towards digital take-off

8/14/2019 Towards Digital Take-Off

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supporting students and teachers in ICT integration


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How do we achieve digital take offusing new technologies? supporting students and teachers inICT integration


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Results: does the use of ICT

improve students

performance?

Return: what has changed

since 2002? Relevance: how are

students using ICT outside of

school?
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/t4/content/view/221/35/http://reliant/HMM$/My%20Documents/2008/Mathematics/Year%206%202008/movies/graphing%20in%20excel.swfhttp://reliant/hmm$/My%20Documents/2008/Hale%20Winter%20School%202008/action%20research/unprinted%20reading/technology%20to%20improve%20student%20outcomes.pdf


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Technology changes rapidly -significant change is often a slow

process in schools

Access to information is easy -assessing its relevance and making

sense of the information requires awide range of skills

Students need to learn the basics -students are often more engaged by amedia rich and hands on curriculum

Teachers are busy -

learning how to effectively use andinte rate new a lications takes


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The aim of this project is to facilitateeffective integration of new technologies,specifically those embedded in the schoolportal, into the curriculum. The action willbe implemented at three levels:

3. improving personal skills and understanding ofthe portal and associated web 2.0 applications4. integrating portal use into curriculum with the

aim of improving learning outcomes for students5. supporting colleagues as they aim to do the

same.


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Self learning

Participation in Learning Technologies Group (ongoing)

Continuing to trial new features in the portal e.g. studentcollaboration sites (ongoing)

Attending professional learning seminars e.g. 21stcentury teaching and learning (term 3)

Exploring wiki and blog creation as a tool for self-

reflection and collaboration (ongoing) Reading news feeds, blogs and literature on the topic of

effective integration

Link CSU study to this action research project(completion in November)
http://whitestones33.wikispaces.com/http://whitestones33.blogspot.com/http://whitestones33.blogspot.com/http://whitestones33.wikispaces.com/


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Student learning

Create new blog, Virtual Maths Legends, for Year 6 set 3maths class (term 3)

Develop science virtual classroom(Citius, Altius, Fortius)to include wikipages for students to develop projectcollaboratively (term 3)

Monitor student engagement and results (ongoing)

Survey students to ascertain impact 0f new technologies

on learning (week 7)

Participate in two national assessments of student ICTliteracy - Learners and educators views of learning withtechnologies in Australian education conducted byCanberra Universityand National Assessment Program

ICTconducted by ACER on behalf of MCEETYA (Sept 23rdth
https://learning.hale.wa.edu.au/Collaboration/Virtual_Class_Rooms/Junior_School/686d44c5-1ecf-48bb-ac7c-936169c4725d-defaultaspx/default.aspxhttps://learning.hale.wa.edu.au/Collaboration/Virtual_Class_Rooms/Junior_School/c43d0eb6-da81-46de-b43b-09e7af86fc3e-defaultaspx/default.aspxhttps://learning.hale.wa.edu.au/Collaboration/Virtual_Class_Rooms/Junior_School/c43d0eb6-da81-46de-b43b-09e7af86fc3e-defaultaspx/default.aspxhttps://learning.hale.wa.edu.au/Collaboration/Virtual_Class_Rooms/Junior_School/686d44c5-1ecf-48bb-ac7c-936169c4725d-defaultaspx/default.aspx


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Teacher learning

Curriculum meetings to include examples of effective

integration of technology, from myself and other staff(fortnightly)

One-one coaching sessions on Monday and Fridayafternoons Tim and Mandy, Martin, Wendy, Paul, Year 7team (ongoing)

Introduce portal by integrating curriculum tasks whichwere previously completed using shared drives, hardcopies and email into theJS Curriculum site (mid-term 3and term 4)

Begin planning for 2009 with Information Literacy scope

and sequence development and survey to establish
https://learning.hale.wa.edu.au/Teaching/learning_areas/Junior_School/cd9729d8-4dbe-410a-9744-5f1b77a6eb87-defaultaspx/default.aspxhttps://learning.hale.wa.edu.au/Teaching/learning_areas/Junior_School/cd9729d8-4dbe-410a-9744-5f1b77a6eb87-defaultaspx/default.aspx


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Readings, blog

comments

self -student-teacher cycle,

LTC

student feedbackstudent understanding,

national survey results

teacher feedback
http://reliant/hmm$/My%20Documents/2008/Mathematics/Year%206%202008/Introducing%20virtual%20maths%20legends.dochttp://reliant/hmm$/My%20Documents/2008/Hale%20Winter%20School%202008/action%20research/unprinted%20reading/JS%20Technology%20Coach%202008.doc