A slideshow to support teachers implementing the rollout of laptops to Year 10 at St Mary Star of the Sea College Wollongong. The focus of this show is on Delicious social bookmarking.
2. Some things must change
• Classroom management
• Teacher supervision
• Lesson preparation
• Resource development
3. Some things must remain the same
• Student focus
• High engagement
• Quality relationships
• Quality resources
• Focus on outcomes
4. This BBB
• 3 outcomes
– Increase confidence in a laptop class
– Learn 3 online tools to enhance learning
– Develop a ‘lesson ready’ teaching program
5. What we need to unlearn
Courtesy of Will Richardson
• the idea that we are the sole content
experts in the classroom, because we can
now connect our kids to people who
know far more than we do about the
material we're teaching.
6. What we need to unlearn
• We need to unlearn the premise that we
know more than our kids, because in
many cases, they can now be our
teachers as well.
7. What we need to unlearn
• We need to unlearn the idea that
learning itself is an event. In this day and
age, it is a continual process.
8. What we need to unlearn
• We need to unlearn the notion that our
students don't need to see and
understand how we ourselves learn.
9. What we need to unlearn
• We need to unlearn our fear of putting
ourselves and our students quot;out therequot;
for we've proven we can do it in safe,
relevant and effective ways.
10. What we need to unlearn
• We need to unlearn the practice that
teaches all students at the same pace. Is
it any wonder why so many of our
students love to play online games where
they move forward at their own pace?
11. What we need to unlearn
• We need to unlearn the idea that
students needs and world-views are the
same now as when we trained to be
teacher s.
13. Delicious
• Social Bookmarking – not private
bookmarking
• There to share
• Let your students use it too
• Consider it a social annotated
bibliography
15. Your task
• Create and account
• Add bookmarks with quality tags
• Share with a network
• Give the address to your students
• Have them create their own
accounts and link it to yours
• Tell the library staff