Meaningful ICT activities in a Humanities classroom Paula Christophersen VCAA HTAV Annual Conference 2011 Paula Christophersen VCAA HTAV Annual Conference 2011

Setting the scene teachers students curriculum technology Learning styles visual text aural kinesthetic multimodal

teacher attributes include Adopting new attitudes and behaviours Empowering, not coercing Sharing your successes Using emerging tools Encouraging students to use new tools Focusing on collaboration Setting the scene: teachers

student attributes Persevering – making an effort Risk taking Altering perspectives Making connections Transferring learning to new situations Being creative 21 st century – inventing new tools to solve problems Setting the scene: students

Most of today’s children expect technology to help them become: creators providers collaborators rather than consumers of information Gaming, wikis, blogs,chatrooms, mobiles, 3G phones, iPads Setting the scene: Are these your students?

historical thinking requires… Critical analysis and interpretation Curiosity and imagination Understanding of human experience Understanding of historical concepts Setting the scene: curriculum

They identify and locate a range of primary and secondary sources using information technologies and other methods. Students process and synthesise information from these sources and use it as evidence to answer inquiry questions. Students analyse and draw conclusions about the usefulness of primary and secondary sources... Year 10 draft achievement standards, ACARA: Australian Curriculum Setting the scene: curriculum

Using ICT appropriately and ethically to investigate, create and communicate ideas and information in order for individuals to function effectively at home, at school, at work and in their communities. Communicating Sharing, exchanging, Collaborating Online social protocols Security of information Communicating Sharing, exchanging, Collaborating Online social protocols Security of information Creating Generating plans/designs Generating solutions Creating Generating plans/designs Generating solutions Investigating Information search Accessing information Evaluating information Investigating Information search Accessing information Evaluating information Operating Efficient use Selection of equipment Networks Managing information Operating Efficient use Selection of equipment Networks Managing information Social and ethical practice Intellectual property/security/society Social and ethical practice Intellectual property/security/society Setting the scene: curriculum

Learning area/GC? Declarative knowledge Knowing about : - concepts - relationships - properties - causality - patterns of meaning History, Geography and C&C Declarative knowledge Knowing about : - concepts - relationships - properties - causality - patterns of meaning History, Geography and C&C Learning area GENERAL CAPABILITIES Procedural knowledge Ability to apply processes (cognitive, behavioural, affective) to build deep knowledge and skills. GENERAL CAPABILITIES Procedural knowledge Ability to apply processes (cognitive, behavioural, affective) to build deep knowledge and skills.

ICT supports risk-taking ICT supports risk-taking ICT is multimodal ICT is multimodal ICT is interactive ICT is interactive ICT is fast & automated ICT is fast & automated ICT supports knowledge sharing ICT supports knowledge sharing ICT supports quality presentations ICT supports quality presentations Setting the scene: ICT – types and capabilities

Existing technologies

Key emerging technologies Grassroots video – MixMyMovie, UStream Collaboration webs – Google Docs; Zoho office Mobile broadband ─ iPhone, most phones! Data mashups ─ combination of data from multiple sources – image/statistics Collective intelligence ─ Wikipedia

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Learning styles Visual CamtasiaSwish InspirationCmap Google EarthGIS Visualisation Auditory AudacityiTunes Movie makerCamtasia ReadpleasePodcasts Read/write MoodlePublisher Project Gutenberg Smart idea (outline) Kinaesthetic Lego roboticsGamemaker ClaymationMovie Maker Multimodal

Learning styles: visual Visualise your perceptions of popular culture

Visualising thinking tools are thought frameworks Construction tool

Concept organisers Brain does not store information in lines or columns Brain stores information by patterns and association Brain does not store information in lines or columns Brain stores information by patterns and association

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Visualising thinking tools are thought frameworks Construction tool Abstract info in concrete forms Facts and concepts

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Visualising thinking tools are thought frameworks Construction tool Abstract info in concrete forms Facts and concepts Prior and new knowledge

SIMILARITIESDIFFERENCES Double Bubble Template

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What did Leonardo de Vinci’s aeroplane look like?

Learning styles: aural

Learning styles: multimodal

What’s the key inquiry question? Departure, journey, arrival? What ICT K & S are required to exploit the potential of this resource? Yr 9: Movement of peoples

Learning styles activity

‘Where schools have established the link between ICT and improved student attainment, this has been more to do with a broader approach to the engagement of pupils in learning – in the classroom or elsewhere’ Transform: how ICT will make the difference, March 31, 2006 (supplement of the Times Education Supplement) In conclusion