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Changing the perception of ICT in Education (53 schools at a time)
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Changing the perception of ICT in Education
(53 schools at a time)
Glenn McMahon
Education Officer:Curriculum and Learning Technologies
43 Primar
y School
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13 Seconda
ry Schools
Diocesan Technology Plan
Professional
LearningFor
Leaders
ProfessionalLearning
For Classrooms
FinancialAdvice
TechnicalAdvice
So what’s lead to the change?
Learners learn in the context of their own lives.- Peter Senge (ACEL 2006)
Today’s education system faces irrelevance, unless we bridge the gap between how students live and how they
learn. - Michael Furdyk ( ACEL 2006)
Start the Conversation
Oh the things I’ve heard.....
I don’t do technology!
ICT’s all too hard for me to learn.
I don’t have any time to learn all that tech stuff.
Can’t see the use of tech in my class.
I’m retiring in 3 years so it’s irrelevant for me to
worry about.
..... but what if .....I don’t do literacy!
Numeracy’s all too hard for me to learn.
I don’t have any time to learn all that T&L stuff.
Can’t see the use of inquiry in my class.
So how will you access your super information?
Leadership
Images from Flickr.com & dangerouslyirrelevant.org
Concerted effort of informing school leaders
Examine current relationship between their school, teaching & learning and
the curriculum
“Attitude reflects leadership, captain.”
Present the facts
Being Digital Survey – Monash University
Presenting the Facts
The nature of computer use Computer use more regular at home : 44% of young people use a computer every day at home; 12% use a computer every day at school.
Diverse range of technologies : As well as computer and internet access, 91% have a mobile phone, 83% have a games console. 70% have an MP3 player,
2006 Survey of Australian 15-16 year olds
School access : 98.5% of 15-16 year olds use a computer at school.
Presenting the Facts
May not have received lessons: 56% of young people say they have received no instruction on using the internet as a reliable source of information.
Learning and literacy
Learn internet skills themselves: 61% say they have learned a lot about the internet and the Web on their own.19% say they learned a lot about the internet at school 11% say a lot from friends Computer tasks: 56% say they use a computer weekly for writing tasks; 50% say they use a computer for finding information.
Presenting the Facts
... and currently ...
students spend on average 27 hours a week online at
home but only an average of 15 minutes a week at school
An Investigation of the First Year of 1:1 Computing in New Hampshire Middle SchoolsDamian Bebell, Boston College, 2005(400 7th grade students plus their teachers in 6 schools)
Make ‘IT’ Relevant
ICT & VELS
Interdisciplinary Learning
ICT for Visualising Thinking
ICT for Creating
ICT for Communicating
www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/04/key_question.html
Normalise the New
Normalising the new(Bringing the big picture closer to
reality)
Digital Natives v Digital Immigrants
21st Century Learning
Students know technology
Students & Teachers
Contemporary learning
Students are fearless users/adapters of technology who still need
guidance
Change the perspective
The fear factor
The Teacher
Uses:
Communication Creating:
Visualising Thinking
Uses:
Communication Creating:
Visualising Thinking
Classroom teacher
Student
Teachers & The Fear Factor
You don’t have to know everything about it (ICT) but you do have to know what it can do.
If you don’t have an awareness of what you can do with ICT, you’ll never plan for your students
to use it.
You don’t know what you don’t know.
Remove the excuses
Remove the excuses
making it a priority at a ‘systemic’ or leadership level
the modelling of best practice
creating experiences/expectations- teacher conferences- student conferences- ICT network days
- Educational briefings for school leaders
- ICT Study tour
Remove the excuses
Make ICT PD personal
Strategies that have influenced1. Start the conversation
2. Present the facts
3. Make it relevant/relate it to the curriculum and pedagogy
4. Normalise the new
5. Change the perspective
6. Alleviate the fear factor
7. Remove the excuses
8. Make PD/ICT personal
INVOLVE LEADERSHIP
my details
b: sandhurstictnetwork.globalteacher.org.au
t: ceosandhurst
d: mackas
s: gmac74
