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Friday 25th March 2011
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Cracking the 'Native' Information Experience
Change is constant!
..And today, change is happening in schools. Governance boards, administrators, librarians and classroom teachers are combining efforts to resist the conservative status-quo-sustaining nature of our institution and seeking to define and implement a new style of learning – learning 2.0.
For many of our students, change is status-quo. They’ve witnessed an emerging new information environment and have had a hand in shaping its landscape, seamlessly utilizing technologies that define their culture. The outside-the-classroom information experiences of our students are deep, diverse, rich, and compelling — and understanding these information experiences may be a key to achieving more effective and relevant formal learning.
The question I seek to answer is, "Can we harness the compelling nature of our children's 'native' information experiences without turning our classrooms, libraries, and campuses into video arcades?" The answer is, "Yes!" with awareness and resourcefulness. -
21st Century Learning and Attitude
As teachers we assist the parents in bringing up their children to be educated and culturally aware grownups. Social individuals, able to function in all major aspects of life, online and offline, with a democratic understanding and respect for human life, religion and traditions. And to be able to manoeuvre on unknown territory, to solve and to learn, their whole life. To be in control. They shall become global citizens.
These are human values. But in the debated “ICT in Learning challenges” we tend to focus on the technical matters, possibilities and limitations, and shift focus from human resources (parents/teachers) to technical services – as if “something out there” will do the job for us.
Kids still need to learn the basics, in both subjects and in social capability. And they need to have confidence in the people close to them, and be guided in their learning activities. As teacher you want to use ICT as well, but you don’t need to be a computer nerd to be able to benefit from ICT. It’s a matter of finding the right tool and the way it works for you. Because the teacher is an individual too, like the students, with preferences and experience, that others can benefit from when the teacher describes a task and involves the students in the process of finding the answers. We teach the students to define a challenge and then how to operate tools and ways of thinking to solve it and then reflect about the value of the result. Whatever tools we use. ICT is just one of many. And the teacher: in the driver’s seat. With more tools than ever before in the human history. Let’s put the ICT tools into the proper context, and you'll see its all "natural". Just another tool! -
21st Century Learning and Attitude
21st-Century Learning and Attitude , Haldor Lonningdal
As teachers we assist the parents in bringing up their children to be educated and culturally aware grownups. Social individuals, able to function in all major aspects of life, online and offline, with a democratic understanding and respect for human life, religion and traditions. And to be able to manoeuvre on unknown territory to solve and to learn, their whole life. To be in control. They shall become global citizens.
These are human values. But in the debated “ICT in Learning challenges” we tend to focus on the technical matters, possibilities and limitations, and shift focus from human resources (parents/teachers) to technical services – as if “something out there” will do the job for us.
Kids still need to learn the basics, in both subjects and in social capability. And they need to have confidence in the people close to them, and be guided in their learning activities. As teacher you want to use ICT as well, but you don’t need to be a computer nerd to be able to benefit from ICT. It’s a matter of finding the right tool and the way it works for you. Because the teacher is an individual too, like the students, with preferences and experience, that others can benefit from when the teacher describes a task and involves the students in the process of finding the answers. We teach the students to define a challenge and then how to operate tools and ways of thinking to solve it and then reflect about the value of the result. Whatever tools we use. ICT is just one of many. And the teacher: in the driver’s seat. With more tools than ever before in the human history. Let’s put the tools into the proper context, and gain. Let’s put the tools into the proper context, and see it as a helpful tool. Let’s put the ICT tools into the proper context, and you'll see its all "natural". Just another tool. -
Audio Tricks with Backing Tracks
by Chris Chater
Learn to make your own musical backgrounds with or without
melody – then synchronize lyrics for a homemade Karaoke file.
This skill is useful for Early Learning read-alongs or Upper School
rehearsal videos. The main software presented will be KaraFun
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Educator's Intro to Web 2.0
An intro to Web 2.0 for educator-newbies...
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Get Connected: Around The World with Skye
The world we live in requires schools to address new kinds of literacies in addition to basic literacy. New literacies include media, information, intercultural, digital citizenship, ethical and network literacies, and skills such as communication and collaboration. Skype is one tool that can be used to successfully integrate these literacies and skills in different subject areas, as well as at all grade levels. Session will address strategies on how to find and contact possible partners and explore other ideas on using Skype in the classroom, and will use an example project “Around the World with 80 Schools” to explore the benefits and challenges of connecting students to the world.
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Right & Wrong on the Information Highway
Preparing children for an information-driven, technology-rich future requires us to redefine literacy in a way that reflects the changing nature of information. You and I were taught to read what some body handed to us. Our students will read from a global digital library that anyone can publish to, just about anything they want, and for just about any reason. What does this mean to the value of information, its reliability, and our responsibilities as citizens who are not mere consumers of information but participants in a global information community?
Saturday 26th March 2011
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Harnessing the Perfect Storm - Telling a New Story
It is often said that “the future is not what it use to be.” In this information-driven, technology-rich world, where jobs are created and become obsolete in only a few years, preparing our children for a future that we can not even imagine has become one of our society’s greatest challenges.There are many barriers that prevent us from retooling our classrooms for 21st century teaching and learning. But at the core are the “stories” about education that we share. Most adults base their images of schooling on their education experiences from 10, 20, or 30 years ago. Our classrooms — what they look like, what teachers and students do, what is taught, how it is taught, and why — are all modeled after old and outdated stories that are still being told by our culture. We must tell new stories that are simply and compelling.
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In-Time, On-Going & Self-Directed Professional Development
We teach in a time of rapid change, when, for the first time in history, we are preparing our students for a future that we can not clearly describe. To accomplish this, education must become more adaptive to change — and for this to happen, “learning” must become a fundamental part of what it is to teach.
Educators around the world are engaging in daily and self-directed professional development, utilizing an emerging family of interactive and collaborative web applications. With these tools, we are able to cultivate personal learning networks of people and information sources that help us do or jobs.
Learn how to grow your own learning network and knowledge garden by connecting with other professionals, mining the greater global conversation, and mapping out libraries of ideas and content. Topics may include blogs and micro-blogging, social networks, social media networks, RSS, and publishing and data visualization techniques.
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IT’s About Communication
FACT -The biggest factor that influences children's educational outcomes is parental engagement with their learning. IT enables Communication between schools and families that allows parents to be involved and meaningfully engaged with their children's learning. Use of IT, such as learning platforms, websites, email and text messaging with parents, is transforming the dialogue that takes place within families, particularly for those parents who are geographically separated or time poor through pressures of work. Not only is improved Communication revolutionising children’s learning and transforming the relationships between schools, parents and children it is also helping parents support learning more effectively.
Outcomes of this session:-
•Understanding the facts about parental engagement
•Hearing about how ICT is being used to support parental engagement in a range of schools
•Sharing information about how to use ICT to make quick wins
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How does your technology measure up?
This interactive session looks at the International Technology in Education Mark, a whole-school Technology accreditation for international schools offered by Naace, the professional association for educators interested in advancing education through ICT, and an ISTE affiliate. Over 70 international schools to date have registered to use ITEM to measure their ICT against this international standard.
The session is designed for those looking for a coherent scheme for school improvement through ICT, which recognises both present achievements and provides a route-map through to accreditation. It will enable delegates to consider the benefits of benchmarking their school against the ITEM criteria by examining the various options available.
The session will be supported by online activities, and as such delegates should bring a wireless laptop to take full advantage of the session. If you are not attending the conference you can also take part during the session by enrolling - click on the official session page on the right.
Outcomes
Understand how benchmarking ICT can being about whole school improvement.
Consider the benefits of the self-review process
Gain a holistic view of ICT in an international school
Enable consideration of an international accreditation and apply it in their school’s context
Use a recognised framework to benefit strategic and development planning of whole school ICTEnrol beforehand using the official session page on the right of the screen.
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Making Information Tell its Story
Our world experience is increasingly being archived, indexed, and measured, and this massive quantity of information and data has a story to tell. But it is a foreign language to the human brain, columns and rows of data. Math courses taught us to manage numbers that come in the dozens. But when they are counted in exabytes, then we need new ways to interpret the data, new ways to help them tell their story.
This presentation will explore the topics of data visualization and infographics, perhaps the coolest thing happening on the Internet today. Participants will witness many examples of this unique intersection between mathematics and art, and learn how teachers and learners can utilize some of these techniques to make their world of numbers sing.
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Ready To Start Blogging With Your Students?
Interested in finding out why you should be blogging with your students? Already convinced and ready to use a blog? Don't know where to start? Need a guide about what platform to consider and the logistics of setting up a classroom blog or individual student blogs? Prepare your students with lessons on Internet safety,digital footprint, blogging and commenting etiquette. Learn about blogging as a hyperlinked writing genre. Get tips and resources on connecting your classroom blog with others around the world for collaborative and connected learning. This presentation will get you ready to take the plunge.
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