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eLearning Breakfast #3
Sponsored by the Australian Children's Television Foundation
Speakers: Sandy Phillips, Manager Digital Content, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, and Indra Kurzeme, Online Learning Manager – Projects, State Library of Victoria
Topic: FUSE
Time: 8am to 9.30am
Venue: Level 3, 145 Smith Street, Fitzroy
Cost: Members - 2 free per member organisation
Additional members - $25
Non-members - $25
Website: www.elearning.org.au -
Changing Curriculum, Challenging Times
Middle Years Schooling AssociationPresentation: Maggie GarrardTopic: Connection, Communication and CreativitySponsorship: Satchel InsertsVenue: Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre, QldWebsite: www.mysa.org.auSummary: 21st century teaching resources should reflect 21st century pedagogy and 21st century learning styles. The production and availability of digital learning objects and digital video clips make it imperative for teachers to use new pedagogical strategies that utilise these resources to the fullest extent. Students demand more interactive learning opportunities and hands-on activities that utilise technology and create interesting and authentic avenues for exploring information and research.
Students today are quite adept at managing their own learning and in creating their personal responses using multimedia. Given the software and hardware needed, they are unafraid of expressing their understanding in new and divergent ways and creating new knowledge. Critical understanding of what they can produce and how they can produce it is vitally important even from an early age.
Creative students can think multi-modally and understand the integration of image, sound and text and transfer this knowledge and understanding to their own digital works and games. But they also need to learn to discern the good from the bad, the amateur from the professional. The really good students can then select and manipulate the best elements to produce their own digital learning objects.
What are the new and emerging pedagogies that support this creativity? Similarly, how can students create their own digital narratives using Kahootz 3 and other multimedia authoring programs?
This presentation with provide teachers with ideas to develop their students’ digital curiosity and will demonstrate easy ways for students to engage in the creative process to create their own digital stories.
