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Ulearn08 Conference

The Ulearn08 Conference in Christchurch (7-10 October 2008) focused on the future of education, emphasizing e-learning, personalized learning, and the role of ICT in fostering life-long learners. Keynote speakers Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson highlighted the importance of teachers inspiring students to develop a global voice. Breakout sessions covered various topics, including online resources for teachers, transformational teaching methods, and the use of digital literacies in the classroom. This event offered innovative strategies to equip educators for the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

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Ulearn08 Conference

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  1. Ulearn08 Conference Christchurch 7-10 October 2008

  2. Focus Questions:

  3. Minister of Education • e- learning= 21st Century learning • Personalised learning • ICT clusters • Life long learners • Learners learning to partnerships with school and community • Extra teacher only day next year

  4. Key note speakers:Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach & Will Richardson • Sharing and co-operating worldwide • Blogging • Teach kids how to share: what employers should see if they are googled • Teachers need to teach children how to have a global voice • Teacher leaders networks • Teachers need to know and feel comfortable before being expected to teach

  5. Breakout One: Te Kete Ipurangi The Online Learning Centre (TKI)Right under your very noses' online resources for NZ teachersMaria Lute & Penny Harrison • Filtering system - TKI site • Use of Icons • Digistore-online teaching resources -user name and password?? • Web2 tools: 2 examples Wordpress, Voice thread • Wordpress: free online blogging tool • Voicethread: online media album

  6. Key note speaker:Steven Carden • Evolution of man add diagram link • Societies coping with change well are: Idea generating-idea absorbing-willing to change • We are currently educating chn for jobs that do not exist, to solve problems that aren’t even problems yet • 2020 Tactic jobs will make up almost ¾ of all jobs, transitional jobs will make up just over ¼ of all jobs • We need radically different ways and approaches to teaching young people. • THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GOOD AND A GREAT TEACHER IS THAT GREAT TEACHERS INSPIRE AND ENCOURAGE. PLEASE INSPIRE AND ENCOURAGE IN YOUR CLASSROOM.

  7. Breakout Two: Transformational TeachingTony Ryan • Teachers need to be people who are inspiring • Think outside the dodecahedron Where The Hell Is Matt? • We can change the world through our classrooms • Global learning: Digital literacies • 4 roles for the transformational teacher The Energiser- “hot personalities”, The Ethicist- values The Entrepreneur-Educational Intrapreneurs??, The Environmentalist-beyond being a greenie

  8. Breakout Three:School transformation as easy as ABCMartin Hughes • Teacher training- Units of work- Student Involvement • 3P’S: Provoke thought, Provide vocabulary, Promote questioning • Fire fox : Teachers download Utube videos onto lap top: no connection needed, can revisit later • Forums • www.tkhs.knowledge.net • utube: visual language, -proverbs oral language

  9. Breakout Four:Critical issues for learning in the 21st Century: Multi-literacies new technologies and knowledge building Nicola Yell and • New learning =lateral learning • Young children already are self selectors of multi-literacies before they even start any kind of formal educational • Create necessary conditions for learning: belonging, transforming. • Use story boards, plan out an advertisement for a product of their choice, video the advertisement • Use Lego or claymation to make a movie in movie maker: may work for reading groups

  10. Breakout Five:Show case to the Future I need to research more about these things... • Moodle : Moodle New Zealand • Podcast Capture: Podcast Capture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Technology in Special Schools: -technology that support children’s learning, make content electronic. • Jump out: on line video editing • Google chrome: only on PC, safer, more secure • Google Search Engines: www.google.com/cse • Pervasive Digital Content: technology that can be used everywhere eg) smart phones, social networking

  11. Breakout 6:LEARNZ Virtual Field TripsMike Clemens, Charmaine Nelson, Darren Atkin • Go with a trained teacher to areas of NZ and beyond • As of 2009 registration will be with individual teachers and will be FREE • All trips archived • On trip is a NZ trained teacher • Experts available for audio conferencing • Teachers in field keep dairies, take videos, panoramic photos, a field officer (soft toys)

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