Owners of Australia's fast growing K-12 online learning environment Schoolbox, James and Sean help independent schools in Australia and New Zealand transform their teaching, learning and online communication. Today’s youth live in a digital world surrounded by devices, technology, online communities and are socially engaged though the web. The emergence of these digital natives is forcing traditional teaching methods/technology to move so rapidly, educators can be confused by how best to leverage digital learning to deliver an engaging learning experience through technology. James and Sean introduce how digital natives learn, how BYOD can work and how to style teaching and use technology in the classroom to fit with the mobile, social and and online world our students live in.

1. Engaging Digital Natives
Their devices, their world, their content

2. Introductions
James Leckie
Technical Director
Alaress
Sean Richards
Managing Director
Alaress

3. How are they getting online?
Source: Australian Bureau of
Statistics, 4901.0 Apr 2012

4. How are they getting online?
Over 90%
use internet
for education!
Source: Australian Bureau of
Statistics, 4901.0 Apr 2012

5. What are they using? Socially.

6. What are they using? Socially.
communicating
with imagery!

7. What are they producing online?

8. What are they producing online?
Students expressing
themselves creatively!

9. Why these services?

10. Bite size content

11. Accessible on
range of devices

12. Connected

13. Great, how do we teach in this language?
They share knowledge freely
Always connected
They trust transparency
They value 24/7 realtime interaction

14. Provide streams of bite sized information

15. Create blogs and engage
students with comments

16. Share and upload short videos, audio

17. Post photos, infographics and diagrams

18. Encourage students to use their own
devices and software

19. Use devices for research

20. Broaden the range of acceptable
assessment submissions

21. Go social, enable peer review and discussion

22. Provide forums

23. Encourage students to ask questions
and answer each other

24. Enable peer review

25. Ask students to share work
with others and get feedback

26. Ok, what about the teachers?
Work smarter not harder!

27. Assess electronically

28. Engage students outside the classroom

29. Encourage collaborative learning and sharing
of resources within the classroom

30. Engage students with materials and
tools that matter to them

31. Thank You