ICT 2013 - AcademicHow should Oxley College respond to technology’s ability to promote each individual’s personal learning?
What should Oxley College and its teachers do to increase
students’ meaningful engagement in life?
Given that everyone else seems to use students “digital trails,” how should Oxley College gather and use students’ online “breadcrumbs”?
Technologies seem to advance daily. Below are links to information and videos that show how various groups make use of your “digital trail” or “electronic breadcrumbs.”
How should schools use this power?
Given that everyone else seems to use students “digital trails,”
how should Oxley College gather and use students’ online “breadcrumbs”?
The following video has created a lot of excitement on the Web. In it, university students from the US tell the truth about how they use technology.
A Vision of Students Today (YouTube Link)
Maybe the era of big lecture rooms is over? Most people see a new “personal” way of learning as better. Look through the links below. In each, people either focus on personal learning or how technology allows students to take the “middleman” out of their learning. Of course the “middleman” means “classroom teachers.”
Please answer the following
How should Oxley College respond to technology’s ability
to promote each individual’s personal learning?
Some students can fall prey to addictions fed through online means:
What happens when a teenage boy plays the online game “World of WarCraft” until it becomes for him “World of WarCrack”?
Similarly, do you know people addicted to Facebook, Bebo or MySpace?
Even the lure of amusement can distract people.
If…
what should Oxley College and its teachers do to increase
students’ meaningful engagement in life?
Out of all the things you’ve seen and experienced the past two days, what should we remember and work into how Oxley College serves the needs of our people over the next five years? This can be related to ICTs, but doesn’t have to be.
The ICT Committee is charged with developing a clear vision for ICT use at Oxley College for the year 2013. Below are two short surveys developed to gain insights from two of our important sections of our community.
Feedback from these surveys as well as input from students and staff will be developed into a set of recommendations that will be presented to the Head of College in August.
A Vision of Students Today
What is this video saying about the power of technology?
Word has it that these students are typical of what goes on in Australian Universities. After we get done railling about how much we don’t like it, what can we learn about students’ real behviour that could be leveraged to support better learning?
The iPod metaphor
The 1:1 Mobile Computing Pilot
CEQ•ALL
The representative empty chair: in their best interest and supported by data
The Greek Sculpture question
Exercise: 1 unit & add Essential Question(s) & concept
Think of Curriculum like blue prints, sheet music, etc – all of which anyone, in any culture can read. We lack this common language for lesson plans. As a former English teacher, I can think of the analogy to composition of a short story ( plot, character, symbols, etc.). Curriculum composition is an integration of the following:
These should be seen as three equals, not a hierarchy.
One insight offered by Heidi was this nugget:
When teachers feel attacked, inadequate or guilty and don’t have information, they attack each other. When they DO have info / data, they attack the problem.
Another good strategy is to make sure each critique must be supported by two things:
Unless you come to the discussion from these two positions, we should move on to another critique. HHJ uses an empty chair at all sessions to represent the student we are here to serve: “Is this in his/her best interest?”
present: SWR, RHU, TM
The response from Year 7 students regarding the online listening task was positive although some who are not on broadband experienced bandwidth constraints for the videos. These didn’t mind doing the activity on the Music centre’s computers because of the engaging nature of the assignment. Provision (discussed below) should be made in future for students ahead of time - using archived digital files. Also mention should be made (perhaps through the Weekly Record) regarding use of video resources so that parents can decide if such downloads are within their ISP plans.
These “Videos for homework” issues were seen as requiring a school-wide policy. Thanks to the Music department for forging ahead.
Outcome: Present to the ICT Committeea request for statement / policy about viewing videos & other digital resources.
present: JP, SL, TM
Location of the art department’s colour printer. It is not ideally located at present. The floor or in the staff study might be better options.
Students will be returning with photos on their cameras that they will use as the subjects of later artworks. TM will work with JP and the student Tech Club to facilitate downloading and presenting the photos on a Web site. The images will be kept on the Maxtor HD so as not to impact the server backup.
Students will need to be prepared to: make sure their camera’s memory cards are empty, bring their PC cable and erase down to their best 3 - 5 images.
The Art department will purchase memory card readers so that we can access any of the cameras.
Idea: with the card reader, students won’t need the cable and they could leave the cards in envelopes with their names on them to be downloaded over night?
TM could visit the VA classes to discuss resolutions for print and web publication.