Linking Learning @ Schools

mirtschin@gmail.com @murcha

Discussion Points

• Access to learning resources• Students with varying abilities• Personalised learning – information required, tools

available• Monitoring and reporting progress• Group and individual activities• How do students connect – devices, tools• Professional learning• Work life balance

eLearning

Global Education

Rural Education

My Passions!

Virtual Global Classrooms in Action

Meet my VCE accounting class...

Cash Journals

•3 virtual students•1 ESL student•Year 11 and 12 taught together in one class

Virtual Teaching Rounds in Partnership with Country Education Project, Uniiversity of Ballarat and Hawkesdale P12 College. One pre-service teacher did this from China.

Learning Resources

MOOC

textbooks

The students

Learning network

@ Email lists

communities

Students with varying abilities

Catering for

• gifted students• Students with health disabilities• Students with special interests and passions• Alternative outcomes/resources tailored to

students strengths• Mutli-media, transmedia as alternatives to textual

outcomes/resources

Gifted Students

• One from our school• Two from China• Two from Thailand• One from USA in a virtual

classroom, being taught about the eye from an optician in Perth, Australia, using virtual classroom software

Students interested in writing stories, videoconference with an author from New York Tuesday lunchtimes with skype

Thursday lunchtime linkups with schools in Western Java, Indonesia

Illness and disabilities

Working from home to create movies - “family life on an Australian farm”.

Virtual classrooms recorded for those who are ill etc

Ability to teach anywhere and any time – 24/7

The virtual classroom!

Using Black Board Collaborate - Every student has a voice!

The Bats• Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake• 4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly?• Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you?• Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have?• Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye• Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing• smithy: arent they posisoness• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like?• jasmine .j: do they hurt• scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive?• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat?• 4B DGPS: are they really blind?• Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black?• Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?

.......................more chat!

• dont confuse me this tinme• i dont get why you have that 400 on the debit

side• i always get confused between debtors and

creditors, who do we pay, and who pays us??

Customized Learning

• Blogs – each student has a blog• Youtube• Mobile devices for 24/7 learning• Self directed learning

ESL studentsCan you please tell me a summary of the chapter?

Learning “Slap Guitar playing technique” from youtube using a netbook at home.

Group and Individual activities

Global

local vertical

statewide National horizontal

Learning from musicions with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – Ping Music Project

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http://globalstorytelling.wikispaces.com/Featured+student+work

Monitoring Progress• Check sheets• Blogs• Images• Video recordings• Hard copy journal• Wiki discussions• Forums• Comments on my blogs• Google forms • Photos, videos• interviewing students• Assessment rubrics• wallwisher

My Teacher Blog -for instructions, reflections and shared conversations

Student Blogs for journals, learning, reflections, documentation

Checking understanding

How do students connect?

PS3

The tools

I was googled!

‘”Miss, can you please give me TRIAL EXAMS for unit 4 vce accounting 2011 and from previous years

My classes are big and my teacher isnt that good withrevision so i was wondering. i was wondering if you know any VCE MATH METHODS and ENGLISH sites like this so i can email teachers if i dont undertand or want practise exams.”

Professional Learning

Other professional learning

• Nings/social networks• Read blogs• Face to face conferences – VCTA,

ICTEV, VITTA• VCTA compak – online• My students

How do students connect?

• Kids don’t use email anymore• Learn by conversations• Mobile devices• Facebook, txt chat, txt messaging,

conversations• Learning spaces are changing – global, virtual

Work life balance

Wish list

• Creation of Digital objects for eg accounting• Gamefication – badges, likes, levels of

achievement – making subject content look like a game

• School days with option of study from home• Flexible timetables – school is not 9 to 3:30pm• Learning analytics – cf data driven• School budgets• 20% play time

eFind Me

Anne Mirtschin• mirtschin@gmail.com• Twitter: http:www.twitter.com/murcha• Teacher blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com• Class blogs: http://murch.global2.vic.edu.au• Tech Talk Tuesdays:

http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au• eT@lking: http://australiaseries.wordpress.com