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Ulearn08 Conference

Ulearn08 Conference. Christchurch 7-10 October 2008. Focus Questions:. Minister of Education. e- learning= 21 st Century learning Personalised learning ICT clusters Life long learners Learners learning to partnerships with school and community Extra teacher only day next year.

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Ulearn08 Conference

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  1. Ulearn08 Conference Christchurch 7-10 October 2008

  2. Focus Questions:

  3. Minister of Education • e- learning= 21st Century learning • Personalised learning • ICT clusters • Life long learners • Learners learning to partnerships with school and community • Extra teacher only day next year

  4. Key note speakers:Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach & Will Richardson • Sharing and co-operating worldwide • Blogging • Teach kids how to share: what employers should see if they are googled • Teachers need to teach children how to have a global voice • Teacher leaders networks • Teachers need to know and feel comfortable before being expected to teach

  5. Breakout One: Te Kete Ipurangi The Online Learning Centre (TKI)Right under your very noses' online resources for NZ teachersMaria Lute & Penny Harrison • Filtering system - TKI site • Use of Icons • Digistore-online teaching resources -user name and password?? • Web2 tools: 2 examples Wordpress, Voice thread • Wordpress: free online blogging tool • Voicethread: online media album

  6. Key note speaker:Steven Carden • Evolution of man add diagram link • Societies coping with change well are: Idea generating-idea absorbing-willing to change • We are currently educating chn for jobs that do not exist, to solve problems that aren’t even problems yet • 2020 Tactic jobs will make up almost ¾ of all jobs, transitional jobs will make up just over ¼ of all jobs • We need radically different ways and approaches to teaching young people. • THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GOOD AND A GREAT TEACHER IS THAT GREAT TEACHERS INSPIRE AND ENCOURAGE. PLEASE INSPIRE AND ENCOURAGE IN YOUR CLASSROOM.

  7. Breakout Two: Transformational TeachingTony Ryan • Teachers need to be people who are inspiring • Think outside the dodecahedron Where The Hell Is Matt? • We can change the world through our classrooms • Global learning: Digital literacies • 4 roles for the transformational teacher The Energiser- “hot personalities”, The Ethicist- values The Entrepreneur-Educational Intrapreneurs??, The Environmentalist-beyond being a greenie

  8. Breakout Three:School transformation as easy as ABCMartin Hughes • Teacher training- Units of work- Student Involvement • 3P’S: Provoke thought, Provide vocabulary, Promote questioning • Fire fox : Teachers download Utube videos onto lap top: no connection needed, can revisit later • Forums • www.tkhs.knowledge.net • utube: visual language, -proverbs oral language

  9. Breakout Four:Critical issues for learning in the 21st Century: Multi-literacies new technologies and knowledge building Nicola Yell and • New learning =lateral learning • Young children already are self selectors of multi-literacies before they even start any kind of formal educational • Create necessary conditions for learning: belonging, transforming. • Use story boards, plan out an advertisement for a product of their choice, video the advertisement • Use Lego or claymation to make a movie in movie maker: may work for reading groups

  10. Breakout Five:Show case to the Future I need to research more about these things... • Moodle : Moodle New Zealand • Podcast Capture: Podcast Capture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Technology in Special Schools: -technology that support children’s learning, make content electronic. • Jump out: on line video editing • Google chrome: only on PC, safer, more secure • Google Search Engines: www.google.com/cse • Pervasive Digital Content: technology that can be used everywhere eg) smart phones, social networking

  11. Breakout 6:LEARNZ Virtual Field TripsMike Clemens, Charmaine Nelson, Darren Atkin • Go with a trained teacher to areas of NZ and beyond • As of 2009 registration will be with individual teachers and will be FREE • All trips archived • On trip is a NZ trained teacher • Experts available for audio conferencing • Teachers in field keep dairies, take videos, panoramic photos, a field officer (soft toys)

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