Communicating with ICTs

Communicating with ICTs

1. Ed Qld

   • students share, interact and develop relationships in applying ICTs to create and present info, engage with audiences and collaborate in meaningful ways
   • The Learning Place: electronically secure space
   • Collaborate and enhance communication for diff audience: blog on Learning Place
   • Share and Communicate ideas, understandings and responses collaboratively: students can create/edit music eg Garage Band
   • Communicate diff meanings to diff audiences: email to friend, email to teacher

2. Web 2.0

   • blogs, wikis, chat rooms, forums, podcasts
   • vehicles for monologue/dialogue, continuing process not finite, encourage n tech support for viral info spread, support growth of communities of common interest, info unrestriced by time and location
   • IMP to: define process and plan outcome

3. Blogs

   • for teachers
     • collaborative resource, valuable teaching resource
     • expand learning and resource gathering beyond class
     • single blog, students authors, class community, record of learning
   • students participation in larger community, info ecology and learn how to perform
     • critical thinking, creating a narrative, formal and informal discourse, research and attribution linking, writing for others, collaborating
     • Joey Adventures: Reading, Chape, Lance 2008
       • Challenges: technical, takes time, need to support kids
       • positives: technology and learning integration, family could see learning, increase enthusiasm for learning, achieving writing outcomes, more analytical/critical n writing

4. Podcasts

   • simple: research, plan (script), record and publish
   • McLoughlin, Chan 2008
     • greater sense of agency in learning; peer learning, dig community, sharing intelligence, connectivity, collaboration, meaning making activities

5. Roblyer (2006)

   • Good Teaching comes first (must connect to curriculum goals and student learning gains)
   • Technology is Us (students and teachers need to reflect on probs, resolve issues then tech engagement enhances not hinders learning