Teaching and Learning Tools
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– General Information –
Clickers: Those Audience Response Systems 
Author: Nordby, Ann (21 more by this author)
Description: This technology trend highlights "Clickers" and their use for immediate tallying of opinions and responses by those physically present. Similar to the keypads used to record audience response on TV game shows, they can be a useful teaching tool, setting up a feedback loop reminiscent of Socratic method, even when the audience is large. Responses are anonymous, and you don't have the delays inherent in paper balloting procedures.
Extension 2.0: Harnessing the Power of the Blogosphere to Expand Programming Potential and Impact
Author: Seger, ; Mark Light
Description: Research-based programming is seemingly losing its relevance in our technological world. Families and youth are now looking to blogs as a source of information; but blogs based upon reliable research-based information are lacking. This interactive session will teach the importance of blogging to expand programming potential. Leave with lots of materials including a CD of "how to blog" podcasts for beginners.
Show Off Your Program - Best Uses of Technologies
Author: Dunham, Trudy (32 more by this author)
Description: Hosting an Open House? Meeting with a potential funder? Explaining your project to local community organizations? Need to stay in touch with program participants and their families? This session focuses on how you can easily use technology to showcase your project and make a great impression with your collaborators! Tips and strategies on when and how to use different technologies, and how to organize your content in the right technology tool to get your message across.
Social Networks: the WHAT, WHY, & How to using them professionally
Author: Dunham, Trudy (32 more by this author)
Description: Social networking—it's social, creative, participatory and immediate, and more than high school pals and fan clubs. What is professional use? 80% of companies use social networking to find employees. Professionals use it to network, find experts, talk through ideas, search for jobs, and more! This workshop is hands-on exploration of sites and tools to give you strategies and skills for professional social networking. (Prep: Bring your eXtension ID; get one from people.extension.org)
Using Social Media At Conferences
Author: Dunham, Trudy (32 more by this author)
Description: The ever-present cell phone and Blackberry don't have to distract from your conference experience - they can enhance it! Learn to use mobile technologies to facilitate your interaction with presenters, share opinions of a session, and meet others with similar interests. This workshop will orient you to the opportunities at CYFAR—from Twitter feeds, Facebook, and mobile-optimized agendas to Pecha Kucha, Flash Mobs and Text (SMS) Polls. (Bring your mobile devices with you.)
– Professional Development –
Don't Bother Me, Mom-I'm Learning
Author: Prensky, Marc
Description: Based on his recent book, Don't Bother Me Mom I'm Learning, Marc Prensky’s keynote talk at the 2007 CYFAR Conference presents the case-profoundly counter-cultural but true nevertheless-that video and computer game playing, within limits, is actually very beneficial to today’s 'Digital Native' kids, who are using the games to prepare themselves for life in the 21st century. According to Prensky, today’s youth are attracted to these games because they are learning important 'future' things, from collaboration, to prudent risk taking, to strategy formulation and execution, to complex moral and ethical decisions. Prensky’s arguments are backed up by university Ph.D.s studying not just game violence but games in their totality, as well as by gamers who have become successful corporate workers, entrepreneurs, leaders, doctors, lawyers, and scientists.
Description: This new position statement from NAEYC and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College provides important guidance to early childhood programs on the effective use of media and technology.
A variety of resources about the new position statement are available on NAEYC's website, including the position statement, key messages, examples of effective practice, a webcast, and related resources. It is available as an interactive or standard PDF.
– Programming Resource –
Author: Staker, Jay (11 more by this author); Trudy Dunham
Description: Overview of the Mission of the Month, how it meets national 4-H mandates, and demonstration of how to use the activities to build inquiry-based learning in your nonformal educational program.
Author: Dunham, Trudy (32 more by this author)
Description: Overview of the instructions and commands for using the computer game programming tool Scratch.
Description: This new position statement from NAEYC and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College provides important guidance to early childhood programs on the effective use of media and technology.
A variety of resources about the new position statement are available on NAEYC's website, including the position statement, key messages, examples of effective practice, a webcast, and related resources. It is available as an interactive or standard PDF.
Technology Tools Youth Are Using Today
Author: Wiebke, Jeanne
Description: Overview of online tools and software that are frequently used in upper elementary & middle school youth settings, within the school, out-of-school program, or in the home. Includes school and educational software in the topics of literacy, music, math and others.
Author: Black, Lynette (2 more by this author); Pamela Power; Esther Worker
Description: Overview of what GIS is, and why you should integrate it into you youth program (to build problem solving skills, career skills, and civic engagement). Also covers basic GIS tools that you can purchase and those available online.
Youth Community Informatics: Engagement through Technology-Supported Inquiry into Community Issues
Author: Diaz, Lisa
Description: Try out a curriculum that empowers youth to use communication technologies as tools to investigate and organize for social action around community-based issues. Topics of inquiry within the curriculum are based on case studies of youth social action that range from racial segregation to poverty to school violence. Free curriculum materials provided.
– Research –
Author: Dunham, Trudy (32 more by this author)
Description: Most people today rely on the Internet for information and as a research tool. We have assumed that the best resources - the most relevant or authoritative, those most representative of what is going on today - are going to show up on page one of the search results. We have assumed that the search I conduct will result in the same result as the search that you conduct. New algorithms are tailoring search results to our past behavior, resulting in our being shown what the tool thinks we want to see, rather than a more objective list of what is available on the topic. Includes references to help you understand and think through the implications of these algorithms for our use of the Internet