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Lena Arena Project Coordinator, DER Sydney Region Carmelina.arena@det.nsw.au

Lena Arena Project Coordinator, DER Sydney Region Carmelina.arena@det.nsw.edu.au. Year 10 History class – Caringbah High School. Action Learning Project. 11 schools engaged in Action Learning Projects. Over 80 teachers involved. In-school DER Leaders.

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Lena Arena Project Coordinator, DER Sydney Region Carmelina.arena@det.nsw.au

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  1. Lena Arena Project Coordinator, DER Sydney Region Carmelina.arena@det.nsw.edu.au

  2. Year 10 History class – Caringbah High School

  3. Action Learning Project 11 schools engaged in Action Learning Projects Over 80 teachers involved

  4. In-school DER Leaders 13 schools with in-school DER Curriculum Leaders Over 18 in-school DER Curriculum Leaders

  5. What’s Happening?

  6. Newton’s Laws Explained using Flash Animation – Kingsgrove High School

  7. Kingsgrove High School • Year 10 Science class • Using Flash to explain newton’s laws. • Year 11 Studies of Religion • Audacity and Premiere Elements – major project

  8. Student Engagement Student Learning – Student Work Samples

  9. Curriculum Content Innovative use of Technology

  10. Caringbah High School • Faculty based teams – teacher mentors trained • History/English Year 10 class: • Edmodo (communication within class and with a school outside the region) • Glogster – posters • Dreamweaver – websites (Australia and the wars) • Freemind – mind mapping • Audacity – record narration • Premiere Elements – video editing

  11. Caringbah High School • Creating and filming documentaries • Weekly VC’s with Macquarie University • Use of LAMS by students to create their own learning pathway

  12. New ways of learning Year 10 History work samples - websites

  13. Task Focused

  14. FOCUS on Teaching & Learning Cross faculty Rich Assessment Task – ICT skills assessed Teachers teach their subject content and give regular meaningful feedback on progress throughout the unit. Skills Teachers assess their own subject outcomes and explicit feedback through the marking rubric ICT skills assessed

  15. Pedagogy enriched by technology integration

  16. What technology is being used by schools?

  17. Penshurst Girls’ High School • All Year 9 History task • Original task adapted to include use of technology and DER netbooks • The Depression – students use webcam to video their speech about life in the Depression • Student engagement in task – even students who usually not engaged in completing tasks • Quality of student work very pleasing

  18. Penshurst Girls’ High School • Adobe Portfolio distributed to students • Task • Task scaffold • Instructional videos on use of webcam • Marking criteria • Teacher created work sample

  19. Penshurst Girls’ High School

  20. In-school DER Leaders

  21. More examples • Lucas Heights Community School • Mentoring by in-school DER leader • Cross faculty • Teachers developing KLA specific classroom resources • Menai High School • All Year 9 multi-media assessment task - Sustainability – open ended task • Use of Edmodo, blogEd, Audacity, OnenOte, Premiere Elements

  22. More Examples • Dulwich High School of Visual Arts and Design • Team of mentors • Allocated professional learning afternoons • Choice of content • Beginner group • Sharing experiences/resources at end of program

  23. Teacher Professional Learning DER Specific 4 Day Project Software Skills Workshops

  24. What teachers are learning

  25. STUDENT VOICE …what students are saying...

  26. Coming…

  27. The future? • Funding to support DER until the end of 2012 • Sydney Region will be funded to provide support till the end of 2012 • Funding available to schools for DER related projects in the next financial year.

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