ICT Curriculum Innovation & Integration Workshop

1. ICT Curriculum Innovation & Integration Workshop By James Lee

2. Agenda • The current state of the world • Rethinking education for the 21st Century • How ICT is supposed to help you • What doesn’t work and why • Classroom Management • Strategies and ideas to share and try

3. Did you know.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmwwrGV_aiE&feature=related

4. Did you know.. • 50% things we do will be on cloud by 2014 • 26% people watch ALL their TV on the net • More people in the world have phones than access to toilets • The jobs now in high demand didn’t even exist 10 years ago.

5. Rethinking Education • What was the last thing you learnt/wanted to know? • How/Where did you learn it?

6. Rethinking Education • “Schools were built upon the fundamental idea that teachers and knowledge and information were scarce. That is no longer the reality.” • “..we continue to see schools as the place where our children go to master a narrow list of content, knowledge and skills that were originally defined almost 150 years ago.. • “Knowing something is probably an obsolete idea. You don’t actually need to know everything anymore, you can find out at the point you need to know it.”

7. Rethinking Education • “The problem is that most “reform” efforts are aimed at simply doing what we’ve been doing better, almost exclusively in the form of raising test scores. ” • “It’s the teacher’s job to point young minds towards the right kinds of questions. • The teacher doesn’t need to give any answers, the answers are everywhere. • And we know now from years of measurements, that learners who find the answers for themselves, retain it better than if they’re told the answer.”

8. Rethinking Education • “..information and answers are a Google search away. Users expect to use their technology to get their answers…except in school. • In school, we ask them all sorts of questions that they could answer with their phones or laptops, but we don’t let them.”

9. Rethinking Education • The current school model: Attend + Comply + Regurgitate. • Does this mean success? • How much do you remember from school? • How much of it was useful? • How much of it could you just find the answers on Google? • Love of topic + curiosity leading to challenge + access to resources + multimedia/network to share = success • The challenge is not how to make learning content better, but how can we make learning a more personal empowering experience?

10. How ICT can help you • Streamline administrative practices • Less time creating content to focus more time on assessment and reporting. • More interactive engagement of content vs traditional flat textbooks. • Personalised/Individualised Learning

11. How ICT can help you • Allows students to create meaningful content and solutions rather than just consume and regurgitate. • Allows students to demonstrate their learning their own way, • Allows flexible communication and rapport between student and teacher anytime you want.

12. How ICT can help you • A computer is a imagination machine. • Computers allow risk taking, mistakes, innovation • Use computers, not to meet the status quo or because they are there. Use them to solve problems, as a tool enabling them to do things they couldn't do before,

13. What doesn’t work • "College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either." – Mark Twain • Most teachers use ICT to teach and assess the same things the same way they always did – except it’s on the screen. • We have some access to technology, but either limited or an overabundance of content, and a lack of clear strategies/pedagogy. Where to start?

14. What doesn’t work • Technology is useful if it serves a purpose; otherwise it is just a gadget. • “ipad is like a violin. It's a tool. Use it properly.” • Just because you can do something with IT, doesn't mean you should.

15. What doesn’t work • Teachers need a reason to use IT. • “Technology doesn't teach people; people teach people.”

16. What doesn’t work • Have an enthusiastic scepticism about technology. • Ask: How will this IT tool help improve current teaching and learning practices? • How is teaching and learning improved with this device/software?

17. What doesn’t work • True or False: All kids are experts at IT • Just because you eat at restaurants doesn't make you a chef. • Just because kids use Facebook doesn't make them an IT expert.

18. Quit, Complain, or Innovate! • If you can’t beat them, join them. • PDs on computer maintenance and building technical knowledge. • Get on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube. Join Steam, online gaming. Play games with the students. Build rapport. • The more you understand the world these students are living in these days, the more it will influence your teaching. • Teachers should learn together, share knowledge, help each other out.

19. Games are good (in moderation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGo7iMUcxLc

20. Classroom Management • Watching YouTube – ask the student how many people are watching the same clip off their computer. Then ask, how many have you distracted from their learning? • Touching cables – Students safety is our concern. Do not let them fiddle with equipment. Call tech support if things aren’t working, or another teacher you know might be able to help. • Computers not working – check all cables are in place, etc. Call tech support. Turn off computer and stick a note on it. Email tech with room, computer number, and problem. Then be patient.

21. Classroom Management • Check the taskbar for any programs that shouldn’t be running eg games. If in doubt, ask students to click on it. Apply consequences. • Have students share learning, or things they have seen on internet via projector. Empower them with peer learning opportunities. • Feedback – all students have email accounts at the school. Email them feedback or communicate with them to build rapport and encourage confidence to ask questions or for help. Set up Facebook groups to share and comment on each other’s work as a class..

22. Strategies • Teachers should be guides and mentors. • We are now in the business of teaching and learning! • Start with the familiar, then with the innovative. • Let students demonstrate their learning their own way. • Collaborate and crowd-source!

23. 21st Century Skills • Focus and develop 21 century skills like: • Problem solving • Critical thinking • Team work • Communication • Collaboration • Creativity and innovation

24. For the adventurous: • Flipped classroom: Learn on screen at home, do activities in school with teacher guidance. • If possible, makevideos with you teaching the material. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aGuLuipTwg

25. For the adventurous: • Ted ed – Add quizzes to video “The more you know, the more amazing the world seems. Stay curious” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQDgE_eJGTM

26. For the adventurous: • Use students as tech support. http://vimeo.com/11267198

27. For the adventurous: • Collaborative peer teaching and learning • Use of own (BYO) devices in schools

28. Give students the chance to express their learning their own way.. Finally, http://vimeo.com/11452482

29. Discuss: • How does ICT fit into your curriculum that will best prepare students for the future? • What pedagogy & skills do we and they (students & teachers) need to learn? • What pedagogy do we and they need to unlearn? • What isn’t working and why not? • What are we doing right?

30. Teachers are the drivers of change in schools. It starts with you.