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Technology in the Classroom

Explore the impact of ICT integration in Australian classrooms, focusing on pedagogical shifts, challenges, and the Multimodal Project outcomes. Discover how technology enhances student engagement and literacy strategies.

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Technology in the Classroom

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  1. 1 Technology in the Classroom • Michelle Tamaro

  2. Australian Students and Technology • Australian Council for Educational Research – Study into the use and familiarity of ICT at Home and at School. • More than 60% of Australian students in the study have been using a computer for more than 5 years. More than any other country involved in the project including USA, Canada and Finland • More than 80% of the Australian students surveyed indicated they have access to a computer at school and in other places. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfw1RpBGPBI&feature=related

  3. Teaching with technology • In the classrooms of the 21st Century, the need for high quality teaching has not changed but the tools have changed and have opened up a new world of thinking and opportunities! • Technology changes the dynamics of teaching by: • Increasing impact especially visual impact • Offering efficiencies in time, organisation and preparation • E.g. time savings with the interactive whiteboard • Allowing more time to focus on students’ learning needs • Increasing opportunities for self-study • Providing relevance to the students’ world – they are living and working with technology every day • Helping to prepare students for a world enmeshed in ICT

  4. Potential challenges • Fast paced, teacher management techniques are tested • Variety of ability and entry levels • Range and quality of resources • Ethical considerations

  5. The Value of ICT • Key Pedagogical Focus • It is important to move: • FROM - Just putting technology devices in front of students and teaching them how to use them • TO - seamlessly integrating them at the point of instruction to transform the teaching and learning • The focus should be teaching with technology not teaching about technology

  6. Multimodal Project 2008-2011 • Involved nine Primary schools across Sydney. Students across K-6 • PRINCIPAL AIMS: To investigate • the literacy strategies needed for reading, using and producing multimodal texts • the relevant, explicit pedagogy appropriate for integrating literacy learning within both print- based and digital communication environments. • Multimodal Literacy M.Walsh (2011)

  7. Findings: • Increased student collaboration • Students and teachers learning together • More self-directed, independent learning • More opportunities for language to be used for learning within problem solving and collaborative tasks.

  8. New ways of teaching: • Recommendations: • Increase student engagement and motivation through the use of ICT. • “Evidence suggest that digital technologies are competing with the reading of books. We need to find ways to complement literature study with digital texts and resources.” • Engaging student learning through integration • “the incorporation of digital technologies enabled a more holistic process of literacy strategies and learning” • More individualised and rigorous assessment • “ Teachers who were involved in this research became very reflective of their own teaching”

  9. Why all the fuss? • Did you know…? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPO_HGafBsE&feature=fvsr

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