Using tablets to create and facilitate learning networks

Presentation by Carina van Rooyento the UJ CAT workshop on 6 November 2013

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If you’re not feeling a little bit uncomfortable about

being a teacher or being in education right now, then

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~ Will Richardson

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Source: Gerstein 2013

•Horizon report

Are traditional notions of literacy sufficient

for 21st century learning? ~ Silvia

Tolisano

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How would you like to have 100s of teaching

assistants?

~ Corinne Weisgerber (2013)

Tablet as personalised learning

tool

•Access & share information•Curate

•Visualise / mind map•Communicate

•Connect / collaborate

Access & share info

•Google docs•Dropbox•Evernote•Mendeley

Source: http://www.weightymatters.ca/2013_05_01_archive.html

Curate

•Pearltrees •Scoopit•Storify

•Pinterest•Flipboard

•Feedly•Mendeley

Source: http://www.toprankblog.com/2013/02/content-curation-best-practices/

Visualise / Media share

Connect / collaborate

Digital security

•Online safety•Digital footprint

•Digital shadow

Source: http://thechaosmanifesto.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html

3 starting points•Break down the walls of your classroom

• Talk to ‘strangers’• Be transparent ~ embrace open

Accept that this is a process, not a programme

Connected learner needs connected

teachers

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•Twitter: @carinavr•Papers online: Academia, Google Scholar, Research Gate, Linkedin •Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/carinavr•Social bookmarking / curation:Mendeley, Delicious, Pinterest, Scoopit, Storify•Google group: https://sites.google.com/site/ujhtl

Me online professionally

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Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire ~ Yeats

Some resources• iPads for learning : Getting started

–http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/userfiles/files/ipads_for_learning_getting_started.pdf

• Interesting ways to use iPad in classroom–https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/

1fRPd8b_lzq68C-ANkGVKyH135qtE7O2cg4Ye3kit9qU/present#slide=id.i0

•Unofficial index to educational hashtags–https://docs.google.com/document/d/

1CkUrFNr3ZThZXLh4kwk9rk-wQlwfcg8YL9zVx1R_C2s/edit

Acknowledgements•Barber C 2012 iPads in education. http://www.slideshare.net/cbarber/ipads-in-education-15082586•Couros A 2012 Towards digital fluency. http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/towards-digital-fluency?from_search=3•Gerstein J 2013 Education 3.0 and the pedagogy of mobile learning. http://www.slideshare.net/jgerst1111/education-30-and-the-pedagogy-of-mobile-learning•Tolisano SR 2013a Global learning – What do you mean? http://www.slideshare.net/langwitches/global-learning-what-do-you-mean•Tolisano SR 2013b Take another look around. http://www.slideshare.net/langwitches/take-another-look-around•Tolisano SR 2009 Shifting to 21st century learning. Available at http://www.slideshare.net/langwitches/shifting-to-21st-century-learning •Wheeler S 2010 Lifelong learning in a digital era. Presentation at the Joint Teaching and Learning Conference on 24 June. Available online at http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/lifelong-learning-in-a-digital-age •Wheeler S 2011 Learning and teaching in the digital age. Presentation to the 8th International Teacher Training Seminar in Barcelona, Spain on 6 October

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