30 minute conference presentation presented at Learning and Teaching with Technology: Gender Matters Conference 28th August 2012, Melbourne, Australia

1. Teaching and learning using technology:
Building capacity in your school
Dr Catherine Hart, Crowther Centre for Learning and Innovation
Teaching and learning using technology:
Building capacity in your school

2. What students think matters
How we respond to this matters

3. What should inform our ‘response’?
 Knowing
 Understanding
 Doing

5. Today's kids hate being
talked at. They hate
when teaching is simply
telling. They hate lectures
and tune them out.

6. Discourse about device
Discourse about policy
Discourse about praxis

7. It’s not the technology... It’s the connection that
technology offers

11. Bohlen, Beal and Rogers (1957)

14. I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got
it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from
each one. That's how I came up with a solution.
I don't mind failure. I've always thought that
schoolchildren should be marked by the number of
failures they've had.

15. Building individual and institutional
capacity
Add on – not instead of
Seek like-minded individuals
Internal hotspots
Find a community

16. Building individual and institutional
capacity
Research and partnership – evidenced based practice
Share your knowledge

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