Classroom Practice Past and Future

20th century teaching ‘filling the vessel.

21st century teaching ‘kindling the fire’.

Understanding Digital Children Teaching & Learning in the New Digital Landscape

By Ian Jukes & Anita Dosaj, The InfoSavvy Group © The InfoSavvy Group, September, 2006

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/Jukes+-+Understanding+Digital+Kids.pdf

Children today are different!

Educational change Digital learner vs traditional learner

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Piano StairsChange can be fun!

This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better.

‘The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.’ Albert Einstein

This is a video made by young learners in a primary school in Birmingham, UK. Teachers helped them produce it but it is the children's own work and the opinions are theirs.The simple points they make concern their desire for schools to allow them to use technology they find useful elsewhere in their lives. They feel it would be useful for their learning too.

I need my teachers to learn

I need my teachers to learn

What is e-learning?e-learning is about...

students choosing and using the best ‘tool’ or plan to facilitate their own learning

children developing their own learning pathways and journeys

children documenting their own learning which ends up as a digital portfolio

‘open classroom’ walls

the child’s individual learning styles

reflection and self-assessment

using social media to communicate and learn

encompassing key competencies

Students of the 21st Century Fun and active

learnersEngaged

Creative

Fun

Group workExploringReal world experiences

Social and interactive

Seven Learning spacesSecret spaces

Group spaces

Publishing spaces

Performing spaces

Participation spaces

Watching spaces

Data spaces

Secret spacesSomewhere you can go to read a book, be alone, be reflective, be private, talk to one other person.

Group spacesOnline Group Spaces

• Skype (Have a class account)• iChat• Facebook (Have a class account)• Twitter (Have a class account)• Delicious (Have a class account)• Slideshare (Have a class account)• Google Docs

You will need to look at some sort of 'safe' collaborative networking site where students can talk and discuss. The Classroom Wiki and Blogs will be one forum.

Classroom Spaces

Our classrooms are so small so we have to make the most of what we have got. Ewan McIntosh talks about spaces (virtual or real gathering around the fireplace) for students to meet and moveable walls. Think about making small rooms (spaces) in your classroom. Use you furniture creatively. Kids like to lie on the floor, kneel at a kneeler, sit on a step, loll on a couch or a beanbag, sit in a big comfy chair. Use cardboard trellis to create the walls that make the spaces. Children do not have to sit in any one particular area or even on the mat.

from Jacqui Sharp http://elearningclassroom.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Space

Publishing spaces

from Jacqui Sharp http://elearningclassroom.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Space

Performing spacesArt area

Music area

Drama area

Technology area

Science area

Writing area

Reading area

Participation spaces

from Jacqui Sharp http://elearningclassroom.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Space

Watching spaces

from Jacqui Sharp http://elearningclassroom.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Space

Data spaces

from Jacqui Sharp http://elearningclassroom.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Space

Blogs, wikis and facebook

Small StepsTake small steps to change - you don't have to have everything immediately - do things in small steps, a 5 degree turn. Start with a blog or a wiki or facebook or twitter - if you don’t already explore social networking. Explore ipads, ipods, iphones and try out some applications. If you need help please ask people are only too willing to share their knowledge.

Facebook Twitter

My Blackberry is not working

ReferencesEwan McIntosh http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2010/10/-cefpi-clicks-bricks-when-digital-learning-and-space-met.html

Jacqui Sharp http://elearningclassroom.wikispaces.com/

The Fun Theory http://www.thefuntheory.com/

Learning spaces http://vimeo.com/15945912

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/

http://www.21stcenturyschoolteacher.com/cool-websites.html