free upgrades