Elearn 2014 Parent Meet
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This document discusses e-learning and its implementation at Gardens School. It defines e-learning as learning facilitated by technology anywhere and anytime. The school aims to develop students' critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity skills through e-learning. An e-learning classroom provides opportunities for global learning, independent and self-directed study, and developing technology literacy and higher-order thinking. The document outlines how Gardens School provides iPads, laptops, software and online tools to support an e-learning curriculum across subjects like sport.
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Elearn 2014 Parent Meet
- 1. Gardens School E-learning 2014-15 E-learning is the use of technology to enable people to learn anytime and anywhere
- 2. E-Learning? ".... learning and teaching that is facilitated by or supported through the appropriate use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). ” Wikipedia
- 3. Why E-Learning? The Four C’s of 21st Century Learning - critical thinking - communication - collaboration - creativity 21Century Learning with the 4C’s
- 4. Fits well with the Key Competencies: NZ Curriculum • Thinking • Using language, symbols and texts • Managing self • Relating to others • Participating and contributing
- 5. WHAT DOES AN E-LEARNING CLASS ACHIEVE? • creative and adaptive • more media savvy • global learning opportunities • have multimodal learning styles • life long learners & anywhere anytime learners • improves student's self esteem • learners are more independent • more self directed learning occurs • development of higher order thinking skills • communicators and collaborators • technology literate and adept • learners are more independent http://elearning.tki.org.nz/Teaching/Learning-areas/Using-iPads-in-the-classroom
- 6. WHAT DOES the research say? Educationalists often talk about the four C’s of 21st century education: critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation. Tablet devices are certainly good at engaging individual students in critical thinking and creativity; Henderson and Yeow’s 2012 research into iPad use in a New Zealand primary school classroom showed that the iPad provided learners with “much better opportunities for collaboration than were possible in the past”. Siraj-Blatchford and Siraj-Blatchford (2006) suggest that while ICTs work well in supporting communication, collaboration, creativity, and meta-cognition. – Also they noted that ‘quality adult interactions is more important than the tools themselves. ‘ http://www.educationreview.co.nz/magazine/november-2013/theres-no-ipad-in-team- or-is-there/#.VGuY1NaiOfs
- 7. The Future • Our AsTTLe testing online • Many secondary schools going towards BYOD • NZCEA • Curriculum subject courses
- 8. What does an e-learning classroom look like at TGS?
- 9. What does TGS e-learning CURRICULUM look like? Sport
- 11. tools to achieve desired outcomes Cloud Computing ★ By using ... Google Apps Education Edition, Edmodo, Evernote Wikis/Blogs ★ Web 2.0 tools that can be used to showcase and share work Digital Portfolios ★ A place for students and teachers to keep a record of learning/publishing. Plus a variety of other software and apps available on the internet/app store like Skype , vimeo, mathletics etc
- 12. Why ipads at TGS? •Engaging and simple to use •Students learning at their own pace •Powerful and portable device •Encourages creativity •Preparing our students for a digital future
- 13. What equipment will be in the class • personal ipad - email, dictionary, ibooks, internet research, subject • apps, keynote, pages, garageband, comic life, imovie, • GoogleEarth, NZ Herald etc • 12 laptops for…creating, Mathletics, word processing etc • 4 desktop computers for ... music, movie making etc • 5 cameras • 1 video • 1 mimio (interactive whiteboard) • mimio view
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Editor's Notes
- Welcome – Firstly we are going to look at why e-learning and then at TGS e-learning.
- Today learning is viewed differently from our day of chalk and talk instruction. Young people today are learning for a different society that is unknown. Within the context of core knowledge instruction, students must also learn the essential skills for success in today’s world, such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration. E learning classes offer this by using the ipad as a tool to do all of these things. Access to anytime, anywhere learning, apps to create and communicate and collaborate with. Students learn appropriate use of the tools and to think about what they are learning.
- E-learning fits with Key Competencies of self-managing, students as participators and contributors, thinkers, conveyors of information and collaborators.
- Independence , students take more control of own learning, they are able to practice the art of analyising information using the internet work in teams more having to communicate their ideas and present their work, learn technology skills and become experts, independent, creative and they create more often, viewing more media become aware of what’s what, can communicate/collabrate with other countries, create more multimedia (visual, sound, movement, drama etc integrating the many learning styles, learning not limited to school, improves self esteem
- Research is becoming available which demonstrates that learning with modern digital tools is improving students achievement and engagement with learning. Education review article - (So I am not out of a job yet. )
- E- asttle testing in primary schools – online. Many secondary schools going towards BYOD NZCEA – looking at putting courses and exams online Curriculum being offered online
- classrooms that has a lot of digital tools to use classrooms with students of mixed ability learning is not designed around the technology, the technology is used if it is the best tool for the learning students make a choice of what method and materials they are going to use to complete particular activities students use a range of Web2 tools to share and collaborate with a much wider audience
- We still have handwriting both using the ipad and pen and spelling we use spelling city app for this. Math is cross grouped with the whole Will are still be part of senior/intermediate Teams and go to Poutama/science and sport etc Introduce all students to coding and will a variety of levels looking at learning this language. What ever a team decides on for their theme/ topic - will work out best solution for students learning to achieve this. Inquiry process/ musical/ podcasting etc There will be cross-curricular activities – writing, reading, topic - inquiry learning and project based activities. Some aspects are timetabled There will still be expectations that need to be met - writing genre sessions, reading groups and target skill sessions Reading books are still in the classroom and students still have the choice to use pen and paper. It will be same but with more choice on how to create and deliver their findings – reading, maths, topic but will be delivered through their Google Docs, Edmodo app, and mathletics etc. They can go home and continue to work on things. Students can show you what they have done by looking on ipads/ evernote portfolio and through class or individual blogs
- All students will spend term one focusing on how to be a good digital citizen - relevant to their age and stage – then the discussions /ideas and needs based teaching continues throughout the year.
- The iPad uses the tactile ‘touch and gesture’ interface, which makes for a far more engaging user experience than the ‘point and click’ input method of laptop operating systems. Students who have a personal iPad tend to visit their lessons more often on their own time, Pre-iPad, learning was somewhat restrained by the start of the school day and the end of the school day. It has made a learning environment that is much more personalised and that much more convenient. Developers are producing imaginative apps which allow users to work and create in new ways. For example, the various drawing apps which allow artists to have a virtual canvas which is large enough to be functional, yet mobile enough to be taken anywhere. Music apps which enable users to create music in new and interesting ways. literacy apps that bring learning to a whole new level, ‘sketchboards’ for creative note-taking, planning and idea generation, countless reference and information based apps provide learners with a rich and engaging device for learning. Plus the ability to access the internet, watch videos, play audio, view photos and read books all on one device, makes the iPad a revolutionary learning tool with huge potential. Book creators / now able to publish own material - Art apps etc. This is what they will use in their everyday lives from now on. Learning in a safe environment the challenges of being a digital native will give them good grasp of using the tools of the future in a positive way.