21st Century Learning:
creativity, Technology and Curricula in the digital age
Non-stupid optimism
Erika Williams
Look out mama, cos I'm using technology
Iggy and the Stooges, 'Search and Destroy'
AIMS...
Curricula in the digital age
Curricula in the digital age
- Use of virtual learning environments
- Open Education Resources (OER), Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
- Distance Learning – synchronous and asynchronous
Imagine the future of education. What will it look like?
- Which ICT do you use?
- How can it be used to facilitate and improve outcomes for our learners? e.g. blended classroom, 'flipped classroom'
- Where is the I in ICT? Where is the student in all this? What is the role of the teacher?
VLE's, Moocs and the weird and wonderful world of SYnchronous and asynchronous learning
- Explore the links above
- Is this an effective educational model?
- Discuss pros and cons
NEW MEDIA LITERACIES
Henry Jenkins and the NML team...
- Pick two 'literacies'
- How are they relevant to your learners
- Give examples of how awareness of them could enhance learning
Digital citizenship
CITIZEN SCIENCE Alliance: Collective intelligence in action
TECHNOLOGY in the curriculum
Watch the video and consider...
- Which innovations in your subject areas could or should find their way into the curriculum?
- What are the barriers and opportunities that you forsee in your subject areas?
if you could re-imagine something about the way we teach, what would it be..?
Is there concrete all around
or is it in my head?
Mott the Hoople,
'All the Young Dudes'
Supergroup curriculum task
- What could you do in your curriculum areas to extend and explore use of ICT?
- Are there any technologies appropriate to your subject areas that could be embedded in the curriculum?
- Could you make use of synchronous/asynchronous distance learning/flipped classroom/MOOCs?
- Get SCI-FI! Would you permit use of cognitive enhancements and beyond...
There's gonna come a time when the true scene leaders
Will forget where they differ and get big picture
'Cause the kids at the shows, they'll have kids of their own
And the sing along songs will be our scriptures
The Hold Steady, 'Stay Positive'