This workshop aims to demonstrate what has been a successful model for teacher leadership of the Digital Education Revolution in secondary schools. Through informal discussion and demonstration of specific software and Web 2.0 applications, participants will be introduced to a variety of strategies that have been used to overcome barriers to success that confront teachers. The aim of this presentation is to facilitate discussion and provide participants with a toolbox of strategies to bring about a 21st Century shift in pedagogy, learning styles and learning environments. Both presenters are leaders of DER within their schools and have collaborated on a number of inter-school projects promoting the innovative integration of technology into the 21st century classroom.

1. leaDERship

2. A Genuine Learning Revolution

3. I hope the lunch is good. Typical response to professional development…

4. Response to leaDER’s professional development! At last! Yay!

5. Is the Digital Education Revolution making your staff ...

6. Resistant?

7. Bored?

8. Over-it?

9. Technophobic?

10. Overwhelmed?

11. How can you motivate the troops?

12. Get yourself ready for the battle.

13. Rules of engagement: Know your stuff Know your enemy Get back-up

14. RULE 1: KNOW YOUR STUFF (focus on WHY before the HOW)

15. Web 2.0

16. Communicate Collaborate Create

17. Connectivism

18. (more about this from Troy later!) Constructivism

19. Andrew Churches Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

20. Taxonomy of Reflection

21. RULE 2: KNOW YOUR ENEMY (establish the needs of your learners – staff and students)

22. Enemy #1: Teachers

23. Enemy #2: Students

24. Think like a scientist and ...

25. Start with data!

26. Survey the staff on their: thoughts emotions experience willingness to use technology www.surveymonkey.com

27. Use this data to shape the professional development you offer.

28. AND target a group of enthused and capable staff to become your DER ‘team’ – your in-school PLN.

29. RULE 3: GET BACK-UP (create a PLN)

30. What’s a PLN? I hear you say ... Professional Learning Network

31. TWITTER?

32. Twitter Britney Spears

33. Twitter Tiger Woods?

34. Twitter Darcy Moore (who??) mETAphor: PLN (Personal Learning Network)

35. Twitter Communication

36. Twitter Collaboration

37. Twitter Support

38. Twitter Life-long Learners

39. www.twitter.com Follow us: @BiancaH80 @TroyM7 140 CHARACTERS CAN CHANGE YOUR EDUWORLD ... WE PROMISE! Twitter

40. Your PLN should help you to get your head around the jargon and the theory –twitter is essentially immersive learning – it’s fun, it feels good, but you learn tonnes of stuff.

41. Now you are truly a DER convert with the support of a powerful PLN, you need to bring this to others in your school.

42. You must start as a lone nut.

43. Leadership Lessons from the Dancing Guy

44. BIANCA, THE LONE NUT ...

45. DATA

46. DER Survey

47. DER Survey

48. DER Survey

49. DER Survey There was a need for …

50. 1. Subject-specific programming: TaLe Curriculum Support Networking with other schools DER Survey

51. 2. Software knowledge/experience: IWB and Smart Notebook Office 2007: Word & OneNote Adobe Creative Suite DER Survey

52. 3. Hands-on/ self-directed PD: DAGs in-services edmodo wiki vodcasts DER Survey

53. First Followers? DAGs

54. DAGs – positive reinforcement

55. How would you like the DAGs to assist you? Inspiration and empowerment By giving moral support Share resources DAGs: DER Action Group

56. DER Lunch & Learns: 15 mins play Graded Cross-curricula After-school Lunch-times DAGs: DER Action Group

57. 1 hour SDD Workshop SDD workshops

58. 1 hour SDD Workshop Beginners Email and MS Word: Checking email adding an attachment using track changes adding comments

59. 1 hour SDD Workshop Intermediate OneNote basics: open new notebook and name it insert image/audio/video insert information from the ‘net insert table/tags

60. 1 hour SDD Workshop Advanced: Web 2.0 tools Glogster Wordle Tagul Wallwisher Bubbl.us

61. 4. Resource database/sharepoint: wiki edmodo DER Survey

62. Davidson DER wiki

63. Edmodo DER group

64. I am still really excited that some of my kids are using this platform to ask me questions but even more excited that they are asking EACH OTHER pertinent questions about our work. I'm a convert!!!! Thanks, Bianca for setting this up. Yeah Bianca, it rocks my world to. Thanks for modelling it for us all! Teacher Responses to Edmodo

65. Teacher Responses to Edmodo Bianca, do you know what one of my Year 10s said to me today? I showed them a PowerPoint on dating and we were drilling things. Then she said: "Is this up on Edmodo?" "Oh," I replied. "That's a good idea. Do you want me to put it there?" "She said: "I hate it when teachers don't put it on Edmodo, so we can access it to revise. In English they always put things up there for us...." You are revolutionising us. Just think where we were this time last year.......

66. Teacher Responses to Edmodo The best thing about edmodo I found is for the seniors helping each other and being able to support them and them support each other particularly when assessments are due. It is a great way to engage all the learning styles and introverts into your lesson. Also a great way to extend students with stimulating extra stuff to support or extend their class work. I love it and it is so fast- no photocopying!

67. STUDENT REFLECTIONS

68. I have enjoyed using my Netbook at school. It has instant information on the internet and lots of good programs. The positives of having a Netbook for school are: you don’t need to carry any books, all my work can be filed in folders, I can’t lose any worksheets as long as I save them and instant information on the internet. Genuine Student Feedback

69. Genuine Student Feedback I think it is good to have a Netbook for school. We can find out over the internet when our assignments are due and hand them in over the internet too.

70. TEACHER FEEDBACK

71. I'm looking forward to Yr 9 having the laptops, whereas I was dreading it with Yr 10.... How times change!

72. TROY, THE LONE NUT ... ‘I understand HOW, I don’t understand WHY.’ Winston – 1984 George Orwell

73. My Edutopia ...

74. ... centres on: Creativity and innovation Critical thinking Problem-solving Communication Collaboration Information fluency Technological literacy “I taught them, but they just didn’t learn!”

75. http://ictpd.net/2008/08/things-that-make-a-difference/‘Constructivism, in a nutshell, says that if you create the right learning environment then students will build (or construct) knowledge and learning for themselves. Constructivism takes the focus off “teaching” and places it on “learning”. It sometimes means teachers have to take their hands off the controls, let go a little, and realise that the best kind of learning happens when students work things out for themselves and not always when they get “taught”. You may have heard the phrase: “I taught them, but they just didn’t learn!”

76. What about eGATs? Extension and assessment activities can include ICT based activities including: Film making, visual presentations including PowerPoint, vod and podcasts, recording of audio, designs of websites, advertisements, posters, DVD/Book/CD covers and publication of extended writing tasks using ICT. By being active users of technology we aim to build rapport and enhance student/teacher engagement.

77. English Faculty ICT Statement The English faculty of Lisarow High School values the role of ICT as another tool of learning and teaching. These statements live within the framework of Stage Four and Five English. From 2010, year 9 and 10 students will have access to DER laptops, however, these statements also highlight the need to prepare teachers and students of years 7 and 8, as years 9, 10, 11, 12 will all have DER laptops by 2012. We embrace the ability of ICT as a means of enhancing student communication and the composition of original pieces of creative and factual writing. Within every unit of work, students and teachers can enhance their learning by employing various means of delivery.

78. Flow chart of developing ICT skills

85. TAKE-HOME TIPS

86. Get Groovy With It Technologic: Daft Punk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPZJYQXQsm8

87. Get Them Inspired A Vision of 21st Century Teachers

88. Help staff to review their pedagogy: Rearrange the furniture Have a routine Make the rules explicit Encourage creativity Provide choice Remember ‘lids half-down’!! Empower beginners

89. All kids MUST have netbook AND workbook. We MUST have students using BOTH – remember that examinations are still pen and paper based PLUS young people require face-to-face communication skills Blended Learning

90. A netbook is NOT for typing up answers to comprehension questions – this is boring, uninspiring and does not help students to learn. That Lenovo sure is an ugly paperweight ... Blended Learning

91. Blended Learning Encourage: Communication between students, staff, school and regions Collaboration with many Creativity in the form of problem-solving, group work and project-based learning.

92. ... and if all else fails ...

93. Give them a push!!

94. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” W.B. Yeats