Effective use of technology

Effective Use of Technology in the 21 st Century

A 21 st century classroom for early years educators

Parent Teacher Interiews Thursday March 31st

Why Use Technology?

Why use technology in learning?

Engage with what they are doing to improve learning outcomes.
Teaches students to be thinkers/learners/risk takers
Teaches independence and accountability
Enables valuable employable skills in a digital world - digital behaviour, citizenship, cybersafety, plaguarism, working with virtual teams, self discipline in a virtual world, digital literacy etc
Broadens the horizons for many students- can go global!
Distance and isolation no longer a disadvantage, as technology allows them to learn virtually and maintain their subject choices
Inspires students to seek more from school
Gets kids to go to school!
Can capture the learning
Enables a blended learning environment
Students can establish valuable learning networks
Learning socially

Tools Used

Features of effective use...
What does it feel like, sound like, look like?
Excitement
Learning is fun
Noise/silence/laughter
Unified cohort
Beyond class walls
Team teaching – local, global
Group work – virtual teams
Learning networks - across the globe
Changing pedagogies
Digital literacy
Digital citizenship

Skype (http://www.skype.com)
VOiP
Live chat
Audio
conferencing
Videoconferencing
Bookmark and save chats
Can record conferencing-
eg pamela

E-intercultural Learning Adventures

e-Cultural Learning Adventures

Lost in Malaysia

Bianca in China

Endang

Speaking directly with earthquake victims 12 hours after the occurrrence using skype

West Java Earthquake September 8th
7.3 richter scale
64 deaths, 37 people missing, and 27,630 people displaced in nine districts in West Java and one in Central Java.
Approximately 54,231 houses were damaged in 12 districts in West Java and one district in Central Java.

Will Richardson quote on Learning is Now!
What a great model for the immediacy of learning that can happen these days, and the relevance. When you think about all of the things that your students could learn and practice here, interviewing skills, geography and geology, information research, retrieval, editing, organization and sharing, all in the larger context of perhaps assisting those in need who were thousands of kilometers away. I want to make the point, however, that it's all grounded in your own understanding of these technologies and the ways in which they can help us connect. If you didn't have that knowledge and experience, this probably would not have happened, and that really is the goal of what we're all trying to do here, get more comfortable in using these technologies to learn in our own practice. Thanks so much for sharing this great snippet of learning from your classroom.

One to one linkup with Indonesian students (10 students in all)

Listen 2 Learners

Writers Festival

Should Australia go to India to play sport?
Foresee and sense cultural misunderstanding

Should Australia go to India to play sport?

http://www.etherpad.com http://www.titanpad.com

Skype intros with the American School of Bombay

Sample questions
Please write some bullet points about what has been happening to Indians in Australia in the past year. Include the response from Indians as well as the impact of these events on the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi.
Why do you think these incidents of violence have been occurring against Indians? Is it happening against other ethnic groups in Australia?

Google documents

Groups in Skype
Teachable moments
Just in time
Learning is now!

Cross adding 12+1 or 11+2 gives 13 Verdic Maths with Sebastian Panakal Kerula India 11 +1 12 +2 2 11 +1 12 +2 13

Skype an author! Andrew McDonald

Online debating

Some useful sites
Tips on videoconferencing
http://murcha.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/using-skype-in-education/
Around the world in 80 schools
http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/01/03/around-the-world-with-80-schools /
Wiki for skype in schools
http://skypeinschools.pbworks.com/w/page/11008318/FrontPage
Theedublogger
http://theedublogger.com/want-to-connect-with-other-classrooms/

Skype in education http://education.skype.com/ NEW!

Who’s that in our Classroom?

Earth science week
Two world experts speak to years 5 to 11
Young C Y Ng from Hong Kong
on the Hong Kong GeoPark
in elluminate.
Classes from Victoria, interested
Experts/adults from Hong Kong,
China etc all in the classroom.

Ian Lewis on Kanawinka – Volcanoes and Caves

From the chat!
Wow
Turtle: sick as
Ha look at that!
Turtle: been here
Grade 2/3 Woodford: Could you tell us more about the sink hole Ian?
Cara hawk: hey bj they probally go through records from when they first evoved

And also....
Joshua: i like red rock
i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR
we are going there soon
It's pretty :)
do you know where mt eccells??
water looks awesome
Looks good to swim in ;)
wow thats blue, how did it get blue?
do you know where mt eccells is??
How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt?
Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst
James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there

The Bats
Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake
4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly?
Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you?
Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have?
Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye
Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing
smithy: arent they posisoness
Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like?
jasmine .j: do they hurt
scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive?
Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat?
4B DGPS: are they really blind?
Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black?
Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases
Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?

Friends of the Earth

Meeting the Minister for Finance Listening to members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Asian Connections - Malaus Taman Burkitt Maluri School, Kuala Lumpur

Say hello

What skills are important to learn?

What do you look for in a friend?

What symbol best describes your country? The emu

Virtual Classrooms Cash Journals

Facebook

Virtual Teaching Rounds

Techno Parents
Broad representation of staff including Principal
Parents of Preps through to Year 10
Students, staff, parents all learning in the one room
Share happenings in classroom and school
Darwin teacher linkup
Feedback

Boston DiscoverE – virtual classroom software

Grade 6 student teaches year 10 IT class Halloween

A true global classroom – a student from Hawkesdale, two from China, two from Bangkok and one from USA are taught by an optician about the eye, using discoverE virtual classroom software.

Wordle –http://www.wordle.com

Please meet my grade 2s

Wordle

Uses for Voicethread
www.voicethread.com
Storytelling
Reflections
Reporting on extracurricula activities
Global projects
Voice Video Text Images

Uses
Summary
Reflections
Test prior Knowledge
Revision
Introducing new vocabulary
General display etc
Chatroom

Boston Connections - See my blog post See my blog post

Global Projects

Flat Classroom Projects
Flat classroom projects
Digiteen
Netgened projects
Eracism

Flatclassroom projects – a global example
Co-founded by Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis http://www.flatclassroomproject.org
Students work beyond their classroom walls in small groups made up of 4 or 5 students usually all from other countries
10 week curriculum program at the breaking edge of technology
Students involved from Middle East, Europe, Asia, Australiasia, North America

School’s in at 9pm!

Keynote speaker – uni lecturer from Doha, Qatar, speaks to students at Qatar Academy and Hawkesdale P12 College about citizenship journalism.

Flatclassroom Student Summit for Global Education conference http://www.wallwisher.com

Flatclassroom Project Student Summit Global Education Conference

http://flurogreen.globalstudent.org.au http:skippy.globalstudent.org.au Student Blogs Blogs

There are plenty of illegal immigrants in australia and each day many are sent home. illegal immigrants tend to have a non valid visa. some people who come here dont have a visa at all. Illegal immigrants come from all over the world. what happens to all of the illegal immigrants once they have been found out is they get relocated back to the country they came from.

Melissa // Oct 18th 2008 at 2:30 pm
That is what happens here in the United States as well. Visas are really a big part of it because visas take a long time to get, and then people just come illegally. Where are the illegal immigrants that come to Australia from?
Juliet Pham // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm
How do you feel about the fact that the illegal immigrants are relocated? Do you believe that it’s fair? I don’t think that it is. I really think that it would depend on the reason. Are the immigrants doing any harm really? That’s pretty interesting that Australia does have illegal immigrants because I never thought a place like Australia would because of the fact that it doesn’t have any countries near it or any land bridges.
Travis Bugge // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm
how do they get there? are they snuck on a plane or something? fur us, its pretty much peole crossing the border, or swimming over here. which part of austrailia do they go to?

What makes a good teacher?

Comments

Steph’s independent post prompt I’ll ask the world a question (that’s you) and you answer it whats your favorite movie and why?

So wrote a grade 5 girl, independently, as her own post prompt
She got 15 replies from countries including the UK, Israel, NZ and USA

Wallwisher-http://www.wallwisher.com Sticky notes on a common wall Allows images Videos Text Links
Brainstorming
Revision
Test pre-knowledge
Feedback
Chatroom!

Wall wisher – see link

Flatclassroom Student Summit for Global Education conference

Voicethread
http://www.voicethread.com
Online podcasting that can be collaborative
Storytelling
Global projects
Voice Video Text Images

Advantages of Voice Thread
Allows editing at any time and stage
drawing tools
Text or audio or video comments
Can be shared
Collaborative
Convert to a movie

Voicethread: http://www.voicethread.com Moving on ...... at school Students in grade 5 or 6 from UK, Thailand and Australia, share a voicethread and talk about what they are looking forward to in “moving on”, what they are nervous about and what they share in common.

Boston Connections - See my blog post

Screenshot of Rachael’s bubb.l http://edw0002.globalstudent.org.au/page/2/ Bubbl.us - Mindmapping

...and more tools
Larry Ferrazzo – Best Web2.0 applications in 2011 so far
Great sites for the Young
Blabberize - making animals talk.
Roxik makes your drawings dance
Befunky – to cartoonize photos

Underlying issues/requirements Oh! What a tangled web we weave !

Develop a Learning Network
Online conferences
Reform Symposium Conference
Global Education Conference
K12 Online Education Conference
Webinars: Tech Talk Tuesdays , [email_address] , ClassroomLIVE2.0

Personal learning network

Networking sites
http://learncentral.org
http://www.classroom20.com
Digital citizenship
School Beyond the walls
Global Education
http://www.learncentral.org
http://guidetoinnovation.ning.com
use a search engine as there are many

Where to find global partners?
Learn Central
Skype in Education partners
Around the world in 80 schools
ePals
The Edublogger
Twitter
And search online for more

Where to find global projects!
classroom2.0
Flat classroom projects
Global projects
Flat Classroom Projects
Jenuinetech Projects
Global Education Collaboration
Blogging Challenge
The Global Education Conference 2010 wiki
use a search engine as there are many

Curriculum Press http://www.curriculumpress.edu.au/main/goproduct/12892

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