{"id":34,"date":"2014-10-20T20:42:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonharding\/?p=34"},"modified":"2014-11-11T02:04:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T02:04:21","slug":"navigating-the-digital-superhighway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonharding\/2014\/10\/20\/navigating-the-digital-superhighway\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating the Digital Superhighway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1,373,000.<\/p>\n

According to AppBrain Stats<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>that’s the current number of Android apps on the market. Not to mention the additional 1.3 million<\/a> that are presently available in the Apple App Store. In addition to these apps, new websites, social media networks and e-learning environments are popping up daily. We are being inundated with digital technology at an unprecedented rate.<\/p>\n

For teachers, this is an exciting time. We have a number of powerful tools at our fingertips that allow us to connect students with people all over\u00a0the world, find and share mass amounts of information, and keep up with current events as they’re happening, among a variety of other functions. But learning about these tools, and more importantly, how to use them in the classroom in an effective and meaningful way proves to be a challenging task. We’re in need of a new-age computer\u00a0course: “Navigating-The-Digital-Superhighway 101.”<\/p>\n

Enter Cohort 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My first impression of Cohort 21 is that I will take away a whole lot more than just an understanding of how to navigate the digital superhighway (including new friends, a new mindset, and new knowledge). But one thing I definitely left our first F2F session with, is a better grasp on\u00a0how to leverage tools like Twitter, Diigo, WordPress and Google\u00a0to enhance student learning, and optimize my efficiency as an educator.<\/p>\n

For instance, I learned that TweetDeck<\/a> can be used to organize Tweets by hashtags, groups, or various other categories.\u00a0I learned that upon downloading the Diigo Web Collector<\/a> app, I can annotate articles, save them directly to my Diigo account, and share them with various groups (and by the way, my students can do this too)! I\u00a0learned about Google +<\/a>\u00a0and Google Hangouts<\/a>,\u00a0and their potential to be extremely powerful collaboration tools (even when your fellow collaborator<\/a>\u00a0happens to be cruising along on a boat in NYC). Talk about a productive Saturday!<\/p>\n

During one of our conversations on Saturday morning, I acknowledged that I use a fair bit of technology in my classroom, but that I recently realized I’m often integrating technology at the “Substitution” or “Augmentation” levels of Dr. Puentedura’s SAMR Model<\/a>. Based on our first F2F session, I am confident that Cohort 21 will\u00a0better equip me to integrate technology in the classroom at the “Modification” and “Redefinition” levels.<\/p>\n

I’m grateful to have the opportunity to be part of the Cohort 21 community, and thrilled to be on this journey.\u00a0It ‘s going to be a wild ride. I’m looking forward to November 23rd already!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1,373,000. According to AppBrain Stats\u00a0that’s the current number of Android apps on the market. Not to mention the additional 1.3 million that are presently available in the Apple App Store. In addition to these apps, new websites, social media networks and e-learning environments are popping up daily. We are being inundated with digital technology at … Continue reading “Navigating the Digital Superhighway”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,8,6,7],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions","tag-diigo","tag-google","tag-samr","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonharding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonharding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonharding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonharding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonharding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonharding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonharding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonharding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonharding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}