Presentation Title:

10 Innovative Teaching Practices for the 21st Century Classroom.

Presenter:

Jo Walker, Natalie Cartwright, Natalie Morrissey - Expanding Learning Horizons

Session Type:

TTLI Session

Presentation Description:

Classroom practitioners have always been provided with plenty of information about what to teach through the curriculum statements supplied to them by education departments. How to deliver the required content, however, is often something that is left as a decision for the individual teacher to make in line with their own teaching style and the nature of both the content itself and the students to whom it is delivered.

During this TTLI session, we will be focusing on what latest research refers as "Top 10 Innovative Teaching Practices". Teachers from all curriculum areas are invited to bring along their units work for a day of learning about new tools and ideas. We will also look at the ways these innovative practices will enhance the learning outcomes in their classrooms and engage the use of technology in a rich and purposeful way.

Presentation Title:

Creative and Productive Uses of ICTs in the Modern Classroom

Presenter:

Adrian Bruce - adrianbruce.com

Session Type:

TTLI Session

Presentation Description:

This workshop is a combination 'Hands On, Minds On' experience. It is based on software and processes we have used over time and know to work. The session is series of explorations that will give delegates 'a brief feel' of the variety and power of free educational software and web tools. I aim to equip teachers with the necessary skills to 'work smarter not harder' when adding to their digital teaching toolbox. Throughout the course of the day Adrian will explore co-learning & creative processes using a variety of software. He will also touch on organisational strategies which enable teachers to implement Information and Communication Technologies in highly creative, effective and engaging ways. The opportunity exists to take several mini-sessions throughout the workshop if a delegate wishes to explore a particular option in more detail. Participants will leave this session with a plethora of great teaching ideas, an incredible amount of inspiration and realistic goals to implement back in their schools and classrooms.

The workshop aims to be challenging to the novice and the power user alike and runs so participants can experience success no matter what their current skill-set.

Presentation Title:

Multi-Modal and Collaborative Assessment in OneNote

Presenter:

Terry Byers - Anglican Church Grammar School, QLD

Session Type:

TTLI Session

Presentation Description:

Current literature places significant emphasis on the 'four Cs' creativity, critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration and communication, all key 21st century skills to succeed in a technology-rich post-school environment. As a consequence, the aim of any 1-to-1 technology program is to provide students with the opportunities to acquire and apply these skills in learning experiences that are dynamic and engaging. A possible avenue for schools is in the use Multi-modal and Collaborative assessment, facilitate through shared OneNotes. Shared OneNotes by their very nature provide a medium for students to solve problems in a variety of ways, therefore arriving a different answers or conclusions and communicated through multiple modes in addition to tradition text. It is this flexibility that enables teachers to differentiate student learning through the same task. This course will showcase to participants different examples of Multi-modal and Collaborative assessment items across different year-levels and subject-areas, which can be utilised as a basis for the creation of their own task.

This session is aimed at P-12 classroom teachers and Heads of Department/Curriculum in all subject areas, who are keen to investigate how to enrich and extend student learning in their 1:1 technology program.

Presentation Title:

Virtual Schooling and Extending Learning Beyond the Traditional School Day

Presenter:

Gabi Black - Clayfield College, QLD

Session Type:

TTLI Session

Presentation Description:

This TTLI course specialises in pedagogies aimed at:

• Engaging students through technologies that they use and love (ipods, laptops, blogs, smartphones)
• Liberating students through vision and sound
• Training critical thinkers
• Providing instant lesson replay

The course is aimed at teachers of all disciplines as the skills and strategies are transferable. Lessons pertaining to Mathematics, Science, English, Technology, Languages and SOSE will all addressed. Similarly, educators from all year levels will benefit.

Presentation Title:

Desire2Learn: providing the framework for the digital revolution

Presenter:

Mark Yaxley, Ian Smissen - Desire2Learn

Session Type:

Optional Presentation Session

Presentation Description:

Like any good revolution, the digital revolution has introduced disruptive technologies, and offered a plethora of new tools and approaches to both enhance and transform teaching and learning. Like all good revolutions, however, there comes a point where a framework is required to make sense of it all, providing the benefits of the revolution to all stakeholders in education, and delivering tangible improvements in teaching and learning throughout the school.

The Desire2Learn learning suite provides schools with an opportunity to reshape their curriculum, and align their learning outcomes within their own pedagogical framework, reducing teacher workload, increasing personalisation, whilst capitalizing on the tools of the digital revolution to engage students, be they hardware, or the latest Web 2.0 tool.

In this presentation, we will look at how Desire2Learn Learning Environment provides;

• a pedagogically aligned framework that reflects the way each school teaches and learns
• simple upgrade pathways for current digital content input - drag and drop course creation
• create curriculum and assessment aligned course blueprints through the Instructional Design Wizard
• student progress tracking, alerts and competency achievement
• integrated web 2.0 technologies into course structures
• personalized learning through the ePortfolio
• parental engagement in the learning process

This session will give attendees a clear idea of the advantage Desire2Learn can bring to the school, be it in maximizing their use of technology, or truly aligning their technology to their teaching and learning goals and including all stakeholders in the learning journey.

Presentation Title:

Beyond the Bells and Whistles - Embedding ICTs to Ensure Rigour and Teacher Satisfaction

Presenter:

Daniel Groenewald - Methodist Ladies' College, VIC

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

The emergence of affordable ICTs and the concomitant pressure to make better and more frequent use of them from educational administrators (curriculum leaders, principals, curriculum authorities) has generated many teacher challenges and concerns. Many teachers worry that their students are not learning more effectively with ICTS and that their implementation is often unplanned, superficial and ad hoc. If we are to be successful users of ICT, we must address these concerns. By stressing the importance of methodology and rigour in the use of ICTs, this presentation aims to offer an antidote to these concerns.. In this presentation, we will explore practical, innovative, engaging and student centred ways that teachers can use ICTs to enhance their teaching and student learning. We will look at digital storytelling, humour, rapping, podcasts, animations, adverts, films, web pages, web quests and lots more (examples explored are taken from a context of English teaching). The purpose of this presentation is to affirm teacher experiences of ICTs and support them to plan and use ICTs in a more relevant, meaningful and educationally sound way.

Presentation Title:

Collaborative Problem Based Learning with the Internet

Presenter:

Mike Roach - Hamilton Secondary College, SA

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

This Discovery Session focuses on websites that promote engagement and student learning in Maths and Science learning areas. Many fascinating interactive online projects are available for middle school teachers to use that stimulate and engage students and they come complete with online facilitators. These projects are relevant to students and involve interaction with their peers from all over the world. In the Noonday project students learn about their place in space by conducting shadow measurements and use spreadsheets for collating and calibrating data which they share with students in the northern hemisphere to work out the circumference of the Earth. Other projects involve investigating the boiling point of water in schools all over the world, looking for life on Mars (Design a Martian) or designing an Energy Efficent House while conducting experiments and investigations. Your students could be forming a team to design the first Moon Base and investigating the conditions here on Earth in comparison to the Moon. Participants will be given a chance to investigate the suitability of these projects for use with their students.

Presentation Title:

Developing New Dimensions to Classroom Interaction by Incorporating Key Software Applications

Presenter:

Greg Dabelstein - Brisbane Grammar School, QLD

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

Using OneNote, Dyknow, Desire 2 Learn (LMS) and Outlook in 1: 1 environment. Practical demonstration of how to use these tools in the classroom to deliver course content, monitor students progress and individualise the learning experiences. Participants will learn how to deliver content and monitor student work synchronously and asynchronously using Dyknow, OneNote, D2L and Outlook.

Participants will learn how to use a combination of software applications in a practical way. Hands-on experience on how the Tablet PC can significantly change the way students and teachers interact. Developing new dimensions to classroom interaction.

Presentation Title:

Don't Be Afraid: Creating Content with Adobe Flash Professional CS5

Presenter:

Greg Heale - Frankston High School, VIC

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

This session will teach you how to use Adobe Flash Professional CS5 to create basic interactive content, suitable for teaching purposes, multimedia presentations and for students' to demonstrate their learning. The resources you create can be used on the web, interactive whiteboards or data projectors and even Android OS mobile phones and tablet devices.

Presentation Title:

Effective Differentiation in a 1:1 Tablet Classroom

Presenter:

Paul Diete - Anglican Church Grammar School, QLD

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

Differentiation has been a "buzz" word in education in recent years, as many education systems and school endeavour to provide education for all students. However, facilitating effective differentiation is much more difficult to implement, as the spectrum of student abilities gets wider and wider. This session will outline the Australian Government Quality Teacher Project (AGQTP) that was undertaken at Churchie, which focused on the effective differentiation in Middle School mathematics through the use of DyKnow. The aim of the project was to utilise the 1:1 teaching and learning environment to facilitate effective and efficient diagnostic assessment to determine student prior knowledge and/or understanding. Teachers then will utilised this information to allocate and connect students into groups of "like-ability" and/or prior knowledge and to differentiate the ensuing instruction. Finally, the project focused on the ability of 1:1 technology to share and disseminate student work across the class, so that all students (no matter their level of ability) will have examples of their peers' responses to classroom work at all levels of difficulty. The key software applications that were utilised were DyKnow and Microsoft OneNote.

Presentation Title:

Empowered by Immersion

Presenter:

Lou Deibe, Rowena Beale - Northern Beaches Christian School, NSW

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

The Northern Beaches Christian School Learning Matrix blends open spaces, hundreds of students, collaborative teaching and a one-to-one personal digital device program to deliver exciting, innovative matrices of multiple integrated and differentiated activities.

The success of this program has been extraordinary. All students are engaged and motivated, and are directing and managing their projects with initiative and resourcefulness. In the deliberate transfer of the teacher from didactic imparter of information and content to mentor and coach, the facilitator is far better able to target student needs, thus enabling evaluation and assessment to become truly formative for each and every student. This includes the shift in emphasis from writing programs to writing on-line resources, assessing and reporting on-line and encouraging students to immerse themselves in the latest technologies. This creates an individualised program for each student which can be accessed from anywhere in the world 24/7.

A successful 21st century learning environment must, by definition, be immersed in technology both as a teaching tool and as a means of developing student skills and expertise in a digital age.

Presentation Title:

Global Project Based Learning - How Students are Changing the World

Presenter:

Roxanne Pritchard - Taroona High School, TAS

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

Global projects allow for project based learning to take place with all its benefits. Students are engaged in the use of ICT, empowered to become self-directed, active learners, they develop independence and leadership skills as they move from questioning to finding solutions and to taking action. Through global connections, a deep understanding of interconnectedness and active citizenship is created within an environment that thrives on cross-cultural cooperative learning. During this session participants will discuss project based learning design and its benefits to student learning. The session will include an overview of a current global project (DeforestACTION) being undertaken by students at Taroona High that has enhanced student motivation and empowered them whilst ticking all the boxes of project based learning, recognising the big issues, questioning, gathering resources and information, creating solutions, publishing learning's and taking real action. Participants will be given the opportunity to join the project, discover other global projects available and even create their own through sites with ready to use virtual class spaces. The session will also cover communication tools available for working with interstate and international schools and which work best in particular areas of the world. Participants will have resources to take back to their schools around global projects, helpful sites and communication tools. Who knows, maybe we can create our own new project and network of schools? With today's ICT communication and publication tools, the sky really is the limit. The majority of global projects fit easily into the disciplines of Humanities, English, Geography, Science and ICT.

Presentation Title:

Grand Designs in Education: Digital Sustainable Design - Students Impacting the World Around Them

Presenter:

Daniel McCullen, Chantal Simpson - Ashdale Secondary College, WA

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

The Specialist Technology Science students at Ashdale Secondary College are actively participating in a negotiated curriculum task that allows them to critically examine the immediate community around them and audit and/or work to change the behaviours of local planners and business by investigating the politics of sustainable construction in their local area. This course allows students to achieve authentic outcomes across a number of curriculums relating to Technology, Science and Society and Environment as they utilise the latest technology to scientifically develop digital and model sustainable housing that represents best practice industry standards. Phase II of the project now involves the students auditing their local community and examining the processes in our community that will facilitate a change in attitude and behaviour in their local and broader national conscience through passionate advocacy in person and through proven online processes. The 20 minute portion of the presentation will explore the project-based learning activities ASC students have engaged in over the last semester including a guest speaker from Solar Dwellings, the exhibition, or the exploration of software such as Mindcraft, Google Sketchup and Floorplanner.com. Participants will interact with students who participated in the project live via Skype to discuss the aspects of the program that they felt were most engaging. Participants will start with interactive show and tell, including virtual walk throughs of student homes to basic exploration of software packages used to create them. This will lead into a live session of working through the project-based learning process with Chantal and Daniel leading an exploration of other topics that teachers may choose to implement at their own school, while facilitating the discover-based learning model used with the students.

Presentation Title:

Head in the Clouds - How Cloud-based Service Deployments Effectively Scale the Use of Web 2.0 Applications Within Education

Presenter:

Michael Stevenson - Caroline Chisholm College, NSW

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

This presentation will discuss and demonstrate how cloud-based services like Live@Edu and Apps for Education enable the scaled use of Web 2.0 applications for effective collaboration and co-constructivist learning.

Some of the features of cloud-based services will be shown and the presenter will discuss how these can be integrated with open-source and low-cost learning management systems to build an eLearning infrastructure within education institutions.

Presentation Title:

ICT in Physical Education

Presenter:

Michael Nelson - Geelong Grammar School, VIC

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

How can ICT be integrated in Physical Education to enhance student learning? ICT in Physical Education has come a long way from simply using heart rate monitors to measure working intensity and spread sheets to enter data. This presentation will primarily focus on websites, presentation software, iPhone and iPad applications, video analysis, the use of tablets and GPS units in Senior Physical Education and Sport Science. That said, these technologies have similar uses in Junior Physical Education and Health and reference to some specific examples will be made.

Presentation Title:

iCyberSafe.com - A Journey in Promoting Cybersafety

Presenter:

Gavin May - Ivanhoe Grammar School, VIC

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

Cybersafety is the number 1 risk affecting schools at the moment and the key to cybersafety is education. In addition to the work that we do with students, Ivanhoe Grammar School has taken a unique and innovative approach to informing parents and the wider community about the issues affecting students, teachers and parents and how to deal with them. This session will explain the steps that Ivanhoe went through to create the iCyberSafe.com website, the tools that we used and where we go from here.

Presentation Title:

Make the most of the mobile technologies in your classroom with Adobe Creative Suite software

Presenter:

Brian Chau - Adobe

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

The increasing popularities of smartphones and tablets have expanded the many ways for teachers to engage students in their learning, especially so if the students can create content for the devices rather than just to consume content on the devices. In this session, we would look at how Adobe Creative Software can be used by teachers and students to create digital documents, mobile apps and web content for a diverse range of mobile devices.

Presentation Title:

MashUps in the Classroom

Presenter:

Margaret Meijers - Taroona High School, TAS

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

Participants will learn what a mashup is and explore examples of mashups created by others. They will learn to create mixed media mashups using Nota, video mashups using Dragontape, and interactive poster mashups using Glogster. The session will commence with an introduction to the tools and a look at a range of examples of mashups. They will then have the opportunity to create their own mashups of text, images, video, audio, maps and more using each of the tools demonstrated. The session will conclude with discussion about the application of these tools to a range of classroom settings. The only software required will be a web browser.

Presentation Title:

Mathematical Matrix of Bloom's Taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences

Presenter:

Coral Connor - Northern Beaches Christian School, NSW

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

This session will demonstrate how Mathematics' lessons can address Bloom's Taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences whilst using software such as Monk-e-mail, Tagxedo, Wordle, blogs, Australian Bureau Statistics website, Calameo and Xtra normal, an Easispeak microphone and an LED display.

Presentation Title:

Myth or Reality: Classroom + Computer = Better Classroom?

Presenter:

Tim Osborne - St Paul's School, QLD

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

The session will investigate how the incorporation of technology into classrooms alone does not improve teaching and learning. The presentation aims to illustrate how pedagogy is an essential ingredient in the equation of effective classrooms. Research strongly suggests that one-off professional development activities have little to no effect. Longer term learning and strategic projects (such as coaching) have a greater impact and are more likely to lead to lasting change. Teachers at St Paul's are provided professional development for incorporating technology that is aligned to the school's strategic goals and teaching philosophy. The professional development aims to provide continued support through technology mentors/coaches as they embed new ideas into their practice. Useful ideas/strategies will be provided to participants.

Presentation Title:

Peanut Butter and Lettuce - Who Says it Won't Mix

Presenter:

Julie-Anne Angell - John Paul College, QLD

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

At a time when we need to let go of the need to be the sage on the stage and give students control of their learning come and find out how to set up and assess students through Problem Based Learning. This presentation will focus on the who, what, when, where and how of PBLs - software, options, set up and how to find the resources you need.

Presentation Title:

Peer Coaching - Professional Learning for Sustainable Innovation

Presenter:

Jared Lawson - Rangeway Primary School, WA

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

20 minute presentation: An overview of peer coaching: why is it an effective model for professional learning? What does it need to look like and feel like in order to succeed? How does it foster sustainable innovation?

Insights into relevant research: An exploration of research supporting peer coaching as a successful model for professional learning. A look at research relating to the types of skills today's students will need for life beyond the classroom.

Exploration of coaching goals: Working with colleagues to develop learning experiences that are rigorous, engaging for students, cultivate 21st Century competencies and where the technology allows students to learn and operate in ways previously unavailable.

40 minute workshop: Taking a look at useful tools and resources that enable classroom teachers to think critically about the types of learning experiences they are offering their students and how these match up against the types of skills students will need to develop for life beyond the classroom. How can classroom teachers ensure that their learning tasks are problem-based, engaging and utilise technology in ways where academic achievement will be enhanced? What technology resources are available - web 2.0 technologies and others that enhance collaboration, communication and other 21st Century skills? What are some ways to engage students with real world problem-based tasks with an authentic audience? Sharing successes - what are some examples of promising practices? Eg. Student blogs, wikispaces, voice recordings using easi-speaks, moviemaker, flip cameras, global problem-based projects etc.

Presentation Title:

Preparing Staff and Students for 1-to-1

Presenter:

Paul Carnemolla - St Catherine's School, NSW

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

During 2011 staff at St. Catherine's School have been immersed in professional development and trialling of new technologies in order to prepare for 2012 when the first full-cohort student groups will become 1-to-1. Key technologies in the preparation year include VOIP, OneNote, DyKnow and Live@Edu. The presenter will show how programs such as OneNote have been used to improve efficiency in the classroom as well as with school administration systems.

This session will take participants through the strategies used to prepare the school for 2012 which include: establishment of trial teachers and classes, transfer of existing administration systems onto OneNote and cloud technologies, teacher projects and targeted professional learning programs. Sharing files through network, cloud and Sharepoint will be discussed and participants will be able to identify and select the most appropriate sharing technique for each teaching and learning or administration task.

Presentation Title:

Professional Development and the Web

Presenter:

Steven Collis - Northern Beaches Christian School, NSW

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

In recent years an organic and grassroots movement of educators has arisen over the Internet. Technologies such as Twitter, Second Life, Elluminate, and "Nings" allow collegiality on an entirely new level, with teachers connecting across contexts and distances, exchanging ideas, reporting on experiences, and promoting the best in each other's teaching. For these individuals the online space has proved to be a more effective stimulus for professional development than school meetings, training days, and yes even conferences.

In fact this movement represents a new paradigm for professional learning.

We are slowly moving towards a point where the teachers who do not have an online blog / portfolio will be the conspicuous exceptions.

In this Discovery session the key technologies, especially Twitter and Elluminate, will be presented and explored, and participants will have an opportunity to establish their own online presence and begin to make connection with others.

Presentation Title:

Shared OneNotes Defeats the 1-to-1 Bogeyman

Presenter:

Graham Hughes - Brigidine College - St Ives, NSW

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

This session will show how we have made use of OneNote shared notebooks to facilitate the transfer of teacher notes to student notebooks. This session includes the use of Microsoft Interactive Classroom.

Presentation Title:

Tablet Week

Presenter:

Heath McCabe - Hale School, WA

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

This Discovery session will address the following topic areas.

    1. Effective professional learning or coaching models in schools

    2. Effective use of Tablet PCs across the classroom

After providing participants with the background, rationale and framework for 'Tablet Week', this presentation will focus on several of the applications featured during this week of professional learning. DyKnow, Jing, PDF Annotator and web based solutions, Prezi and Glogster, will be showcased in brief before delegates are given the opportunity of concentrating on one or more of the programs during the hands-on period of the session.

Presentation Title:

Taking 1-to-1 to Another Level -Widespread Use of the Flip Camera

Presenter:

Leon Guss - Methodist Ladies' College, VIC

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

Over the last 18 months Methodist Ladies College have given 200 teachers a flip video camera to further engage themselves and their students in learning. This session will look at how this project was managed, professional development to support teachers and what you can do with this much video content. Demonstration of the College's wiki will be given. Teachers and students general access video through this tool. Participants will then have the opportunity to produce a small video.

Presentation Title:

Teaching and Learning with DyKnow

Presenter:

Laura Marinesco - Computelec
Bryan Naas - DyKnow

Session Type:

Discovery Session

Presentation Description:

In this hand-on session, you will be immersed in a student-centric learning environment using DyKnow software and tablet computing. Explore the teaching and learning benefits that engage students and help them learn and apply new skills and concepts in the classroom. By the end of this session you will be exposed to the powerful tools available in DyKnow to transform your one-to-one computing program.