The document discusses using digital tools like a Book Rap to create collaborative online learning environments. It explains that today's students need skills to navigate the vast amount of online information critically and design their own digital learning spaces. A Book Rap allows students to curate resources, learn copyright and attribution, reference materials, engage in reflective learning, and use tools like embedding multimedia. This helps teach digital citizenship, inquiry skills, and engage students with topics like Australian history in a relevant online context.

1. DIGITAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENTS
HOW TOOLS SUCH AS A BOOK RAP CAN CREATE COLLABORATIVE ONLINE
LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
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2. CHANGES IN EDUCATION
Old school:
• Teacher talk
• Teacher centred learning experiences
• Text book , linear
• Education was centred in the classroom context
only, not open to global influences
• Little collaboration
Today:
• Social networks rule! Social spaces online house
the most connected society ever in history –
including that of the digital native…our young
people
• Learning today is multi dimensional, learner
centred and based on in integration of ICT skills
and understandings
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3. WELCOME TO THE INFORMATION OVERLOAD
Education today is more accessible than ever before, however the evolution of social media and online
communication formats is overwhelming. Students need skills to navigate this information highway
effectively and critically and to design their own digital learning spaces and resources that help them
acquire the knowledge they have identified.
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4. QUALITY LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
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5. DIGITAL INQUIRY, LITERACIES ETHICS AND VALUES
• Today students need ICT skills acquired in relevant ways to increase engagement and application to
their contexts. Students must also learn the ethical implications of their interactions and how they
create a digital footprint that once published, is their forever. Students must interact on line in a way
that promotes positive digital citizenship and be taught in ways that these skills can be practiced.
• Copyright laws , intellectual property and ethical use of social media are attitudes, values and legislation
that all our student need to be aware of and operate within.
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6. PROMOTING DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
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7. USING CURRICULUM
• The New Australian History Curriculum for primary and secondary students is an example of how topics
of learning can be shaped into inquiry projects using ICT integration. Taking the theme of Australian
history that runs between both documents, inquiry units can be made and elements explored in web
2.0 tools.
• This unit explores how these collaborative online tools can be used to create a Digital learning
Environment and explore digital citizenship:
Symbaloo image: a curation tool that links in a variety of DLE
tools

8. Book Raps in digital curriculum education
A Book Rap can help teach the following disciplines in a relevant context:
Ethical and responsible communications on a social platform
Allows students to curate and share resources and ideas
Teaches students how to adhere to copyright rules and regulations (attribution, plagiarism, intellectual property rights)
Teaches students how to reference resources
Teachers students to be critical and reflective learners of material and resources they find
Provides students a platform to use Web 2.0 tools including, linking resources, embedding multimedia and internet
searching skills needed for projects and self directed learning
Provides a relevant content to promote inquiry learning skills engaging and creating further areas of investigation in set
topics.

9. REFERENCES AND IMAGE CREDITS
IMAGE CREDITS
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10. Jenettekingdotnet. (n.d) Inquiry learning process poster. Retrieved 12 April 2016 from https://jeanettekingdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/the-inquiry-process3.gif
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inquiry-learning
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Galileo Education Network (2014). Inquiry and digital technologies. Retrieved 10 April, 2016 from http://galileo.org/teachers/designing-learning/resources/inquiry-
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NSW Department of education and communities. (n.d) Digital Citizenship. Retrieved 9 April from http://www.digitalcitizenship.nsw.edu.au/Prim_Splash/index.htm