Digital…..

Creativity….

Aims

Learning Spaces

Enquiring Minds

The Future?

Questions

Information Revolution

21st Century Learning/ Skills

Gift Creation

Web Tools

Innovative

Creative

Imaginative

The pace of life is

speeding up.

Aims• Revise the current use of ICT in the classroom.

• Consider educational pedagogies that support technology in the classroom

• Investigate new technologies and their application within education.

• Discuss current and future technologies.

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What skills are necessary for students to thrive in the 21st century?

What is the place of Technology in the 21st Century curriculum?

What will future classrooms look like?

What will be the major ICT advances in the next decade?

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Questions

21st Century Learning

Relevant and Applied Curriculum

Students should be engaged in relevant and contextual problem- and project-based learning designed to develop 21st century skills and provided using a multi-disciplinary approach. Curriculum should apply to students' current and future lives and leverage the power of Web 2.0 and ubiquitous technologies

Informative Assessments

Consider the student as gamer. She is motivated to play because she gets feedback every few seconds. That feedback entices and enables her to "stay in the game," provided she has learned from prior experiences, monitors the current situation, pays attention to the constant feedback, and reacts quickly enough. "Failure" simply provides her a quick break before she gets back into the game-with renewed effort, new data, and new resolve to achieve new plateaus.

A Culture of Creativity and

InnovationThose who have successfully created cultures of innovation and creativity suggest that one key is to abandon efficiency as a primary working method and instead embrace participation, collaboration, networking, and experimentation. This does not mean that focus, process and discipline are not important; just that innovation and creativity require freedom, disagreement, and perhaps even a little chaos-especially at the beginning.

24/7 Access to Tools and Resources

Students and educators need 24 by 7 access to information, resources, and technologies that engage and empower them to do background research, information and resource gathering, and data analysis, to publish with multiple media types to wide and varied audiences, to communicate with peers and experts, and to gain experience and expertise in collaborative work.

21st Century Skills Outcomes

Social and Emotional

Connection

Because of today’s digital technology, students live a media rich, connected, and mobile lifestyle, and they are just as often producers of content as they are consumers. Web 2.0 technologies, including social networks and participatory sites such as YouTube, MySpace, Second Life, and World of Warcraft, provide them with engaging opportunities for interaction and informal learning, and create new opportunities to leverage this informal learning by integrating it purposefully into the fabric of formal learning.

Information Revolution

Web Tools

Personal Web Tools

Oak Lodge School• State run

• 67 students /15 residential

• Hearing impaired

• Additional learning needs

• Delayed Literacy

A Wider Audience

Gifted and Talented• How are gifts identified and nurtured?

Gift Creation

‘Life isn’t about finding yourself.

Life is about creating yourself.’

George Bernard Shaw

Strengths

Multiple Intelligences

abstract thinking, verbal and numerical reasoning, spatial relationships, memory and

word fluency

adaptable

rapid, accurate

the capacity to sort relevant from irrelevant information

capacity for high levels of interest, enthusiasm, fascination and involvement

the capacity for perseverance, endurance, determination, hard work and dedicated practice

self confidence-

ability to identify specific problems

openness receptivity

curiosity, speculative thinking,

adventurousness and willingness to take

risks in thought and action

a good reader

very articulate

Listen well to others

have strong views and opinions

have a lively and original imagination / sense of

humour

a strong sense of leadership

Enjoy playing social games

Interact and co-operate effectively with others

Mediate between people

Mimics easily

Is adept with objects and activities involving fine or gross motor skills

Tell jokes, riddles or puns

expanded vocabulary

Have a good memory for names, places, dates, poetry, lyrics, trivia

See patterns easily Self directed

organised

spontaneous

inventive

diligentexpressive

connectsexplains sortsnotices

Asks questions

Original thought

Role playsthoughtful

empathetic

Self aware

experiments

plays

constructs

Initiates

helpful

Problem solving

Project ICT

Project ICT

Self Organised Learning

Assessment for Learning

Personal Learning and Thinking Skills

Educational Technologies

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Classrooms without walls

Classroom without walls

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What is the role of new digital technologies in the creation of new learning environments?

Creative

Radical

Conventional

Social

Classroom without walls

Future Technologies

•Mobile computing

•Open content

•Gesture based input

•Tablet computers

•Augmented reality/ virtual reality

•SPIMES

•Collaborative tools

Technologies to Watch

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The Future

What have you learnt?

What would you like to learn more of?

Imagination

Imagination

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Einstein 

CreativityCreativity“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” Mary Lou Cook  

CreativityCreativityThe principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.” Jean Piaget

CreativityCreativity"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."Charles Darwin