This presentation accompanies a webinar by Victor Ngobeni from Microsoft, South Africa. In the webinar Victor says, "“In this webinar, I would like to focus how Technology and Pedagogy mix as one of the units of the Teaching with Technology course, but I want to do this rather differently in a way of making it more interactive. I would like to make sure that the participants share strategies/ideas amongst each other of how they are able to “marry” the methods that they are using in the classroom with the relevant technology tools."
2. Trends in Education Intro to TwT
Overview Module 3:
How Tech and
Pedagogy mix
2
Tools for Teacher-
based Lessons
3.
4. The evolving learning environment…
Print Era a
Authors/Publishers
Books, Documents
14th- 19th Century 20th Century 21st Century
Collaborative Age
Community Generated
Experiences
Mixed Media,
Social Networks,
Virtual Environments
Broadcast Era
Vendor Produced Content
Film, Radio, TV, Video,
Web Pages
Intel
5. How is Technology Driving Change in Education?
Anytime,
Anywhere,
Anydevice
Learning
Flipped
Classroom
BOYD MOOCs
6. Get started
• Login or join the Microsoft
Educator Network
www.educatornetwork.com
• Select the “Professional
Development” tab
• Select “Courses”
7. • A range of free
online
professional
development
courses is
available on the
Microsoft
Educator
Network
• We are going to
focus on
Teaching with
Technology
• Select “Learn
More”
8. Benefits of the Teaching with
Technology course
• Accessible – anywhere,
anytime learning
• Based on globally
recognized teacher
technology standards
• Created by educators, for
educators
• Relevant topics that can be
applied to the classroom
• Individually tailored course
based on initial self-
assessment
• Worthwhile training to
large numbers
9. How does the Self-Assessment Work?
• Complete 40 randomly
selected multiple choice
questions as a diagnostic
test
• The system works out
which topics you are
familiar with and where
there are gaps in your
knowledge.
• You are given a
personalised learning
plan to master specific
competencies
• You can re-take the
assessment to check your
progress
10. • Don’t worry
about trying to
give the
correct answer.
• Work quickly
and go with
your gut feel.
• The aim of this
is not to get a
mark – but
rather a sense
of what you
know.
Sample self-assessment question
11. Technology
literacy and
your
professional
development
Why does
UNESCO ICT-
CFT promote
technology
literacy
Selecting ICT
resources to
support
curriculum
outcomes
What courses are included in Teaching with Technology?
Use basic ICT
tools to support
teaching and
learning
How do
technology and
pedagogy mix?
Organize and
manage the use
of ICT in your
classroom
12. 7 hours
How do technology and pedagogy mix?
• Help educators use ICT to cater for
students’ different learning
approaches.
• Help educators make effective
presentations, and manage just-in-
time or unplanned teaching and
learning moments.
• Help educators identify appropriate
technologies to match teaching
activities and aims.
Module Objectives
13. Exploring digital technologies to
support didactic teaching
Planning better learning activities
based on didactic teaching
Incorporating ICT resources for just-
in-time learning
How technology can help you
deliver your message
7 hours
How do technology and pedagogy mix?
14. How Can ICT Be Used To Support Different Teaching
Methods?
15. How Can ICT Be Used to Support Teacher-Centred
Approaches: Didactic Teaching?
What is the Didactic approach?:
• Focuses on transferring knowledge efficiently from teacher to
student.
• Teacher explains how something works or how it’s done
• Provides facts and explains how to learn them
• Provides opportunities to practise new information
• Assesses students’ ability to recall and copy a given model
16. What role can ICT play in the didactic teaching
process?
• The teacher is responsible for achieving learning objectives.
• ICT can be used to support and enhance the teacher’s tasks
through:
– Activities involving the students
– Multi-media presentation elements
– Full visibility of content
– Wide research options
– Varied assessment options
17. Hardware Tools for Interactive Presentations
• Tools for sharing content (digital and non-digitised) with whole
class
– Data projectors,
– Visualizers, and
– USB microscopes
• Tools for enabling students to interact with content:
– Handheld voting devices
– Wireless mice, and
– Interactive Whiteboards
Tip – Don’t overuse ICT tools, or allow technology to drive your lesson plan
18. How to ICT to Give an Effective Presentation
• What is the difference between an effective presentation
and a lecture?
Lecture Effective Presentation
Passive Learning Active Learning
Teacher reads from original source Teacher makes students interacts with content
Normally use one form of information, e.g.
book
Uses multimedia (pictures, movies, sounds,
animations etc.)
Teacher stands in front in present information Present information in an interesting way
Speaker is authority and main source of
information
Exchange of Information
One way communication Expected feedback
19. Using PowerPoint and Mouse Mischief
Mouse Mischief is a free tool which allows teachers to make their
PowerPoint slides interactive and makes for interesting learning
• Allows for teachers to insert interactive content into their
presentations
• Students can interact with the content in the presentation
through the use of mice located on their desktops
• It makes Power Point and Office more relevant in the classroom
• Multiple Choice, True False, Drag and Drop Shapes, Timer,
Keyboards
• Provides teacher controls to help manage the class
(scoreboard, disable and enable mice)
20. Using Office Mix to create interactive slides
• Office Mix allows you to turn your PowerPoints into interactive
online lessons or presentations.
• It’s an add-in to PowerPoint
• It gives you the ability to record audio, video, and handwriting,
and insert interactive elements like quizzes and exercises.
• Once your presentation is ready just click “Create Mix.”
• It’s free! The website, data analytics, and add-in are all free.
http://mix.office.com
21. How would you deal with a scenario below?
• You are a Biology teacher teaching a lesson human waterborne
diseases. One of your students asks a question whether Ebola
can be transferred through the air. You are not sure. What do
you respond?
A. Tell him to go home and do his research
B. Park the question until the next lesson
C. Ask the learners to pull out use their cellphones & do research
D. Tell learners not to ask questions not related to the lesson
22. How can technology support more responsive,
spontaneous, and creative teaching (Just-in-Time
Learning)?
• What is Just-in-Time Learning (JIT)?
– Unplanned teaching and learning moments
– JIT provides a learning solution when it is actually needed, rather than
on a deferred basis.
– It is spontaneous.
– ICT is an effective tool for educators to use more spontaneously and
creatively.
23. Maxwell Funo –
Mkhanyiseli Primary School:
Western Cape, South Africa
Auto-Collage to raise awareness of
polluted public spaces and a need for
parks in a community.
Encouraging Students to use ICT in and out of the
Classroom
This PowerPoint deck has been designed to introduce groups of teachers to the Teaching with Technology course that is available on the Microsoft Educators Network.
It is hoped that after completing this introduction that teachers will be inspired to continue working through the online modules to earn their Teaching with Technology badge and certificate.
Obviously it is best to show the course live on the Microsoft Educator Network but this presentation includes screen grabs for easy reference and if connectivity fails.
As a company, our strategy is to create a family of devices and services for individuals and businesses that empower people around the globe at home, at work and on the go, for the activities they value most. While 4Afrika is definitely about helping Africa grow, it is not about charity. This is a business strategy for Microsoft’s own growth on the continent as well. We believe deeply that helping Africa accelerate economic development and create jobs will help Microsoft achieve our company’s mission in Africa.
We have built 4Afrika on three key enablers we feel are critical to the success of that mission: innovation, world-class skills and affordable access. I’ll go into more detail on each, but at a top level, we see these three as core to both accelerating African competitiveness on the world stage.
We also have two core audiences to whom we’re directing our efforts – youth and small and medium sized enterprises.
The simple fact is that Africa’s vast youth population (44% under the age of 15) means that the continent simply can’t create enough jobs to accommodate the masses entering the workforce. Already today this is a problem in many countries such as South Africa which is facing 25% unemployment, 70% of which is in the youth population. For Africa to truly become competitive, we must find ways to create jobs, and we believe that access to innovative technology and world-class skills are the ways to achieve this – opening new markets and improving productivity in existing ones.
In August 2012, we introduced the 4Afrika Scholarship program specifically for this audience, through which we’ll provide university level education, training and mentorship to African students. Our first implementation partner in that effort is University of the People, an online university to which we’ll provide 1,000 scholarships in the first year. We look forward to bringing other partners into this program in the near future. Additionally, Microsoft was named as an implementation partner of US President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative, meaning we’ll be working with the White House to place promising youth in internships in ours and our parters’ offices in Africa.
Our second key audience is SMEs, which represent the vast majority of jobs created in Africa as worldwide. I’ll talk more about SMEs in a few minutes, but suffices to say that this audience has the potential to be a huge engine of economic growth for Africa and stands to benefit greatly from increased competitiveness as a result of bringing their businesses online.
What’s driving the change?
There are a couple of trends that have been changing the world of educational professions as many of us know it. The place where people work is no longer exclusively the campus or office. People work from home, from cafes, from field sites, on the road, in the air. In fact people can – and do – work from just about anywhere. Even when they’re on the campus, people don’t expect to be sitting at their desk in order to be productive. We are in an era where mobility really is the new normal. The cloud-first, mobile-first world is here. People expect to have the ability to work where, when and how they choose. Using the devices they love and the apps they are familiar with. Just look at the story told by some of these stats: 66% of employees use personal devices for work. A large percentage of employees work away from their desk – even when they are in the office. And BYOD is going to mean a new way of working across apps and data.
(Build devices)
What’s behind this shift in work practices? As I mentioned, there are a couple of trends that have taken hold. Firstly, there’s the proliferation of consumer devices – sometimes called the Consumerization of IT. Users have a lot more devices to choose from. New form factors. Different platforms. Different sizes, shapes and colors. The net result is that devices become an object of personal choice and users of those devices feel a strong affinity with the devices they use. Try to force a user to settle for a device they don’t love or stop them from using the device they want and you’re asking for trouble. As it stands, over 60% of devices in the workplace are personally owned.
(Build apps & data)
Then there’s the cloud. People are always connected. And there’s an app for just about everything. This explosion of low-cost SaaS apps means that if a user can’t find a way to do what they want with the tools IT give them, it’s very easy and cheap to find their own solutions – and so Shadow IT is born.
Apps need data – very soon users are finding ways to use not only personal devices but also apps to access corporate data.
(Build user)
Finally, there’s a natural shift as a younger generation, a generation that has grown up in this always-connected world, enters the workforce. Your new college graduates are huge social collaborators already and are bringing those connected, collaboration skills to the campus and workplace and expecting an infrastructure that will support them in how they work and learn.
Whatever the drivers, the shift has created a tension between what users need and what IT is responsible for. 60% of users think that IT is incapable of providing productivity capabilities while Gartner predicts that by 2016, 20% of BYOD projects will fail because IT has imposed too tight a control on personal devices.
What’s the role of IT in this new world? Is it to keep users productive? Or secure company assets? To embrace change and turn it into a competitive advantage? Or avoid unnecessary risk? The answer is, of course, all of the above. The buck really does start and stop with IT.
But keeping up with such fast moving and changing trends has its own challenges. IT has had to jump-in and fire-fight on several fronts: from getting unmanaged devices on the corporate network under policy to coming up with strategies to avoid sensitive customer data from falling into the wrong hands. All while keeping users happy…
Let’s take a look at what that means for your average user and your average IT administrator
Start with the user. They’re always on the road and works from a number of different devices and locations. They need email on their devices – whether that’s a PC, tablet or phone. They also want apps. LOB apps. Productivity apps. And more recently SaaS apps. The user expects to have access to all the apps they need to stay as productive as possible wherever they are. But they also need to be able to work on documents across devices, so they a way to pull synchronized data from the cloud to be accessed on different devices. And that may mean that they require access to sensitive data while they’re out on the road using a non-corporate device.
For the IT admin, all these scenarios create risk. A certain amount of risk can be tolerated. But as user requirements increase, IT has to take action to ensure the risk is maintained at an acceptable level. This has led to investment in point solutions being deployed to address pain points and risk. However, each point solution adds cost to the business and complexity to IT. And as each point solution has to be integrated with the previous point solutions, the impact is amplified with each new solution.
While individual tools to solve individual problems is undoubtedly effective, it may not always be efficient in either cost or time. For example, having one tool to manage PCs and a different tool to manage mobile devices is inevitably going to lead to duplication of certain tasks – and may lead to an inconsistent experience for the end user across different devices.
Having one user identity for accessing corporate on-premises applications and a different identity or identities for cloud apps is creating extra work for IT and putting a burden on the user to remember a raft of different login IDs and passwords.
By constantly addressing challenges with point solutions, you may be tactically solving a problem, but you are adding cost and complexity to your business. Not just the cost of net new technologies. But also the cost of standing them up, integrating them, staffing and maintaining them.
Empowering Enterprise Mobility
Microsoft takes a people-centric approach to enterprise mobility – meaning we focus on productivity and efficiency for everyone – IT and users. We look across user devices, data and application – but always centered around the needs of the users.
Microsoft has a history of providing rich IT-infrastructure solutions to help manage every aspect of enterprise operations. Microsoft’s people-centric solution consists of products and technologies that can help IT departments handle the influx of consumer-oriented technology and the work style expectations of users, thereby helping increase productivity and satisfaction for the people within their organizations.
Microsoft’s people-centric IT vision helps organizations enable and embrace the consumerization of IT, addressing the three constant business challenges:
Enabling your end users to be as productive as possible by allowing users to work on the device(s) of their choice and providing consistent access to corporate resources from those devices.
Helping IT to protect your data by protecting corporate information and managing risk.
Unifying your environment by delivering comprehensive application and device management from both your existing on-premises infrastructure, including System Center Configuration Manager, Windows Server, and Active Directory, as well as cloud-based services, including Windows Intune and Windows Azure.
Let’s discuss each of these areas in more detail.
Microsoft Solution Slide
We recognize the need to balance user demands with IT requirements.
The desire for greater access to information, with the need to protect corporate assets.
The need to work anywhere and on any device with the need to keep users and devices well-managed whatever, whenever and wherever.
Our solution for enabling Enterprise Mobility is built on a foundation that builds on existing investments and reducing complexity for both the user and IT.
Based on four components that provide a complete solution for managing the challenges of enterprise mobility:
Hybrid Identity
Mobile Device and Application Management
Access & Information Protection
Desktop Virtualization
We believe that by selecting a single vendor who can deliver an end-to-end solution to enable your Enterprise Mobility strategy makes sense for users, for IT and for your business.
If participants have not yet joined the Microsoft Educator Network they should do so. This is quick and easy to do if the participant already has a Microsoft, Gmail, Facebook or Yahoo account.
Ideally teachers should be encouraged to join the Microsoft Educator Network before this kick-off session so that time is not wasted during this Teaching with Technology kick-off session.
There is a separate PPT available that talks through the benefits of the Microsoft Educator Network.
There are currently six online professional development courses available on the Microsoft Educator Network, Additional courses will be added over time.
Please note that Teaching with Technology Basics is not available in English.
This course will work well for rollout plans that involve the cascade model as it really can be done without any form of facilitation. Even if the trainer is inexperienced, the course can be done completely as self-study.
This course would also be useful for projects where teachers have been given devices but no professional development.
Schools that are making it a requirement for teachers to prove some ICT competence as part of the IQMS process may want to ask teachers to complete this course and present the certificate.
Student teachers may want to print out the certificate to add it to their CVs to demonstrate ICT integration knowledge and competence.
Of course the challenge of this course is that it does require connectivity – but teachers may want to use the connectivity provided by their local ICT Resource Centre or Teacher Centre to complete the course.
Maxwell Funo
max.funo@webmail .co.za
Mkhanyiseli Primary
Cape Town
Western Cape
Our community our pride
This project began when the teacher noticed that learners were developing infected wounds from playing in polluted areas as there were no playgrounds or parks in the area. The grade seven learners photographed the affected learners and interviewed people living near the polluted areas. They are now investigating solutions and raising the issue with the municipality and City of Cape Town.