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‘Do I have anything useful to say?’How can ‘learning technologies’ be about learning?
Daniel MaceAdvanced Skills TeacherLangley Grammar School, Slough
Google Image Number 1
Nail in the coffin
Too much technology
Structures: plans to no avail
Conferences: so many ideasno actual time
Wordles – engagement?
The teacher ‘fear’
Synopsis
• What is the spectrum of opinion about learning technologies?
• Why do they create problems in the ‘classroom’?
• How can we inspire Generation Y to positively impact their world?
Why? Generation Y
Positive Negative
Image • Reactive parenting• Come of age in
societal shocks• Mid-life institutionally
powerful• Focussed on external
world• Find solutions to
contemporary challenges
• Narcissistic• Cynical• Hedonistic• Brand obsessed
Technology
• 3D printing technology• Open-source software• Wikipedia• Huge
entrepreneurship
• Search engine culture• Alienated• Distracted• Reduced capacity to
think abut the world
Things that have worked
GoogleEarth
What’s been hard?• Tutor group blog and homepage • A-level geography blog • No-one brings a tablet to school• Who’s on Twitter? • Better work on paper
High
Low
High
Low
Teacher’s confidence
Child
ren’s
confi
dence
• Teacher distrust of tech• Traditional teaching• Children might know more, can
access more Danger:• Perception of irrelevance• Not focused on learning pathways• Teacher is sole possessor – or
thinks they are…
• Strong emphasis on traditional learning – maybe excellent focus on thinking and essays writing
• Nobody pressured (or allowed?) to use technology
Danger:• Misses 21st Century – e.g. N vs. S
Korea
• Shared understanding and enthusiasm
• VLE works and independent created?
• Twitter can start and continue conversation with 24/7 learning
• Collaboration is name of the game
Danger:• Technology drives learning, not
thinking• Internet safety issues missed?
• Some can’t access the curriculum – cost / language / culture / family / confidence
• Not knowing what to say• Frustration of teacher with
students – less likely to try new things
Danger:• Time wasted• Disenchantment with technology• No differentiation
• Constructivist• Divergence• Open-
mindedness• Fun• Enjoyment• Curiosity• Thinking• Creativity
• Mastery-orientation
• Love geography• Do well at
exams
Accelerated Learning Cycle
Thinking Tools
CTL / Intro
X-word generatorsWindows Movie Maker quizzes
Family FortunesElectronic dominos
Consolidation / HW
Forums for P4CVideos on YouTube
MinecraftConceptboard
Activity – making meaning
IWB DecisionsVisualisers to review
ScanMouse
Input of new ideas
IWB GamesPS work – flexibility
with tabletsYouTube videos
Big PictureVLE – structureFreemind maps
EngagementsKS5 Blog
Twitter ConvosPinterest
ReplicateBut must add value
RSA, Sept 2012
• Now, more than ever, we need young people to use their collaborative and technological skills to overcome economic challenges and help shape a more prosperous future (Adam Lent)
• One-dimensional cultures or approaches are inflexible and prone to collapse
Philosophy for Computing
• 6 themes– Addiction– Viruses & Contagion– AI– Hacking– Censorship– GIS & Privacy
• Rice on chessboard
• Contagion film• Fears• Mix-match
viruses
• Kill the man• Circle of friends• Circle Game• P4C
Have something useful to say
• Do teachers know what active learning is – from beginning to end: lesson / topic / year
• Are children confident and engaged with learning• Use technology to replicate those activities – to
engage and prevent disaffection
• Don’t try the other way around – using technology to engage with the ideas
• Ultimately – the brain is the best learning technology available – need to do everything we can to promote them using that
• Big Picture• CTL (Knowledge recap)• Input – Active learning• Activity or Making
Meaning• Homework and
Consolidation – high level, creative and abstract
• Engagement and social consciousness
• Collaboration & Learning to learn
• VLE – structure• Interactive
crosswords• Tablets for Private
Study work• E-textbooks• IWB for tools• Visualisers