Narrative

The Millennial Learners This Glog is for both teacher and student it contains a comparison of the old analog classroom to the digital classroom of the future that the millennial learner is transitioning to. It exposes the need for change in the future classroom environment. One video explores the flexibility needed in the physical surroundings of millennial learners while others expose the needed curriculum change to learner centered lessons utilizing then technology that is available. The roles and responsibilities of the student will change to empower and engage them in their education. New classroom jobs such as class videographer, class photographer, back channel managers/editors of b logs, class scribes, class data entry specialists, researchers, collaboration coordinators and Skype connection managers are some of the possible parts they will play in the future classroom. These roles will make them contributors and creators of knowledge to society. The toolkit is loaded with resources and tools to aide millennial learners to take on these new roles in the future classroom see Table of contents below that will also contains active links to the various tools in the toolkit. The tools are many and learners will have to explore and find what works for them. A scaffold of tools can lend themselves to working on more complex problems. The web is ever-changing and tools will come and go so the Glog should change to reflect this as well as what works best for us. The Glog is arranged around supporting You Tube Videos: Video 1 – Tips and Tutorials from a two year old supplies an example for why the future of education must change and rise to the challenge of future learners who are born into a world of technology. Video 2 –College student compares the analog classroom of the present to the digital classroom of the future which needs to be developed to accommodate the transitioning millennial learners. Virtual Worlds within the digital classroom can function to create global competitors and citizens out of today’s millennial learners. Video 3 –Classrooms of the future what wre we in for and why? What tools will be available to help millennial learners? Video 4 – Changing the culture. The millennial learner will share a student centered curriculum utilizing collaborative tools for learning in a flipped classroom where expectations are set by ISTE Nets standards and Bloom’s revised taxonomy. Video 5 – Provides a visual of what the millennial learners new world might look like when it is newly constructed from the ground up. Dream to vision to reality – what can be done in three days to create a physical environment for the millennial learner. Video 6 – Box of Tricks - Top ten tips are shared in the video which is only the tip of the iceberg as far as the tools available to millennial learners to shape their world. Do what you can using today’s technology and students gadgets. Future education becomes student centered and with it comes new roles for student responsibilities. Student roles take on new meaning as they take on curriculum design through class scribes, bloggers, researchers, videographers, data specialists, etc. Special thanks to **Susan Oxnevad, Teacher Leader for Instructional Technology, District 97** and **Sheri Leno,** **Teacher Leader-Assistive Technology-Special Ed. District 97** for their inspiration, support and guidance!


 * Table of Contents **
 * 1) **[|21st Century Learning - ICT Science] **
 * 2) **Bag the Web **
 * 3) **Blogging **
 * 4) **[|Blooms Taxonomy Revised] **
 * 5) **Collaborative Learning for Classrooms **
 * 6) **Crocodoc Other Tools for Millennial   **
 * 7) **Digital Storytelling Other Tools for Millennial Learners  **
 * 8) **Dipity  Other Tools for Millennial Learners  **
 * 9) **Evaluate Websites **
 * 10) **[|Five Platforms for a Classroom Back-channel Chat] **
 * 11) **Flipped Classroom **
 * 12) **Glogster **
 * 13) **Google Apps Aligned to Blooms **
 * 14) **[|Graphics and Photo Editing] **
 * 15) **Internet safety **
 * 16) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|ISTE NETS] **
 * 17) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lab Manager Resources **
 * 18) **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lino It Other Tools for Millennial Learners  **
 * 19) **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">One Trick Tools  Other Tools for the Millennial Learner  **
 * 20) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Other Tools for Millennial Learners **
 * 21) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Prezi in Six Steps **
 * 22) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Quiki Search Engine **
 * 23) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Research **
 * 24) **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">RSS Feed Other Tools for Millennial Learners  **
 * 25) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Social Bookmarking **
 * 26) **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Text Compactor  Other Tools for Millennial Learners  **
 * 27) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Tips and Tutorials] **
 * 28) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Twitter] **
 * 29) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Voicethread **
 * 30) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Wikis **
 * 31) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Writing Support **
 * 32) **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">You Tube Videos: **
 * 33) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|YouTube - iPhone tutorial from a two-year-old] **
 * 34) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|A Digital Classroom] **
 * 35) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|A Future Classroom] **
 * 36) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Student Centered Learning] **
 * 37) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|The 21st Century Classroom] **
 * 38) **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Top Ten Tips for Using Technology in the Classroom] **