Towards Digital Take-off

supporting students and teachers in ICT integration

How do we achieve ‘digital take off’ using new technologies? – supporting students and teachers in ICT integration

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Results: does the use of ICT improve students’ performance?

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Return: what has changed since 2002?

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Relevance: how are students using ICT outside of school?

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Technology changes rapidly significant change is often a slow process in schools

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Access to information is easy assessing its relevance and making sense of the information requires a wide range of skills

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Students need to learn the basics students are often more engaged by a media rich and hands on curriculum

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Teachers are busy learning how to effectively use and integrate new applications takes

The aim of this project is to facilitate effective integration of new technologies, specifically those embedded in the school portal, into the curriculum. The action will be implemented at three levels: improving personal skills and understanding of the portal and associated web 2.0 applications 4. integrating portal use into curriculum with the aim of improving learning outcomes for students 5. supporting colleagues as they aim to do the same. 3.

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Self learning  Participation in Learning Technologies Group (ongoing)  Continuing to trial new features in the portal e.g. student    

collaboration sites (ongoing) Attending professional learning seminars e.g. 21st century teaching and learning (term 3) Exploring wiki and blog creation as a tool for selfreflection and collaboration (ongoing) Reading news feeds, blogs and literature on the topic of effective integration Link CSU study to this action research project (completion in November)

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Student learning  Create new blog, Virtual Maths Legends, for Year 6 set 3 

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maths class (term 3) Develop science virtual classroom(Citius, Altius, Fortius) to include wikipages for students to develop project collaboratively (term 3) Monitor student engagement and results (ongoing) Survey students to ascertain impact 0f new technologies on learning (week 7) Participate in two national assessments of student ICT literacy - Learners’ and educators’ views of learning with technologies in Australian education conducted by Canberra University and National Assessment Program – ICT conducted by ACER on behalf of MCEETYA (Sept 23rd th

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Teacher learning  Curriculum meetings to include examples of effective

integration of technology, from myself and other staff (fortnightly)  One-one coaching sessions on Monday and Friday afternoons – Tim and Mandy, Martin, Wendy, Paul, Year 7 team (ongoing)  Introduce portal by integrating curriculum tasks which were previously completed using shared drives, hard copies and email into the JS Curriculum site (mid-term 3 and term 4)  Begin planning for 2009 with Information Literacy scope and sequence development and survey to establish

Readings, blog comments self -student-teacher cycle, LTC

student feedback student understanding, national survey results

teacher feedback