Post on 06-May-2015
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Connecting Learning
ICTEV conference 2012 @murcha
Discussion Points
• How do students connect – devices, tools• Access to learning resources• Students with varying abilities• Personalised learning – information required,
tools available• Monitoring and reporting progress• Group and individual activities• Professional learning
eLearning
Global Education
Rural Education
My Passions!
Learning is increasingly at the Grass Roots
• Students rarely use email • Learn by conversations• Mobile devices• Facebook, txt chat, txt messaging,
conversations• Learning spaces are changing – global, virtual
How do Students Connect?
How do students connect?
PS3
The tools
chimein
Learning Resources
MOOC
textbooks
The students
Learning network
@ Email lists
communities
Changing Learning SpacesChanging Learning Spaces
Digital
Global
Lana from Boston, USA, teaches grade 4/5, Hawkesdale, Australia, how to “Scratch’
Resultant Sprites for World Friends project on World Museum site
From my Inbox…….Oh and I have been getting lots of followers on twitter lately from my tweets , its so exciting :)
Meet my VCE accounting class...
Cash Journals
•3 virtual students•1 ESL student (English as a second language)
•Year 11 and 12 face to face accounting students taught together in one class
• Hi Anne Mirtschin,You have 1 pending user suggestion on your topic globaleducation to curate.
• Click Here to access to your Suggestions to Review list.
• The Scoop.it team• Any questions/suggestions?
Students with varying abilities
Catering for
• gifted students• Students with health disabilities• Students with special interests and passions• Alternative outcomes/resources tailored to
students strengths• Mutli-media, transmedia as alternatives to textual
outcomes/resources
• Virtual Classrooms• One from our school• Two from China• Two from Thailand• One from USA in a virtual
classroom, being taught about the eye from an optician in Perth, Australia, using virtual classroom software
Gifted Students
Mystery Skype
Do you teach or have any knowledge of the native wars between the americans, seminoles, iroquois, cherokee etc, in the times of george washington?
Thursday lunchtime linkups with schools in Western Java, Indonesia
Students interested in writing stories, videoconference with an author from New York Tuesday lunchtimes with skype
Illness and disabilities
Working from home to create movies - “family life on an Australian farm”.
Virtual classrooms can be recorded for those who are ill etc
Ability to teach anywhere and any time – 24/7
Request from one of my students
Could you please make sure you put what I have to do for Monday and Tuesday’s classes on your blog?
(She was about to go to hospital!)
I was googled!
‘”Miss, can you please give me TRIAL EXAMS for unit 4 vce accounting 2011 and from previous years
My classes are big and my teacher isnt that good withrevision so i was wondering. i was wondering if you know any VCE MATH METHODS and ENGLISH sites like this so i can email teachers if i dont undertand or want practise exams.”
The virtual classroom!
Using Black Board Collaborate - Every student has a voice!
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?
.......................more chat!
• dont confuse me this tinme• i dont get why you have that 400 on the debit
side• i always get confused between debtors and
creditors, who do we pay, and who pays us??
Customized Learning
• Blogs – each student has a blog• Youtube• Mobile devices for 24/7 learning• Choose type of digital outcomes
and resources to work with• Self directed learning
Year 7 Boy’s Blog
ESL students
Can you please tell me a summary of the chapter?
Word clouds provide great visual summaries – http://www.wordle.net
Learning “Slap Guitar playing technique” from youtube whilst using a netbook at home.
From home – the 365 Day Photo Challenge 2011
Group and Individual activities
Global
local vertical
statewide National horizontal
Learning from musicians with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – Ping Music Project
Your English is quite good for the majority of your writing but I have written it now as I would have. However, I was unable to complete your second paragraph because I could not understand what Obachann was. Could you please tell me? ChloeHi Chloe!I appreciate your kindness. "Obachan" is women whose age are 30-50 and they have warm heart and great energy. Most of them love going to shopping, watching Korean dramas and having a chat in the street. Thanks, Ayaka
http://globalstorytelling.wikispaces.com/Featured+student+work
Our questions of Russia
Monitoring Progress• Check sheets• Blogs• Images• Video recordings• Hard copy journal• Wiki discussions• Forums• Comments on my blogs• Google forms • Photos, videos• Interviewing students• Assessment rubrics• wallwisher
Mapping the Learning
Mystery Skype
My Teacher Blog -for instructions, reflections and shared conversations
Student Blogs for journals, learning, reflections, documentation
Checking understanding
Professional Learning
Other professional learning
• Nings/social networks• Read blogs• Face to face conferences – Subject
Association memberships• MOOCs• My students
Learning with and from the students