A 21st Century Classroom
ACEC 2010
Anne Mirtschin
Hawkesdale P12 College
mirtschin@gmail.com
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A true global classroom – a student from
Hawkesdale, Australia, two from China,
two from Bangkok and one from USA
are taught by an optician about the eye,
using discoverE virtual classroom
software.
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Ally’s blog
• Year 11 accounting students talk to a first year
university student in Canada using discoverE
software.
• The link will take you to her blog post on this
and associated comments
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Four C’s in the 21st century classroom
As never before, we have the ability to :• connect
• communicate
• collaborate
• create
on a local, national and global scale
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Teaching and learning in the successful 21st
century school?
• proficient and efficient in a variety of synchronous
and asynchronous communication tools
• All students need to be involved in collaborative and
interactive global projects from an early age
• Cyber safety
• Learn appropriate digital citizenship qualities
• Assessment must include aspects of working in
teams – local, virtual and global
• Multimedia – digital storytelling, podcasting, using
images, music (transcends language barriers)
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College requirements
Areas in your school where ‘default
settings’ need to be changed and agreed?
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• Learning spaces, virtual groups, mobile technology,
• AUPs and permission to both publish and work
online in virtual spaces.
• Flexible timetables, learning spaces
• Learning is, can be and should be 24/7/365
• integrate subject areas
• team and small group work will become norm
• Cross age groups
• personalized learning
• International team teaching
• Mobile learning
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The emerging technologies
• Interactive, social nature of internet tools
has ability to change education substantially
• Allows education and the power of learning
to be in the hands of students.
• Students now have power to learn what they
want, when they want and where they want.
24/7/365
• Mobile learning
• Ability to personalize learning.
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Learning spaces
• Physical classroom spaces – small retreat areas for
podcasting, videoconferencing and sharing
conversations via videoconferencing with those from
other countries/languages
Online spaces
• Virtual classrooms eg elluminate, discoverE, flash
meeting etc
• Live blogging
• Teacher will be in the middle of the classroom, at a
screen with the students
• Online teaching/facilitating students in another country
• Virtual worlds- second life, Quest Atlantis, Reaction Grid
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Breakout learning spaces
Small areas for a group of students to podcast,
videoconference or converse with global students
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Filming studio
How to make asynchronous connections
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• Blogs
• Wikis
• Nings
• Google applications
• Emails
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Synchronous connections
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Liveblogging http://www,coveritlive.com
Videoconferencing www.skype.com
DiscoverE virtual classroom software.
virtual classroom http://www.elluminate.com and DiscoverE
Back channels eg http://www.chatzy.com and
http://www.tinychat.com
http://www.twitter.com
Google applications
Bridgit conferencing software which comes with Interactive White
Boards
www.flickr.com an online image sharing site
Virtual worlds – reactiongrid in Open Sim
superclubsPLUS – “facebook” for the young, safe environment
Voicethreads - podcasting collaboratively with pizzazz
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What is a blog?
• A journal
• Outlet for opinions and ideas
• Showcase for learning and achievements
• Reflective entries
• Platform that allows embedding or linking
to multi-media
• Digital portfolio
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Benefits of Blogging
• Available 24/7/365
• Customization
• Comparison with other countries
• Source of pride
• Variety of media
• Education becomes interactive
• Using technology for the digital age
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Netiquette
• No IM or txt language anywhere (looking for
professionalism plus possible need for
translators/interpretation)
• Always reply and thank a commentor or goto
their blog and add a comment
• No bullying/always positive comments
• Always write for any audience – ages, cultures,
beliefs etc
• Keep cybersafe at all times
http://flurogreen.globalstudent.org.au
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Student
Blogs
http:skippy.globalstudent.org.au
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School blog
http://hawkesdale.globalstudent.org.au
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Year 8 Blog post
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Comments
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Wikis – across the world
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“Keys to Bullyin”g on
Teachertube
Wikis –
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shared web pages for collaborative/ interactive work
Global travellers
Year 9/10 students answer questions from USA students, so
they could develop Australian travel posters
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Hello i am Kelly, from Australia!!!..i will answer these questions for you!!!
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Question 1: How many meals a day are eaten in Australia? (Example: United States usually has 3
meals a day, although current days, people tend to eat any number of meals.)
kelly says: we have 3 meals a day (breakfast, lunch and tea) but we do have snacks in
between these meals
(morning tea and afternoon tea).
In further detail, what are the types of meals you have? Such as, is breakfast a hot or cold meal?
Or is it either? From what I've learned about Germany, usually their lunch is the hot meal of the
day, and they usually have the one hot meal, where breakfast and dinner tend to be a cold meal. In
the United States, Dinner tends to be the hot meal.
Question 2: Are video games very popular, or, if not, what activities do most people do in their
free time?
kelly says: video games are fairly popular here, yes. Other than sitting infront of the
television/computer all day, a lot of people play sports,go shopping or just hang
around with friends. (well thats what i do anyway!!)
(I cannot think of a further expansion for this question)
Question 3: How are the people in Australia? Are most friendly? Wide variety? Location
dependent?
kelly says: well most of us are friendly, we are all pretty loud and outgoing people.
But just like everywhere else we have some shy people. And just out of interest..
what do you mean by location dependent??
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Voicethread
www.voicethread.com
Online podcasting that can be collaborative
• Storytelling
• Global projects
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Boston Connections
See my blog post
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Moving on...... at school
Students in grade 5 or 6 from UK, Thailand and
Australia, share a voicethread and talk about what
they are looking forward to in “moving on”, what they
are nervous about and what they share in common.
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Rich Wilson - Congratulations
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Skype (www.skype.com)
 VOiP
 Live chat
 Audio
 conferencing
 Videoconferencing
 Bookmark and save chats
 Can record conferencing eg powergrammo
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Dddddddddddddddddddd
How it all looked back in Canada
Student from Canada asks question
Skype and slideshare to teach students from Canada about
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Australia and Culture
School
Community
farm
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Some useful sites
•Tips on videoconferencing
•Around the world in 80
schools
•Wiki for skype in schools
•Theedublogger
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School’s in at 9pm!
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Awards Ceremony
The virtual classroom
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Using elluminate virtual classroom software
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DiscoverE
• DiscoverE virtual classroom software.
• Uses low bandwidth and has basic tools for
classroom use – chat, audio, video, whiteboard,
webtours
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Wall wisher – see link
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Andrew McDonald
Debating online
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School in West Java
Endang is a teacher in West Java. She owns a
laptop and has mobile internet access. That
laptop accompanies her to her two local schools
where she volunteers to teach English and
connects to teachers/students in other countries
via skype and videoconferencing. Her staff and
students have conversations with mine, using
skype, to improve their English.
(There are no other computers in the schools)
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Endang, an amazing teacher in West Java, Indonesia
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West Java Earthquake
September 8th 2009
• 7.3 richter scale
• 64 deaths, 37 people missing, and 27,630 people
displaced in nine districts in West Java and one
in Central Java.
• Approximately 54,231 houses were damaged in
12 districts in West Java and one district in
Central Java.
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Speaking directly with earthquake victims in
West Java, 12 hours after the earthquake, using
skype
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Will Richardson quote on
Learning is Now!
• What a great model for the immediacy of learning that can happen
these days, and the relevance. When you think about all of the
things that your students could learn and practice here, interviewing
skills, geography and geology, information research, retrieval,
editing, organization and sharing, all in the larger context of
perhaps assisting those in need who were thousands of kilometers
away. I want to make the point, however, that it's all grounded in
your own understanding of these technologies and the ways in
which they can help us connect. If you didn't have that knowledge
and experience, this probably would not have happened, and that
really is the goal of what we're all trying to do here, get more
comfortable in using these technologies to learn in our own practice.
Thanks so much for sharing this great snippet of learning from your
classroom.
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A virtual
student in year
11 accounting
Cash Journals
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Blended Learning
• Teaching Digital Accounting
http://murch.globalteacher.org.au
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Teaching and learning in the successful 21st
century school?
• proficient and efficient in a variety of synchronous
and asynchronous communication tools
• All students need to be involved in collaborative and
interactive global projects from an early age
• Cyber safety
• Learn appropriate digital citizenship qualities
• Assessment must include aspects of working in
teams – local, virtual and global
• Multimedia – digital storytelling, podcasting, using
images, music (transcends language barriers)
Anne Mirtschin,
ACEC2010 conference
New literacies for 21st century classrooms
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Digital
Imagery including creative commons
Animations
Media (multi)
Voice and oral communication
Videoconferencing
Attention
Digital literacies
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• Blogging/use of comments
• hyperlinked language,
• wikis
• Nings
• Chat, hyperlinked text,
• Use of translator tools
• writing in 140 characters or less (twitter),
• digital conversations
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Communication literacies
• videoconferencing techniques (microphone,
positioning of objects, face
• Articulation: clear, slow speech to allow for
different accents, levels of English
understanding
• Podcasting
• Use of webcameras, microphones etc
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Organizational literacy
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diigo,
Delicious
bookmarks
wikis
blogrolls
Google/other online calendar
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Other literacies
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Spam/phish detection
Authenticity
Identify creation and management
Reuse ethically
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Where to learn more
• Tech Talk Tuesdays (3:45-4:45pm): goto
http://education.vic.edu.au and search for
online events, find calendar, select Tech Talk
Tuesdays for the session title and elluminate link
• eT@lking Wed 8-9pm: part of the Australia
series in http://learncentral.org or read my blog
at http://murcha.wordpress.com
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Contact Me
• mirtschin@gmail.com
• Skype: anne.mirtschin
• Twitter/plurk id: murcha
• Teacher blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com
• Class blogs: http://murch.globalteacher.org.au
http://backyard.globalstudent.org.au
• Delicious and diigo: murcho/murcha