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Engaging Boys through Technology

Engaging Boys through Technology. Integrating new technologies to empower learning and transform leadership. Overview. Introduce boys’ education as an issue of concern, internationally and nationally. Briefly explain why there are gender differences in learning.

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Engaging Boys through Technology

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  1. Engaging Boys through Technology Integrating new technologies to empower learning and transform leadership

  2. Overview • Introduce boys’ education as an issue of concern, internationally and nationally. • Briefly explain why there are gender differences in learning. • Outline practical strategies using technology that work for boys in the classroom.

  3. Is there a gender difference?

  4. Boys’ Education as an Issue • International Research • Noticeable achievement gap, literacy key concern • Educational initiatives in USA, Britain and Australia • National Research • Gender gap apparent from entry to primary school to completion of university degrees. • Clear gender gap in NCEA achievement and endorsements • Male students are • more than twice as likely to be given a suspension • three times more likely to be excluded or expelled • more likely to be granted an early leaving exemption • less likely to stay at school until the age of 17.5 than female students.

  5. 2007 NCEA Results by Gender and Year Level Source: Boys’ Education: Good Practice in Secondary Schools, ERO, July 2008

  6. 2008 NCEA Results by Gender and Year Level Source: NZQA Online Statistics

  7. Premier Scholarship Winners 2005 - 2010

  8. "And thus, dear students, we have arrived at the formula for understanding women."

  9. Why are there differences? • Structural differences in the brain • More developed spatial area • Less connections between the hemispheres • Smaller hippocampus – memory centre • Chemical differences within the brain • Less ‘calming’ serotonin • Less ‘bonding’ oxytocin • More ‘sex and aggression’ testosterone • Also of note • Less active resting brains • Less developed hearing

  10. Take 5

  11. How can technology be used? • Grabbing attention/ engagement • Teaching Tasks • Collaboration • Modelling best practice • Feedback • Presentation / Assessments • Revision

  12. 1. Attention and Engagement • The multi-purpose tennis ball • The power of playdoh • Flashing names

  13. 2. Teaching Tasks • Interactive Classroom • Microsoft technology • Puzzlemaker • discoveryeducation.com • theteacherscorner.net • Online lessons • schoolhistory.co.uk • www.famouspeoplelessons.com • Interesting websites • flocabulary.com

  14. Interactive Classroom

  15. Quick Poll

  16. Highlighting Points

  17. 2. Teaching Tasks • Interactive Classroom • Microsoft technology • Puzzlemaker • discoveryeducation.com • theteacherscorner.net • Online lessons • schoolhistory.co.uk • Interesting websites • flocabulary.com

  18. 3. Collaboration • Sky Drive • Microsoft One Note

  19. Sky Drive – Home Page

  20. One Note - Student Work

  21. 4. Modelling best practice • Scaffolding for students • Tedtalks

  22. 5. Feedback • Using a tablet • Tracking changes on Word

  23. Tracking changes on Word

  24. 6. Presentation / Assessment • Open choice assignments • Manly Apostrophes • Classics Rap

  25. 7. Revision • A new use for flyswats • Quizlet – online flashcards • Simple games • classtools.net

  26. Revision and Review • There is a national and international trend of underachievement for boys at all levels. • Male and female brains are different and this impacts on their learning • Ways that technology can help in your teaching: • Grabbing attention/ engagement • Teaching Tasks • Collaboration • Modelling best practice • Feedback • Presentation / Assessments • Revision

  27. Is technology the only way?

  28. Contact details • Alison Derbyshire • Saint Kentigern College, Auckland • derbyshirea@skc.school.nz • Nicola Jacobsen • Botany Downs Secondary College, Auckland • n.jacobsen@bdsc.school.nz

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