This document discusses implications of technology for school leaders and learning. It explores how the modern learner is different due to being connected and having access to knowledge online. Learning is now social and networked, with knowledge residing in connections rather than individuals. The document provides examples of how technology allows for self-directed, collaborative and transparent learning through blogging, wikis, and social networks. Learners can determine their own objectives and demonstrate learning in various ways using mobile devices.

1. Kynan Robinson
kynan.robinson@neweraed.com.au
KynanRobinson.com
@kynanr +Kynan

2. Building Respectful Relations in a Digital World:
Implications for School Leaders
In this workshop we will collectively explore the implications for
leaders of the ‘digital world’ on relationships within school
communities.

3. The Modern Learner
How is the learning and teaching is changing?
Knowledge does not resides in individuals it sits in
the network.

7. Why do I love ICT?
I don’t.
I love education and creativity. Enabling every student to be completely creative.
Enable every student to take authority for their own learning – self directed
learning.

8. Let’s demystify technology
1. Remove the fear – place it back into the area of learning and teaching.
2. Is it more than the device?
3. How does it make us learn better?
4. Do we learn any differently because of the technology? If not, don’t do it.
5. Its much more than content – its about connectivity. The big shift is social not technological.

9. What is technology
The word originally referred to any means of enhancing human capabilities
Language is a technology
Modern technology is still about communication
Passing on ideas Creativity

10. Is the modern learner different?
No & Yes
Modern learning is different – the way we connect is different.
“The big shift is social rather than technological.” Seymour Papert

11. Learning Theories

13. Constructivism
We learn through experience and process.
Education is not about information transferal.
Rather it is a set of experiences that take place in a
complex environment.

14. Social Learning Theory
Knowing (or knowledge) is about who you are , what you are doing and it
unfolds within a social environment - never independent from it.
ICT allows for connections, communities of practice and social learning to
occur like never before.

15. Networked Learning
The Internet
Knowledge resides in the networks. We derive our competence from forming
connections. Experience has long been considered the best teacher of knowledge.
Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence
other people, become the surrogate for knowledge.

16. Questions for
educators to consider….

17. How do schools respond to students as
autonomous, web connected,
self-directed learners?

18. How does the availability of
diverse, high quality
and easily accessible
content
change the way our students learn?

19. What opportunities
are presented to schools
when leveraging
content on the Internet?

20. Is it the teacher’s role to
quality assure
online content?

21. Is having access
to Internet and Communications Technologies
a basic human right?

22. Remember information is not knowledge
Education is more than a fixed set of facts - its about
experience.
Students are more than just consumers of other experts
content.

23. Step 2
Communicate
Step 1
Content

24. How does easy
online publishing
change the way that our students learn?

27. Students Blogging
http://krob0055.global2.vic.edu.au/

29. What opportunities does digital writing provide for
students and schools?

30. How does
transparent learning
change the role of our students?

31. http://malvernprimarygamemakers.wordpress.com/

34. Transparent Learning
Example 2
Wikis
www.aurora56z.wikispaces.com

35. Step 2
Communicate
Step 1
Content
Step 3
Collaborate

36. How does the ability to participate and create learning
networks change the way our students learn?

37. Facebook

40. What opportunities
are presented to schools
when our students participate in or even
create
learning networks?

41. Scratch
http://scratch.mit.edu/

42. The learners in a heutagogy of mobile
learning environment:
1. Determine what they want to learn and develop their own learning objectives for their learning, based on
a broad range of desired course outcomes.
2. Use their own mobile learning devices and technologies to decide how they will learn.
3. Take the initiative to seek feedback from the instructor and their peers. It is their choice to utilize that
feedback or not.

43. The learners in a heutagogy of mobile
learning environment:
4. Form their own learning communities possibly using social networking tools suggested and/or set up by the
educator. Possible networks, many with corresponding apps, include: Facebook, Twitter, Edmodo, Instagram,
Blogging sites, Youtube, etc.
5. Utilize the expertise of the educator and other members of their learning communities to suggest and introduce
content-related resources.

44. The learners in a heutagogy of mobile
learning environment:
6. Utilize the expertise of the educator and other members of their learning communities to suggest Web 2.0 and
other online tools for that the students could possibly use to demonstrate and produce learning artifacts.
7. Demonstrate their learning through methods and means that work best for them. It could include using their
mobile devices to Blog, create Photo Essays, do Screencasts, make Videos or Podcasts, draw, sing, dance, etc.

45. Practical Examples
malvernprimarygamemakers.wordpress.com
aurora56z.wikispaces.com
Minecraft, Sim City, Civilisation

46. “Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness
to beauty and human feelings. Scraps of
information have nothing to do with it. A merely
well informed man is the most useless bore on
God’s earth.”
Whitehead 1929

47. Thank You
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