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This presentation was given at the The Education Show, in Melbourne in August 2011. It shows the use of effective technology in the classroom to empower learning.

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Effective Use of Technology in the 21 st Century
A 21 st century classroom for early years educators
Parent Teacher Interiews Thursday March 31st
 
Why Use Technology?
Why use technology in learning?
Engage with what they are doing to improve learning outcomes. Teaches students to be thinkers/learners/risk takers Teaches independence and accountability Enables valuable employable skills in a digital world - digital behaviour, citizenship, cybersafety, plaguarism, working with virtual teams, self discipline in a virtual world, digital literacy etc Broadens the horizons for many students- can go global! Distance and isolation no longer a disadvantage, as technology allows them to learn virtually and maintain their subject choices Inspires students to seek more from school Gets kids to go to school! Can capture the learning Enables a blended learning environment Students can establish valuable learning networks Learning socially
Tools Used
Features of effective use... What does it feel like, sound like, look like? Excitement Learning is fun Noise/silence/laughter Unified cohort Beyond class walls Team teaching – local, global Group work – virtual teams Learning networks - across the globe Changing pedagogies Digital literacy Digital citizenship
Skype (http://www.skype.com) VOiP Live chat Audio conferencing Videoconferencing Bookmark and save chats Can record conferencing- eg pamela
E-intercultural Learning Adventures
e-Cultural Learning Adventures
Lost in Malaysia
 
Bianca in China
Endang
Speaking directly with earthquake victims 12 hours after the occurrrence using skype
West Java Earthquake September 8th 7.3 richter scale 64 deaths, 37 people missing, and 27,630 people displaced in nine districts in West Java and one in Central Java. Approximately 54,231 houses were damaged in 12 districts in West Java and one district in Central Java.
Will Richardson quote on Learning is Now! What a great model for the immediacy of learning that can happen these days, and the relevance. When you think about all of the things that your students could learn and practice here, interviewing skills, geography and geology, information research, retrieval, editing, organization and sharing, all in the larger context of perhaps assisting those in need who were thousands of kilometers away. I want to make the point, however, that it's all grounded in your own understanding of these technologies and the ways in which they can help us connect. If you didn't have that knowledge and experience, this probably would not have happened, and that really is the goal of what we're all trying to do here, get more comfortable in using these technologies to learn in our own practice. Thanks so much for sharing this great snippet of learning from your classroom.
One to one linkup with Indonesian students (10 students in all)
 
 
Listen 2 Learners
Writers Festival
Should Australia go to India to play sport? Foresee and sense cultural misunderstanding
Should Australia go to India to play sport?
http://www.etherpad.com http://www.titanpad.com
Skype intros with the American School of Bombay
Sample questions Please write some bullet points about what has been happening to Indians in Australia in the past year.  Include the response from Indians as well as the impact of these events on the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi. Why do you think these incidents of violence have been occurring against Indians?  Is it happening against other ethnic groups in Australia?
Google documents
Groups in Skype Teachable moments Just in time Learning is now!
Cross adding 12+1 or 11+2 gives 13 Verdic Maths with Sebastian Panakal Kerula India 11 +1 12 +2 2 11 +1 12 +2 13
Skype an author! Andrew McDonald
Online debating
Some useful sites Tips on videoconferencing http://murcha.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/using-skype-in-education/ Around the world in 80 schools http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/01/03/around-the-world-with-80-schools / Wiki for skype in schools http://skypeinschools.pbworks.com/w/page/11008318/FrontPage Theedublogger http://theedublogger.com/want-to-connect-with-other-classrooms/
Skype in education http://education.skype.com/ NEW!
Who’s that in our Classroom?
Earth science week Two world experts speak to years 5 to 11 Young C Y Ng from Hong Kong on the Hong Kong GeoPark in elluminate. Classes from Victoria, interested Experts/adults from Hong Kong, China etc all in the classroom.
Ian Lewis on Kanawinka – Volcanoes and Caves
 
From the chat! Wow Turtle: sick as Ha look at that! Turtle: been here Grade 2/3 Woodford: Could you tell us more about the sink hole Ian? Cara hawk: hey bj they probally go through records from when they first evoved
And also.... Joshua: i like red rock i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR we are going there soon It's pretty :) do you know where mt eccells?? water looks awesome Looks good to swim in ;) wow thats blue, how did it get blue? do you know where mt eccells is?? How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt? Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there
The Bats Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake 4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly? Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you? Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have? Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing smithy: arent they posisoness Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like? jasmine .j: do they hurt scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive? Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat? 4B DGPS: are they really blind? Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black? Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?
Friends of the Earth
 
 
Meeting the Minister for Finance Listening to members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Asian Connections - Malaus Taman Burkitt Maluri School, Kuala Lumpur
Say hello
What skills are important to learn?
What do you look for in a friend?
What symbol best describes your country? The emu
Virtual Classrooms Cash Journals
Facebook
Virtual Teaching Rounds
Techno Parents Broad representation of staff including Principal Parents of Preps through to Year 10 Students, staff, parents all learning in the one room Share happenings in classroom and school Darwin teacher linkup Feedback
Boston DiscoverE – virtual classroom software
Grade 6 student teaches year 10 IT class Halloween
A true global classroom – a student from Hawkesdale, two from China, two from Bangkok and one from USA are taught by an optician about the eye, using discoverE virtual classroom software.
Wordle –http://www.wordle.com
Please meet my grade 2s
Wordle
Uses for Voicethread www.voicethread.com Storytelling Reflections Reporting on extracurricula activities Global projects Voice Video Text Images
Uses Summary Reflections Test prior Knowledge Revision Introducing new vocabulary General display etc Chatroom
Boston Connections - See my blog post See my blog post
Global Projects
Flat Classroom Projects Flat classroom projects Digiteen Netgened projects Eracism
Flatclassroom projects – a global example Co-founded by Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis http://www.flatclassroomproject.org Students work beyond their classroom walls in small groups made up of 4 or 5 students usually all from other countries 10 week curriculum program at the breaking edge of technology Students involved from Middle East, Europe, Asia, Australiasia, North America
 
School’s in at 9pm!
Keynote speaker – uni lecturer from Doha, Qatar, speaks to students at Qatar Academy and Hawkesdale P12 College about citizenship journalism.
Flatclassroom Student Summit for Global Education conference http://www.wallwisher.com
Flatclassroom Project Student Summit Global Education Conference
http://flurogreen.globalstudent.org.au http:skippy.globalstudent.org.au Student Blogs Blogs
There are plenty of illegal immigrants in australia and each day many are sent home. illegal immigrants tend to have a non valid visa. some people who come here dont have a visa at all. Illegal immigrants come from all over the world. what happens to all of the illegal immigrants once they have been found out is they get relocated back to the country they came from.
Melissa // Oct 18th 2008 at 2:30 pm That is what happens here in the United States as well. Visas are really a big part of it because visas take a long time to get, and then people just come illegally. Where are the illegal immigrants that come to Australia from? Juliet Pham // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm How do you feel about the fact that the illegal immigrants are relocated? Do you believe that it’s fair? I don’t think that it is. I really think that it would depend on the reason. Are the immigrants doing any harm really? That’s pretty interesting that Australia does have illegal immigrants because I never thought a place like Australia would because of the fact that it doesn’t have any countries near it or any land bridges. Travis Bugge // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm how do they get there? are they snuck on a plane or something? fur us, its pretty much peole crossing the border, or swimming over here. which part of austrailia do they go to?
What makes a good teacher?
Comments
Steph’s independent post prompt I’ll ask the world a question (that’s you) and you answer it whats your favorite movie and why?
So wrote a grade 5 girl, independently, as her own post prompt She got 15 replies from countries including the UK, Israel, NZ and USA
Wallwisher-http://www.wallwisher.com Sticky notes on a common wall Allows images Videos Text Links Brainstorming Revision Test pre-knowledge Feedback Chatroom!
Wall wisher – see link
Flatclassroom Student Summit for Global Education conference
Voicethread http://www.voicethread.com Online podcasting that can be collaborative Storytelling Global projects Voice Video Text Images
Advantages of Voice Thread Allows editing at any time and stage drawing tools Text or audio or video comments Can be shared Collaborative Convert to a movie
Voicethread: http://www.voicethread.com Moving on ...... at school Students in grade 5 or 6 from UK, Thailand and Australia, share a voicethread and talk about what they are looking forward to in “moving on”, what they are nervous about and what they share in common.
Boston Connections - See my blog post
Screenshot of Rachael’s bubb.l http://edw0002.globalstudent.org.au/page/2/ Bubbl.us - Mindmapping
...and more tools Larry Ferrazzo – Best Web2.0 applications in 2011 so far Great sites for the Young Blabberize - making animals talk. Roxik makes your drawings dance Befunky – to cartoonize photos
Underlying issues/requirements Oh! What a tangled web we weave !
 
 
Develop a Learning Network Online conferences Reform Symposium Conference Global Education Conference K12 Online Education Conference Webinars: Tech Talk Tuesdays , [email_address] , ClassroomLIVE2.0
Personal learning network
Networking sites http://learncentral.org http://www.classroom20.com Digital citizenship School Beyond the walls Global Education http://www.learncentral.org http://guidetoinnovation.ning.com use a search engine as there are many
Where to find global partners? Learn Central Skype in Education partners Around the world in 80 schools ePals The Edublogger Twitter And search online for more
Where to find global projects! classroom2.0 Flat classroom projects Global projects Flat Classroom Projects Jenuinetech Projects Global Education Collaboration Blogging Challenge The Global Education Conference 2010 wiki use a search engine as there are many
Curriculum Press http://www.curriculumpress.edu.au/main/goproduct/12892

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  • 1. Effective Use of Technology in the 21 st Century
  • 2. A 21 st century classroom for early years educators
  • 3. Parent Teacher Interiews Thursday March 31st
  • 4.  
  • 6. Why use technology in learning?
  • 7. Engage with what they are doing to improve learning outcomes. Teaches students to be thinkers/learners/risk takers Teaches independence and accountability Enables valuable employable skills in a digital world - digital behaviour, citizenship, cybersafety, plaguarism, working with virtual teams, self discipline in a virtual world, digital literacy etc Broadens the horizons for many students- can go global! Distance and isolation no longer a disadvantage, as technology allows them to learn virtually and maintain their subject choices Inspires students to seek more from school Gets kids to go to school! Can capture the learning Enables a blended learning environment Students can establish valuable learning networks Learning socially
  • 9. Features of effective use... What does it feel like, sound like, look like? Excitement Learning is fun Noise/silence/laughter Unified cohort Beyond class walls Team teaching – local, global Group work – virtual teams Learning networks - across the globe Changing pedagogies Digital literacy Digital citizenship
  • 10. Skype (http://www.skype.com) VOiP Live chat Audio conferencing Videoconferencing Bookmark and save chats Can record conferencing- eg pamela
  • 14.  
  • 17. Speaking directly with earthquake victims 12 hours after the occurrrence using skype
  • 18. West Java Earthquake September 8th 7.3 richter scale 64 deaths, 37 people missing, and 27,630 people displaced in nine districts in West Java and one in Central Java. Approximately 54,231 houses were damaged in 12 districts in West Java and one district in Central Java.
  • 19. Will Richardson quote on Learning is Now! What a great model for the immediacy of learning that can happen these days, and the relevance. When you think about all of the things that your students could learn and practice here, interviewing skills, geography and geology, information research, retrieval, editing, organization and sharing, all in the larger context of perhaps assisting those in need who were thousands of kilometers away. I want to make the point, however, that it's all grounded in your own understanding of these technologies and the ways in which they can help us connect. If you didn't have that knowledge and experience, this probably would not have happened, and that really is the goal of what we're all trying to do here, get more comfortable in using these technologies to learn in our own practice. Thanks so much for sharing this great snippet of learning from your classroom.
  • 20. One to one linkup with Indonesian students (10 students in all)
  • 21.  
  • 22.  
  • 25. Should Australia go to India to play sport? Foresee and sense cultural misunderstanding
  • 26. Should Australia go to India to play sport?
  • 28. Skype intros with the American School of Bombay
  • 29. Sample questions Please write some bullet points about what has been happening to Indians in Australia in the past year.  Include the response from Indians as well as the impact of these events on the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi. Why do you think these incidents of violence have been occurring against Indians?  Is it happening against other ethnic groups in Australia?
  • 31. Groups in Skype Teachable moments Just in time Learning is now!
  • 32. Cross adding 12+1 or 11+2 gives 13 Verdic Maths with Sebastian Panakal Kerula India 11 +1 12 +2 2 11 +1 12 +2 13
  • 33. Skype an author! Andrew McDonald
  • 35. Some useful sites Tips on videoconferencing http://murcha.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/using-skype-in-education/ Around the world in 80 schools http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/01/03/around-the-world-with-80-schools / Wiki for skype in schools http://skypeinschools.pbworks.com/w/page/11008318/FrontPage Theedublogger http://theedublogger.com/want-to-connect-with-other-classrooms/
  • 36. Skype in education http://education.skype.com/ NEW!
  • 37. Who’s that in our Classroom?
  • 38. Earth science week Two world experts speak to years 5 to 11 Young C Y Ng from Hong Kong on the Hong Kong GeoPark in elluminate. Classes from Victoria, interested Experts/adults from Hong Kong, China etc all in the classroom.
  • 39. Ian Lewis on Kanawinka – Volcanoes and Caves
  • 40.  
  • 41. From the chat! Wow Turtle: sick as Ha look at that! Turtle: been here Grade 2/3 Woodford: Could you tell us more about the sink hole Ian? Cara hawk: hey bj they probally go through records from when they first evoved
  • 42. And also.... Joshua: i like red rock i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR we are going there soon It's pretty :) do you know where mt eccells?? water looks awesome Looks good to swim in ;) wow thats blue, how did it get blue? do you know where mt eccells is?? How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt? Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there
  • 43. The Bats Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake 4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly? Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you? Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have? Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing smithy: arent they posisoness Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like? jasmine .j: do they hurt scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive? Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat? 4B DGPS: are they really blind? Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black? Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?
  • 44. Friends of the Earth
  • 45.  
  • 46.  
  • 47. Meeting the Minister for Finance Listening to members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
  • 48. Asian Connections - Malaus Taman Burkitt Maluri School, Kuala Lumpur
  • 50. What skills are important to learn?
  • 51. What do you look for in a friend?
  • 52. What symbol best describes your country? The emu
  • 56. Techno Parents Broad representation of staff including Principal Parents of Preps through to Year 10 Students, staff, parents all learning in the one room Share happenings in classroom and school Darwin teacher linkup Feedback
  • 57. Boston DiscoverE – virtual classroom software
  • 58. Grade 6 student teaches year 10 IT class Halloween
  • 59. A true global classroom – a student from Hawkesdale, two from China, two from Bangkok and one from USA are taught by an optician about the eye, using discoverE virtual classroom software.
  • 61. Please meet my grade 2s
  • 63. Uses for Voicethread www.voicethread.com Storytelling Reflections Reporting on extracurricula activities Global projects Voice Video Text Images
  • 64. Uses Summary Reflections Test prior Knowledge Revision Introducing new vocabulary General display etc Chatroom
  • 65. Boston Connections - See my blog post See my blog post
  • 67. Flat Classroom Projects Flat classroom projects Digiteen Netgened projects Eracism
  • 68. Flatclassroom projects – a global example Co-founded by Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis http://www.flatclassroomproject.org Students work beyond their classroom walls in small groups made up of 4 or 5 students usually all from other countries 10 week curriculum program at the breaking edge of technology Students involved from Middle East, Europe, Asia, Australiasia, North America
  • 69.  
  • 71. Keynote speaker – uni lecturer from Doha, Qatar, speaks to students at Qatar Academy and Hawkesdale P12 College about citizenship journalism.
  • 72. Flatclassroom Student Summit for Global Education conference http://www.wallwisher.com
  • 73. Flatclassroom Project Student Summit Global Education Conference
  • 75. There are plenty of illegal immigrants in australia and each day many are sent home. illegal immigrants tend to have a non valid visa. some people who come here dont have a visa at all. Illegal immigrants come from all over the world. what happens to all of the illegal immigrants once they have been found out is they get relocated back to the country they came from.
  • 76. Melissa // Oct 18th 2008 at 2:30 pm That is what happens here in the United States as well. Visas are really a big part of it because visas take a long time to get, and then people just come illegally. Where are the illegal immigrants that come to Australia from? Juliet Pham // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm How do you feel about the fact that the illegal immigrants are relocated? Do you believe that it’s fair? I don’t think that it is. I really think that it would depend on the reason. Are the immigrants doing any harm really? That’s pretty interesting that Australia does have illegal immigrants because I never thought a place like Australia would because of the fact that it doesn’t have any countries near it or any land bridges. Travis Bugge // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm how do they get there? are they snuck on a plane or something? fur us, its pretty much peole crossing the border, or swimming over here. which part of austrailia do they go to?
  • 77. What makes a good teacher?
  • 79. Steph’s independent post prompt I’ll ask the world a question (that’s you) and you answer it whats your favorite movie and why?
  • 80. So wrote a grade 5 girl, independently, as her own post prompt She got 15 replies from countries including the UK, Israel, NZ and USA
  • 81. Wallwisher-http://www.wallwisher.com Sticky notes on a common wall Allows images Videos Text Links Brainstorming Revision Test pre-knowledge Feedback Chatroom!
  • 82. Wall wisher – see link
  • 83. Flatclassroom Student Summit for Global Education conference
  • 84. Voicethread http://www.voicethread.com Online podcasting that can be collaborative Storytelling Global projects Voice Video Text Images
  • 85. Advantages of Voice Thread Allows editing at any time and stage drawing tools Text or audio or video comments Can be shared Collaborative Convert to a movie
  • 86. Voicethread: http://www.voicethread.com Moving on ...... at school Students in grade 5 or 6 from UK, Thailand and Australia, share a voicethread and talk about what they are looking forward to in “moving on”, what they are nervous about and what they share in common.
  • 87. Boston Connections - See my blog post
  • 88. Screenshot of Rachael’s bubb.l http://edw0002.globalstudent.org.au/page/2/ Bubbl.us - Mindmapping
  • 89. ...and more tools Larry Ferrazzo – Best Web2.0 applications in 2011 so far Great sites for the Young Blabberize - making animals talk. Roxik makes your drawings dance Befunky – to cartoonize photos
  • 90. Underlying issues/requirements Oh! What a tangled web we weave !
  • 91.  
  • 92.  
  • 93. Develop a Learning Network Online conferences Reform Symposium Conference Global Education Conference K12 Online Education Conference Webinars: Tech Talk Tuesdays , [email_address] , ClassroomLIVE2.0
  • 95. Networking sites http://learncentral.org http://www.classroom20.com Digital citizenship School Beyond the walls Global Education http://www.learncentral.org http://guidetoinnovation.ning.com use a search engine as there are many
  • 96. Where to find global partners? Learn Central Skype in Education partners Around the world in 80 schools ePals The Edublogger Twitter And search online for more
  • 97. Where to find global projects! classroom2.0 Flat classroom projects Global projects Flat Classroom Projects Jenuinetech Projects Global Education Collaboration Blogging Challenge The Global Education Conference 2010 wiki use a search engine as there are many