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Motivation and meaning-making for ME

How mobile devices can engage all our learners

Karen Melhuish Spencer | @virtuallykaren | CORE Education

• Blog address: http://shift2learn.blogspot.co.nz/

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Nō hea au

Nō hea au

What’s changing for you?

“Inquiry is the dynamic process of being open to wonder and puzzlements and coming to know and understand the world”

- Galileo Educational Network, 2004

who: all our learners

why: the importance of educating for diversity

how: curriculum & pedagogy that enable access & agency

what: choices of pathways using apps & hardware

Who?

Picture your class...

Universal Design for Learning : http://www.cast.org/udl/

“We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the

outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.”

- Ken Robinson, 2010

Why...“Diversity encompasses everyone’s variations and differences, including their cultures and backgrounds...

The changing global environment requires people to engage with people from cultural, religious and/or linguistic backgrounds or world views that are very different from their own.” - NZCER (2012)

How...

Access to learning “Help me find my own doorway”

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Content that’s relevantEase of useAlternative modes of showing ideas e.g. text, video, imageChoice of pathwaysVariety of ways to show understanding

Support and challenge “Give me steps...or build me a ramp”

Clear goals and regular feedbackDifferentiate the difficulty of tasksMultiple technologiesMultiple ways to show learningUse of my own language

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Reflect and apply learning “Pathways as memorable as

the destination”Set my own goals

Time to review and reflect

Links to relevant information

Organised learning

Support for tech use

Templates and scaffolds

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What...?mobile devices

web-based apps

ubiquitous connection

shared & personal spaces

networks

This morning...

Tex

t.........

4 big ideas in action

within

an inquiry focus using web-based

ScenarioThe Principal has approved a release

of funds to upgrade the classroom that we are using today.

We have been invited to feedback onto the development.

We can grab this opportunity to explore Social Sceinces, The Arts, English, technologies...and possibly

more.

Engage me

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Scope our inquiry

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Scope

Develop questions that will help us understand the relationship between

people & place

Find, filter and collect

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Post sources on learning environments to #find

#Consider & connect

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Act

• What can you add that might make a difference for your partner?

• Record it.

• Sketch it.

• Talk about it.

• Collage it.

• Design it.

• Make it.

• Post it #act

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Evaluate

• How well did you meet your partner’s needs?

• What went well with the inquiry?

• What would you improve for next time?

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Reflect

What did you find useful - and what was

a challenge?

Reflect

What questions do you have? What can

you take away?

What did you find useful - and what was

a challenge?

Reflect

What questions do you have? What can

you take away?

What did you find useful - and what was

a challenge?

How the did the FOUR big ideas play out in the

activity?