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Connect, Contribute, Collaborate
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNG3sgk02Lc
Back to the Future…
The future is here.
What else has changed?
• How we communicate• Relevant skills in a ‘global’ world• What can be created• The ‘where’ and ‘how’ we learn• Who owns and creates knowledge
Learning Outcomes
become aware of ‘Web 2.0‘ technologies
understand ways in which ‘Web 2.0’ could be used in your teaching
understand that our ideas about what constitutes knowledge being challenged
Knowledge is power
Knowledge is power
• Encyclopaedia BrittanicaHard copy - 75,000 articles
• DVD version - 100,000 articles
Wikipedia2 million+ articles
What is Web 2.0?
Tools:
Podcasting/Vodcasting
Blogs
Wikis
Tags
Rss Aggregators
Image sharing
Source: blog.getoutsmart.com
The web will...
• "give a much more powerful means for collaboration between people“
• "allow computers to collaborate directly"
Sir Tim Berners-LeeCreator of the ‘World Wide Web’, CERN, 1990
Key Competencies are capabilities people need in order to live, learn, work and contribute as active members of the community.
What might this mean for us in the Web 2.0 era?...or even Web 3.0?
Managing Self: “..enterprising, resourceful, reliable and resilient…”
Relating to Others: “..interacting effectively with a diverse range of people in a variety of contexts..”
Participating and Contributing: “…active in local, national and global communities…”
Thinking: “..actively seek, use, and create knowledge..”
Using language, symbols and texts: “..use language to produce texts of all kinds...confidently use ICT to access and provide information and to communicate with others..”
Source: New Zealand Curriculum 2007.
How are Web 2.0 tools being used by English teachers in our region?
What are we already doing?
Red dots = using with students [write your names on these]Blue dots = Personally aware of or personally use
Finding an individual voice
Blogs•Easy to edit, add links, photos•Your own space for reflection on your work•Others can post feedback comments
Ideas•Online project journal•Personal (e)portfolio•An alternative to traditional essay writing•Discussion of ideas•Creative writing•Making links to like minded students
Digital self-expression
Teaching Examples…
Room 9’s writing spothttp://room9writing.blogspot.com/[Rachel Boyd’s Blog]
Tanya Phillips. Aorere Collegehttp://englishdepartment.wikispaces.com/
Elizabeth O’Hagan, Aorere Collegehttp://finkspace.wikispaces.com/#tochome1
Image sharing
•Easy to edit, add links, photos
•Others can post feedback comments
Ideas
•Digital stories, essays, poetry
•Performances
Finding an individual voice.
Digital self-expression
Hemingway Six word stories:
For Sale: baby shoes. Never worn.
Flickr: Six Word Storyhttp://www.flickr.com/groups/sixwordstory/pool/
Berbel and Josef
http://www.flickr.com/photos/som3rsault/166679215/in/set-72157594531442973/
Digital storieshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/166446587/
Digital essays:http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=c4e241fcc6d519ea962f
Teaching Examples…
Collaboration
Wikis•Who controls the ‘knowledge’ is changing•Few technical skills are needed to contribute•Understanding is formed throughcollaboration and consensus
Ideas•Edit or create new Wikipedia articles•Create a wiki for a project•Brainstorm ideas online•Creative writing
Hi all, currently I am teaching poetry in my year 8 class and to entice the students to write some quality stuff I have asked them all to set up a wiki. Well, the result is amazing! They can’t stop using it and the language that is coming through is excellent. I have used the 30 days of poetry as a base. I would like to share one of the wikis with you
[Jacira Meyerink, post on English/ICT forum, 2.11.07]
Teaching Examples…
Computers get organised
RSS feeds - Subscribe to blogs and websitesIdeas•Follows developments in a class research project•Subscribe to the latest news
Podcasts - Subscribe to audio downloadsIdeas•Create broadcasts:- Audio/video diaries, bookreviews•Search and research
Point England School:
http://kpetv.blogspot.com/2007/08/kpe-episode-135-google-eyes.html
Teaching Examples…
Research: the power of many
Research• Contribute and not receive information• Content (e.g. text, photos, videos) is classified - tagged• Tags allow:- Search, Find, Collect, Sort, Edit, Connect, Share• RSS allows us to subscribe to latest information
Ideas•Create an online research area for a topic•Subscribe to sites for researching a topic•Join forum – e.g . EOL, Facebook to make links
Dewey System
Making Meaning
Source: boston.com
The Social Web
SearchFindCollectSortEditConnectShare
Implications for us as leaders of learning….?
- we are no longer the only leaders of learning
- Information Literacy skills are crucial, together with realistic, aspirational Internet policy
- new Curriculum: a new paradigm
- our students have no prior knowledge of a time before the Internet, before mobile phones…
- powerful motivator: “It’s so motivating you can’t stop them learning” [McIntosh]
- Computer suites are already an out-moded model
Five elements that have changed outside school and which need to
change inside school
• Audience• Creativity unleashed• Differentiate…by raising the bar• Authentic goals• It’s not about the teach, it’s about the tech.
Source: Ewan McIntosh http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2007/03/so_motivating_y.html
The tools we use should not get in the way of the far bigger question - what is your role in your classroom now and will new technologies integrate with it? The chances are they won't, unless you integrate (i.e. change) with them. The main release these tools will offer the teacher is the extension of the classroom beyond the 'nine-to-four': collaborative tools like these offer free and flexible ways to claim back some of the 200 minutes spent online by our kids each night.
Source: Ewan McIntosh, Coming of Age [2006]
…and now the future is here….
The Machine is Us/Ing Us
Source: mwesch, March 2007http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
Where to now…?
http://del.icio.us/karen.melhuish
At the Virtual Chalkface
