a 21st century classroom

A 21st Century Classroom

ACEC 2010Anne MirtschinHawkesdale P12 [email protected]

Anne Mirtschin, ACEC2010 conference

A true global classroom – a student from Hawkesdale, Australia, two from China, two from Bangkok and one from USA are taught by an optician about the eye, using discoverE virtual classroom software.


Ally’s blog


•Year 11 accounting students talk to a first year university student in Canada using discoverE software.

•The link will take you to her blog post on this and associated comments

Four C’s in the 21st century classroom

As never before, we have the ability to :-

•connect •communicate •collaborate•createon a local, national and global scale


Teaching and learning in the successful 21st century school?

• proficient and efficient in a variety of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools

• All students need to be involved in collaborative and interactive global projects from an early age

• Cyber safety• Learn appropriate digital citizenship qualities• Assessment must include aspects of working in

teams – local, virtual and global• Multimedia – digital storytelling, podcasting, using

images, music (transcends language barriers)


College requirements


Areas in your school where ‘default settings’ need to be changed and agreed?

• Learning spaces, virtual groups, mobile technology,

• AUPs and permission to both publish and work online in virtual spaces.

• Flexible timetables, learning spaces• Learning is, can be and should be 24/7/365 • integrate subject areas• team and small group work will become norm• Cross age groups• personalized learning• International team teaching• Mobile learning


The emerging technologies

• Interactive, social nature of internet tools has ability to change education substantially

•Allows education and the power of learning to be in the hands of students.

• Students now have power to learn what they want, when they want and where they want. 24/7/365

•Mobile learning•Ability to personalize learning.


Learning spaces

• Physical classroom spaces – small retreat areas for podcasting, videoconferencing and sharing conversations via videoconferencing with those from other countries/languages

Online spaces• Virtual classrooms eg elluminate, discoverE,

flash meeting etc• Live blogging• Teacher will be in the middle of the classroom, at

a screen with the students• Online teaching/facilitating students in another

country• Virtual worlds- second life, Quest Atlantis,

Reaction Grid


Breakout learning spaces

Small areas for a group of students to podcast, videoconference or converse with global students


Filming studio


How to make asynchronous connections

•Blogs •Wikis•Nings•Google applications•Emails


Synchronous connections• Liveblogging http://www,coveritlive.com • Videoconferencing www.skype.com • DiscoverE virtual classroom software. • virtual classroom http://www.elluminate.com and DiscoverE• Back channels eg http://www.chatzy.com and

http://www.tinychat.com• http://www.twitter.com• Google applications• Bridgit conferencing software which comes with Interactive

White Boards• www.flickr.com an online image sharing site• Virtual worlds – reactiongrid in Open Sim• superclubsPLUS – “facebook” for the young, safe environment• Voicethreads - podcasting collaboratively with pizzazz


What is a blog?

•A journal•Outlet for opinions and ideas•Showcase for learning and achievements

•Reflective entries•Platform that allows embedding or linking to multi-media

•Digital portfolio


Benefits of Blogging

•Available 24/7/365•Customization•Comparison with other countries•Source of pride•Variety of media•Education becomes interactive•Using technology for the digital age


Netiquette

•No IM or txt language anywhere (looking for professionalism plus possible need for translators/interpretation)

•Always reply and thank a commentor or goto their blog and add a comment

•No bullying/always positive comments•Always write for any audience – ages,

cultures, beliefs etc•Keep cybersafe at all times


http://flurogreen.globalstudent.org.au

http:skippy.globalstudent.org.au

Student Blogs


School blog http://hawkesdale.globalstudent.org.au


Year 8 Blog post


Comments


Wikis – across the world


“Keys to Bullyin”g on Teachertube


Global travellers Year 9/10 students answer questions from USA students, so they could develop Australian travel posters

Wikis – shared web pages for collaborative/ interactive work


• Hello i am Kelly, from Australia!!!..i will answer these questions for you!!!

Question 1: How many meals a day are eaten in Australia? (Example: United States usually has 3 meals a day, although current days, people tend to eat any number of meals.)

kelly says: we have 3 meals a day (breakfast, lunch and tea) but we do have snacks in between these meals(morning tea and afternoon tea).

In further detail, what are the types of meals you have? Such as, is breakfast a hot or cold meal? Or is it either? From what I've learned about Germany, usually their lunch is the hot meal of the day, and they usually have the one hot meal, where breakfast and dinner tend to be a cold meal. In the United States, Dinner tends to be the hot meal.

Question 2: Are video games very popular, or, if not, what activities do most people do in their free time?

kelly says: video games are fairly popular here, yes. Other than sitting infront of the television/computer all day, a lot of people play sports,go shopping or just hang around with friends. (well thats what i do anyway!!)

(I cannot think of a further expansion for this question)

Question 3: How are the people in Australia? Are most friendly? Wide variety? Location dependent?

kelly says: well most of us are friendly, we are all pretty loud and outgoing people. But just like everywhere else we have some shy people. And just out of interest.. what do you mean by location dependent??


VoicethreadVoicethread

www.voicethread.com

Online podcasting that can be collaborative

•Storytelling•Global projects

VoiceVideoTextImages


Boston Connections

See my blog post


Moving on...... at school

Students in grade 5 or 6 from UK, Thailand and Australia, share a voicethread and talk about what they are looking forward to in “moving on”, what they are nervous about and what they share in common.


Rich Wilson - Congratulations


Skype (www.skype.com)

VOiPLive chatAudioconferencingVideoconferencingBookmark and save chatsCan record conferencing- eg powergrammo


Dddddddddddddddddddd

Skype and slideshare to teach students from Canada about • Australia and Culture• School• Community• farm

Student from Canada asks questionHow it all looked back in Canada


Some useful sites

•Tips on videoconferencing •Around the world in 80 schools

•Wiki for skype in schools•Theedublogger


School’s in at 9pm!


Awards Ceremony


The virtual classroomUsing elluminate virtual classroom software


DiscoverE

•DiscoverE virtual classroom software. •Uses low bandwidth and has basic tools

for classroom use – chat, audio, video, whiteboard, webtours


Wall wisher – see linkAnne Mirtschin,

ACEC2010 conference

Andrew McDonald


Debating online Anne Mirtschin, ACEC2010 conference

School in West Java

Endang is a teacher in West Java. She owns a laptop and has mobile internet access. That laptop accompanies her to her two local schools where she volunteers to teach English and connects to teachers/students in other countries via skype and videoconferencing. Her staff and students have conversations with mine, using skype, to improve their English.

(There are no other computers in the schools)


Endang, an amazing teacher in West Java, Indonesia


West Java EarthquakeSeptember 8th 2009•7.3 richter scale•64 deaths, 37 people missing, and 27,630

people displaced in nine districts in West Java and one in Central Java.

•Approximately 54,231 houses were damaged in 12 districts in West Java and one district in Central Java.


Speaking directly with earthquake victims in West Java, 12 hours after the earthquake, using skype


Will Richardson quote on Learning is Now!• What a great model for the immediacy of learning that can

happen these days, and the relevance. When you think about all of the things that your students could learn and practice here, interviewing skills, geography and geology, information research, retrieval, editing, organization and sharing, all in the larger context of perhaps assisting those in need who were thousands of kilometers away. I want to make the point, however, that it's all grounded in your own understanding of these technologies and the ways in which they can help us connect. If you didn't have that knowledge and experience, this probably would not have happened, and that really is the goal of what we're all trying to do here, get more comfortable in using these technologies to learn in our own practice. Thanks so much for sharing this great snippet of learning from your classroom.


Cash Journals

A virtual student in year 11 accounting


Blended Learning

•Teaching Digital Accounting

http://murch.globalteacher.org.au


Teaching and learning in the successful 21st century school?

• proficient and efficient in a variety of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools

• All students need to be involved in collaborative and interactive global projects from an early age

• Cyber safety• Learn appropriate digital citizenship qualities• Assessment must include aspects of working in

teams – local, virtual and global• Multimedia – digital storytelling, podcasting, using

images, music (transcends language barriers)


New literacies for 21st century classrooms

•Digital•Imagery including creative commons•Animations•Media (multi)•Voice and oral communication•Videoconferencing•Attention


Digital literacies

•Blogging/use of comments•hyperlinked language, •wikis•Nings•Chat, hyperlinked text, •Use of translator tools•writing in 140 characters or less (twitter),

•digital conversations


Communication literacies

•videoconferencing techniques (microphone, positioning of objects, face

•Articulation: clear, slow speech to allow for different accents, levels of English understanding

•Podcasting•Use of webcameras, microphones etc


Organizational literacy

•diigo, •Delicious•bookmarks •wikis •blogrolls•Google/other online calendar


Other literacies

•Spam/phish detection•Authenticity•Identify creation and management•Reuse ethically


Where to learn more

•Tech Talk Tuesdays (3:45-4:45pm): goto http://education.vic.edu.au and search for online events, find calendar, select Tech Talk Tuesdays for the session title and elluminate link

•eT@lking Wed 8-9pm: part of the Australia series in http://learncentral.org or read my blog at http://murcha.wordpress.com


Contact Me

• [email protected]• Skype: anne.mirtschin• Twitter/plurk id: murcha• Teacher blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com• Class blogs:

http://murch.globalteacher.org.auhttp://backyard.globalstudent.org.au• Delicious and diigo: murcho/murcha


a 21st century classroom

Education

acec2010 conference

address anne mirtschin

pizzazz anne mirtschin

times anne mirtschin

teachertube anne mirtschin

world anne mirtschin

mobile learning anne

global students anne