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toc =The 21st Century Teacher=

This blogpost discusses"key characteristics" (Stumpenhorst, 2012) of the 21st Century Teacher. When this link was addded (July 1, 2012) there were no comments in the discussion. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning also provides a post highlighting "the 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should have". This view can be found here. Another interesting read is the Learning Today.

The Committed Sardine article highlights in an infographic "6 Hot Trends in Educational Technology" These trends are: The use of Digital texts, Implementing Video Content, Investing in an LMS and Online Assessments, Working with the Flipped Classroom Pedagogical Approach and exploring the Use of Social Media.

What are the New (April 2013) Technology Approaches to Education. Read here to see.

What is the Difference between Using Technology and Technology Integration?
Click here for a response and simple diagram as per Teachbytes.com.

=Integrating ICTs into Teaching and Learning.= A Matrix designed by the Florida Centre for Instructional Technology is a useful tool and a starting point when considering and planning to integrate technology into classroom teaching and learning. This matrix provides examples for Science, Maths, Language Arts and Social Studies discipline areas and considers "characteristics of the learning environment" and the "levels of technology integration". (FCIT, 2012).

The Arizona Matrix link is here.

The University of Sydney has a course detailing ICT skills for graduating students - here is the link. This self directed learning resource provides lessons and preparation for a variety of activities including practical sessions using Powerpoint (animating slides, creating a quiz) and other applications, including web based software. The final links however are external sources from the University. Most of these external sources are also provided in this wikispace (@Software sessions).

A good read about Blended Learning: teachers combining web tools with classroom instruction can be found here. This perspective is a good starting point when beginning to plan the integration of ICTs into lessons.

Technology Tools to get teachers started is an excellent article from Edutopia, a website that has been designed by the George Lucas Foundation for teachers. This is a guide on how teachers can commence their journey into learning about the technologies that are available to bring into the classroom.

Classroom Applications of Technology is a website that provides sessions for educators (9) with practical steps for integrating technology into the classroom. This site is based on the American Education system and contains practical examples in a variety of learning disciplines.

The students in the classroom are the "audience" of the learning. Ray Jimenez PhD provides 14 useful tips for teachers to consider when integrating ICTs into their classroom teaching and learning in his blog post eLearning Design for Short Attention Span and Overloaded Learners. These tips are very useful in the design, delivery and reflection stages of ICT Integration into lessons. The objective is to use technology to assist students in achieving the learning objectives/outcomes of the Unit of Work.

Terry Freedman, an Educational ICT Consultant based in the UK provides a blog post outlining similar viewpoints to Dr Jimenez. 25 Features of Outstanding ICT Lessons focuses predominately on sessions where ICT is fully integrated into the learning, making the learning outcomes impossible to achieve without the technologies.

=Planning an ICT Makeover=

Educase have designed guides to assist teachers in their planning for integrating technology into teaching and learning. These guides are available on this link. The guides are all word processing documents and are outlined below. When designing a unit to incorporate ICTs, this is an excellent starting point.

Guide 1 - Identify the Learning Outcomes you want to achieve Guide 2 - Review current technology trends and practices Guide 3 - Examine Technology use at the College Guide 4 - Clarify a Technology's teaching and learning value Guide 5 - Identify and engage key stakeholders for technology implementation Guide 6 - Plan and implement a technology project Guide 7 - Report and refine your technology project.

Edutopia's - How to use New Media in your Classroom is a series of videos worth viewing when planning ICT Integration.

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=Considerations=

Please read the Media Release of the TED Education Channel which outlines the purpose and idea of the TED Ed Channel. This video illustrates how animators and educators are working together via the TED Ed Corporation and YouTube to create lessons for students around the world. Have a look. This was launched on 12 March, 2012.

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This presentation (from [|Slideshare.net]) outlines four expectations of technology in teaching and learning.

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To summarise the work of David Peter, the use of technology in teaching and learning is expected to:

(a) engage students (embed learning objects into your lessons) (b) involve students (create learning environments - ways for students to work with technology into your lessons) (c) be mobile; (ask the question - can students work with the resources you provide, or they create "anytime, anywhere"); and (d) emulate life (ask the question - are they able to work/connect with these resources in their world?)

Add another expectation for consideration - (e) does the unit of work require students to fully engage with technology?  The explanations of Social, Networking, Collaborative and Transparent Technologies from the above slide show all engage and involve students. Each of these technologies are mobile and connect to student's world. Preview the slide show again to find out how this is done in each of the technology areas.

These four/five steps - (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) can also be viewed with the image which highlights tools with Blooms Taxonomy.

Before investigating ideas on how to integrate technology - and you are considering Blooms Taxonomy as a pedagogical approach, please read through this article and comments below from other teachers - Shelley Wright has some pondering thoughts. //This image has been sourced from [|www.digigogy.blogspot.com]. This image is also featured on other sites.//

A new digital version of Blooms Taxonomy (below) has recently been created by Samantha Penney, the Distance Education Programming Manager at the University of Southern Inidana. The interactive diagram can be viewed via the link below. The context in this design is //Distance Education// where the student would be completely reliant on Information and Communication Technology to receive content and produce and submit assessments; and the teacher would be reliant on technology to produce lessons, receive assessments and provide feedback to students.

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This link will take you to another Blooms Taxonomy source - A Model of Learning Objectives. Although this source does not provide resources regarding ICT, it does impact on the importance of writing lesson plan learning objectives, and making this, not technology, the fundamental factor of lesson planning, development and delivery.

Many educators have designed sites that work with Blooms Taxonomy - here is an example of a Google Site created by one teacher - the side menu indicated that the tools chosen are catering for lower primary school. The information in this site is geared towards a school working with iTechnology.

Other examples of Blooms Taxonomy can be found within this Wiki in @Professional Readings, or via this link.

Need a presentation service that allows you to upload #|PDF files with a script that needs translating - have a look at www.helloslide.com - one may already be available. The voice-over is a male version of "Suri" - the voice on the iPhone.

Networks to consider:
There are many networks that a teacher can join. Some networks have similar information which is either relevant within Australia; however, a lot of the information contained in these networks is from other parts of the world (America, Britian) with the content working with themes that are based on 21st Century Skills, 21st Century Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century. Below are two links. There is evidence to indicate that teachers have been working with social media to expand their networks.

Diigo - which has evolved into an exciting space. Join Diigo first and then choose networks according to teaching areas/interests

The Committed Sardine - a Blog that addresses the issues relating to 21st Century teaching and learning. This blog is written by Ian Jukes.

This article - Content Curation in 45 minutes per day - highlights the need to sift through internet content on a regular basis (daily) for approximately 45 minutes per day to ensure you are up-to-date with your chosen industry and content. This article suggests a number of sites that can assist in your collections. As an example, I have used this Wikispace and the LiveBinder tool to curate my findings. I am also using Social Media and repository sites such as Twitter, YouTube and Linked In to connect with professionals and industry. I am following a number of bloggers and blogs and receiving email rss feed updates, a few Scoop.It curators and placing all the articles/sites of interest into the LiveBinder and Wikispace pages. Which tools would you use?

ICT Tools to consider integrating into teaching and learning:
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) have collated a list of popular technology tools. This link will lead you to a blog that highlights features of specific Web 2.0 tools. Here is another blogger's list. This Mindomo mind map has been designed to showcase the many Web based tools that can be used by teachers, and should be a part of a student's toolkit. To work this mind map, press the Play Button.

Below is a presentation highlighting some of these tools and their use in an educational context.



Here is a link to a Glog - a way for students to do a poster and present their work: the work featured in this Glog was developed by Jo-Anne Desailly 2011, identifying the features of Multimedia Learning. A GLOG can be embedded into a WIKI depending upon the Glog's content. The Glog link above contains video which is difficult for this wiki platform to manage. A Link in this case is a better option for the users of the Wiki.

Another resource available are lists of Top 100 Education Tools available on the web - these two resources contain the best lists - most of the tools are the same but in different platforms/formats.

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The other "list" can be found via this link.

LiveBinder Link
Here is a link to a LiveBinder - a collection of resources/websites that could be used to enhance teaching and learning. This LiveBinder is a work in progress and will be updated regularly.

These resources are a combination of tools that follow the role of technology in teaching and learning discussion above. Browse through each of the subject areas to find the web links to these resources.

If you are accessing the LiveBinder - I have to give you an access key .... Ursulas

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Another Perspective:
This is a slide show that shows 70 tools (different types) that can be utilised in classroom teaching and learning. Some of these are featured in the LIVE BINDER (above link). You could start your own Book-marking (Live Binder or other) and collect resources yourself.

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