Educating the 21 st Century Learner BT Y2 - Tauranga – Y4-8 Teachers Tauranga Y0-4

Overview: The e-learning in school concoction Today’s digital landscape and today’s learners. Hands- On Exploration of tools fit for today’s learners

Learning Goals By the end of today… Strategies to deal with individual school barriers Developed a broader understanding of today’s digital landscape and the implications for teaching and learning Have developed a repertoire of e-learning experiences that can be used in your classroom.

the e-learning school concoction

Resources: The classroom tools and materials available to the teacher in the classroom. Professional development and time.

Skills: Technical skills the ability to operate the resources provided to you. Does the stuff work? the confidence and competence to teach and facilitate the use of these technologies. Pedagogical skills the more important of the two. Strengths in Pedagogy can and will make up for deficits in technical ability.

Rochelle Jensen, 2006

Curriculum: The New Zealand curriculum has recently been revised. This revision does start to reflect a new paradigm in teaching and learning. Does your school curricula reflect 21 st Century learning? Are our assessment models reflective of the world our students are in or will be in? With in our unit planning do we truly integrate these technologies, these enablers of learning ? NZ Curriculum – School - Based

Growing Our Triangle Next Steps- What can you control? What support is available? Some Key Questions: What are your schools identified ICT objectives and goals? Where does your school want to be ICT wise in 1 year, 5 years or 10 years? What level of consultation and buy in did key groups have, namely students, staff, the community? How are these goals integrate into your budgeting and curriculum planning? How are these goals supported by professional development for staff? How are these goals resourced? How are these goals implemented in the school, and the classroom? What is your ratio of ICT investments to training investment? What accountability is in place for technologies put into the classroom to ensure they are utilized? Are your pedagogies reflective of 21st Century teaching and learning?

Today’s Digital Landscape and the opportunities/implications for teaching and learning Our Learners The Digital Landscape

The World is Flat? Find a Guru Super Cool School Innocentive “The Internet has opened almost limitless possibilities for contributing, collaborating and connecting.”

Rochelle Jensen, 2006

Web 2.0 – a key flattener What’s web 1.0? What’s web 2.0?

Web 2.0 … oThe evolution of the web ( as we once knew it) oSocial software. oUsers are active rather than passive oCreate and publish content. Shared constitution of meaning. oLess about places and other nouns more about verbs.

oNo html knowledge required. oContent flows in a variety of directions that depend on the behaviors of those who produce the information and those who use it.

Talk to partner, come up with one word to describe web 2.0

Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs Web 1.0 was about portals, Web 2.0 is about RSS Web 1.0 was about taxonomy, Web 2.0 is about tags Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about wireless Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is about sharing Web 1.0 was about dialup, Web 2.0 is about broadband Web 1.0 was about hardware costs, Web 2.0 is about bandwidth costs

Our students in a flat world Rochelle Jensen, 2006

Traditional Learning Environments Teacher centered instruction Single sense stimulation Single path progression Single media Isolated work Information delivery Passive learning Factual, knowledge-based Reactive response Isolated, artificial context Newer Learning Environments Student-centered learning Multisensory stimulation Multipath progression Multimedia Collaborative work Information exchange Active/exploratory/inquiry Critical thinking and informed decision making Proactive, planned action Authentic, real world context

Generation ‘C’ Communicate Create Contribute Collaborate Connect

What opportunities/possibilities does this provide? Think - Pair –Share Share via skrbl. a learning experience that sways more to the right.

Hands On with ICT 4 ‘Generation C’ Top Tools For Learning Interactive Resources Voice Thread Photostory/Powerpoint Collaborative Projects Blogs Wikis Management

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