My Learning During DTWICT

Diploma in Teaching with ICT

ETAC Emerging Technology Across CurriculumNausheen Anwar

Beaconhouse School System Jubilee Campus

MODULE 1PLAN THE USE OF ICT IN TEACHING AND

LEARNING

Conduct a practical enquiry that examines the use of

ICT in teaching and learning

Online curriculum-based projects for research, sharing opinions and collaborative learning.

Benefits of online collaboration for learners’ learning.It enhanced learners’ expressions, language skills and understanding of the world by:Engaging them in discussions and dialogue on common issues and those related to their cultureCollaborative projects brought the learners together across the globe using full range of ICT features including newsgroups, email blogs and sharing of learningLimitations:Bandwidth/browser limitations restricted instructional methodologies. There were video files and PowerPoint presentations which took time in uploading and it frustrated my learners and affected my time management.

Online Collaboration facilitated teachers in:

Engaging learners towards responsibility and creativity using any medium of expression.Limitations:Occurred with regional language teachers as there were fewer projects for Urdu Language to integrate it with the curriculum in meaningful projects.

Suggestions for Teachers

To anchor all learning activities to a task, teachers need to look for the following areas:

Learning must have a purpose beyond, "It is assigned."Design the learning environment to support and challenge the learner’s thinking.

Benefits for my school in fostering Global interaction.

It provided a platform to my school in developing:

A culturally diverse community of supportive educators.

Cross –curricular links with all subjects and a representative across the globe on concerns like energy conservation and global warming on Earth Day.

Accomplishment is assessed from Activities that incorporated reflection & critical thinking are as followsProjects ended with a presentation or product that demonstrates learningLearners with various strengths and inclinations had opportunities to explore their talents in a variety of ways

Netiquette Digital Citizenship and Responsibility enabled the teachers and learners to:Be sensitive to others .

Learn as much as you can about the other cultures you are working with to avoid cultural and language misunderstanding.

Promoting and modelling digital citizenship and responsibility

Identified issue: Cyber Bullying

Relevance in Planning: I have integrated e safety lesson plan with a Geography lesson on People and Resources where learners have to develop critical-thinking and decision-making skills related to computer usage and ways to protect them from inappropriate behavior online.

Potential Benefits of ICT

Resource: Multimedia, iEARN collaborative project on “Bullying” ICT Features: Interactivity, Information handling and facility Purpose: The Bullying Project is chosen to help my students to deal with the issue of bullying within a safe, positive and supportive international community. They communicated with people locally and over distance quickly and easily and presented their learning outcome in ways which was accessible to audiences.

Production: This lesson was designed to help learners to identify and avoid situations that could threaten their safety. As Safer Internet Day, on the 8th February 2011, my aim was to help learners develop awareness regarding essential skills and safe social networking. Learners watched the video taken from Teacher’s TV  Delivery: Following areas were considered How many learners have created their personal profiles on social networking site with false age ?Can they identify what information and images are safe to post online? Have they effectively evaluated their newly-acquired information by comparing their initial thoughts with their final ones in the evaluation forms?

Involving ParentsParents consent form assisted me in assembling their awareness regarding the consequences of cyber bulling and its affects on their child. The guidelines parents acknowledged their appreciation to the concerns shown by the school.

Promoting and modelling digital citizenship and responsibility

This implemented a learning session with my learners to advocate and practise safe, legal and responsible use of information and technology.

The objective of this learning session was to enable my learners to exhibit a positive attitude toward the use of technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity. With the help of clear instructions, they were able to articulate basic norms and etiquette for digital communication and collaborate appropriately in a digital community Learners were given the liberty to use from a variety of ICT presentation tools to differentiate the task by resource and to exhibit their learning according to their developed ICT skills.

The identified group created cartoons using toondoo.com conveying a message on safety measure when working online Through presentations, learners learnt about the importance of safe internet browsing and avoiding the possibilities which can lead to serious consequences. To build critical-thinking and decision-making skills related to computer usage and to protect my learners from inappropriate behaviour online, they talked about their learning in the post activity session. They shared their awareness about the learning session and the contributions they made to reflect their learning on safe and secure browsing of internet

MODULE 2

MANAGE THE USE OF ICT IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

Managing the use of ICT in supporting whole group teaching

Following ICT resources were integrated in the lesson.Website for online quiz for instant feedback Video Clips from youtube for visual experience and interactivity Internet – wireless connection for uninterrupted net browsingDigital camera for Provisionality of resource and communicating LCD Projector for information handling Speakers for effective listeningPCs for hands-on activityData card reader for file transfer from digital camera to computer.

To articulate web.2 tools in the lesson, following ICT resources were used.

Computer generated classroom layout was shown to learners using multimedia Projector to organise the learners accordingly.

Before assigning the task, learners were shown a video demonstrating the safe use of digital camera and an instruction sheet was provided for further assistance. Moreover a folder was kept on the desk top for following the instructions if needed.

Through networking I shared a folder on step by step guidelines on each computer

Lay out of Computer lab during exposition http://www.floorplanner.com/

Evidences

Module 3

ASSESS TEACHING AND LEARNING USING ICT

Using ICT to undertake the formative assessment of learners

E mails played an integral role for me to critically assess my learners learning outcome by: • creating a supportive learning environment• encouraging them towards a reflective thought and action• enhancing the relevance of new learning• facilitating shared learning• making connections to prior learning and experience• provide sufficient opportunities to learn • inquire into the teaching–learning relationship through e-mails Conducting a formative assessment and integrating this activity with e-mails enabled me to assess their potential. This process is interactive and it created a reflective approach in their learning .Once their assignment was completed, I published their portfolios online which, enabled the learners of other sections of the same grade to access and gain enhanced meaningful learning.

Using ICT to critically analyse and evaluate the performance of learners over time

ICT to create opportunities for learners to engage in peer assessment

Peer assessment turned out to be a key strategy to involve learners in taking more responsibility for their own learning. While the benefits were not initially obvious to learners, this process offered a means of enhancing the learning experience and developing key capabilities in them. When introducing this strategy, I wanted to be sure that learners become aware of the benefits for them.

SCENNED PICTURES OF STUDENTS EVALUATIONS AND RUBRIC

Module 4

TO EVALUATE AND EMBED THE USE OF ICT

IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

Promoting and modelling digital etiquette and responsible social interactions

While sending me e-mail,, giving feedback on peer assessment or reviewing my feedback on their assignments I ensured the following aspects for my learners to review:Take particular care when transporting personal information to different locations (including passing data to other organizations).  Always encrypt the data and ensure that physical devices cannot be accidentally lost, for example, by using special delivery post or by not leaving the device unattendedTake appropriate security precautions if you take any information about people home with you. Make sure it cannot be accessed by thieves or accidentally viewed by visitors or family members. For further information see the guidance on home workingChoose a password that is not easy to guess

Promoting and modelling digital etiquette and responsible social interactions

•Site PCs where the screen cannot be seen by unauthorised staff or the public.•Lock your computer, if possible, if you are leaving your desk for more than 5 minutes. •Delete personal data as soon as it is no longer required•Ensure that your deleted items are actually deleted – simply deleting items does not always remove them completely from your computer. For example, in Microsoft Outlook when you delete e-mails they are moved to and stored in your ‘deleted items’ folder and you must also delete them from here. Similarly in Windows when you delete items from your computer they will often be sent to the ‘recycle bin’ on your desktop, from where you must delete them again•Never share passwords and write your password down. If you must write it down then don’t store it in an easily accessible place Send someone’s username and password in the same e-mail or document, send them under separate cover.

Evaluating the effectiveness of ICT in supporting Teaching and LearningEvaluating the appropriateness and effectiveness of video conferencing turned out to be an important aspect of integrating current technology in to students learning.

The use of a non-ICT resource was therefore never a real possibility. The entire event could be accessed by parents and school group heads and head office of Beaconhouse.

The entire middle school comprising of 600 learners were in attendance watching the entire segment of the video conferencing which by extension enabled them to reflect and be aware of the safety measures that they must be taking while going online.

Interaction with colleagues to share ideas for improvement

The key of my practice was to help my colleagues reflect upon and develop

a number of important issues.

First the relationship between my colleagues and me which needed to be

based on mutual trust and respect.

What is said must be scrupulously fair. The colleague whom I observed is a

Science teacher. The growth of competences and expertise in classroom

teaching is clearly crucial for any professional growth and for the

effectiveness learners’ learning.

Digital Film Project

Elements of Digital Story

•Point of view

•Dramatic Questions

•Emotional Content

•Clarity of Voice

•Grammar and Language usage

Digital Film Project

Contribution to Students’ Learning

• helps to create and share original work

•Helps to interact, collaborate and publish their work and

assess their peers’ work as well

•Promotes cultural understanding and global awareness

•Improves creative writing skills

•Helps to use writing process, visual literacy

Suggestions to the School Head embedding ICT in Teaching and Learning

Current Practices Suggestions

Coordination Lesson Plans Using Google Docs

Time tabling Using software like: fine time tabling

Students’ attendance Biometric Attendance system

Learners’ Feedback Online password protected feedback, e mails

Circulars for Students and teachers

School social Networking

Coordinating with parents•Printed Newsletters•Printed circulars•Sharing students’ progress during Parents Teacher Meeting

•Online News letters•Online School Blog/Parent Portal•Sharing e= portfolios with limited access

Identifying Resources to Improve Learning and Teaching with ICT

Resource(Hardware/Software)

Silent Features Rationale for Recommendation

Multimedia Projector

•Engaging and motivating.•Provides opportunities to try new things.Allows for showcase of student work.

•Incorporates additional useful skills into the curriculum.•Heightens project-based learning opportunities.Benefits audio/visual learners.

Identifying Resources to Improve Learning and Teaching with ICT

Resource(Hardware/Software)

Silent Features Rationale for Recommendation

Skype

Audio and Voice Conferencing software

•Collaboration in projectsThat connect with other teachers internationally

•Enables to discover new teaching inspiration

•Free of cost

•Skype in the classroom is a free, global community to help teachers and students.

•Find experts, get inspiration and collaborate on projects.

Identifying Resources to Improve Learning and Teaching with ICT

Resource(Hardware/Software)

Silent Features Rationale for Recommendation

Camtasia

•Record PowerPoint presentations, websites, webcams, and software demos easily

•Produce your video in many formats, or share to YouTube or Screencast.com

•Record a live presentation or lecture and give students a rewind button for class. Help them learn at their own pace…or catch up from an absence.

•. Teachers can easily create software tutorials and demonstrations in Flash and streaming video formats for your global audience.

Action Plan