What are your kids learning when you're not looking?
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Presentation by Miles Berry and Terry Freedman at BETT09 exploring children's use of technology for informal learning outside the school curriculum. Includes results from
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What are your kids learning when you're not looking?
- 1. What are your kids learning when you’re not looking? Miles Berry and Terry Freedman BETT, January 2009
- 2. What are your kids learning when you’re not looking? • BCS – Cre8or Who we are • Why this maCers • Literature review • Survey results • ImplicaIons for schools •
- 3. Miles Berry • Head at Alton Convent Prep • Former Becta ICT in PracIce Award winner – Moodle – Elgg BCS, Naace, Mirandanet, RSA etc. • opensourceschools.org.uk • Blog: milesberry.net • Twit: twiCer.com/mberry •
- 4. Terry Freedman • hCp://www.icIneducaIon.org http: //ww w.lu lu.com /terr yfree dma n
- 5. Why this maCers The Primary Review PLTS: independent enquirers E-safety creative thinkers reflective learners The new secondary curriculum, and the Diploma team workers self-managers effective participators Every Child Matters: The digital divide Positive contribution Employability Healthy Accreditation/e-Portfolios Safety School design Enjoy and achieve Economic Continuing professional development Functional Skills
- 6. Some staIsIcs % of hours pw on web page 0 1 3 >3
- 7. Some more staIsIcs (UK) Doing homework 90% Playing games 70% Made a website 34% Voted for something online 22% Visited a site for hobby 40% Posted pics or stories 17%
- 8. More stats: WriIng in the USA 47% of teen bloggers write outside of school for personal reasons several times a week, compared to 33% of teens without blogs. 65% of teen bloggers say that writing is essential to later success in life (53%)
- 9. Literature Review Miles Berry
- 10. Growing up digital Don TapscoC, 1998 Contrast between N‐Geners and Baby‐boomers Contrast between TV and the Net The Net: •AcIve •Raises Intelligence •DemocraIc •Community building “Using the new technology is as natural as breathing”
- 11. The Digital Disconnect Levin & Arefah, 2002 A substanIal disconnect between how students use the Internet for school and how they use the Internet during the school day Reasons: •Administrators •VariaIon in teaching policies •Uninspiring assignments Barriers •Quality of access •Filtering •InequaliIes of home access
- 12. Pupils’ home use of computers ValenIne, Marsh and Pafe, 2006 • High level of access • EducaIonal opportuniIes outside school are beneficial • Children value the freedom they have at home • Extensive use of communicaIon
- 13. Their Space Green and Hannon, DEMOS, 2007 • Building relaIonships • CreaIng content • EssenIal skills – CreaIvity – CommunicaIon – CollaboraIon • User types: – Digital pioneers – CreaIve producers – Everyday communicators – InformaIon gatherers
- 14. Beyond Technology David Buckingham, 2007 The new digital divide: “Home uses were oken extensive, diverse and open‐ended, school oken posed restricIons on students’ autonomous access and use”
- 15. Learners and Technology: 7‐11 Cranmer, PoCer, Selwyn, 2008 • “Use of computer games, digital cameras, and making pictures were all more prevalent in the home” • RelaIvely liCle creaIve or collaboraIve use of the net, either at school or home • Good awareness of e‐ safety issues
- 16. Safer Children in a Digital World Byron Review, 2008 • OpportuniIes for fun, learning and development • GeneraIonal digital divide and risk averse culture • Children are sIll developing criIcal skills • Empowering children to keep themselves safe
- 17. Digital Media and Learning IniIaIve MacArthur FoundaIon, 2008 • GeneraIon gap in perceived value of online acIvity • Learning social and technical skills • Peer learning • Most aren’t making the most of the opportuniIes • Hanging Out • Messing Around • Geeking Out
- 18. Social Networking Survey Terry Freedman
- 19. Social networking survey results Number of general social networks 3 Number of specific social networks 2 Specific % Video-sharing networks, like YouTube 42% None 34% Photo-sharing networks, like Flickr 12% Music-sharing networks, like iLike 10% Book-sharing networks, like FictionPress 2% Other 0%
- 20. Social networking survey results % who blog: 44 Reasons for being online Rank Order Learn new things 1 Do homework together with friends 2 Play games 3
- 21. Social networking survey results Number of “friends”: 30 • % who upload photos etc: 61 • % supervised by adult: 24 • % providing email address: 59 •
- 22. Summary of the research • Young people spend a lot of Ime online: it is part of their life • They use it for socialising, with people they already know (esp. girls) • They use it for homework more than recreaIonal acIviIes like games • They do a lot of mulItasking
- 23. What are you learning whilst your teachers aren’t looking… • edtechuk.net • Live from 26th November to 18th December • Publicised via • online forums, • discussion lists, • blogs and • twiCer • google docs spreadsheet form • Demographics • Access to tech • Use of Internet and computers at home • Filtering • Social networking in school • Comparison between school and home
- 29. Use of computers
- 30. Use of computers
- 35. Filtering
- 36. Enjoyment
- 38. Anything else? • Make school like home? “I don’t think it should be made more like home because you wouldn’t learn very much.” (17 y/o girl; 11 y/o girl). • “Unblock access” (many respondents) • What have you learnt at home? “well i learn new things for videos i see like how to make your computer run faster or part's to make it fast.” (17 y/o boy) • “Touch typing” (10 y/o boy) • Favourite acIvity at school? Virtually nobody said PowerPoint! Designing, and making or creaIng things featured heavily. • Favourite acIvity at home? “Making videos, making music and photo booth” (9 y/o boy)
- 40. Adrienne Blaser, 13 loads of friends… • … all over the world.. • Reads online • Uses podcasts to teach self • Researches on web •
- 43. ImplicaIons
- 44. Primary curriculum • Learning through play • Digital show and tell • MeeIng children where they are, moving them on – From communicaIon to collaboraIon – From consumers to creators • Rose Review: KS3 ICT by the end of KS2? • Office skills?
- 45. Digital divide • Phones! • Home access scheme – Broadband – Laptop with “relevant” sokware – Support for internet safety – filtering? – “embedding improved safety features” • Cultural divides
- 46. CPD Net‐Gen Teachers • Teachmeet • PLNs • EdTechRoundup • TES Forums • Filtering • – Blogger, TwiCer, YouTube etc.
- 47. Secondary Curriculum Blogging and wriIng • CiIzenship • Providing opportuniIes • AccreditaIon • Diploma and New curriculum • PLTS: • independent enquirers – creaIve thinkers – reflecIve learners – team workers – self‐managers – effecIve parIcipators –
- 49. Every Child MaCers PosiIve contribuIon • Healthy • Safety (“Mission Impossible”?) • Enjoy and achieve • Economic •
- 50. Safety • Filtering: hCp://flatclassroomproject.ning.com/video/ 8amission‐impossible • No “eyes on the street” (hCp://terry‐freedman.org.uk/artman/ publish/eyes_on_the_street.php) • Parental/family supervision • Research skills: “It takes a teenager 1/20 of a second to determine whether a web page is worth reading.” • Uploading stuff about self • Legal issues, eg © • Economic issues, eg ©
- 52. School design: some ideas (1) • More areas given over to creaIng stuff rather than just receiving it • Online repository of videos etc, some of which student‐created • Own page on school VLE, like Facebook page • NOT banning phones or iPods… • … Designing spaces to accommodate them
- 53. School design: some ideas (2) From the University of Nottingham:
- 54. ContacIng us BCS www.bcs.org 01793 417567 Miles Berry Terry Freedman milesberry.net www.icIneducaIon.org twiCer.com/mberry twiCer.com/terryfreedman mberry@bcs.org terry@icIneducaIon.org