Alan November NCETC 08 session
Alan November
Digital Learning Farms
Jobs kid should do
a. Designing tutorial
- Homework will contribute to the good of the whole instead of the individual.
- Create tutorial groups in classroom by using screen casting software
- Screencastomatic is free
b. Podcast reviews
- Curriculum review teams of kids
- Have a chart of jobs that change from week to week
- The learner owns the learning – not the teacher
- Review last week’s entire work on Monday of every week
- Gcast.com make a podcast from your cell phone
c. Curriculum research
- If kids do Skype with other cultures, they can record it and burn it to a DVD for another kid to take home
d. Critical thinking on the web
- Give them problem after problem to have them research
- Don’t accept all Google search results
- Have a daily researcher to sit at the computer to find factual answers
- Teach kids to find patterns of answers
- Globalize their thinking
e. Official Scribe
- Use social bookmarks and RSS feeds with KIDS!
- Kids aren’t taking notes – only one student – the others are freed up to ask questions and ingest information







