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Do you remember your password?
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Administration
Teaching
Research
Community Service
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Teaching
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Research/Projects
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Current Research

• Touchscreen Project
• University of Northern Iowa
• InterLearn Linking Learners
• Notebook Computers for TAFE
• Using Activity Theory to Evaluate ICT in
  Classrooms
• Images of Learning Zayed/Monash

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Community Service
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Administration
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Classroom Experience?
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Technology
Football (Go Bombers)
Golf
Work (Monash)
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The C Word
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The Theory

• From behaviourism (transmission, empty vessel"
  model of learning) to constructivism (knowledge
  and understanding is individually constructed) to
  social constructivism, knowledge - social process
  -through engagement, enabled by language with a
  more capable other, a student progresses to the
  next level of understanding

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Teaching and Learning

• active involvement
• a balance between process and content
• development of high level thinking skills, self
  esteem and self awarenessmotivation and
  commitment to learning
• encouraging risk taking, learning from errors,
  and taking responsibility for ones learning

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Teaching and Learning

• cooperative learning, self evaluation and self
  correction
• relating new knowledge to old
• use of a variety of teaching methods,
  presentations and materials, and design of
  interesting and challenging activities which
  stimulate intellectually and creatively

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Teaching and Learning

• allowing students time for reflection on content
  and learning
• recognises that a lot of unintended learning
  occurs and that children learn a lot from each
  other
• shared ownership - encourages motivation and
  builds commitment to learning
• authentic purpose - developing a purpose, a
  meaning for classroom activity

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Teaching and Learning

• a positive view of learning
• cater for a variety of learning styles and
  individual differences
• the learning of global skills which are
  applicable to a range of subject areas and life
  experiences
• A student centred, problem solving inquiry
  approach

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What is the role of ICT?

• Three broad views
• Skills
• Enhance, Engage, Empower
• e-Learning

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Skills
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Enhance, Engage, Empower

• Focus on teaching and learning
• Exploiting the technology to help create
  interesting, challenging, powerful teaching and
  learning environments
• Intellectual and creative challenge

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• Infrastructure
• Focus on PD for staff
• Use of Internet and Intranet as portal/filter for
  student/staff/community activity
• Integration of technology into KLAs
• Resulting in

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PowerPoint
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PrimaryThe Teddy Bear Project
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PrimaryAdopt an Animal
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Middle SchoolIndolinx
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Middle SchoolTaking a Holiday on the Net
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Senior High SchoolThe Talkback Classroom
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Senior High SchoolArt on Line
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All LevelsThe International CyberFair
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Engaged Learning
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SWIMSStudying Whales in the Middle School
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Maths
English
Thinking Skills
Whales
Geography
Science
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What is the role of technology?

• Three broad views
• Skills
• Enhance, Engage, Empower
• e-Learning

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MHS ?

• Web Site
• Intranet
• Cyberlibrary
• Subject web sites
• Vision Statement
• Focus on teaching and learning
• Integration
• Engage, challenge, interest, excellence,
  encourgae, embrace, inspiration

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MHS ?

• Web Site
• Intranet
• Cyberlibrary
• Subject web sites
• Vision Statement
• Focus on teaching and learning
• Integration
• Engage, challenge, interest, excellence,
  encourgae, embrace, inspiration

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MHS ?

• Web Site
• Intranet
• Cyberlibrary
• Subject web sites
• Vision Statement
• Focus on teaching and learning
• Integration
• Engage, challenge, interest, excellence,
  encourgae, embrace, inspiration

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MHS ?

• Web Site
• Intranet
• Cyberlibrary
• Subject web sites
• Vision Statement
• Focus on teaching and learning
• Integration
• Engage, challenge, interest, excellence,
  encourgae, embrace, inspiration

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MHS ?

• Web Site
• Intranet
• Cyberlibrary
• Subject web sites
• Vision Statement
• Focus on teaching and learning
• Integration
• Engage, challenge, interest, excellence,
  encourgae, embrace, inspiration

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MHS ?

• Web Site
• Intranet
• Cyberlibrary
• Subject web sites
• Vision Statement
• Focus on teaching and learning
• Integration
• Engage, challenge, interest, excellence,
  encourgae, embrace, inspiration

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MHS ?

• Web Site
• Intranet
• Cyberlibrary
• Subject web sites
• Vision Statement
• Focus on teaching and learning
• Integration
• Engage, challenge, interest, excellence,
  encourage, embrace, inspiration

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Barriers
What are some of the barriers confronting
teachers and schools as they struggle with ICT in
education and e-learning
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Teacher knowledge, skill and attitude.
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Barriers
Pedagogy
Curriculum
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Attitude
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The Culture of Schooling
Issues
Barriers

• architecture
• timetable
• community expectations
• VCE
• Faculties/Departments

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Barriers

• architecture

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Barriers

• timetable

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• Community expectations

Barriers
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Barriers

• VCE

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What do we need to be careful about?
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Losing Sight of the Horizon
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Professional Development
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What we know about good professional development

• Active, self motivated, independent learners
• Action research
• own environment, working with peers attempting to
  solve problems that are relevant to their own
  practice
• strong and creative leadership
• development over a continuous period

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What we know about good professional development

• mixed learning opportunities eg seminars,
  workshops, individual consultations
• joint planning and collaborative control
• relevant, interesting, challenging
• practical outcomes, positive effect on classroom
  practice
• sense of achieving something important

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Michael FullanInteractive Professionalism

• Action research
• risk taking mentality
• develop trust, collaboration, and an appreciation
  of the work of colleagues
• redefining teachers role to extend beyond the
  classroom
• commitment to continuous and perpetual learning

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Outcomes Based Education
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Information Overload
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Cut and Paste the New Plagiarism
Is it too easy for students to gather the ideas
of others and present them as their own?
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Quality
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Moral and Ethical Dilemmas
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Access and Equity
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Privacy is dead get over it
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The Dark Side of the Web
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Where are we going?
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Intranets/Wide Area Networks/Internet
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Interactivity
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Handheld Technologies
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TV/Internet
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What is the role of technology?

• Three broad views
• Skills
• Enhance, Engage, Empower
• e-Learning

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What is e-Learning?

• A process that allows learners to take charge of
  their own learning.
• It can be customized to meet the individual needs
• It is learning on demand.
• Technology is not e-learning rather a tool to
  deliver e-learning.
• It engages learners to construct knowledge or
  meaning or understanding from information beyond
  the classroom walls the learning can also be
  referred to as on-line learning (Dale Spender)

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E-learning

• Revolution!
• Oral
• Cave paintings and drawings
• Writing
• Print
• Online

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What are the new technologies?

• Internet enabled technologies
• Email
• Threaded discussion groups
• Chat
• Multimedia
• CDROM
• Learning Objects

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E-learning

• Knowledge Economy
• How many workers do you know who make something
  that you can drop on your foot?
• Knowledge products are the currency of the new
  economy
• Learning and earning now go together
• Learning Technology New Knowledge Economy

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Trends

• Learning
• Shift to online learning
• Anywhere anytime
• Project based, student centred, knowledge
  creation
• Learning increasingly linked with earning

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Trends

• Schools
• Autonomy
• Innovation
• Teacher
• No longer talking head
• Use technologies to engage and empower
• Employment conditions change
• Unlearn, change, technological enthusiasts

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Trends

• Curriculum
• Digital repository
• Learning Objects
• Cater for individual needs
• Project based
• Student centred
• relevant and built on intelligence, insight
  and conviction

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Trends

• School buildings
• Public and private partnerships
• Schools collaboration
• Assessment
• Image of schools
• Increasingly, schools will be defined by their
  websites

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The e-teacher

• Teachers are in the middle of an educational
  revolution
• The digital medium is transforming education
• The digital classroom
• The digital learner

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• Preparing students for an unpredictable world
  will take, above all things, vision.
• Inherent in this vision are several key
  realizations
• that we are in working to prepare a new kind of
  student
• that we are using brand new tools, for a life
  that we cannot clearly see, anticipate or
  describe today
• that embedded in this challenge, are fantastic
  opportunities
• teaching should and could be the most exciting
  profession on the planet.

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