Edmonton Catholic Schools
Presenter used the term "Money Bomb"
Edistorm is the main tool for the presentation: www.edistorm.com
Looks like another online sticky notes
He hit the nail on the head with the Robert Moses analogy---not sure how it fits, yet...Here come the TPACK
Engagement - Rigorous
Edistorm uses sticky notes, pictures you tube video, also produces summary reports
At the risk of being critical to the presenter, if this is TPACK in nature, why are we starting with tool and not skills?
Presentation is dying a slow death...if this is content area reading and literacy strategy...why are we only learning how to build an Edustorm? I wish the presenter would explicitly explain how does this promote collaboration, inquiry, problem solving?
Unfortunately this is the first real disappointment of ISTE 2011...The title was literacy and there is no research, no connection to 21st C skills, a mere nod to TPACK, no contextual framework for literacy instruction, no instructional model or framework demonstrated. This could have the potential for such a great presentation if the presenter could have put more effort into explicitly crafting this demonstration based on literacy instruction and not just on the Edistorm tool. Now Reg the founder of Edistorm is giving a sales pitch including an offer of a "super" 50 percent off for ISTE educators. The wireless is totally hosed up...perfect ending.
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