Transcript Keeping up with the children

Miracles take a little longer …
Alison Trimble
[email protected]
Objective:
By the end of the session participants will:
• Have a greater awareness of the tools now
available for teaching and learning
• Know where to find more information
• (I hope) want to explore the value these
might have in their own context
ILT
Information Learning Technology: the use
of technology to support teaching and
learning – planning lessons, researching,
using Smartboards, creating materials,
taking digital photos, encouraging
students with text messages …
E-learning
The student is learning by accessing
digital, interactive resources –
commercial CBT Computer Based
Training, NLN materials – perhaps stored
on a vle (virtual learning environment
such a Blackboard or Moodle….)
“New” E-learning
Web 2.0 tools – Social
networking
The student is learning by accessing
digital, interactive resources but also
interacting with other learners and / or
tutors
Things kids (and young adults) say
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I don’t need to find a book, I’ll Google it.
Have you got a My Space? A Facebook?
I’ll Skype you later.
Gotta Blog that!
Got the homework off Wikipedia.
I met my current fella on Yahoo Pool
Why do we need to know?
• To at least understand their language, if
not speak it
• It’s the way they learn about the world.
How can we use it?
• To protect vulnerable adults and help
parents protect their children
• It’s changing the way they use language
• Collaborative learning, action learning more pedagogically sound?
MSN – Windows Messenger
What is it?
Free download for synchronous
typed chat, with free or cheap phone
calls and access to Windows Live
Space
Get it from here
Use it from anywhere
Skype
What is it?
Free phone calls across the internet:
you just need to download the
software. You can then send an
invitation to your friends to do the
same. Ideally you need usb
headphones with an integral
microphone.
Get it from here
Image taken from
http://www.skype.com
Whatever happened to the Web?
This library was boring so we’ve
all written our own books and
popped them on the shelves –
pretty randomly, really!
And WE put
up a marquee
in the corners
so we could
have our own
private party!
Blogs Bloggers Blogging
• A weblog, or Blog, is simply an online diary.
• A personal space on the web where people
record the day to day events in their lives
• Daily, or less frequently and sometimes
minute by minute.
Blogs for teaching and learning
• To keep a reflective practice journal
• How could you use them with learners?
http://edu.blogs.com/
Make your own teacher blog at:
http://www.blogs2teach.net/
Popular blog sites
http://wordpress.com
http://www.blogger.com
WIKIS
Wiki ... a type of website that allows users to easily
add, remove, or otherwise edit and change some
available content'.()
Differs from a blog in that it is not sequential over time.
Anyone with a password can edit the web pages –
some are completely open.
Set one up at: http://www.wikispaces.com
View ours at: http://aclwales.wikispaces.com/
Wikipedia
Podcasts
• Originally, audio files that could be downloaded to an
Ipod (MP3 or MP4 format)
• This is a good place to start, whether you want to
create them or use them:
http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Podcasts#Res
ources
• For UK-focussed podcasts try
http://www.ukpodcasts.info/
• Or go to http://www.podzinger.com/ and put English
Podcast in the search box to see what’s there
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Social networking and photo / video
sites – some examples
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My Space
Bebo
Face Book
You Tube (more appropriate: http://www.teachertube.com)
Habbo Hotel (UK) video clip
Second Life videoclip 1 video clip 2
Stay safe on the read/write web
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http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/
http://www.internetsafetyzone.co.uk
http://www.childnet-int.org/
http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/
But I’m teaching “Help Your
Child to Learn” in a broom
cupboard …
National Learning Network
materials
Examples:
Fractions
learntrain
Dressing right games
learntrain
Being a better learner learntrain
7-10 years ago
• Students typing up their stories and
poems,using spell-checker, adding
pictures
• Web treasure hunts
• Using Excel to make pie charts
• Using information CDs Example
More recently …
• Interactive Word: using the forms toolbar,
comments, adding sound, considering
accessibility Example Info
• Powerpoint
Example
• Hot Potatoes Example Info
• Webquests:
– word-based Example
– web-based Example Info
Getting adventurous …
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Smartboard software Example Download
Digital cameras, text-messaging etc
Email and creating websites
Spotlight on accessibility:
– Using the control panel
– Speech to text: Dragon Dictate & Via voice
– Text to speech: Texthelp / Browsealoud,
Readplease etc
– Word bank programmes such as Wordbar
– Techdis for information
Internet gems (1)
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BBC Skillswise
Manythings.org
How Stuff Works
Mind Body Soul
BBC virtual garden
Study Spanish
Paperboy
In the Paper
Internet gems (2)
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Common knowledge
Family Learning – Durham
Content workshop
Wirral MBC maths homework
Pre-school printables
Sparklebox
Videojug
Powerpoint for games
Back to the broom cupboard ..
• Think about your kit:
- does everyone need a laptop /PC?
- could you use 1 laptop and a projector?
- can you gather around one laptop?
- can you get hold of a wireless mouse?
- do your learners have mobile phones?
• Can your learning outcomes be met in a
different way?
examples:
evaluating resources
learning through games