The document discusses how tablets, MOOCs, apps, and collaborative learning tools are changing education. It describes how tablets allow iTextbooks and students to access resources anywhere, and how apps like Google Classroom allow paperless assignment collection and real-time feedback. MOOCs like EdX provide online course modules, while tools like iTunesU and screencasting software help create teaching resources. Apps promote collaborative learning through wikis and comment features, allowing students to learn from each other. Overall, technology is transforming learning through new mobile, online, and social opportunities.

1. Leading Change
with Parents
Veale Wasbrough Vizards
Practical Strategies Conference
Tuesday 16th September 2014
Mark S. Steed, MA (Cantab.), MA (Nottingham)
Principal, Berkhamsted Schools Group

2. Tablets
In and out of the classroom
The Psychology of Change
MOOCs and Flipped
Teaching
Apps and Collaborative
Learning

3. ‘How MOOCs, Tablets and Apps are changing how we teach’
TABLETS:
IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM

4. Martini
Learning

5. Martini
Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere

6. Tablets - In and out of the Classroom
iTextbooks

7. Tablets - In and out of the Classroom
iTextbooks

8. Tablets - In and out of the Classroom
iTextbooks

9. Tablets - In and out of the Classroom
Tablets v. Laptops
At Berkhamsted,
pupils in Y10 and
above can bring their
own device into
school.
Almost all choose to
bring a Windows PC
Laptop.

10. The Future: Automated Systems
Live Reporting through Apps

11. The Future: Automated Systems
Live Reporting through Apps
• Teachers can upload text,
pictures and video
content to a portal.
• The content can be
tagged.
• Parents can immediately
see what is going on.
• Parents can feed back on
what is going on at home
to support classroom
work.

12. ‘How MOOCs, Tablets and Apps are changing how we teach’
MOOCS:
AND FLIPPED TEACHING

13. EdX

14. EdX Courses (not just resources!)

15. iTunesU

16. iTunesU

17. iTunesU

18. iTunesU

19. Filmed Teaching Resources
MOOCs Online Modules

20. Screencasting
Using Quicktime on Mac
• Background Graphic:
• Smart Notebook
• Annotation:
• Writing in Smart
Notebook using Wacom
Bamboo Tablet as stylus
Canon Clip Link

21. Screencasting
Adobe Captivate
• Adobe PDF saved as a
PowerPoint using
Adobe Acrobat
• Annotation:
• Uses Ink in PowerPoint
• Recorded with Adobe
Captivate

22. ‘How MOOCs, Tablets and Apps are changing how we teach’
APPS
AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

23. What do the following have in common?

24. They are all places where this happens:

25. A School as a “Place of Learning”?

26. Apps and collaborative learning:
Tools for Collaborative Learning
• Wikipedia – “Wisdom of the Crowd”

27. Apps and collaborative learning:
Tools for Collaborative Learning
• Wikipedia – “Wisdom of the Crowd”
• The “Wisdom of the Class”

28. Apps and collaborative learning:
Tools for Collaborative Learning
• Wikipedia – “Wisdom of the Crowd”
• The “Wisdom of the Class”
• Dylan Wiliam, Institute of Education
 Pupils learn more from each other than from teachers

29. How ICT is transforming learning:
Tools for Collaborative Learning
• Wikipedia – “Wisdom of the Crowd”
• The “Wisdom of the Class”
• Dylan Wiliam, Institute of Education
 Pupils learn more from each other than from teachers
• ICT can provide a platform for collaborative learning

30. Apps and collaborative learning:
Tools for Collaborative Learning
• Google Apps
 Free
 Internet/Cloud-based
 Comparable functionality to
the MS Office Suite (ish)
 MS Office 365
 Internet version of Office

31. Apps and collaborative learning:
“The Wisdom of the Class”
• Noting Chapter 12 of The Great Gatsby

32. How ICT is transforming learning:
“The Wisdom of the Class”

33. Web-based Apps instead of a VLE
Google Classroom
• Classroom is designed to help teachers
create and collect assignments
paperlessly.
• Students can keep track of what’s due on
the Assignments page and begin working
with just a click.
• Teachers can quickly see who has or
hasn't completed the work, and provide
direct, real-time feedback and grades
right in Classroom.

34. Apps that change the teacher-pupil relationship:
Google Classroom

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