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Creative Learning Environments Promote Creative Thinking &
Inspire Learning
Gail CaseyTeacher – Geelong HS# Just completed my PhD with Deakin Uni
Background image from - http://allthingslearning.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/in-praise-of-creativity%E2%80%A6part-one/
VITTA Conference August 2013
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About my work:• I have just successfully completed the examination phase of my PhD with Deakin University for which I held an Australian Postgraduate Award.
• My presentations can be found at: http://gcasey.wikispaces.com/Presentations
• My action research sites include:• http://webtowhere.ning.com/, http://ghs2011.ning.com/ &
http://ghs2010.ning.com/
• In June 2012, I was awarded first place in the ISTE Online Learning Awards: • http://
www.iste.org/membership/awards-recognition/sigol-online-learning-award
•In June 2013 my paper titled ‘From Telling the World to Showing the World: in an Era of Social Media’ received an Outstanding Paper award at the Edmedia conference in Canada.• http://www.editlib.org/p/112222/
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Practitioner Action Research
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Practitioner Action Research
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All Students have knowledge that they bring with them to the
classroom
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Many strengths and abilities that students have can go unnoticed
Interviewer of rock bands
Online
Writers
Designers
Game Reviewers
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Social and Participatory Media Provide a Gateway for Educators
BUT WHAT MIGHT THIS LOOK LIKE?
BlogsGroups
Chat
Discussion Forums
Web 2.0
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Creativity is at our Finger Tips
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Students can create identities
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We have the means to inspire learning
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“Multimodal literacy is one way of describing reading and
writing in new communication environments.”
Maureen Walsh, 2011 p.14, in Multimodal Literacy: Researching Classroom Practice
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Lets look at some examples.
In these examples ‘Ning’ was used, but there are many other
alternatives such as Edmodo and school Intranets that would also
work well.
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The students have the Creativity!
As educators, we need to use this for our own purposes…..to engage their peers in Creative Thinking &
to Inspire Learning
We need to build environments where this can be shared!
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I have published and presented widelyTeacher PublicationsCasey, G 2012, 'Social Media in the Math Classroom', Learning & Leading with Technology, vol. 40, no. 36-37.Casey, G 2012, 'Designing for Learning using Social and Participatory Media', ICT in Education, vol. 34, no. 1.Casey, G 2010, 'Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Building: Using social networking to develop critical literacy and encourage creativity', Education Technology Solutions, no. 36, pp. 42-4.
Peer Reviewed PublicationsCasey, G 2013, 'Interdisciplinary Literacy through Social Media in the Mathematics Classroom: an Action Research Study', Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, vol 57, no. 1. (ERA 20322)Casey, G 2013, 'Social Media in the Classroom: a Simple Yet Complex Hybrid Environment for Students', Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, vol. 22, no. 1. (ERA 20285)Casey, G 2013, 'Building a Student-Centred Learning Framework Using Social Software in the Middle Years Classroom: An Action Research Study', Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice. 12: 159-189, http://www.jite.org/documents/Vol12/JITEv12ResearchP159-189Casey1186.pdf (ERA 18013)Casey, G 2011, 'Knowledge-building: Designing for learning using social and participatory media', eLearning Papers, no. 27, pp. 1-7. (ERA 45102)Casey, G & Evans, T 2011, 'Designing for learning: Online social networks as a classroom environment', International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 1-26. (ERA 20804) Also published in SpanishCasey, G & Evans, T 2012, Diseñar para aprender: redes sociales en línea como un entorno de clase, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México l B@UNAM l retrieved March 2012, <http://bdistancia.ecoesad.org.mx/contenido/numeros/numero7/presencia_01.html>.
Book ChapterCasey, G (forthcoming), 'Students as 'Assessors' and 'Assessees' in an Era of Social Media', in S Koc, P Wachira & X Liu (eds), Assessment in Online and Blended Learning Environments, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC.
Other Papers in Various Stages of the Peer Review ProcessCasey, G (2nd round of peer review), 'Unlearning to be the Teacher', Technology, Pedagogy and Education Journal. (ERA 20271)Casey, G & Evans, T (in peer review stage), 'Chaos and Complexity Within and Around a Classroom Action Research Investigation of Social Media', Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education. (ERA 40646)Casey, G & Wells, M (in peer review stage), 'Remix the social: Remix the learning in an era of social media', Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. (ERA 20270)