Presentation on 6 November 2013 to a workshop arranged by UJ's Centre for Academic Technologies, regarding the introduction of tablets for learning to UJ first year students.
On National Teacher Day, meet the 2024-25 Kenan Fellows
Using tablets to create and facilitate learning networks
1. Presentation by Carina van Rooyen
to the UJ CAT workshop on 6 November 2013
Source: http://www.123rf.com/photo_1399231_stone-tablet-with-old-russian-inscription-on-thewhite.html
Using tablets to create and
facilitate learning networks
3. If you’re not feeling a little bit
uncomfortable about being a
teacher or being in education
right now, then you are not
paying attention
~ Will Richardson
4. Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2011
Is this learning with technology?
http://www.delasallewaterford.com
5. Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2011
Is this learning with technology?
Source: http://www.hseb.utah.edu
6. Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University, 2011
Is this learning with technology?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/
28. Accept that this is a process, not
a programme
3 starting points
•Break down the walls of your classroom
•Talk to ‘strangers’
•Be transparent ~ embrace open
35. Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a
fire ~ Yeats
36. Some resources
•iPads for learning : Getting started
–http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/userfiles/fil
es/ipads_for_learning_getting_started.pdf
•Interesting ways to use iPad in classroom
–https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fRPd8b_
lzq68CANkGVKyH135qtE7O2cg4Ye3kit9qU/present#sli
de=id.i0
•Unofficial index to educational hashtags
–https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CkUrFNr3
ZThZXLh4kwk9rk-wQlwfcg8YL9zVx1R_C2s/edit
37. Acknowledgements
•Barber C 2012 iPads in education.
http://www.slideshare.net/cbarber/ipads-in-education-15082586
•Couros A 2012 Towards digital fluency.
http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/towards-digital-fluency?from_search=3
•Gerstein J 2013 Education 3.0 and the pedagogy of mobile learning.
http://www.slideshare.net/jgerst1111/education-30-and-the-pedagogy-ofmobile-learning
•Tolisano SR 2013a Global learning – What do you mean?
http://www.slideshare.net/langwitches/global-learning-what-do-you-mean
•Tolisano SR 2013b Take another look around.
http://www.slideshare.net/langwitches/take-another-look-around
•Tolisano SR 2009 Shifting to 21st century learning. Available at
http://www.slideshare.net/langwitches/shifting-to-21st-century-learning
•Wheeler S 2010 Lifelong learning in a digital era. Presentation at the Joint
Teaching and Learning Conference on 24 June. Available online at
http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/lifelong-learning-in-a-digital-age
•Wheeler S 2011 Learning and teaching in the digital age. Presentation to the
8th International Teacher Training Seminar in Barcelona, Spain on 6 October
39.
Using tablets in creating and facilitating learning
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Goals of learning:
1) Autonomy – learning how to learn (Heutagogy – self-directed learning)
2) Metacognition ~ thinking how to think
3) Fluency
Literacy has always been defined by technology ~ Nichole Pinkard
Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.” Thomas et al 2007 Transliteracy: Crossing divides. 12(12)
Cataloguing, arranging.
For curation you have to
Find
Select (filter quality, relevance)
Arrange (crediting sources)
Create
Share
Engage
Track