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Digital Diary DialoguesDigital Diary Dialoguesan eTwinning mobile learning projectan eTwinning mobile learning project
Digital Diary Dialogues is a creative ‘student voice’ focused innovative ‘mobile learning’ eTwinning project. The focus of this project is cross curricular, multi age and stage with peer to peer learning activities at the core and is based on the use of the Nokia N95 as a ‘learning tool’ for students in Finland, Scotland, England and Afghanistan creating and
exchanging micro blogs and learning objects.
Nick Falk
LEADER OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Digital Diary DialoguesDigital Diary Dialogues
• Effective use of mobile phone technology as a learning and communication tool
• Using international links as a creative means of motivating students
• Mobile phone safety• Sharing pedagogies across the partnership• Extended learning
Digital Diary Dialogues Week 1
Getting to know youGetting to know you
8am 11am 1pm 4pm 8pm8am 11am 1pm 4pm 8pm
Pedanet - Web tools for educational institutions and teachers
Digital Diary DialoguesDigital Diary Dialogues
Week 2 - Week 2 - Life in a WeekLife in a Week
Daily focusDaily focus
Monday sports and games
Tuesday school clothes and environment
Wednesday curriculum and school activities
Thursday friends (who and where)
Friday family and home
Saturday clothes and social life
Sunday food
Digital Diary Dialogues Week 3 –Digital Diary Dialogues Week 3 – What makes me happy. What makes me happy.
What makes me sad.What makes me sad.
Digital Diary DialoguesDigital Diary Dialogues
Week 4Week 4 – – SpringSpring
Science of SpringY10 students created and micro blogged learning objects via the mobile phone in Y10 students created and micro blogged learning objects via the mobile phone in response to questions from our primary pupils and students in our other partner schools. response to questions from our primary pupils and students in our other partner schools. Temperatures were also recorded and exchanged daily.Temperatures were also recorded and exchanged daily.
Images of SpringImages of SpringImages of the signs of spring created by students using mobile phone digital video and Images of the signs of spring created by students using mobile phone digital video and stills exchanged to show how and when spring arrives in our different landsstills exchanged to show how and when spring arrives in our different lands
Emotional responses to springHaikus and poems created by our students expressed their thoughts and feelings about Haikus and poems created by our students expressed their thoughts and feelings about the coming of spring. These were transmitted using the Nokia 95.the coming of spring. These were transmitted using the Nokia 95.
Spring
Student Voice
•Pupils are involved in the selection of topics
• Pupils independently created the content using only mobile phone technologies
• Learning objects created and exchanged directly peer to peer via their mobile phone
• Emotional expression shared through micro blogs
• Pupil engagement in 24/7 learning through mobile phone technologies
• Direct pupil learning interactions in support of each others learning
eTwinning Views from the front line…..
Identify questions to
answer
Analyse and evaluate
informatio
n, judging its
relevance and value
Ask questions
to extend their
thinking
Connect their own and others’ ideas and experiences in inventive ways
Communicate their learning in
relevant ways for different
audiences.
Independent
enquirers
Creativ
e thinkers
Reflective learners
Collaborate with
others to work
towards common
goals
Take responsibility, showing
confidence in themselves
and their
Provide constructive
support and feedback to
others.
Organise tim
e
and reso
urces,
prioriti
sing
actions
Discuss issues of
concern, seeking
resolution where
needed Propose practical ways
forward, breaking these
down into manageable steps
Manage their emotions, and
build and maintain relationships.
Team
wor
kers
Self-managers
Effectiv
e parti
cipato
rs
““The reality is that knowledge rather than The reality is that knowledge rather than being found in books and in lectures or being found in books and in lectures or on the Internet is actually constructed in on the Internet is actually constructed in collaboration among learners” collaboration among learners” (Brown & Duguld – 2002)
Digital Diary Dialoguesan eTwinning mobile learning project
A word of encouragement from the people who really matter…….