Technology is neither a silver bullet nor always necessary, but what can you do if BYOD is not an option at your school and you would like to include multimedia in your lessons, e.g. take your students on virtual excursions or access online libraries? Assuming that you have your own laptop and a Wii remote ...
BYOD Tip – QR Codes
Quick Response (QR) codes are barcodes that can be programmed to open web pages that you would like your students to access on their devices, connect them to the school WiFi or bookmark web pages in their browsers for later reference providing they have have a QR code reader installed on their mobile device. I ...
On BYOD – tools and hacks
As I mentioned in a previous post, the academic divide between students with low socio-economic backgrounds and students with average or advanced socio-economic backgrounds is much smaller when the schools have similar resources available (Connors and McMorrow, 2015). Unfortunately, an estimated sixty percent of Australia’s most disadvantaged students attend under resourced schools in low socio-economic ...
On connectivism – the pipe is not the issue
Learning is a network phenomenon, influenced (aided) by socialization and technology. -George Siemens (2006, para. 5) The availability and presence of technology in our everyday lives offers unprecedented opportunities for students to collaborate, share and build knowledge - on local, national and international levels. In recognition of this, George Siemens proposed a theory of learning in 2004 ...
The Technology Integration Planning Model – What, Why and How?
This is a fantastic example by Louise Hall of the Technology Integration Planning Model (Roblyer and Doering, 2014) in practice, applied to a Year5/6 HSIE unit on the gold rush. Roblyer, M., & Doering, A. (2014). Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching: International Edition, 6th Edition, Pearson.
