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Veronica Deren Veronica Deren

How to Motivate Gen Y How to Motivate Gen Y Students Using ICT ToolsStudents Using ICT Tools

Motivation of Gen Y in a Changing World

In life, change is imminent and we need to make the most of it as teachers and the key is to work smarter, not harder

My questions are How do we engage our students more in our classrooms? and

How can we embrace change without too much stress to work smarter to connect students more?

Four Main Reasons for Changing our Teaching

1. Students demand more connected learning 2. The change in working behaviours over the centuries have been prominent 3. Educational teaching styles have changed to be more flexible now 4. Educational Learning in different environments is current now, at

home and school and during leisure time through being connected with the internet, i-phones, virtual classrooms, podcasts, mp3 players, Skype, Moodle.........

Time Skills FocusTime Skills Focus““Change the tools and this leads to a change in cultureChange the tools and this leads to a change in culture””

Pre-1800sPre-1800sManual labour and strength Manual labour and strength

were what was admired and were what was admired and required in the centuries required in the centuries before the Industrial before the Industrial RevolutionRevolution

The Industrial RevolutionThe Industrial RevolutionManual skills were replaced by Manual skills were replaced by

machines of the 18th machines of the 18th century. The focus was on century. The focus was on getting a trade which would getting a trade which would lead to successlead to success

1900s 1900s The skills of the knowledge The skills of the knowledge

worker were secure and we worker were secure and we set up modern schools – set up modern schools – prosperity and the new prosperity and the new economy. economy.

2121stst Century CenturyTechnology and the use of Technology and the use of

MSN, Face book, MySpace, MSN, Face book, MySpace, Twitter, ICT, smart chat, Twitter, ICT, smart chat, wikis and blogs have wikis and blogs have become the normbecome the norm

The ‘generic’ Generation Breakdown

The Silent Generation (The Builders) - born before 1946

The Baby Boomers - born 1946 - 1964 Generation X - born 1965 - 1979 Generation Y - born 1980 - 2000 Generation Z - born 2000 +…...

Why ‘generic’ Generations?

In order to understand the changes in our culture and the emphasis about the way we do things and use our left and right hemisphere of the brain

In order to understand the different characteristics of each generation better

In order to build strategies to work more positively and effectively with each generation for their success, happiness and well-being

Change Affects Left and Right Brain Hemispheres

Another disconcerting fact is that over time machines are now replacing human left brain skills, but not the right brain strengths such as creativity, empathy and intrapersonal and interpersonal abilities

However, try ‘Radic 20Q I can read your mind’ (a family fun game)’ which is a toy that attempts to predict what you are thinking by asking you 20 questions

A Change in Culture and Thinking

**Ref: Neil Postman (philosopher) in his book Teaching as a Subversive Activity stated:

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” – this is what it is to be human) agrees that:

Change the tools and this leads to a change in culture

This means as teachers we must also adapt to change or be left behind

Gen Y = has an addiction to technology and being connected

Gen X = how can we forge a future and make it excellent by embracing change and using technologies more?

We are in the Midst of Educational Change

Gen X versus Gen YGen X versus Gen Y

Gen YGen Y = addiction to technology, SMS, = addiction to technology, SMS, Facebook, MySpace, Skype, blogs, Facebook, MySpace, Skype, blogs, twitter, iTunes, iPods and iphonestwitter, iTunes, iPods and iphones

Gen YGen Y students have a need to be students have a need to be connected to their peers, much more connected to their peers, much more than we did than we did

It’s not about the topic, It’s not about the topic, but the need to but the need to converse by texting!converse by texting!

Motivating Gen Y

Inevitable cultural change and the way we work now, means we need to learn to use new tools such as. Web 2.0 Technologies, Blogs, web-blogs, wikis, photo-sharing sites, Moodle as a platform, Audacity, Taggalaxy.de, i-Photo, i-Tunes and the list goes on………. to engage our students more

Research FindingsResearch Findings

John Hattic (2003) Research John Hattic (2003) Research “Cause “Cause and Achievement Variance”and Achievement Variance” states that: states that:

‘‘...we need teachers in the future. ...we need teachers in the future. But...the role for teachers will change, But...the role for teachers will change, and we must remember that teachers and we must remember that teachers make a big difference in the life of make a big difference in the life of students”students” (See poem)(See poem)

How to Create Better How to Create Better Connectivity with our Students?Connectivity with our Students?

Using connected learning and its technologies in classes/home research and in the curriculum

Creating motivated and self-confident ICT teachers and learners as users

Accepting this technological cultural change Being enthusiastic about tools that enable

students to feel more connected

Gen X versus Gen YGen X versus Gen Y

The challenge: The challenge: Gen XGen X = how can we forge a future and = how can we forge a future and

make it excellent by embracing make it excellent by embracing change?change?

Ref: Ref: The New Rules Of EngagementThe New Rules Of Engagement by Michael McQueen - by Michael McQueen - a must read for teachers of Gen Y students.a must read for teachers of Gen Y students.

Let’s use Web 2.0 Tools?

Web 2.0 describes a loose grouping of social technologies where its users are actively involved in interacting with each other to build communities across the web.

Examples of Web 2.0 applications are: Picasa 3 and Flickr for photos, Wikipedia for encyclopedia articles, YouTube for videoclips and Facebook for creating friendships

For more research about the Web see: http://e-language.wikispaces.com/

Research about connected students in classrooms

Over 90% of our students use web2.0 technologies on a daily basis and many of these are used in the classroom such as:

Blogs, micro-blogging, wikis, JAlbum Animoto - photo-sharing websites and file-sharing ones like ‘delicious and diigo’ and games such as languagesonline and comicmaker and other educational free websites

Blog? What’s a Blog?

a website that provides opinions and ideas about a specific topic

it includes links and images to co-related topics

interactive status - bloggers seek others’ opinions about their theme and they write for an audience in mind (a class, collectors etc..)

it can be used as an online diary see http://doucheys.edublogs.org/

How to BlogHow to Blog

• Go to http://wordpress.com

• sign up for a New Blog and an email will be sent to you for confirmation

• Give your Blog a specific name so that your students can access it. Then activate it

• Upload articles to the Dashboard

• Voilà!

Wordpress.com

Wordpress is a Web publisher and it is an incredibly powerful web-content management system. It enables students to: freely create web posts, and blogs easily

It can be a special webpage for the class to upload information to the Dashboard and share photos, blogs and information

Our Goethe Institut Munich Blog June 2010

Our Goethe Institut Munich Blog June 2010

Participants

What’s the Educational Value of Blogs?

used to share ideas with other students increase motivation about a subject and develop their

ideas, reflect and publish these on-line create an avenue for feedback from others are chronologically based so that the thread of the

research can be followed by the audience enable students to have complete control over its on-

line content and their opinions/research

Implementing the Blog in your classroom

Use it as a tool to create active dialogue with your students

As a tool to manage knowledge and promote student reflections and extra materials into the class for all to use and discuss in their research ( i.e. LOTE detailed studies, WW2, Immigration, film studies)

Visit other Blogs such as: www.schoolblogs.com to stimulate discussion

Practical strategies for Blogging

Demonstrate to students, how to blog, explain the rationale for it and use good and bad blogs as examples for their own writing and idea sharing

Set strict rules about length of posts, themes and do’s and don’ts

When quoting others’ work, make references and offer citations

Publicise student blogs by sharing links with the outside world to make their blogs real and stimulating

Benefits of Student Blogging

Blogs can increase student motivation and ownership of their learning

it can create active researchers on a particular topic

it can promote different perspectives both in and outside the classroom

it can motivate all class members to participate and have their say

Useful Educational Blogging Sites

These sites are free and act as hosts Their design is for an educational

environment They have FAQ and ‘Blogger Basics” to

assist with technical setups for all These blogsites do not link to

inappropriate sites like Flickr or Facebook that can compromise teachers

Useful Educational Blogging Sites

Schoolblogs http://www.schoolblogs.net

Edublogs http://www.edublogs.com jAlbum Blog goes multilingual

Also have a look at: EduBlog, WordPress http://www.shapecollage.com/blog/ http://www.mltav.asn.au/

What is a Wiki? (inspired by the Hawaiian word

‘wiki-wiki’ meaning ‘quick’)

It is a website that allows visitors to remove, add and basically edit the available content of a wiki

‘Wikipedia’ is a free encyclopedia and it is one of the most well-known examples of a public wiki (but, because it is a wiki, that is why its content cannot always be trusted as fact - beware!)

Any topic that has the potential for collaborative collection of content is suitable for a wiki

(Many wikis are private existing on intranets or behind firewalls and they have restricted access to registered users)

The Benefits of Using Wikis

It enables collaboration between teachers/students using wikis around the world - this could be ideal for language learning in different LOTEs/ sister schools

It can build and strengthen learning relationships amongst students and educators as creators of knowledge and information as a group effort

It has multiple country boundaries and it can host different content such as podcasts, videos and pictures and expand chat potential in the LOTE

and you can also always revert to the last saved copy

Worthwhile Educational Wikis

http://www.wikispaces.com/ Wetpaint: http://www.wetpaint.com/ PBWorks (educational version of

PBWiki) http://pbworks.com/academic.wiki

Photo-sharing Websites

JAlbum = http://jalbum.et/ JAlbum enables you to create your own photo album site to

share with friends. It is very user-friendly - see the collection as a slide show or see it in large-scale print (now multi-lingual)

Animoto: http://animoto.com enables you to make 30 second video clips from your photos,

using your music or a range supplied. The finished movie can be imbedded into a web site, downloaded, e-mailed or sent to YouTube

Note: (as teachers be very careful of using Flickr in the classroom, it can bring up inappropriate sites for your students

also be very careful of Facebook, it can also provide inappropriate content)

Picasa 3 and i-Photo

Picasa 3 is free Windows software to improve the definition and resolution of pictures taken and they can be used in Photostory, Powerpoint or Animation slides

Windows Live Photo Gallery for PCs: http://download.live.com/photogallery

i-Photo does the same for Apple users and it enables photos to be sorted under theme or city and it produces it to you in a booklet

Podcasts using Audacity

Audacity is a free Windows audio editor and recorder. It can be used very effectively on a server such as Moodle.

It can have up to 4 speakers participating in a role play, tape music as background and it can modify voices to create different dramatic settings and edit recordings and sounds for professional production

This has been very popular for students to create their VSL role-play projects at Saturday morning classes

Moodle

Moodle is a free open source e-learning software platform/web-application

It produces modular internet-based courses that support a modern social constructionist pedagogy

the VSL uses this effective platform to interact with students, producing their workbooks, written activities and recording recitations of poems and dialogues for assessment from Years 7-12

Using Moodle in the LOTE Classroom

Moodle is a server that is used by the VSL to store student modules of work, post current notices about seminars or helpful grammatical sites and it also enables students to interact with their teachers by recording their oral work (mp3 files), and to send back their responses as written text and e-mailing messages about seminars

The Education Departments in different states offer curriculum resources using this platform as well. See

http://www.moodle.com.au/ and see the VSL one at: http://www.vsl.vic.edu.au for Centres that teach languages and www.languages.vic.edu.au for Distance Education students enrolled in language courses

Reliable Resources to Use with Students

A very reliable resource to use is:

https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au and it is filtered by the Education Department

Elluminate a Video-conferencing Tool

Elluminate Live! is a web conferencing program developed by Elluminate Inc. It "rents" out virtual rooms or vSpaces where virtual schools can conduct lessons from remote locations

It is a video-conferencing tool that enables a VSL teacher to link in with students from many different schools and be treated like a class - with interactive capabilities for the teacher to answer questions, observe behaviours through web-cam and motivate those students with questions

Skype is also a powerful tool to use to motivate remote learners too

i-Tunes

i-Tunes is the world’s most popular digital jukebox! Most students have an account already. It can be used to download music and LOTE podcasts

download podcasts onto students’ mp3 players for revision and pronunciation practice for French songs, poems, while walking the dog to improve effective learning (i.e. Fou de Fa Fa by Flight of the Conchords)

Google Earth with Real Maps

Google Earth enables you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean

Use it to take you to the exact place that may be discussed in a poem, text or story. Track it and motivate your students more to feel and see the culture

Quizlet for Juniors

Quizlet has access to ready made flashcards or the teacher can make their own (good for junior classes)

http://quizlet.com ‘Glogster’ also creates on-line posters

for juniors http://www.glogster.com

Taggalaxy.de Creates Wonderworlds to Start a New Theme or Research

Taggalaxy.de. Tag Galaxy. is a spectacular visual photo search engine. It uses Flickr to source photos and display related tags.

It provides a world vision of images that may be studies under a particular theme. It takes the student on a visually motivating journey to different places and enables students to focus on specific towns, cities or monuments they may wish to talk about - perhaps in a project or research study

Create Creatures Using Voki.com

www.voki.com Create a speaking character and add a voice and communicate and interact with class mates. This creates an Avatar that you can customize to look like any creature you want. You can change the shape of the head, the hair colour, skin, eyes, etc. You can choose different backgrounds and so much more.

You can record or type in what you want the character to say. You can embed it into a number of blogs or programs including edublog, and wordpress for students to use. It's fun, but you can only do 30 seconds of recording. It allows your students to be creative and use their own designs

What is Wordle?

Wordle is a program that creates word ‘clouds’ at http://wordle.net

Use the following link for 23 ways of using Wordle for educational purposes:

http://languagesresources.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/23-ways-to-use-wordle-in-the-mfl-classroom/

Wordle

• F ully 90 percent of our connected s tudents us e web2.0technolog ies in their da ily lives .

• T hink of the a dded va lue if they were us ed inc la s s rooms too with a n ed u c atio n al purpos e.

Wordle in Action

The Wordle ‘clouds’ are selected as they appear more frequently in a LOTE source text

Change the clouds with different layouts, fonts and colours for emphasis

You can use accents in Wordle (not Asian script at present)

These words can be printed, saved in the Wordle gallery or to the computer to focus/motivate students with a new or completed topic

Bubbl.us

• bubbl.us enables students to brainstorm online. Easily create colourful mindmaps to print or share with others. It assists with WebQuests too

It is an ideal program that creates concept maps to assist students with essay planning and a logical organisation of ideas and it is fun

WebQuests

A real WebQuest is an interesting task that is ideally a scaled down version of things that adults do as citizens or workers.

requires higher level thinking, - it includes synthesis, analysis, problem-solving, creativity and judgement.

makes good use of the web for its research as the heart of the lesson

isn't a research report or a step-by-step science or math procedure.

isn't just a series of web-based experiences

Lyrikline.org

Lyrikline.org hosts contemporary international poetry as audio (read by the authors) and text (original versions & translations), plus bibliographies. It is free. Students can use it to find the words to poems and find them on the internet, it also enables the student to find any YouTube clip that relates to the search. For language teaching this can be a bonus to find an artist like The Flight of the Conchords with their song Fou de fa fa and practice pronunciation with the French accent, this was our theme song on the ELTF tour of Vichy and Paris in 2010…..

Notre Stage à CAVILAM, Vichy, en France 2010

YouTube clips for teaching

YouTube is a site to discover, watch, upload and share videos. These can be a huge bonus to students doing the detailed study in VCE and one can use a comparison of songs with a similar theme (i.e. Immigration) and this could assist them with their studies to understand the backdrop of the time, the words, sentiments and popularity if they can see the two clips and then perhaps discuss and compare them

Puzzlemaker puzzlemaker.discovery.com

Discovery Education's Puzzlemaker provides teachers, students, and parents, the tools necessary to create crossword, puzzles, word search puzzles, ...This free software makes up puzzles easily once the teacher/student decides on the number of words and then it provides clues and answers. Often this may be an effective way to complete a topic, extend students who are quick to finish tasks and test it too.

In Conclusion

Professor Judyth Sacks from the University of Sydney states “it’s vital not to lose the human thread of teaching” therefore we need to create avenues of connectivity for our students

Andrew Douch states that: “Students in a virtual classroom are excited about virtual classes and connectivity, it meets their need to be connected”.

Web and blog Andrew for Biology lessons on: www.andrewdouch.com.au

Strategies To Create Engagement And Strategies To Create Engagement And Connectivity With Our StudentsConnectivity With Our Students

Recommendations

– Teachers need to connect with the right brain activities and functions to promote student motivation and creativity to satisfy different styles of learning preferences

– Flexible learning is what should be used in a blended manner. In the Grampians (Wimmera) Victoria, DEET promotes virtual schools where Language learning is online, and also in New Zealand teaching is through podcasts and when students find a difficulty, they can access help online and have a one-on-one session.

– Wimmera Virtual School moodle site is accessible from anywhere 24/7 at: ... see The Wimmera Virtual School Blended Curriculum Provision AGQTP Project

Strategies To Create Engagement And Strategies To Create Engagement And Connectivity With Our StudentsConnectivity With Our Students

– The VSL is in an ideal situation to use Elluminate and Skype and other flexible programs in teaching our students and this is further food for thought for us to become more flexible and use a blended model to teach our Distance Education students with on-line learning, corrections, seminars, coaching one-on-one, Audacity and e-mail.

– Here at the VSL we can access on-line work and e-mails, phone lessons and Elluminate, Dim Dim and Skype sessions and this is the exact blending that is recommended for teachers in classrooms too

What Should we Focus on Now?What Should we Focus on Now?

More student engagement and connectivity More student engagement and connectivity with our students through the use of a variety with our students through the use of a variety of mediums in class to get them excited and of mediums in class to get them excited and connectedconnected

Use more technology, one-on-one teaching, Use more technology, one-on-one teaching, connecting with students using e-mail, i-connecting with students using e-mail, i-Tunes in class, using Google Earth with realTunes in class, using Google Earth with real

maps and places to teach culture in LOTE as maps and places to teach culture in LOTE as well well

Ways to Improve Connectivity Ways to Improve Connectivity with our Studentswith our Students

1) Be enthusiastic and use technology in class! 1) Be enthusiastic and use technology in class! 2) Provide a visual aid on-line where possible to 2) Provide a visual aid on-line where possible to

explain abstract concepts explain abstract concepts (WebQuests and shapecollage)(WebQuests and shapecollage)

3) Create a class Blog for interest and upload 3) Create a class Blog for interest and upload photos and make the class come alive with its own photos and make the class come alive with its own personality and identitypersonality and identity

4) Encourage students to participate in their class 4) Encourage students to participate in their class Blog and discuss, reflect and collaborateBlog and discuss, reflect and collaborate

Ways to Improve Connectivity Ways to Improve Connectivity with our Studentswith our Students

5) Help students create a "link" between new 5) Help students create a "link" between new material and something already realistic with material and something already realistic with the aid of technology – (the aid of technology – (Google Earth)Google Earth)

6) Master new vocabulary and idiomatic 6) Master new vocabulary and idiomatic language by using podcasts for students’ language by using podcasts for students’ mp3 playersmp3 players

7) Rethink the introduction of new topics with 7) Rethink the introduction of new topics with the uthe use of Wordle, and play games to se of Wordle, and play games to reinforce these using Languagesonlinereinforce these using Languagesonline

Some ways to improve Some ways to improve connectivity with our studentsconnectivity with our students

8) it uses learning strategies and 8) it uses learning strategies and communication that students are familiar and communication that students are familiar and comfortable with to be more connectedcomfortable with to be more connected

9) technology is of no extra cost to students or 9) technology is of no extra cost to students or

teachers as it is part of the teaching processteachers as it is part of the teaching process

10) invite students to share their expertise and 10) invite students to share their expertise and knowledge with others in their Blogsknowledge with others in their Blogs

Bonne Chance!

Good luck with your journey !

Bibliography

CAVILAM Vichy Training Centre (ELTF) Andrew Douch Kristyn Paul ELTF Leader S. A. Dept Consultant Professor Judyth Sacks - University of Sydney Kerry Law Doncaster Gardens Primary School John Hattic (2003) Research John Hattic (2003) Research “Cause and Achievement Variance”“Cause and Achievement Variance” Ref: Michael McQueen Ref: Michael McQueen The New Rules Of EngagementThe New Rules Of Engagement

a must read for teachers of Gen Y studentsa must read for teachers of Gen Y students Ref: Neil Postman (philosopher) (1969) Ref: Neil Postman (philosopher) (1969) "Teaching as a Subversive Activity”"Teaching as a Subversive Activity” The Goethe Institut Munich – ICT & Media Training TeamThe Goethe Institut Munich – ICT & Media Training Team The VSL Workbooks Unit 1 and Year 10The VSL Workbooks Unit 1 and Year 10 DEECD (2010) Connecting People: Digital Learning Platforms Research

Series Paper No. 2.