linking learning in schools.docx
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A presentation made at the recent !DEAS conference. The presentation discusses some of the key features of usingTRANSCRIPT
Discussion Points
• Access to learning resources• Students with varying abilities• Personalised learning – information required, tools
available• Monitoring and reporting progress• Group and individual activities• How do students connect – devices, tools• Professional learning• Work life balance
eLearning
Global Education
Rural Education
My Passions!
Virtual Global Classrooms in Action
Meet my VCE accounting class...
Cash Journals
•3 virtual students•1 ESL student•Year 11 and 12 taught together in one class
Virtual Teaching Rounds in Partnership with Country Education Project, Uniiversity of Ballarat and Hawkesdale P12 College. One pre-service teacher did this from China.
Learning Resources
MOOC
textbooks
The students
Learning network
@ Email lists
communities
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
Gifted Students
• 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
Students interested in writing stories, videoconference with an author from New York Tuesday lunchtimes with skype
Thursday lunchtime linkups with schools in Western Java, Indonesia
Illness and disabilities
Working from home to create movies - “family life on an Australian farm”.
Virtual classrooms recorded for those who are ill etc
Ability to teach anywhere and any time – 24/7
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• Self directed learning
ESL studentsCan you please tell me a summary of the chapter?
Learning “Slap Guitar playing technique” from youtube using a netbook at home.
Group and Individual activities
Global
local vertical
statewide National horizontal
Learning from musicions 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
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
My Teacher Blog -for instructions, reflections and shared conversations
Student Blogs for journals, learning, reflections, documentation
Checking understanding
How do students connect?
PS3
The tools
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.”
Professional Learning
Other professional learning
• Nings/social networks• Read blogs• Face to face conferences – VCTA,
ICTEV, VITTA• VCTA compak – online• My students
How do students connect?
• Kids don’t use email anymore• Learn by conversations• Mobile devices• Facebook, txt chat, txt messaging,
conversations• Learning spaces are changing – global, virtual
Work life balance
Wish list
• Creation of Digital objects for eg accounting• Gamefication – badges, likes, levels of
achievement – making subject content look like a game
• School days with option of study from home• Flexible timetables – school is not 9 to 3:30pm• Learning analytics – cf data driven• School budgets• 20% play time
eFind Me
Anne Mirtschin• [email protected]• Twitter: http:www.twitter.com/murcha• Teacher blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com• Class blogs: http://murch.global2.vic.edu.au• Tech Talk Tuesdays:
http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au• eT@lking: http://australiaseries.wordpress.com