This document provides an overview of what a 21st century classroom looks like. It discusses how emerging technologies allow for more connected, collaborative, and creative learning experiences on a global scale. Specific technologies mentioned include blogs, wikis, videoconferencing, virtual classrooms, and virtual worlds. Global projects connecting students from different countries are highlighted. The document also discusses new literacies needed for 21st century learning and professional development opportunities for teachers.

1. What does a 21st
Century
Classroom look like?
VITTA 2010
Anne Mirtschin
Hawkesdale P12 College
mirtschin@gmail.com

2. A 21st
century school
• The 21st century classroom is an exciting one that
can deliver powerful learning outcomes through the
use of emerging technologies.
• Hawkesdale P12 College where the classroom and
staff room walls are increasingly becoming flatter
and the eplanks have been laid.

3. Meeting the Minister for Finance
Listening to members of the MSO

4. Four C’s in the 21st
century classroom
As never before, we have the ability to :-
• connect
• communicate
• collaborate
• create
on a local, national and global scale

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

6. The emerging technologies
• Interactive, social nature of internet tools has
ability to change education substantially
• Allows education and the power of learning
to be in the hands of students.
• Students now have power to learn what
they want, when they want and where they
want. 24/7/365
• Mobile learning
• Ability to personalize learning.

7. The past two weeks in a classroom

8. Learning to drum....

9. Learning to drum....

10. Dancing and Malaysian Game

11. Malaysian Weddings and money
folding

12. Boston

13. Australia to Boston

14. Grade 6 student teaches year 10IT
Halloween

15. Halloween

16. Listen2Learners

17. Bianca teaches from China

18. 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.
Geo Science Week
Classes from Victoria, interested
Experts/adults from Hong Kong,
China etc all in the classroom.
Geo Science Week

19. Teaching and learning in the successful 21st
century
school?
• proficient and efficient in a variety of synchronous
and asynchronous communication tools
• All students need to be involved in collaborative and
interactive global projects from an early age
• Cyber safety
• Learn appropriate digital citizenship qualities
• Assessment must include aspects of working in teams
– local, virtual and global
• Multimedia – digital storytelling, podcasting, using
images, music (transcends language barriers)

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

22. College requirements

23. Areas in your school where ‘default settings’
need to be changed and agreed?
• Learning spaces, virtual groups, mobile technology,
• AUPs and permission to both publish and work
online in virtual spaces.
• Flexible timetables, learning spaces
• Learning is, can be and should be 24/7/365
• integrate subject areas
• team and small group work will become norm
• Cross age groups
• personalized learning
• International team teaching

25. Learning spaces
• Physical classroom spaces – small retreat areas for
podcasting, videoconferencing and sharing conversations via
videoconferencing with those from other
countries/languages
Online spaces
• Virtual classrooms eg elluminate, discoverE, flash meeting etc
• Live blogging
• Teacher will be in the middle of the classroom, at a screen
with the students
• Online teaching/facilitating students in another country
• Virtual worlds- second life, Quest Atlantis, Reaction Grid

26. Breakout learning spaces
Small areas for a group of students to podcast,
videoconference or converse with global students

27. Film Making Space

28. Blogs

29. Benefits of Blogging
• Available 24/7/365
• Customization
• Comparison with other countries
• Source of pride
• Variety of media
• Education becomes interactive
• Using technology for the digital age
• Platform for connection and communication

30. What is a blog?
• A journal
• Outlet for opinions and ideas
• Showcase for learning and achievements
• Reflective entries
• Platform that allows embedding or linking to
multi-media
• Digital portfolio

31. Netiquette
• No IM or txt language anywhere (looking for
professionalism plus possible need for
translators/interpretation)
• Always reply and thank a commentor or goto
their blog and add a comment
• No bullying/no negative comments
• Always write for any audience – ages,
cultures, beliefs etc
• Keep cybersafe at all times

32. How to make asynchronous connections
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Nings
• Google applications
• Emails

33. Synchronous connections
• Liveblogging http://www,coveritlive.com
• Videoconferencing www.skype.com
• DiscoverE virtual classroom software.
• virtual classroom http://www.elluminate.com and DiscoverE
• Back channels eg http://www.chatzy.com and
http://www.tinychat.com
• http://www.twitter.com
• Google applications
• www.flickr.com an online image sharing site
• Virtual worlds – reactiongrid in Open Sim
• superclubsPLUS – “facebook” for the young, safe
environment

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

35. http://backyard.globalstudent.org.au

36. School blog

37. Class blogs – techno6

38. Student blogs- flurogreen, yr 10

39. Blog post

40. Comments

41. Twitter
• Haiti Earthquake Disaster | Chris
http://bit.ly/eFFHAU #earthquake (@TreyAlvares)
• Haiti Earthquake Disaster | Chris
http://bit.ly/edxOey #earthquake (@jeoffrensei)
• Dhugsy http://bit.ly/hnSstG

42. Blogging challenge
• http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/

43. Wikis – across the world

44. Global travellers
Year 9/10 students answer questions from USA students, so
they could develop Australian travel posters
Wikis –
shared web pages for collaborative/ interactive work

45. • Hello i am Kelly, from Australia!!!..i will answer these questions for you!!!
Question 1: How many meals a day are eaten in Australia? (Example: United States usually has 3 meals a
day, although current days, people tend to eat any number of meals.)
kelly says: we have 3 meals a day (breakfast, lunch and tea) but we do have snacks in between these
meals
(morning tea and afternoon tea).
In further detail, what are the types of meals you have? Such as, is breakfast a hot or cold meal? Or is it
either? From what I've learned about Germany, usually their lunch is the hot meal of the day, and they
usually have the one hot meal, where breakfast and dinner tend to be a cold meal. In the United States,
Dinner tends to be the hot meal.
Question 2: Are video games very popular, or, if not, what activities do most people do in their free time?
kelly says: video games are fairly popular here, yes. Other than sitting infront of the
television/computer all day, a lot of people play sports,go shopping or just hang around with friends.
(well thats what i do anyway!!)
(I cannot think of a further expansion for this question)
Question 3: How are the people in Australia? Are most friendly? Wide variety? Location dependent?
kelly says: well most of us are friendly, we are all pretty loud and outgoing people. But just like
everywhere else we have some shy people. And just out of interest.. what do you mean by location
dependent??

46. Voicethread
www.voicethread.com
Online podcasting that can be collaborative
• Storytelling
• Global projects
VoiceVideoTextImages

47. 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.

48. Rich Wilson - Congratulations

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

50. Dddddddddddddddddddd
Skype and slideshare to teach students from Canada about
• Australia and Culture
• School
• Community
• farm
Student from Canada asks questionHow it all looked back in Canada

51. Some useful sites
• Tips on videoconferencing
• Around the world in 80 schools
• Wiki for skype in schools
• Theedublogger

52. The virtual classroom
Using elluminate virtual classroom software

53. DiscoverE
• DiscoverE virtual classroom software.
• Uses low bandwidth and has basic tools for
classroom use – chat, audio, video,
whiteboard, webtours

54. Wall wisher – see link

55. Earth Science Week
Young C Y Ng: Hong Kong GeoPark

56. Ian Lewis and Kanawinka

57. 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

58. 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

59. 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?

60. National Costumes
Students from Malaysia show national costumes

61. Sharing our Australian food – the meat pie with sauce!

62. A linkup with a school in Russia

63. Grades 3 to 7 (Australia) listen to grade 5 students from
Singapore talk about racial harmony

64. Debating Online

65. Endang, an amazing teacher in West Java, Indonesia

66. West Java Earthquake
September 8th
2009
• 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.

67. School in West Java
Endang is a teacher in West Java. She owns a laptop
and has mobile internet access. That laptop
accompanies her to her two local schools where
she volunteers to teach English and connects to
teachers/students in other countries via skype
and videoconferencing. Her staff and students
have conversations with mine, using skype, to
improve their English.
(There are no other computers in the schools)

68. Speaking directly with earthquake victims in
West Java, 12 hours after the earthquake, using
skype

69. 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.

70. 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

71. Flatclassroom wiki
-http://flatclassroomswikispaces.com
Flatclassroom wiki
-http://flatclassroomswikispaces.comStudents collaborate and build live web pages reflecting their findings by
working in virtual teams.

72. Students create digital movies for global judging
Student movie on semantic aware applications

73. Virtual worlds

74. A global/flatclassroom!
Flatclassroom project students meet face to face in Doha, Qatar 2009

75. “Building the bridges of today that the
society of tomorrow will walk across.”
Vicki Davis, co-founder of flatclassroom projects

76. New literacies for 21st
century classrooms
• Digital
• Imagery including creative commons
• Animations
• Media (multi)
• Voice and oral communication
• Videoconferencing
• Attention

77. Digital literacies
• Blogging/use of comments
• hyperlinked language,
• wikis
• Nings
• Chat, hyperlinked text,
• Use of translator tools
• writing in 140 characters or less (twitter),
• digital conversations

78. Communication literacies
• videoconferencing techniques (microphone,
positioning of objects, face
• Articulation: clear, slow speech to allow for
different accents, levels of English
understanding
• Podcasting
• Use of webcameras, microphones etc

79. Should Australia Go to India to Play Sport

80. Discussing with students from India

81. American School of Bombay

82. Asian Connections
Taman Burkitt Maluri School, Kuala Lumpur

83. What skills are important to learn?

84. Virtual worlds – eg Quest Atlantis,
Reaction Grid/Open Sim

85. A virtual accounting student

86. Virtual Teaching Rounds

87. Personal learning network

88. Organizational
• diigo,
• Delicious
• bookmarks
• wikis
• blogrolls
• Google/other online calendar

89. Other literacies
• Spam/phish detection
• Authenticity
• Identify creation and management
• Reuse ethically

90. Online PD
• Guidetoinnovation
• Tech Talk Tuesdays
• Learncentral
• Classroom2.0LIVE
• Global Education Conference 2010
• K12 Online Conference
• Many more

91. Find out more
• Edublogger - http://theedublogger.com/
• Globalstudent/teacher –
http://globalteacher.org.au and
http://globalstudent.org.au
• SLAV blog – http://slav.globalteacher.org.au
And search online for more!