1. Paul McMahon International Teacher.
Effective Use of IT for English Learning and Teaching in Secondary Schools
Paul McMahon
International Teacher.

2. Why are we considering ICT for learning?
If our kids are doing well on test scores…
And our economy is strong…
And parents and kids seem to want us to focus on the bookwork…
Why should we change?

3. Friedman’s Flatteners
The Fall of the Wall and the Waging of the Windows
The Dawn of Connectivity: When Webs were No Longer for Spiders
Work Flow Software: Don’t Mind the Difference and the Distance
Uploading: Redefining the Multi-Colored Post-Its
Etc.

4. One Laptop Per Child?

5. Do you market your school as being conservative, traditional and the place for old-fashioned learning??

6. Natives and Immigrants
Digital Native Learners
Digital Immigrant Teachers
Prefer receiving information quickly from multiple multimedia sources.
Prefer slow and controlled release of information from limited sources.
Prefer parallel processing and multitasking.
Prefer singular processing and single or limited tasking.
Prefer processing pictures, sounds and video before text.
Prefer to provide text before pictures, sounds and video.
Prefer random access to hyperlinked multimedia information.
Prefer to provide information linearly, logically and sequentially.
Prefer to interact/network simultaneously with many others.
Prefer students to work independently rather than network and interact.
Prefer to learn “just-in-time.”
Prefer to teach “just-in-case” (it’s on the exam).
Prefer instant gratification and instant rewards.
Prefer deferred gratification and deferred rewards.
Prefer learning that is relevant, instantly useful and fun.
Prefer to teach to the curriculum guide and standardized tests.
*Ian Jukes and Anita Dosaj, The InfoSavvy Group, February 2003

7. What’s wrong with just turning out a group of kids with the same solid learning that their parent’s generation had?

9. It requires more than a “bolt on”

10. Computer Based Activities
Mind mappers like Gliffy for planning writing
Use of the commenting tools in Word
An advance on the above is to use picture collages to illustrate writing
Fliction as a stimulus to writing
Recording voice and video (Movie Maker) is also stimulating.
Are these useful in class/out of class?

11. Front of Class Interaction
There is research being produced, especially from the UK that suggests Interactive Whiteboards engage more learners by getting them to the front of the class doing things that all can see.

12. The Ability to Edit Not Just Use
Making things happen at the front of the room where the learners attention is focused is what most teachers want to be able to do.
You can do this to a certain extent with a wireless mouse and keyboard.
A tablet PC and wireless projector is also good but costly and not easy to pass to students.

13. IWBs and Other Front of Room Devices
Boards are good but costly and not portable.
Many cheap alternatives on the market.
Need to make sure that you have software that you can download/share resources with.

14. Easiteach
A presentation/editor for Whole-Class teaching that can be used on both platforms and every presentation device.
Very easy to use
Developed using teacher input

15. Download and Modify
A great deal of content available for Easiteach both for sale and free.

16. Collaboration Tools Non-synchronous exchange http://www.epals.com/
Collaborative Projects
Social commenting on writing
Voice exchange
Combining pictures and voice is effective

17. Synchronous Collaboration Tools
Conversations
Full classroom sharing tools
Podcasting

18. Hands On
Use Easiteach trial to create learning activities (see handout)
Go to or to investigate or comment on mine
Go to WikiSpaces to create a WIKI or add comments to my sample WIKI

19. More Hands On
Use the trial Podium software on the computers to do 3 of the 5 P’s
Sign up for an account with ePals to join in with other schools doing language exchanges.
If able, webconference with Sydney, Australia for a while!
Ask Questions and Enjoy!

20. Thank You! Paul McMahon Learning Solutions Asia
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