My business cardDon’t have a little paper cardMy connections and personal learning network are all based onlineI use social media to communicate, network, collaborate in my professional life
Barack Obama in Germany at the victory column in front of an estimated 200,000 Germans We live in a digital world – we produce informationWhat do you notice in this photo?
Everyone has a digital camera, a mobile phone, video cameraOne person has a laptop – its webcam recording the event on video - streamingWhere will the video and pictures end up? Ustream.tv, Qik, Youtube, Flickr, Twitter , Facebook, Myspace
This is the read / write webTo kids, their whole life is online – communicating and collaborating using: myspace, facebook, instant messaging, texting, twitter, youtube, flickrThey are always on and always connectedThis is changing education the way I teachThe way students approach learningThis is a difficult concept for schoolsAge of teachers – 23 – 65+Very young inexperienced teachers who have grown up with the internetOlder teachers dragged into the 21st centuryTeaching today’s students with old pedagogies (textbook, rote learning, notes on the board, questions from a text, assignments, projects) is changingKnowledge is not neatly boxed – the global flow of information is fast and students need help in navigating it
More and more Australians have access to the Internet both at work and at home. It has invaded our lives.As a teacher – I am interested in Gen YThe internet – with web 2.0 technologies, cloud computing – education, as I knew it, has changed.Web 2.0 is changing educationOffering new opportunities for learners to take more control of their learning Customised information and resources; a greater creative input into how students present their work; Allowing more collaborative ways of workingopportunity to showcase their achievements to an authentic audience, often using non-traditional media such as video.