Tools For Re Engagement

TOOLS FOR (re) ENGAGEMENT http://flickr.com/photos/7447470@N06/1345266896/ Access and General Education Faculty Forum Dubbo May 8 th , 2008

A GLOBAL AUDIENCE?
YouTube - http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =QjA5faZF1A8
Performance by a 13 yr old Korean boy
May 6 th , 2008: 42,531,468 views; 180,657 comments
That’s more than the populations of
Australia 20.1 m
Israel 5.7m Denmark 5.3m Finland 5.1m New Zealand 3.6m Ireland 3.6m, etc

ARE YOU ENGAGED RIGHT NOW?

The Primary Tool of Engagement is: YOU

The Primary Tool of Engagement is: YOU LOOK AFTER THE AFFECTIVE DOMAIN

Digital Natives (Marc Prensky) http://www.flickr.com/photos/30864080@N00/347520047

Digital Natives are:
Communicating (Instant Messaging, SMS)
Sharing and collaborating (blogs, wikis, MySpace, Facebook)
Buying and selling (eBay)
Exchanging (peer to peer technology; phone to phone file transfer)
Meeting (3D worlds)
Reporting and documenting (camera phones)
Evaluating (comments on blogs, photo and video sites)
Searching (Google)
They are CONTENT PRODUCERS and CONTENT RANKERS
Many have an online presence. And…they don’t use email!

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS ISSUE: are teaching DIGITAL NATIVES

Not all Digital Natives are Generation Y http://flickr.com/photos/stephanridgway/1460848008/

Some Stories (1)
eLearning for Youth (2005)

Some Stories (1)
eLearning for Youth (2005)
Moral: get students out of the classroom and engaged in real world tasks

Some Stories (2)
David Jonassen - Constructivism

Some Stories (2)
David Jonassen - Constructivism
Moral: get students working on real problems; They can and will collaborate on tasks that are relevant to them.

Some Stories (3)
US street kids and art.

Some Stories (3)
US street kids and art.
Moral: have faith in students to do something of value

Some Stories (4)
LeFevre High School Student:
“ For years I was asked to do stuff I wasn’t interested in and wasn’t good at.”

Some Stories (4)
LeFevre High School Student.
“ For years I was asked to do stuff I wasn’t interested in and wasn’t good at.”
Moral: get students working on stuff they are interested in

Some Stories (5)
Low level ESL students and Current Affairs.

Some Stories (5)
Low level ESL students and Current Affairs.
Moral: assume ALL students have something to say about the bigger issues (politics, society, morality, etc)

Some stories (6) Moral: banning access to technology is not a viable option. Tom Wood (15) “The only Internet filter that needs to be installed is between the ears of the user.” Banning Internet sites/using Internet filters

Audacity

Why Media?
Adrian Miles (RMIT):
“ make our institution…more porous to the students’ private technologies – their mobile phones, their laptops and their cameras.”
Innate human desire/need to create
Ubiquity and ease of participatory media enables creation of art, film, documents, course content, assessments, etc

Media Creation Tools
Audacity
ccMixter (collaborative music making online)
PhotoStory
MovieMaker - example
Animoto - example
The mobile phone:
Photos and/or movies to FlickR
Movies to moblog.co.uk
Voice Thread
FlickR Tools (bighugelabs.com) HERE
Mosaic
Business cards
Billboards, etc
Blogs, Wikis, Podcast sites (Podomatic, Odeo)
Blogs/webpages annotated with media – Apture (apture.com); example

Publicise Student Work
Post to blog, podcast, or wiki sites, and
Ask your networks to view and comment:
“ Thank you so much for being such supportive, all of you! I hope to continue my learning process and get ready to speak and write in English. I was really surprised to see all the people who wrote about our wiki. It's so cool because it was from all different places of the world... I think that's so great! :)” (Maria, Venezuela)

Virtual Classrooms
Games (Ken Gooding)
Invited Speakers; ‘chatting with heroes’ (AFL Footballers, Philip Nietzsche for Mature Age students  , Tom Dawkins [Vibewire] – may engage Gen Y)

Social Justice
Vibewire - Australia
Kiva (international)
http:// kiva.org /

Course Content
Toolboxes
Audio
Surveys!
Click pic above for Audio from Glenda McPherson

Survey Tools Eg Zoomerang Survey Monkey More at http:// users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/mfo/zoom/results.htm

Course Content
Toolboxes
Audio
Surveys!
Second Life
Click pic above for Audio from Glenda McPherson

Second Life See Second Life in Education

A Lesson with
Show an image
Brainstorm possible tags
Distinguish between literal and figurative
See what other images have the same tag
Have students find or create images on assigned tag(s)
Review images and use as starting point for discussion (critical thinking) and or creative writing
Have students comment on each others’ images

F.U.N (frivolous unanticipated nonsense!)
Jigsaw ( http://www.jigzone.com/ )
Chat with Alice the Robot
Other bots at http://www.sitepal.com/ , http://oddcast.com/home/ , Codebaby ( http:// www.codebaby.com/solutions/elearning.html ) (not free)
Google Fights (eg. ‘what will you do’ v ‘what are you going to do’; people)
Scrabulous
Drawing software (isketch.com)
Timelines (eg http://www.dipity.com/ ; example )

SCRABULOUS

Engagement for what?

Image courtesy of Marg O’Connell @ The Web: inspiring great online teaching

How hard do you push?

How hard do you push? “ We have to teach them to take responsibility.” (Jackie Pedley)

Goal Setting Present Goal What are the steps to get from HERE, to HERE?

When all is done and dusted…..
Resume/portfolio to document what has been learned

The excellent eteacher:
has an online presence/website (eg course homepage on LMS, or own website, blog, etc)
Knows how to use technology for delivery and assessment and therefore has a blog, a wiki, or podcast site
Includes media in delivery and production of teaching materials and student assessment
Models and teaches digital literacy
Creates and provides digital resources
Teaches search, validation, and verification skills
Employs and models RSS as a means of aggregating and distributing content

Teaches about, and employs collaborative approaches
Acknowledges the nature and influence of horizontal learning (multitasking)
Knows when to encourage vertical learning
Switches between sage and guide as appropriate

Knows when to call in the wisdom of the experts to balance the wisdom of the crowd
Acknowledges the value of informal learning
Accepts that engaging learners is necessary (and that probably means using technology)

Acknowledges that students may assess the value of a resource via their networks rather than accept the word of the expert (teacher/lecturer)
Uses social bookmarking for collective mining and sharing of resources
Is a good (and frequent) online communicator
Knows how to effectively combine synchronous and asynchronous modes of delivery
Is able to teach in a virtual classroom/web conferencing environment (eg Centra, Elluminate, etc)
Must be e-connected and draw on the resources of their networks to remain current (and demonstrate to students)

Engaged Learners are
Supported
Respected
Empowered
Valued
Liked
Challenged
Perform activities that are:
Task-oriented
Challenging
Student-centred
Authentic
FUN
And it all starts with YOU (the teacher)
(Photo courtesy of Ron Oliver)

The teacher of engaged students does not need to be proficient with technology, but should know what available technologies are capable of, and give students the choice of using these technologies for tasks and assignments.
A final word: http://flickr.com/photos/teachandlearn/250059730/

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Tools For Re Engagement

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