This document discusses the changing landscape of technology and its implications for education. It notes that while many teachers grew up in a pre-digital world, students now live in a world of constant technological change with information at their fingertips. It argues that schools need to explore how technology can not only supplement traditional teaching but open up new ways of learning. It warns that students who do not learn skills for gathering, processing, and creating information using technology will be at a disadvantage in today's digital age.

1. E-learning, student thinking and pedagogical change North Glen ICT PD Cluster TOD Monday September 7 2009

2. David Kinane

3. Curriculum Students Societal ICTs

4. The problem

5. Letters Typewriters Pre STD telephones Carbon paper Telex Terrestrial TV Banda machines Slide rules The VHS/Betamax decision Ektachrome 64 Super8mm We digital immigrants come from predictable times… … and now live in a world that is frenetic and ever changing.

6. SMS E-mail The Internet Chat Rooms VoIP MMS Games Consoles Blogs Online gaming Global multi-channel TV Broadband connectivity Cell phones Wikis GPS Web-cams I-Pods Digital cameras Video cameras DVDs Web2.0 Skype Bebo/Facebook/Myspace Second Life It is the world of our so called ‘digital immigrants’ A world awash with information at our fingertips

8. Did you know? Shift happens…

9. The democracy of information?

10. E-learning pedagogy “ Schools should explore not only how ICT can supplement traditional ways of teaching but also how it can open up new and different ways of learning” National Curriculum p36

11. “ The people to be worried about are those in a digital age but who are not learning these sophisticated information gathering and information-processing skills, or creating things of their own base on what they learn and sharing it with others.” Palfrey, J. and Gasser, U., p. 241 (New York, 2008) who are growing up Digital divides

13. Web 2.0 – you mean there is another one?

14. So why use this Interweb thingy?

15. Warning – Landslide imminent

16. The machine is us/ing us

17. Information, free tutorials and resources http://www.dakinane.com/blog

18. Don’t give up your day job… … your students need you.