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If you or your district is interested in having Garth and Mike come to your school for technology workshops or consulting services, please contact us for details. We specialize in the integration of technology into classroom content-- ubiquitous computing.
We can create unique presentations to meet your technology needs. Topics we can present on include, but not limited to:
-Creating 21st Century Assignments: Autonomous Mastery Learning.
-How can essential questions, digitized lectures, student research, collaboration, student blogging, historical fiction, self paced, and mastery learning come together to change teaching and learning in your classroom? Using constructivist methodology, flipped teaching and free applications, you can provide students with the opportunity to guide their own learning. During this session, participants will learn techniques, ideas and strategies of how to create 21stcentury assignments.
-Students Leaving a Legacy: A Student Created Dig. WikiTextbook.
-Imagine if students, thirty miles apart, could collaborate on their own digital textbook. Now image students receive no grade for their work. Imagery, podcasts, texts, PowerPoints, hyperlinks and more all created by students and for the world. In this presentation we will focus on how we built a 21st century learning environment between two school districts; one with a 1-to-1 laptop program and the other with a computer lab. We will explain how we built a common curriculum that engages and empowers our students to collaborate, communicate and disseminate their story of world history using Skype, GoogleDocs and Wikispaces. Our students’ efforts, over the past five years, have resulted in the creation of a living, digital textbook. Engaged with curriculum, motivated by a desire to understand the world in which they live and leaving digital footprints worth following.
-Leaving Positive Digital Footprints worth following
-Critical thinking, collaboration, problem solving, communication and creativity are not 21st Century skills; they have been the goal of education for the last twenty years. Teaching students skills they need to be successful in their future is a philosophical idea built up strong constructionist theory. Web 2.0 tools don’t change education, passionate teachers do. Join Mike and Garth as they discuss the philosophy behind their integration of technology into curriculum. Learn not just about free web 2.0 tools, but more importantly learn how these tools inspire students to learn for more than just a grade. 21st century learning is about changing the focus of why we teach and then using technology to improve how we teach.
D. Garth Holman
Garth has been teaching middle school social studies for 16 years in Ohio and New York. He is a graduate of the University of Dayton, with a B.A. in Political Science, a B.S. in Secondary Education. He then earned a Master's of Secondary Education in Curriculum from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York. Garth was hired to "test" a laptop program in Beachwood, Ohio in 2001. After one year the entire building went One-to-One. Garth has presented at many state and national conferences on the power of technology in teaching and learning. He also was one of a handful of American educators to present at the 12th Annual Chinese Conference on Educational Technology.
Garth also teaches graduate course at the University of Akron, including the Integration of Educational Technology. Garth is married to Stephanie Holman, a Kindergartner teacher in Kent City Schools. Stephanie and Garth have three small children, Hanna, Zach and Cassidy.
Garth also teaches graduate course at the University of Akron, including the Integration of Educational Technology. Garth is married to Stephanie Holman, a Kindergartner teacher in Kent City Schools. Stephanie and Garth have three small children, Hanna, Zach and Cassidy.
Michael Pennington
I am currently in my Fifth year of teaching. I completed my (extended) student-teaching with Garth at Beachwood Middle School. I was hired at Chardon Middle School, and have spent my entire career teaching seventh grade world history at Chardon Middle. I graduated with a BA of social science from Lake Erie College and earned my MA of history from Cleveland State University. I stayed at CSU to complete my 7-12 integrated social studies teaching license. In the fall of 2010 I will be teaching Social Studies Methodology at Kent State University. Over the past few years I have hosted several professional development opportunities for staff within my district and was fortunate enough to be part of a presentation team at eTech Ohio (2007). This year I am piloting a "connected classroom". All of my students have access to a laptop daily and curriculum is infused with technology to inspire students not just to learn, but to leave digital footprints worth following.
Outside of the classroom I am fortunate to be married to a wonderful woman, Christina, and we have two children. Kyle is currently a freshman and Olivia just turned 2 year old. When I am not trying to make a positive difference in education, I am out on my Harley.
Outside of the classroom I am fortunate to be married to a wonderful woman, Christina, and we have two children. Kyle is currently a freshman and Olivia just turned 2 year old. When I am not trying to make a positive difference in education, I am out on my Harley.
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