1. What does a 21st
Century
Classroom look like?
VITTA 2010
Anne Mirtschin
Hawkesdale P12 College
mirtschin@gmail.com
2. 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.
4. Four C’s in the 21st
century classroom
As never before, we have the ability to :-
• connect
• communicate
• collaborate
• create
on a local, national and global scale
5. 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.
6. 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.
18. Earth science week
Two world experts speak to years 5 to 11
Young C Y Ng from Hong Kong
on the Hong Kong GeoPark
in elluminate.
Geo Science Week
Classes from Victoria, interested
Experts/adults from Hong Kong,
China etc all in the classroom.
Geo Science Week
19. 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)
23. 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
24.
25. 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
26. Breakout learning spaces
Small areas for a group of students to podcast,
videoconference or converse with global students
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. How to make asynchronous connections
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Nings
• Google applications
• Emails
33. 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
44. 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
45. • 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??
47. 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.
50. Dddddddddddddddddddd
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
51. Some useful sites
• Tips on videoconferencing
• Around the world in 80 schools
• Wiki for skype in schools
• Theedublogger
57. 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
58. 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
59. 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?
66. West Java Earthquake
September 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.
67. 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)
68. Speaking directly with earthquake victims in
West Java, 12 hours after the earthquake, using
skype
69. 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.
70. 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
75. “Building the bridges of today that the
society of tomorrow will walk across.”
Vicki Davis, co-founder of flatclassroom projects
76. New literacies for 21st
century classrooms
• Digital
• Imagery including creative commons
• Animations
• Media (multi)
• Voice and oral communication
• Videoconferencing
• Attention
77. 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
78. 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
90. Online PD
• Guidetoinnovation
• Tech Talk Tuesdays
• Learncentral
• Classroom2.0LIVE
• Global Education Conference 2010
• K12 Online Conference
• Many more
91. Find out more
• Edublogger - http://theedublogger.com/
• Globalstudent/teacher –
http://globalteacher.org.au and
http://globalstudent.org.au
• SLAV blog – http://slav.globalteacher.org.au
And search online for more!