Technology Velcro: Tools and Techniques to Make Education Stick!

Technology Velcro: Tools and Techniques to make Education Stick!
Lynell Burmark, Thornburg Center

****New version of Hyper Studio

Humans process visuals 60,000 times faster than text. So images can do the job 60 times faster.

Made to Stick Chip and Dan Heath wrote—NYTimes bestseller with:

Connection
Humor
Images
Music
Emotion
Story
Senses

Clouds with pics in them—find out what the kids know by connections to prior experience.

Teaching words in pairs-Grande-pequeno

Video of guy playing violin in the subway (Joshua Bell) didn’t get much $ by playing, but was playing on a $3 million violin! Played the week before in a concert at $100/plate, to a sold out crowd. The only people who actually sat and watched in the subway were children…sad that no one recognized that he is a famous and amazingly gifted young man!

Humor is important for teachers. Lynell used a rat cartoon about Cinderella and every one laughed because we have a background already about the story. Some kids may not have. Children laugh an ave. of 400 times a day. Adults only 15. ☹ Need to find humor!

Pixcetera.com website has animal pics that are adorable!! Gives adults in your classes laughs and energy to get through presentations!

Comics:
Peanuts: www.snoopy.com
Internet Public Iibrary kidspace: www.ipl.org/div/kidspace
Hyperstudio 5.0

School Tube video for math teachers with the ratio on dating (Fish story with girl dating guys who either talk too much, or not enough!)
http://www.schooltube.com/video/10256/Matrix-Learning--Bad-Date-by-NMSU-

Give a picture to your class to focus on as they come into the classroom, and that becomes the focus for the first few minutes of instruction.

The History Place to show pics of Lewis W.Hine with the child labor laws. http://www.historyplace.com
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor

Give 4 pics to people and have them put them in a time line in a discussion.


WHAT AM I:
Give clues and use a puzzle pic to give them idea with each clue! The kids can create the clues, and picking the proper picture in puzzle format from HyperStudio 5.0. Using illustrated materials, Recall and retention increase over 43% when there is an overlay of narration with visual representation. It goes up 89% with transfer and application. (Richard Mayer, Multimedia Learning research)

MUSIC
BB KING sings The Letter Y (www.schoolvideos.com)
“Annie’s Song” (You fill up my senses…) from John Denver
EMOTION
You Tube ---The Mean Joe Green commercial (Coca Cola)
Create a photowall, similarly to a word wall (or web-based gallery) of kindness, love, and other Words worth 1000 pictures
**each week is a new focus---one week compassion, one week love, one week caring, etc.
Gerald Grow, journalism professor at Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL has a list of words

STORIES
We remember teachers who told us stories and the stories they told us….
From image to story—What’s the event? Who are these people? What is their relationshp?
“We don’t see things as they are;we see them as we are.” Anais Nin

Progressive story--groups of 3, koosh ball toss, worm balls (www.orientaltrading.com) used pictures of beautiful scenes, and whoever had the squish ball had to tell a story about the picture when they got the ball. Then she went back and put John Denver’s music to it.
The images are so powerful and can bring their own story to pictures, but with the music/narration, it brings more to the connection.

SENSES
We use our (multiple)sense to enrich experience, such as multimedia, multisensory experiense of the California Adventure- Soarin’ Over California (Disney World)
Sight…visuals!
-multi-colored classroom in 1995 Disney film: Matilda
-“One of the Family” painting-Frederick Cotman
Hearing…voiceovers, music!
-“I am lonely” to Selen’s No Me Queda Mas
Touch!
-Swimming with the stingrays (Cayman Islands); their bellies feel like________________used a custard pie to show how the sting rays skin felt
-Hands-on learning toys for younger children
-Click and drag on interactive whiteboards-Fred Armisen, Saturday Night Live (had the Obama/McCain voting pieces with voting)


Lynell's site:

http://www.tcpd.org/Burmark/Burmark.html