The Changing Space of Education

Anne Mirtschin@murcha

http://www.murcha.wordpress.comGoogle doc: http://bit.ly/T5w9ld

Changing spaces

…..Digital

Virtual

Mobile

Global

Impact?• Learning is NOW!• 24/7• New skills – digital, social, global, networking etc • Flipped classrooms• Blended learning• Social learning• Games Based Learning• BYOD• Increasing power to the learner with organic

learning

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

Cyber Safety

http://www.guidetoinnovation.ning.com

Zoo Victoria

Find events and webinars at http://www.guidetoinnovation.ning.com

Meet my VCE accounting class...

Cash Journals

3 virtual rural students

3 different schools

A year 11 and 12 combined f2f class

An ESL virtual student

Virtual rural teaching rounds in partnership with Country Education Project, University of Ballarat and Hawkesdale P12 College. One pre-service teacher did this from China.

Bianca teaching from China

Technology can be used to cater 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

Mixed Abilities

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”.

870 hits

Request from one of my students

Could you please make sure you put what I have to do for Monday and Tuesday’s classes on your blog?

(She was about to go to hospital!)

The virtual classroom!The virtual classroom!

Using BlackBoard Collaborate - Every student has a voice!

Virtual classrooms can be recorded for those who are ill etc

Ability to teach anywhere and any time – 24/7

The backchannel – giving each student 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??

The Tools

Application sharing

File sendingGoto window>show transfer file library

Send file on how and where to gain Moderator access

Polls

Google Hangouts

Adobe Connect

Polycom Equipment

High Definition Resolution Videoconferencing – learning how to use a remote from a teacher 700 kms away!

Talking to Students affected in the recent Gippsland floods

Resources for Polycom Equipment

http://projects.twice.cc/

http://www.Connect2Texas.net

http://bit.ly/M5GP36

Online Debating

I was googled!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.”

Customized LearningCustomized Learning• Blogs – each student has a blog• Youtube• Mobile devices for 24/7 learning• Choose type of digital outcomes

and resources to work with• Self directed learning

Teacher Blog

Class Blog

Networking through conversations

Hello! One of my students always uses her mobile for taking notes of her home assignment.

A blog post on Learning from Students and their use of mobile phones in the classroom.

A blog post on Learning from Students and their use of mobile phones in the classroom.

Response to responding comment on mobile phone use

• Hi Anne,I am sorry, I have just seen your question. I know, some schools don’t allow mobile phones at school at all. Mobiles are not allowed during state exams. There are no rules about them in my school. Neither my students nor I make phone calls during lessons unless it is necessary. You know, I am teaching students with disabilities. In fact, I can’t remember them using their phones rather than show me some picture and speak about them, or take notes, or record themselves. I think, it is better to make good use of technology than to ban it in class.All my students have mobiles, even the one with palsy who has difficulty using his hands. He has iPhone (has had several versions, in fact), iPad and some other gadgets at home. My kids are used to dealing with different keyboards during their face-to-face lessons.My student Mary uses the app ‘Заметки’ on her Samsung Mobile TV. The word means ‘notes’ in English. She is taking exams this week, I will ask her to show the app to me next week.\

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• Arun Basil Lal | May 7, 2012 at 6:19 pm | Reply | Edit

• Its fun to see that you are actually letting students do this, I dont see a reason why you shouldn’t.

• When I was in the university, we used to do this to copy (lets say) “notes”, but mobile phones in general were frowned upon by the staff. Of course, all of them had one of those in their pockets, still for some reason, we werent allowed to have one.

Too Young for Technology

Rach’s blog post

Skippy post

Lorraine Leo comment

• Lists• Hashtags• Followers • Following• Use as a search engine

Some #tags

• #edchat• #vicpln• #globaled• #globalclassroom• #ozseries• #elemchat• #innovatehere

Virtual presentation of Chris’ latest novel

A parent says ‘thank you’

A parent says ‘thank you’

Communicating and Collaborative Tools Used

Communicating and Collaborative Tools Used

From my Inbox…….Oh and I have been getting lots of followers on twitter lately from my tweets , its so exciting :)

The Hardware

•A computer• Internet access•Data Projector•Clean wall

Example of a connection made through Classroom2.0 – Lorraine Leo from Boston, USA

Sprites for World Friends project on World Museum site

The Global Brain

• [10:56:31 AM] Living Maths: Daivd and Anne,... have you considered using a google doc.,.. let the kids read and ask questions and you type all your responses - it will be nice to keep the "evidence“

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M31ubTjERmWsD6Odn9HtAPZhYSMo0TmhLlyxw8UVnos/edit

• [11:01:28 AM] Living Maths: map in ... now its too easy ;)• [11:03:38 AM] Living Maths: Chicago = coghaci• [10:57:07 AM] David Karnoscak: See you then. Just knock on my door

when you are ready.• [10:58:18 AM] Living Maths: A true and you can load maps in it and you

can insert QR codes too• [10:59:18 AM] Living Maths: and you can make an anagram from the

letters in your state's name and let them unjumble the,m• Or for 10 grade cnelstnriaiogssuiottahicaldoeieimfca• [11:17:49 AM] David Karnoscak: wow..I don't think even grad students

could figure it out.

I desperately needed a coffee! It was morning recess!

On return a google doc was setup ready to use with the class!

Mystery Skype

Students….

Could only ask questions that could be responded to by ‘yes’ or ‘no’ eg

•are you on earth?•Are you in the northern hemisphere? Yes•are you in france•Are you on a island near Australia

Clues!

Michael Jordan was from here!

Do you teach or have any knowledge of the native wars between the americans, seminoles, iroquois, cherokee etc, in the times of george washington?

Crowdsourcing – Melbourne Work Experience

Learning Resources

MOOC

textbooks

The students

Learning network

@ Email lists

communities

Expanding your network

Professional LearningProfessional Learning

Learning with and from the students

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

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