supporting students and teachers in ICT integration

How do we achieve ‘digital take off’

using new technologies? –
supporting students and teachers in
ICT integration
 Results: does the use of ICT
improve students’
performance?
 Return: what has changed
since 2002?
 Relevance: how are
students using ICT outside of
school?
 Technology changes rapidly -
significant change is often a slow
process in schools

 Access to information is easy -

assessing its relevance and making
sense of the information requires a
wide range of skills

 Students need to learn the basics -

students are often more engaged by a
media rich and hands on curriculum

 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:

3. 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.
 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 self-
reflection 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)
 Student learning
 Create new blog, Virtual Maths Legends, for Year 6 set 3
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
 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