ENGLISH 7_Q4_LESSON 2_ Employing a Variety of Strategies for Effective Interp...
2012 blended learning
1. Understanding the Next Generation of Students
and How They Expect to Learn
Cathie Howe
Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre
Blended Learning Conference August 28 - 29 2012
2. Who am I?
Professional Learning &
Leadership Coordinator
Manager Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre
3. Our Community
DEC & non-DEC schools across NSW
Students K-12
Teachers K - 12 DEC Regional staff
School Executives University students
Academic partners
Industry Partners
4. Living and Learning in a
Technology Rich World
CONNECTING
COMMUNICATING
LEARNING COLLECTIVELY
COLLABORATING
PRODUCING
CUSTOMISING &
ADAPTING TECHNOLOGY
5. Learning Environments
FROM
compromised access to technology
TO
emerging technology rich environments
with a blend of physical and virtual spaces
6. Pedagogical Approach: Inquiry Learning
can take many forms…
concepts learned
development of
in context
students’ critical
and creative
thinking skills
student-centred
teacher-guided learning
supports autonomous learning
7. Pedagogical Approach: Inquiry Learning
Models of Delivery | Project Based Learning
creates the need to know
authentic learning activities
begins with a driving question - key to arousing curiosity
engages and empowers students
work autonomously (usually in groups)
construct their own learning
culminates in realistic, student created products
9. Pedagogical Approach: Inquiry Learning
Models of Delivery | Challenged Based Learning
collaborative learning
guided knowledge construction
propose solutions to real problems
take action
reflect on learning and the impact of actions
publish solutions to a worldwide audience
focus on learning process rather than product
11. Pedagogical Approach: Inquiry Learning
Models of Delivery | Design Based Learning
real world contexts
multiple contexts
scaffolded challenges and open-ended design tasks
rich, varied feedback
discussion and collaboration
experimentation and exploration
both the process of learning and its outcomes or products are valued
13. Pedagogical Approach: Inquiry Learning
Models of Delivery | Flipped Classroom
videos instead of direct instruction
increased interaction
autonomous learning
teacher is "guide on the side” not "sage
on the stage"
a blending of direct instruction with
constructivist learning
content is curated
14. Processes
Building PLNs
(Professional Learning Networks)
Crowdsourcing
Crowd Collaboration
22. Students as Learning Designers
Manly Selective HS
Project Leader
Ms Kate Farrow
Year 7 Global
Citizenship Project
Year 10 students created an alternate reality
game played by 120 Year 7 students over
3 consecutive school days
24. The future…
If people don’t really learn how to learn and
how to engage, and how to be flexible and
adaptive, how to find communities and have
ideas about things that they want to do now,
we’re just really in trouble.
Professor Katie Salen
25. George Siemens suggests that, when students
“make their learning transparent, they
become teachers.”
26. Some questions to ask ourselves…
Is it possible to share knowledge more
effectively in online spaces?
Who might be directing the
learning in online spaces?
27. As teachers we are beginning
to be urged to:
Rethink access
Rethink transparency
Rethink openess
Rethink ownership
Understanding Virtual Pedagogies For Contemporary Teaching & Learning
AN IDEAS LAB WHITEPAPER
28. We are at the very beginning of what these new
technologies will enable.
Perhaps the question we should be asking
ourselves is not how technology can improve
what we are currently doing…
BUT
what is now possible?
Understanding Virtual Pedagogies For Contemporary Teaching & Learning
AN IDEAS LAB WHITEPAPER