In a mobile, digital age how can students be connected to learning? This session will discuss how students are connecting outside school hours and the implications for learning in the classroom. Access to digital learning resources, catering for students with varying abilities, personalised learning, monitoring and reporting progress, group and individual activities and professional learning for teachers will all be discussed.

1. Connecting Learning
ICTEV conference 2012 @murcha

2. Discussion Points
• How do students connect – devices, tools
• Access to learning resources
• Students with varying abilities
• Personalised learning – information
required, tools available
• Monitoring and reporting progress
• Group and individual activities
• Professional learning

3. Global
Education
Rural
Education eLearning
My Passions!

4. Learning is increasingly at the Grass Roots

5. How do Students Connect?
• Students rarely use email
• Learn by conversations
• Mobile devices
• Facebook, txt chat, txt messaging,
conversations
• Learning spaces are changing – global, virtual

6. How do students connect?
PS3

7. The tools
chimein

8. Learning Resources
textbooks
The students

9. Changing LearningSpaces
Changing Learning Spaces

10. Digital

11. Global

12. Lana from Boston, USA, teaches grade 4/5,
Hawkesdale, Australia, how to “Scratch’

15. Resultant Sprites for World Friends
project on World Museum site

16. From my Inbox…….Oh and I have been getting
lots of followers on twitter lately from my
tweets , its so exciting :)

17. Meet my VCE accounting class...

18. •3 virtual students
•1 ESL student (English as a second language)
•Year 11 and 12 face to face accounting
students taught together in one class
Cash Journals

19. Screencasts
Creating a Sprite in Scratch from Lorraine Leo

20. • Hi Anne Mirtschin,You have 1 pending user
suggestion on your topic globaleducation to
curate.
• Click Here to access to your Suggestions to
Review list.
• The Scoop.it team
• Any questions/suggestions?

23. Students with varying
abilities
Catering for
• gifted students
• Students with health disabilities
• Students with special interests and passions
• Alternative outcomes/resources tailored to
students strengths
• Mutli-media, transmedia as alternatives to
textual outcomes/resources

24. Gifted Students
• Virtual Classrooms
• One from our school
• Two from China
• Two from Thailand
• One from USA in a virtual
classroom, being taught
about the eye from an
optician in Perth,
Australia, using virtual
classroom software

25. Mystery Skype

26. Do you teach or have any knowledge of the
native wars between the americans,
seminoles, iroquois, cherokee etc, in the
times of george washington?

27. Thursday lunchtime linkups
with schools in Western Java,
Indonesia

28. Students interested in writing stories,
videoconference with an author from New
York Tuesday lunchtimes with skype

29. Illness and disabilities
Working from home to create movies - “family life on an
Australian farm”.
Virtual classrooms can be recorded for those who are ill etc

30. Ability to teach anywhere and any time – 24/7

31. Request from one of my students
Could you please make sure you put what I have to do
for Monday and Tuesday’s classes on your blog?
(She was about to go to hospital!)

32. I was googled!
‘”Miss, can you please give me TRIAL EXAMS for
unit 4 vce accounting 2011 and from previous
years
My classes are big and my teacher isnt that
good withrevision so i was wondering. i was
wondering if you know any VCE MATH
METHODS and ENGLISH sites like this so i can
email teachers if i dont undertand or want
practise exams.”

33. The virtual classroom!
Using Black Board Collaborate - Every student has a voice!

34. 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?

35. .......................more chat!
• dont confuse me this tinme
• i dont get why you have that 400 on the debit
side
• i always get confused between debtors and
creditors, who do we pay, and who pays us??

37. Customized Learning
• Blogs – each student has a blog
• Youtube
• Mobile devices for 24/7 learning
• Choose type of digital outcomes
and resources to work with
• Self directed learning

38. Skippy

39. Rach’s Blog

40. Year 7 Boy’s Blog

41. ESL students
Can you please tell me
a summary of the
chapter?

42. Word clouds provide great visual summaries –
http://www.wordle.net

43. Learning “Slap Guitar playing technique”
from youtube whilst using a netbook at
home.

44. From home –
the 365 Day Photo Challenge 2011

45. Group and Individual activities
Global
local vertical
statewide
National horizontal

46. Learning from musicians with the
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – Ping
Music Project

49. Your English is quite good for the majority of
your writing but I have written it now as I would
have. However, I was unable to complete your
second paragraph because I could not
understand what Obachann was. Could you
please tell me? Chloe
Hi Chloe!
I appreciate your kindness. "Obachan" is women
whose age are 30-50 and they have warm heart
and great energy. Most of them love going to
shopping, watching Korean dramas and having
a chat in the street. Thanks, Ayaka

50. http://globalstorytelling.wikispaces.com/Featured+student+work

51. What do you know about Russia?

52. Our questions of Russia

54. Monitoring Progress
• Check sheets
• Blogs
• Images
• Video recordings
• Hard copy journal
• Wiki discussions
• Forums
• Comments on my blogs
• Google forms
• Photos, videos
• Interviewing students
• Assessment rubrics
• wallwisher

55. Mapping the Learning
Mystery Skype

56. My Teacher Blog
-for instructions, reflections and shared conversations

58. Student Blogs for journals, learning,
reflections, documentation

59. Checking understanding

61. Professional Learning

62. Other professional learning
• Nings/social networks
• Read blogs
• Face to face conferences – Subject
Association memberships
• MOOCs
• My students

63. Learning with and from the students