Senator McCain, what are the first three things that come to mind when you

hear the term “INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES”?

FIRSTLY, The Central Intelligence Agency

gives me all the information that I need

?

SECOND, I think communications with our neighbours is

very important

And THIRD, America will continue to

make the best technologies in the

world.

So How did I do, dear?

Your advisers will check the blogGER

comments in the morning

The what-now?

Are Schools and TeachersAre Schools and Teacherseven in their view?even in their view?

Stuart Hasic December 2008

The InternetThe InternetThrough the Eyes of Our Through the Eyes of Our Students...Students...

What’s MySpace?

The most-popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-created network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally

Over 100 million users have accounts on MySpace

230,000 New registrations per day Kevin Rudd has a MySpace site

BLOCKED AT SCHOOL

BY NSW DET

What’s MySpace?

YouTube is the world’s largest video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips

Every minute, more than TEN hours of NEW videos are uploaded to YouTube

During January 2008, 79 million users watched over 3 billion videos on YouTube

Rudd and Howard used YouTube in 2007 to announce policy

What’s YouTube?

What’s YouTube?

BLOCKED AT SCHOOL

BY NSW DET

What’s Facebook?

Facebook is a social networking website where users join networks organised by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people

More than 70 million people worldwide visited the website in April 2008

Facebook is the most popular for uploading photos, with 14 million uploaded daily.

Facebook was named the second most popular “thing” among university undergraduates, tied with beer and only ranked lower than the iPod

What’s Facebook?

BLOCKED AT SCHOOL

BY NSW DET

So What CAN a Teacher Do??

Today’s Networked Student

John Cotton Dana – b 1856

"Who dares to teach

must never cease to learn."

The Fear Factor

When did we stop exploring? When did it all of a sudden become

dangerous to click on something on our computer where we really don’t know what might happen?

At what age do we lose that sense of adventure where we no longer take a risk?

Every educational technology person must help fellow teachers get over this fear. To encourage them to explore these amazing digital tools

Steps Toward Teacher Integration

1. Awareness: Teachers have to know what tools exist You can’t know them all, but you can learn

from your peers in school and on-line

2. Experimentation: You need to try things to see how they

work (or not) and how they can be applied

3. Collaboration with colleagues: Working together means you are not alone

and can support each other

4. Start Your Own Projects/Activities: Adapting and customising

The Digital Education Revolution All high school students Yrs 9-12 will

receive a laptop starting mid-2009! This will affect ALL teachers. If K-8

teachers don’t prepare students what will happen when they hit year 9?

Remember, this is a digital EDUCATION revolution, NOT a DIGITAL education revolution – Teachers MUST be involved

The “National Curriculum” may be our last chance to get it right: to get ICT embedded into teaching and learning to make pedagogy through ICT a reality and not

just an expectation in our students’ eyes.

Start Your Own Revolution

Survey the students - what would they like to use, why and how does it apply?

Involve a few teachers at a time to construct the activity to be run across classes

Set up a non-threatening environment Regular hands-on meetings Encourage experimentation Share discoveries, successes and fails Include a sceptic in each group

Tomorrow’s Connected Teacher

“Past success is no guarantee of future relevance.”

“To stand still is to fall behind.” “It was easier to fake it when things

weren't changing so fast...” “21st Century Teachers need 21st Century

Skills.” “Technology is only technology to those who

were born before it.” “Teachers need to stop saying, “Hand it

in,” and start saying “Publish it.” “We need to prepare students for THEIR

future not OUR past.”

More Quotable Quotes for Teachers

Questions?

Thank you for your attention

[let’s watch a video about change]