Stuart Baker

Catholic Education South Australia

Our call as Catholic Educators is to engage our students in coming to know Jesus more fully through learning experiences that draw out religious meaning for young people of the 21st century using texts,

tools and resources of the popular culture and equip them to be

confident, appreciative and critical users of them.

Into the 21st Century

……educators and systems spent the 20th century perfecting the

19th century model of schooling.

Heppell, S. (2005). Episode 1: Learning in the

third millennium

(as quoted by Greg Whitby, Pedagogies for the 21st Century, ACEL Conference 2007)

The Church challenges us to speak

The Church challenges us to speak

meaningfully to th

is generation.

meaningfully to th

is generation.

(See GDC 325)

(See GDC 325)

When we adapt our materials to the culture of students we follow the teaching

methods of Jesus himself. The aim of each generation is to find a fresh new

language that resonates with students so that they may encounter Jesus at the

heart of their lives and culture.

Gerard Holohan, Australian Religious

Education –

Facing the Challenges, NCEC, 1999

Our work… spread the good news!

Evangelisation loses much of its force and effectiveness if it does not take into consideration the actual people it addresses, if it does not use their language, their signs and symbols, if it does not have an impact on their lives.

(Pope Paul VI – EN n.63)

A new proclamation for our times

‘New Evangelisation’ - an approach to evangelisation

that is “new in ardour,, methods and expression”.

What ways could Web 2.0 tools be used to proclaim the gospel?

The Church must always communicate its message in a manner suited to each age and culture… so today it must communicate in and to the emerging media culture. (no.9)

Aetatis Novae (Dawning of a New Era)Pontifical Council for Social Communications

Will RichardsonLiteracy 2.0

Educational Leadership, March 2009

Outside school, many students are accomplished authors, filmmakers,

animators and recording artists. They are concerned with the quality of their work and the meaning it conveys. (p22)

How do we harness this inside the classroom?

Visual images / Photos / Clip Art / PodcastingVisual images / Photos / Clip Art / PodcastingMovies / Animations / Digital StorytellingMovies / Animations / Digital Storytelling

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

http://www.acmi.net.au/screenit.htmAustralia's moving image competition for primary school students and secondary school students. Screen It is a fun way of engaging students whilst they learn about the creative and technical processes that lie behind their favourite forms of entertainment - cartoons, films and computer games.

The theme for Screen It 2008 was Australian Identity

MESSAGE OF POPE BENEDICT XVIFOR THE 43rd WORLD DAY OF

COMMUNICATIONS May 24, 2009 "New Technologies, New Relationships. Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue

and Friendship."

Young people, in particular, have grasped the enormous capacity of the new media to foster

connectedness, communication and understanding between individuals and communities, and they are turning to them as means of communicating with existing friends, of meeting new friends, of forming communities and networks, of seeking

information and news, and of sharing their ideas and opinions.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/communications/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20090124_43rd-world-communications-day_en.html

Partnerships in Faith & Education - Family

Parents have a particularly important part to play in the

educating community, since it is to them that the primary

responsibility for their children’s education belongs.

[CSTTM n20]

http://www.antonioonline.com.au/forum/index.php?www

http://year2pc.wikispaces.com/

http://voicethread.com/#home

Evangelisation -Telling the Story in CyberspaceBy Geoffrey Plant

Compass: A review of topical theologyVol 42(winter) 2008

… we must put an electronic ‘skin’ on our proclamation of the

Gospel, to incarnate its truth in picture, image and story and

proclaim it in… Websites, podcasts, videocasts, blogs and

Facebook.

““The Church would feel guilty before The Church would feel guilty before the Lord if she did not utilise these the Lord if she did not utilise these powerful means that human skill is powerful means that human skill is daily rendering more perfect.”daily rendering more perfect.”

Pope Paul VI, 1975Evangelii nuntiandi (On Evangelisation in the Modern World)

Finding Jesus…

Christian art doesn’t have to speak about Jesus in order to be Christian. It has to possess the truth that is Jesus in order to be Christian... He can live in the body of the work, behind the words and through the images. (p.5)

Hogan, J. (2008) Reel Parables: Life lessons from Popular Films. Paulist Press: New York

http://www.food-force.com/

The Guardian, Thursday 12th Feb 2009

“A report from the European parliament

concluded that computer games

are good for children and teach them essential life

skills.

http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/tlf2

file:///C:/CD%20ROM%20April%2007/resources/L949/index.html

This term in the month of May, the students will be participating in KESAB’s Gutter Guardian Campaign. Part of the exercise is collecting litter that has

blown out of the schoolyard into the nearby street gutters. Playground Rules highlights how important it is, to put school litter in the bin. Therefore, this ICT

resource has Science and Studies of Society and Environment links.

““Teaching about the Internet and the Teaching about the Internet and the new technology involves much more new technology involves much more

than teaching techniques; young than teaching techniques; young people need to learn how to function people need to learn how to function well in the world of cyberspace, make well in the world of cyberspace, make

discerning judgments according to discerning judgments according to sound moral criteria about what they sound moral criteria about what they

find there, and use the new technology find there, and use the new technology for their integral development and the for their integral development and the

benefit of others.”benefit of others.”   (Pontifical Council for Social Communications – The Church and the Internet)(Pontifical Council for Social Communications – The Church and the Internet)

Australian Bishops Conference- Go Tell Everyone: A Pastoral

Letter on the Media, 2006

Educators have a special responsibility to ensure that children are given sufficient opportunities to develop those skills which will enable them to live in our audio-visual world…

Young media users need to be taught to be appreciative, critical and discriminating with the media of social communication.

MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI FOR THE 41st WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY

Theme: "Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education"

May 20, 2007

……training in the proper use of the training in the proper use of the media is essential for the cultural, media is essential for the cultural, moral and spiritual development of moral and spiritual development of

children. (n.2)children. (n.2)

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/communications/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20070124_41st-world-communications-day_en.html

Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) 2006

http://www.mceetya.edu.au/verve/_resources/SOL06_ICT.pdf

INQUIRING with ICT

CREATING with ICT

Ethics, Issues and ICT

OperatingICT

COMMUNICATING

with ICTFive

conceptual

organisers

Statements of Learning for Information and Communication Technology page 4 http://www.mceetya.edu.au/verve/_resources/SOL06_ICT.pdf

Conceptual

Organisers

CybercitizenshipCybercitizenshipwww.acma.gov.au/cybersafety

• Digital Literacy– Critical literacy, publishing & downloading

ethically

• Positive Online Behaviour– E-communication, cyber-bullying

• Personal and Peer Safety– Safe social networking, privacy, inappropriate

content

• E-Security– Anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewalls

““As we educators stick our heads up and As we educators stick our heads up and get the lay of the 21st century land, we get the lay of the 21st century land, we would be wise to remember: if we don’t would be wise to remember: if we don’t

stop and listen to the kids we serve, stop and listen to the kids we serve, value their opinions, and make major value their opinions, and make major

changes on the basis of their valid changes on the basis of their valid suggestions they offer, we will be left in suggestions they offer, we will be left in the 21st century with school buildings to the 21st century with school buildings to administer – but with students who are administer – but with students who are physically or mentally somewhere else. physically or mentally somewhere else.

(Marc Prensky, 2006)(Marc Prensky, 2006)

Archbishop Oscar Romero

This is what we are about.

We plant the seeds that one day will grow.

We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.

We lay foundations that will need further development.

We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.

This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.

Pope John Paul IIThe Church and the Internet

I dare to summon the whole Church bravely to cross this new threshold, to put out into the deep of the Net, so that now as in the

past the great engagement of the Gospel and culture may show to the world "the glory of

God on the face of Christ” (2 Cor 4:6).

May the Lord bless all those who work for this aim. 

Questions

How do we speak meaningfully to this generation?

As “new evangelisers…” What is already going well? What new ways are possible?

How do we inform, form and transform young people as consumers and producers of media?

How can we put an “electronic skin” on the Jesus story?