What does a 21st century classroom look like?

What does a 21st Century Classroom look like?

VITTA 2010

Anne MirtschinHawkesdale P12 College

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A 21st century school• The 21st century classroom is an exciting one that

can deliver powerful learning outcomes through the use of emerging technologies.

• Hawkesdale P12 College where the classroom and staff room walls are increasingly becoming flatter and the eplanks have been laid.

Meeting the Minister for FinanceListening to members of the MSO

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

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.

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.

The past two weeks in a classroom

Learning to drum....

Learning to drum....

Dancing and Malaysian Game

Malaysian Weddings and money folding

Boston

Australia to Boston

Grade 6 student teaches year 10ITHalloween

Halloween

Listen2Learners

Bianca teaches from China

Earth science weekTwo world experts speak to years 5 to 11Young C Y Ng from Hong Kong on the Hong Kong GeoParkin elluminate.

Geo Science WeekClasses from Victoria, interested Experts/adults from Hong Kong, China etc all in the classroom.

Geo Science Week

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)

Underlying issues/requirementsOh! What a tangled web we weave!

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

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

Film Making Space

Blogs

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• Platform for connection and communication

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

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/no negative comments• Always write for any audience – ages,

cultures, beliefs etc• Keep cybersafe at all times

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• www.flickr.com an online image sharing site• Virtual worlds – reactiongrid in Open Sim• superclubsPLUS – “facebook” for the young, safe environment

http://flurogreen.globalstudent.org.au

http:skippy.globalstudent.org.au

Student Blogs

http://backyard.globalstudent.org.au

School blog

Class blogs – techno6

Student blogs- flurogreen, yr 10

Blog post

Comments

Twitter

• Haiti Earthquake Disaster | Chris http://bit.ly/eFFHAU #earthquake (@TreyAlvares)

• Haiti Earthquake Disaster | Chris http://bit.ly/edxOey #earthquake (@jeoffrensei)

• Dhugsy http://bit.ly/hnSstG

Blogging challenge• http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/

Wikis – across the world

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

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 pamela

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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

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 link

Earth Science Week

Young C Y Ng: Hong Kong GeoPark

Ian Lewis and Kanawinka

From the chat!• Wow• Turtle: sick as• Ha look at that!• Turtle: been here• Grade 2/3 Woodford: Could you tell us more

about the sink hole Ian?• Cara hawk: hey bj they probally go through

records from when they first evoved

And also....• Joshua: i like red rock• i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR• we are going there soon• It's pretty :)• do you know where mt eccells??• water looks awesome• Looks good to swim in ;)• wow thats blue, how did it get blue?• do you know where mt eccells is??• How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt?• Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst• James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there

The Bats• Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake• 4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly?• Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you?• Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have?• Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye• Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing• smithy: arent they posisoness• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like?• jasmine .j: do they hurt• scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive?• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat?• 4B DGPS: are they really blind?• Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black?• Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?

National CostumesStudents from Malaysia show national costumes

Sharing our Australian food – the meat pie with sauce!

A linkup with a school in Russia

Grades 3 to 7 (Australia) listen to grade 5 students from Singapore talk about racial harmony

Debating Online

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.

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)

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.

Flatclassroom projects – a global example

• Co-founded by Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis http://www.flatclassroomproject.org

• Students work beyond their classroom walls in small groups made up of 4 or 5 students usually all from other countries

• 10 week curriculum program at the breaking edge of technology

• Students involved from Middle East, Europe, Asia, Australiasia, North America

Flatclassroom wiki -http://flatclassroomswikispaces.com

Flatclassroom wiki -http://flatclassroomswikispaces.comStudents collaborate and build live web pages reflecting their findings by

working in virtual teams.

Students create digital movies for global judging

Student movie on semantic aware applications

Virtual worlds

A global/flatclassroom!

Flatclassroom project students meet face to face in Doha, Qatar 2009

“Building the bridges of today that the society of tomorrow will walk across.”

Vicki Davis, co-founder of flatclassroom projects

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

Should Australia Go to India to Play Sport

Discussing with students from India

American School of Bombay

Asian Connections

Taman Burkitt Maluri School, Kuala Lumpur

What skills are important to learn?

Virtual worlds – eg Quest Atlantis, Reaction Grid/Open Sim

A virtual accounting student

Virtual Teaching Rounds

Personal learning network

Organizational

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

Other literacies

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

Online PD

• Guidetoinnovation• Tech Talk Tuesdays• Learncentral• Classroom2.0LIVE• Global Education Conference 2010• K12 Online Conference• Many more

Find out more

• Edublogger - http://theedublogger.com/• Globalstudent/teacher –

http://globalteacher.org.au and http://globalstudent.org.au

• SLAV blog – http://slav.globalteacher.org.auAnd search online for more!