Interactive Technologies In Teaching And Learning 2

Alison Lydon
The Role of Interactive Technologies in Teaching
and Learning

Me
Head of ICT
Been in education for 15 years
Have seen a great increase in technologies over these years

Why I love Interactive Whiteboards
Fun
Visual
Engages pupils
Personalised learning
Different learning styles
Enthuses teachers
Reduce workload
INTERACTIVE
The learning should drive the technology, the craft of teaching is vital

Interactivity…some thoughts…
Manipulate text in new ways; (highlight, change colour, magically reveal) Use the pen on maps, images etc.
• Move/drag objects, edit and add objects to the page whilst teaching.
• Make the most of the infinite pages and space- hang text and images off the side of the page to avoid
cluttering the space, enjoy revisiting the pages in any order you want to.
• Use layers to show, hide and reveal answers to engage the pupils and save time.
• Add media such as images, sound effects, video etc to excite, motivate, encourage thoughts and feelings
• Link to web sites, to enrich the pupil experience
• Link to worksheets and presentations for enrichment, support or extension activities,
• Capture pupil attention and maintain focus with tools such as the spotlight, camera, revealer.
• Display and explore clear, accurate diagrams; label, resize etc explore detail with the magnifying glass.
• Model abstract ideas- rotation of shapes, perspective, time zones, capturing sections of video, short
episodes of animation or video.
• Use tools such as the ruler, protractor, calculator, fraction generator to demonstrate skills, and
demonstrate concepts
• Use colours and backgrounds to help dyslexic readers, or to engage the audience.
• Collaborative with pupils to make lists, poems, answers which they have shared ownership of.

Last year I found a new tool to develop the use of the IWB even further.
ActivExpressions

How to use ActivExpressions

My Journey
From SLF 2008 to SLF 2009
Bought Expressions
Trialled with chemistry dept

April 2009- Primary 4
I wanted to see
Could Primary 4 children cope with texting
How noise, concentration and motivation levels were affected
If the devices were versatile
How easily teachers could use the equipment
How teachers could use ActivExpressions for assessment

Introducing Expressions
I used a variety of questions to allow children to experience answering in different ways.
Flipchart Downloaded from Promethean Planet

Introducing the equipment
Introduced to all children at an activity day.
30 minute session with a class at a time
Thanks Janice!

In the classroom
Main areas I chose to work on
Language work
Environmental Studies
Maths
Other

Language work- some examples
Check factual recall
multiple choice answers
closed question right or wrong

Language work… send me your adjective.
Ad hoc question
easy integration
Texted answers
Answers from everyone
Used answers on the board

Our answers moved about a bit…

What makes a friend? Send me words about ‘James’. Print to take home.
Ad hoc question
Easy integration
Texted answers
Answers from everyone
Displayed answers on the board

Environmental Studies- ideas
Input from everyone
Variety of questions
Use a question when I want to
Make a question when I want to

Multiple choice

Check factual recall,
Use the camera tool to grab parts from web pages to make question

Put items in order- great for generating discussion

groups and individuals
Quizzes as a team

Working together is just as important as working alone, complete concentration and co-operation.

Data collection- One question but…

…a variety of answers, mostly right!
I can examine the variety of answers
Is spelling or the correct answer more important?

I can examine the variety of answers and who gave the answers (and how long they took).

And how long they took…
What a variety of times!

Summary table of results

Other ways of looking at the data

Children enjoy being right.. Can you tell from the yell?

Examining the answers with children, Did you get it right?
How did you compare to the rest of the class?
Check factual recall,

How we used Data in the class.
Makes Learning intentions come to life more- this is what I wanted to teach you- this is how far along the line we are
Use data for formative and summative assessment
Assess and give immediate feedback
Less time spent assessing, more time teaching
Motivate students to become actively involved
Close the feedback loop by letting them know what I learned from the assessments and what difference that information will make.
More focus on what my aims were, WALT.

Maths
Immediate feedback to check concepts are being learnt.
Pace the lesson according to the answers

Grab flipcharts with questions from Promethean Planet…

Confidence levels
Check confidence levels
Help children develop self awareness of abilities

Enhancing mental maths
Use websites with flash games. Use the screen recorder to capture and use time and again

Maths
Examine answers together.
Who got it right. What strategies did you use?

Maths
Shall I hide or reveal the correct answer?

Ease of use - pupil
Children needed fewer instructions than I thought and were better at texting

Ease of use- teacher
Launch of Inspire made a big difference-
One piece of software to create and edit and questions
Much easier to set up devices
All in one place
Hub- registered handsets once.
Put numbers on the back and named the device the same (use labels, not pen)
Quick to give out- easy to keep tabs on who had what.

Disappointments
Pace of lesson can be a bit slow whilst we wait for some children to answer
No personalization- same question for the whole class
Copying others

Self paced learning
Questions programmed into the software- make my own or use generator
Questions sent to handsets
Can randomise
Can set targets to meet to move to the next level
Can see progress as it happens
Can see how long each pupil takes to answer each question
Can export scores to excel
Can see success rate of each question

Self Paced Learning- complete concentration! (well almost)

Results- (aka the marking, done whilst the children are working in class)

Some of what we learnt these last 3 months
I used the handsets with numbers and a pre-labelled sheet
Children did not need instructions in the same format as staff
Start small
Think of the purpose of the question and the data you want to collect.
Does the question need setting up? Will you show or hide answers?
Be prepared for some initial noise
Use of the timer focused the answering- much quieter!
Fantastic for discussing answers
Children loved using it and did not mind the assessment

Engaging
Challenging
Motivating
Fun

Good teaching is about listening, questioning, being responsive, and remembering that each student and class is different. It's about eliciting responses and developing the oral communication skills of the quiet students. It's about pushing students to excel; at the same time, it's about being human, respecting others, and being professional at all times. Richard Leblanc, 1998
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/topten.htm

Places for more info

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