Day 3 - 23 November 2007 (Post-Conference)
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Post ConferenceWorkshop 1 Learning In and Out of School Using New Interactive Media |
| Professor Christopher Dede Harvard University, USA |
Christopher Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His work with schools includes service on the National Technology Advisory Boards for the Milwaukee and Cleveland districts. He was the Editor of the 1998 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Yearbook, Learning with Technology. His research includes a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop shared virtual environments with digitized museum artifacts to aid middle school students learning science.
Emerging interactive media--such as blogs, wikis, and social networking--offer new opportunities to link classrooms, workplaces, homes, and community settings across barriers of distance and time. Using these technologies to help students become fluent in creating, sharing, and mastering knowledge is vital in preparing them for 21st century work and citizenship. How can parents, employers, and teachers partner to use these technologies "tomorrow morning" so that today's learners are prepared for their future?
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Post Conference Workshop 2 Leadership That Enables Effective Use of ICT in Education Dr Keith Krueger CEO, CoSN USA |
Keith R. Krueger is CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a national nonprofit organization that serves as the voice of K-12 technology leaders, especially school district CTO’s, who use technology strategically to ultimately improve teaching and learning.
He serves on the Advisory Boards for eSchool News, and Scholastic Administr@tor Magazine, GetNetWise and Generation Y. He is a past Board Member for the Organizations Concerned about Rural Education (OCRE) and served for many years as Board Member and Treasurer of the National Committee on Technology in Education & Training (NCTET). He has been honored as an eSchool News IMPACT 30 key national leader in educational technology.
Most of the research on effectiveness of ICT in education concludes that to date most technology has been “over-promised” with little impact on learning. Yet, some important research is also showing that with strong leadership, strong vision and a commitment to quality professional development, ICT in education can be transformative. This workshop will first examine key global research and identify the critical role of ICT coordinators and school leaders in setting the vision. Next we will identify the skills that ICT coordinators need to have now and in the future to succeed. Finally, we will do a self-assessment by all workshop participants to identify their strengths/weaknesses based on CoSN’s Framework of Essential Skills.
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Post Conference Workshop 3 Powerful ideas, teaching strategies and resources for 21 st Century learning Dr Catherine McLoughlin Associate Professor ACU National, Canberra, Australia |
Associate Professor Catherine McLoughlin is Coordinator of the National Centre for Science, ICT and Mathematics in Rural and Regional Australia (SIMERR, ACT) at ACU National University, Canberra, Australia. Catherine is editor of the Australian Journal of Educational Technology. Her current research interests focus on innovative pedagogy in higher education, e-learning design and assessment strategies. Current research projects are the development of e-learning environments to foster self-direction, metacognitive skill development and models for the integration of emerging technologies with innovative pedagogies.
This workshop is focussed on providing participants with practical strategies to use ICT and interactive digital technology to enhance learning, creativity, engagement and understanding in order to prepare learners for 21 st century learning.
The workshop will demonstrate practical and engaging ways of using new digital technologies that enable young people to develop responsibility for their own learning.
Skills to be developed in this workshop include:
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The activities described in this workshop will place young people in the learning “driving-seat” by harnessing the potential of the “New Internet” and its “Web 2.0” methods and tools. These tools present new possibilities for constructionist learning by enabling collaboration and communication that encourages exploration, expression and exchange.
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Post Conference Workshop 4 Evaluating the Effective Integration of ICTs into Teaching and Learning: A critical look at some self-evaluation tools for schools and teachers. Dr Vince Ham Director Research CORE Education, New Zealand |
Vince was one of the foundation staff at CORE education when it opened as Ultralab South on 1 April, 2003. Vince came to CORE steeped in teaching and education, having clocked up 16 years in teacher education and research at Christchurch College of Education and (briefly) the University of Canterbury. Prior to this he was the History HOD at Nelson College for Girls.
The issue of assessing how effectively we are integrating ICTs into school and classroom practice is of interest to policy makers (who want to know if the nation is getting value for its ICT investment), to school leaders (who want to know if the use of ICTs is effectively contributing to curriculum delivery) and to teachers (who want to know if students are actually learning anything). But how do we currently make these assessments? What are the ‘standards’ of ‘ICT integration’ that apply in different countries? And what specific tools or frameworks do teachers schools and education departments use to ‘measure’ them?
In this workshop participants will have the opportunity to critically examine a number of tools or frameworks available in different countries that are designed to help schools and teachers self-assess how effectively they are integrating ICTs into their teaching and learning practice.
An intended outcome of the workshop is some agreed criteria by which officials, school leaders and teachers might judge which tools or frameworks might be the most useful in their particular contexts or jurisdictions.
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Post Conference Workshop 6 Learning how to use Scratch – A a programming environment suitable for both primary and secondary students to learn to program and create animations, games, music and multimedia. Mike Leishman Educational Computing Association of West Australia, Australia Newman College, |
Mike Leishman is the Secondary Coordinator and Web Master of ECAWA and Manager ICT at Newman College,
Mike Leishman is also an ACCE fellow, ECAWA educator of the year 1997 and ACCE Educator of the year 1998. He manages the IT department of one of the largest Catholic K-12 schools in WA. Mike has been a teacher of computing studies for more than 20 years and in that time has taught most subjects in the IT area.
Part 1: Introduction to programming using Scratch
Attendees will look at the programming structures available in Scratch and try to create the example programs as illustrated in http://kidsprogramming.pbwiki.com/Course%20by%20Mike%20Leishman
Part 2: Making a multi-scene animation using Scratch
One of the problems with Scratch is that there is only one scene to work with. This is very difficult to contend with especially if you have been using applications like Flash. By the end of this session, all of your fears will be gone and you will have a good understanding of how to get around this limitation.