Somerset e-Learning Curriculum Advisory Team

Using visualisers in the classroom

New technologyto solve an old problem!

Amy Blackmore – e-Learning Advisor, Somerset LA

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1.New technology in the classroom – filling the gaps

2.What is a visualiser?

3.Somerset visualiser pilot• Why?• Outcomes so far

4.Practical ideas for using visualisers – animation

5.Reflect on the potential for visualisers with your learners

Aims of this session

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1.New technology in the classroom – filling the gaps

• Investment in ICT – Guardian poll45% of teachers say they have enough hardware – now they need to know how to use it

Activity 1:Which ICT hardware tools do you use in your classroom on a weekly basis?

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1.New technology in the classroom – filling the gaps

• New age of austerity – how are we using what we already have?

• 21st Century Teacher campaign - audit yourselfIncreasingly we will be expected to ‘reprofessionalise’ ourselves and be responsible for our own CPD

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2.What is a visualiser?

•Not a new technology, but...

•Digital presentation and teaching tool

•Allows teachers and children to share wider range of information and artefacts

Camera head

Lighting unit

Shooting stage

•Can closely examine and annotate text, images, artefacts and living things

•Captured images can be stored digitally for further sharing and reinforcement e.g. through a learning platform

Flexible arm

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The missing piece of the

jigsaw…

Visualiser

2.What is a visualiser?

SMARTBoard

Projector

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©C. Brittan 2010

3. Somerset visualiser pilot

•Seeding pilot Oct 2009

•Wider project Summer 2010 – 70 schools taking part

•Working with Elmo, Aver and Genee

• Exploring technology

• Impact on learning

• Knowledge about purchasing

• Compare models and functionality

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Holy Trinity Primary School

Matt Edwards, HLTA

Wellesley Park Primary School

Hannah Brierley, class teacher

3. Somerset visualiser pilot - outcomes so far

Kingsmoor Primary School

Linda Bissell, class teacher

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Wellesley Park Primary SchoolKey outcomes:

•Can use technology for a previously difficult outcome

•Sequencing instructions effectively

•Speaking with clarity

•Collaborative talk

3. Somerset visualiser pilot - outcomes so far

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Kingsmoor Primary School

Key outcomes:

•Children speaking to their peers

•Efficient use of time

•All children included

3. Somerset visualiser pilot - outcomes so far

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Holy Trinity Primary SchoolKey outcomes:

•Explaining processes - reinforcement of learning

•Working effectively in groups over time

•Tell stories using voices effectively

3. Somerset visualiser pilot - outcomes so far

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•Sewing skills – using BincaWalton Primary

•Shared writing

•Sharing Maths investigationsHigh Ham

•Looking at minibeasts Burnham Infants

•Sharing Assemblies

3. Somerset visualiser pilot - outcomes so far

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•Taking further steps:

•Integration into SMART Notebook

•Using SMART Board tools with the visualiser

3. Somerset visualiser pilot - outcomes so far

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4.Practical ideas for using visualisers – animation

Stop-motion animation

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ICTCommunicationCreativity

Collaboration

Challenge

Confidence

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Every child – new

opportunities

Learner as collaborator

Learner as creator

Learner as investigator

Learner as consumer

click

look

think

talk

listen

find

construct

share

organise compare

assess

invent

explore

record

explain

evaluate

test

do

discuss

learn

Somerset model of learner engagement

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5.Reflect on the potential for visualisers with your learners

Activity 2:

How could you use a visualiser with your

learners?

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•Helps the pressure of having to have written evidence in every lesson – record what is happening

•Teachers can spend more time talking WITH children, rather than AT them

•Thought processes can be verbalised because all children can see what is happening, rather than seeing only the effect

5.Reflect on the potential for visualisers with your learners

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Considerations

I had previously thought that showing an image on the interactive whiteboard would do exactly the same job, but the impact of viewing the actual objects rather than just an image was astounding. With the wealth of simulated activities and objects available for the interactive whiteboard, I wonder if we are taking real life out of classrooms?

Words from teachers…

The most useful tool I’ve used since my whiteboard... We should have had them years ago.

It’s new technology to solve an old problem, isn’t it? How do you get all children to see and share – you use your visualiser

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•Formed to promote the effective use of visualisers

•Visualiser manufacturers, Local Authorities, Professional Associations and International links

•Sharing effective practice across the UK and beyond

www.visualiserforum.org