Building a 5th wall in your classroom:Using e-learning to create authentic audiences for your students
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Greymouth April 2010
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The problem
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Eductation as an industrial process…
A sieve…to create a traditional hierarchy
Does that model best reflect theneeds of New Zealand today?
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The Ministry have been working on this e-learning thing for a while
Ministry of Education, 2006
“Teachers can transform their teaching role throughthe deliberate and considered use of ICT.” p. 10
“E-learning can contribute directly to the developmentof all these competencies and increasingly thesecompetencies are applied in ICT rich contexts for allstudents.” p. 8
“It will require a culture of continuous enquiry, innovation and improvement, risk taking and entrepreneurship.” Steve Maharey, Minister of Education. p. 3
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The rationale:
“Students believe that using technology improves their writing skills”Issue 21, Term 1, February 2010
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On dis-engagement:
Teachers recognised that “…an imperative to make the subject relevant was in opposition to more traditional approaches that de-contextualises the content.”
Darby, L., (2009)
TraditionalCurriculum
StudentInterest
Behaviour issuesStudent engagement
Drop out rate
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Learning silos isolate relevance andminimise connections between disciplinesand knowledge
Literacy Numeracy Science Social Studies
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Interconnectedness = relevance
“Knowledge is immensely interconnected,this is the way of the Internet and the waythings are going in general.”
Burke, J., Interview: Dan Carlin’s Hard Core HistoryMarch 1 2008
“The people to be worried about are those in a digital age but who are not learning these sophisticated information gathering and information-processing skills, or creating things of their own based on what they learn and sharing it with others.”Palfrey, J. and Gasser, U., p. 241 (New York, 2008)
who are growing up
Digital divides
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Social studies
Te ReoHealth
Phys Ed
Art Tech
LiteracyNumeracy
ScienceICT
The problem with the way it has always been…
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Social studies
Te ReoHealth
Phys Ed
Art Tech
LiteracyNumeracy
Science
The true status of e-learning
Managing ICT resources in your class
Some basic e-learning maths…
1 ÷ 30 =2 ÷ 30 =4 ÷ 30 =
ChaosSlightly less chaosManageable chaos
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Limited equipment or timetabled accessCreates e-learning bottlenecks….
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Strategies to manage bottlenecks…
• Distributed tasks – peripherals• Class experts – distributed expertise• Drivers and navigators – nested LOs• Iterative workflow – cumulative tumble• Desk removal – fully integrated planning
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The 5th wall to decorate…. AKA your very own Grand Central Station
Wikis Vs Blogs
Wikiwiki - Hawaiian for quick quick
• Evidence of editing• Iteration not obliteration• Team work monitoring• Feedback loop
http://wikispaces.com
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Clustr map – Proof that your stuff is being read.
http://clustrmaps.com
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Vocaroo – the simplest tool on the Internet
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Glogster – the online poster
http://edu.glogster.com
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http://fotobabble.com
Fotobabble - talking pictures
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Wallwisher – online post its