Learning @school Integrating ICT in the Classroom

Integrating ICT into the
Classroom
Joanne Howard
jhoward@tauranga.school.nz

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Teacher of Year 5 class at Tauranga Primary School
4 years teaching experience
Lead ICT teacher
Part of iTeam ICT Cluster
Currently trialling blended learning classroom


Goals for the
session
✓ Gain some ideas that
you could apply in your
classroom
✓ Sand pit time to check
out some websites
✓ Hands on activity
using the iPads
✓ Share our combined
knowledge/ideas and
questions


What do we have in Room 6?

5xiMac
4xiPad2

Mimio
Mimio
View

2xFlip
Digital
Camera
Camera
per Team

Wireless Keyboard +
Mouse

Blended Learning in Room 6

A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT LEARNING TOOLS (NEW AND
TRADITIONAL) USED TO SUPPORT LEARNING AND TEACHING
- KESS AND ZANE (YEAR 5 STUDENTS)


Planning
Keeping it as easy as possible

CONSOLIDATION
TEACHER/STUDENT FOLLOW UP TASK FROM ACTIVITY
LESSON/ACTIVITY ON TEXT BOOK/ ON COMPUTERS OR
MIMIO WORKSHEET IPADS

WHAT DOES NUMERACY LOOK LIKE IN ROOM 6
ICT INTEGRATED INTO A NORMAL ROTATION

MATHS MODELLING BOOKS ON MIMIO IN INTERACTIVE MODE
CREATED SLIDES FOR EACH LESSON IN RELEVANT STAGES
SLIDES ARE INSERTED INTO EACH GROUP’S MODELLING BOOK


CREATE YOURSELF A
LEARNING PATH
ON DIGISTORE FOR
NUMERACY AND
LITERACY ACTIVITIES


NZ Maths Basic Facts test-
Easy to take screen shot and input to
eportfolio / learning journals at the start of
each term to see progress


Great Numeracy Websites

FRACTIONS PLACE VALUE
BASIC FACTS MEASUREMENT AND
NUMBER SEQUENCING

IPAD APPS
MY FAVOURITE MATHS APPS

WE LEARN BY DOING SO TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO EXPLORE THE
WEBSITES BY GOING TO THE BELOW WALLWISHER AND THE
IPAD APPS IN THE L@S FOLDERS

SANDPIT TIME

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/LASNumeracyLinks


FOLLOW UP TASK SUCH AS
SUMMARISING TEXT/ MAIN
POINTS
USING WIRELESS
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
- EASY TO CHECK THAT
GROUP IS ON TASK AS
COLLABORATIVE WORK IS
PROJECTED ON CONSOLIDATION ACTIVITY ON
WHITEBOARD COMPUTER
AND FOLLOWING SESSION
READING OR GRAMMAR APP
ONE 45 MINUTE SESSION PER ON THE IPADS
WEEK WITH TEACHER
FOCUSING ON A READING
STRATEGY
- USED TO USE MIMIO
CAPTURE TO RECORD
THOUGHTS AND BREAK DOWN
WORDS BUT IT DETRACTED
FROM THE TEACHING

WHAT DOES READING LOOK LIKE IN ROOM 6?

Teaching Reading Comprehension
Activating prior knowledge
Building vocabulary knowledge
Inferring
Making connections
Predicting
Questioning
Scanning
Self Monitoring
Skimming
Summarising
Synthesising
Visualising


MID-TERM
PLAN

WHAT DOES WRITING LOOK LIKE IN ROOM 6?
Ability grouped (usually by National Standards).
Focus on what their next steps are. One lesson whole class intro or
revision of genre then independent tasks. A couple of short
teacher sessions per week on Mimio or Mimio View e.g. Extending
basic sentences by adding detail and description.


USING MOVIE CLIPS FOR WRITING PROMPTS
BREAKING MOVIE DOWN INTO PARTS LEADS TO EASY PARAGRAPHING

One off Writing Task
Once a week
opportunity
for creative
writing


Procedural writing unit
4 Group rotation which included -
• 1/2 group cooking whilst other 1/2 take

photos on ipads or ﬂip cameras
• Follow up task to create procedure using

Comic life on iMac or Strip Designer on iPad
• Watch movie on ipad or projector sequencing

procedure for peppermint creams
• Complete procedure activity from BBC

Skillwise

Comic Life to make a personalised book for ESOL student new to NZ.
Children took photos and lots of oral language took place before writing
the simple sentences that followed the same pattern and used a template.


Comic Life art- use a basic shape as a
template and ﬁll with word art

+

HTTP://BLABBERIZE.COM/


Current Events
Kiwi Kids News- National/International/Sporting and
Weird news events re-written for kids

TRIED AND TESTED LITERACY WEBSITES

FAVOURITE LITERACY APPS
Problem
Reading/Oral Writing/ Spelling/ Solving/
Language Presenting Grammar General
Knowledge


NEXT STEP FOR ME-
FOR EACH SMALL GROUP TO CREATE A PICK
A PATH STORY USING KEYNOTE -
DISPLAYING THE KEY COMPETENCIES

LEARNING INTENTIONS
✓ TO WORK AS A TEAM-
(SHARING IDEAS AND
RESPONSIBILITIES)
✓ TO THINK CREATIVELY
✓ TO MANAGE TIME AND MEET
DEADLINES
✓ TO USE KEYNOTE INDEPENDENTLY
AND EFFECTIVELY
✓ TO TEACH SMALL GROUPS IN TERM 2
HOW TO MAKE A PICK A PATH STORY


5 MINUTES MORE SANDPIT TIME TO EXPLORE THE LITERACY
WEBSITES

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/LASLiteracyLinks


TURN YOUR COMPUTER,
IPAD, IPHONE OR IPOD
TOUCH INTO A READING
POST.
ALSO GREAT FOR SMALL
GROUP TEACHING OF
APPLICATIONS ON IPADS

BELKIN ROCKSTAR
$38/40 FROM JB HI-FI

INQUIRY
MOTIVATION WAS CHANCE TO SHARE THEIR FINDINGS CREATIVELY - RATHER THAN JUST
A POSTER


STORYROBE-
ABLE TO IMPORT
PHOTOS AND ADD
VOICE OVER WHILST
CHANGING
PICTURE WITH A TAP
OF THE SCREEN.
VERY EASY APP TO USE
AND FINAL PRODUCT
CAN BE EMAILED OR
UPLOADED TO
YOUTUBE.

STORY ROBE ON IPAD
OTHER SIMILAR APPS ARE STORY KIT AND SONIC PICS LITE

YOUR EXIT PASS HOME
USING THE STORY ROBE APP AND THREE OF THE
PHOTOS ALREADY IN THE IPAD, COME UP WITH A BRIEF
COMMENTARY- 5 MINUTES TO CREATE
THINK OF ONE OR TWO WAYS THAT YOU COULD USE THIS
APP IN YOUR CLASSROOM
SHARING OF IDEAS AND ONE OR TWO MOVIES
PLEASE FILL OUT YOUR FEEDBACK FORM
THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE UPLOADED TO THE CORE
WEBSITE THIS WEEKEND

YOUR GOAL UPON LEAVING- APPLY ANY NEW LEARNING
WITHIN THE NEXT FOUR DAYS

Please feel free to contact me
jhoward@tauranga.school.nz

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