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  • From: Catriona Pene <catriona.pene AT core-ed.org>
  • To: ictenglish AT lists.tki.org.nz
  • Subject: [ICTs in English] NCEA and e-learning | Designing for success
  • Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:36:41 +1200

Steve Mouldey and Tim Gander joined Karen Melhuish this afternoon for a webinar about How we design our Senior Secondary programmes and how Technologies can assist and enhance these programmes particularly with regard to NCEA.

Karen shared some snapshots of how technologies are being used in secondary classrooms and the latest findings and expectations from the Ministry of Education on technology use by 5 -18 year olds.

Finally Karen linked us to some great examples of authentic, connected senior programmes that are being enhanced and extended with technologies.

You can view them here in this pinterest collection created by Karen.


We next welcomed Steve Mouldey from Hobsonville Point. Steve is on the New Zealand School of Geography Teachers Board and is teaching geography at Hobsonville Point. His attitude to geography is What, where, why there and who cares? Steve is adopting an approach to geography called Guerilla geography.  The 4 e’s of Guerilla geography are explore, experiment, experience and express. The 5th e is e-learning and this meshes in neatly with all four phases of the process.

Steve talked about disrupting the norms of teaching, mixing it up and using deliberate choices about varying our teaching and delivery style. He emphasised the importance of adjusting learning to suit different students' needs - playing to their strengths and giving them skills to take on into life.

Steve shared how he is using aurasma and qr codes to link information and experiences.

So why? Steve says because it is so engaging for students, it is big picture thinking, encourages creativity, tames the rebels and all students at all levels enjoy it.

Read more in this thread http://www.vln.school.nz/discussion/view/828262

on how Steve is gathering data and sharing his students evidence of learning.


We next welcomed Tim Gander from Gisborne Boys High School -

Tim has been working this year to digitise the NCEA PE programme using a range of online tools and technologies including google drive. His reasons for doing this were to help boys who had sporting and cultural commitments to manage their workloads, to personalise the programme for his students and to work around those who had challenges with the literacy content of the courses.

The students identified many advantages in working this way, including that they could never lose their work, had some choice of content and could manage their workload around their sporting and cultural commitments.

Tim used film and video to record interactions in class and then had the students assess how they were working collaboratively and give each other peer feedback. He also used the video to share with parents at interviews. Tim used an app called the coach’s eye to have students assess their performance against each other, using voice recording to capture the students responses. The students also contacted athletes from around the world using skype and twitter to improve their technique in their chosen sport.

Tim used a spreadsheet to share the students progress with them on a regular basis so they could get an overview of their progress against the standards and allow them to cross credit to other curriculum areas.

Finally Tim shared how he used a collaborative inquiry approach to teaching one of his standards in Phys. Ed. He has used lucid chart in google drive, online forums, in class discussion, skype, google+, ebooks and more - listen to the recording for more detail.


The conversations continue in this space.

http://www.vln.school.nz/discussion/view/828262


Catriona Pene

e-Learning Facilitator

English, ESOL & Literacy Online

CORE Education

Twitter - @CatrionaPene 





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