Ideas for using audio and mobile devices in a classroom. Julia Leong

1. Shifting ‘control’
Students as Contributors
St. Georges May 5, 2011
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2. Industrial Model
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3. Leaving a Legacy
Text
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4. Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
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5. Trends
• According to a recent report from mobile manufacturer Ericsson,
by 2015, 80% accessing the Internet will be
doing so from mobile devices.
• Consider what it means to read, write,
publish, teach and learn in the new digital
age?
• Joe’s non netbook
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6. Assessment/ Feedback
• Eric Mazure suggests that testing itself is
not an indicator of deep learning. We must
go beyond the testing and have students
demonstrate that they own the learning
and can apply the knowledge.
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7. A collaborative idea
Partner Sr. & Jr. school buddies to create
read along books.
Read-along sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfdc317b4QI
Skype an author: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmSftWRzz1g
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8. Flipped Classroom
• Work at home is gaining access to the
knowledge (Learning)
• Work at school is solving problems with
immediate feedback (Process and practise)
• “Flow and the optimum experience”
investigates how people learn well and how
they do it. Real time feedback e.g. Music
minus one. Play your part while you listen
to the rest of the orchestra to understand
how you sound with the rest of the
orchestra.
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9. Tell us everything you know about...
• Students presented with a compelling idea,
brainstorm ideas, they dev their voice
about the topic
• conduct research about the topic
• design their own ways to present their
knowledge
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10. Rewriting History
• Write a history textbook using wiki to
gather information
• Students each have their own wiki page to
help dev on-line book.
• Skype, Podcasts, movies, comics to create
content with other classes and eliminate
the need for a textbook
• www.Teachersfortomorrow.net
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11. Self assessment
• https://sites.google.com/a/
scienceleadership.org/buildinghistory/self-
assessment
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12. Try this
• Connect to parents, grad students, epals
• Students interview parents
• Create wiki/google docs/blog to post
content about what it was like to...
• cc teacher on emails to connect to other
parents, grad students, etc.
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13. Donor’s choose
• “Prizes” resources given to the “best”
project as chosen by students, parents,
teachers.
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14. Examples
• flipped class
• self paced chemistry class example
• anticipate common misconceptions, dialog
about it in the video
• view video at home, ask a question, so that
there’s more 1:1 communication time in
the class.
• Greater engagement with every student
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15. Benefits: Time management
• Students watch video at home.
• learning objective given as a weekly plan
• teacher works with small groups in class
• “connect teachers” help other students
• Teachers work in pairs bec the discussion is
important to address misconceptions
• or use videos by others “Khan” if you can’t
produce your own.
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16. Non-chronological History
• Why is it hard to remember facts and timelines?
• Non connected facts. History taught in themes. Students need
bookshelves to organize ideas by themes
• write their own definition, then work with a partner to get one
definition between the two.
• the partners join another partnership
• whole class come to consensus on the definition of war
• choose a pivotal point in history and change the outcome
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17. Anti piracy
• raise awareness by creating a website and
videos to explain effects of piracy
• Skype to recording industry to ask what
does it mean to have ethical uses of media?
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19. Weather
• instead of just studying the weather, find
someone in that country or weather
system
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20. Your turn:
• 30 ways to use audio
• Choose an idea, try it and post your idea to
the google slideshow at:
• http:tinyurl.com/saintscohortaudio
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21. Podcasting tips
• http://tinyurl.com/podcastingtips
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22. Shifting control
• Getting out of the way to allow students to
demonstrate how to learn, collaborate, and
create work with purpose that they control
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