eLearning Spaces: Managing Collaborative Technologies in Schools

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eLearning SpacesManaging Collaborative
Technologiesin Schools

• Cecilie Murray
• Delphian eLearning Pty Ltd
• dream discover do
• cecilie_at_delphian.com.au

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2005 data
Australian Bureau Statistics 2005
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2005 data
In Australia 37 of children accessed the
internet daily 33 of children accessed the
internet 2-3 times per week Increasing use of
the internet from 5-6 year olds More frequent use
by 12-13 year olds Less frequent access in
Australia than UK or Hong Kong More frequent
use in homes with broadband 99 parents think
the internet is beneficial for their children
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U.S. data

• 66 of nursery school children and 80 percent of
  kindergartners have used computers
• At school and home
• web sites with interactive stories and animated
  lessons that teach letters, numbers, and rhymes
• favorite computer activity is writing an eMail
  message to a grandparent

National Center for Education Statistics http//nc
es.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid2005111
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Net generation

• Research
• they multi-task in innovative and divergent
  thinking styles (Raines, 2002)
• characteristics differ from previous generations
• Prefer group activity
• Close to parents and home background
• Spend more time on screens less TV time
• Clever is cool
• Fascinated by technologies
• Racially and ethnically diverse
• (Oblinger,2003)

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eLearning spaces
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PLAY
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mobile devices

• The Nokia Game interactive, all-media adventure
  game (inquiry based learning)
• Mobile phones
• Instant Messenging
• Television
• Internet movie downloads

http//www.abc.net.au/science/lcs/mobiles.htm http
//www.nokiagame.com
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• Mobiles ring death knell for the PC In a
  radical attempt to develop the concept of a
  'classroom without walls', many UK schools are
  starting to abandon PCs in favour of mobile
  technology. Sean Dodson reports Tuesday
  November 15, 2005The Guardian A few short
  years after PCs began appearing wholesale in UK
  schools, it seems they are on their way out. What
  started in the US has now reached our shores -
  the mobile phone, wireless, portable and
  powerful, is moving into class with teachers'
  blessing.

http//education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,
10577,1642277,00.html
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http//www.m-learning.org
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pete's vegie patch
Custom content or Student assessment Café Latte
video

• PDA demonstrator resources prepared by the Royal
  Tasmanian Botanical Gardens

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podcasting
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blogs
100 Laptops
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global learning
"One Laptop per Child." Open source, Linux
based, Wi-Fi enabled 500MHz, 1GB, 1 Megapixel. 6
countries in March Brazil, Thailand, China, Egypt
http//laptop.media.mit.edu/
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pressures

• Schools teachers responding to
• Global pressure Australian economy and need for
  skilled workforce
• Technological pressure rapid change impacting
  on teaching practice
• Curriculum pressure VELS and POLT
• Personal pressure to make a difference to the
  students in our classes

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• The teacher-librarian
• WHO AM I?
• What is my role?
• What are my responsibilities?

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managing eLearning spaces
physical..virtual
Online courses and activities
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eLearning platforms
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terminology

• eLearning environment/platform
• learning portal
• virtual learning environment
• managed learning environment
• learning management system
• content management system
• learning content management system
• videoconferencing

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why have one?
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criteria

• when choosing for learning
• Mobility
• Interoperability
• Convergence
• Divergence
• Integration
• Richness of content
• Security
• Creativity, interactivity and collaboration
• Open source

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total cost of ownership

• when assessing business costs
• hardware purchases and maintenance
• software acquisition and upgrade costs
• vendor management costs
• security and anti-virus management
• service and lease costs
• telecommunications and network costs
• dedicated costs for housing and running ICT
• direct labour support costs
• technical training
• teacher professional development

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management

• Who am I? My roles? My responsibilities?
• library/learning centre
• creative use of spaces
• storage and retrieval of physical and digital
  resources
• computing configuration
• care of mobile technologies
• eLearning environment/platform
• intranet development/maintenance
• virtual learning environment development/maintenan
  ce

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leadership

• become informed of whats out there in eLearning
  spaces
• analyse your schools needs
• ask the right questions
• research the benefits, risks, costs
• develop your role and responsibilities
• develop your schools library/resource or
  learning centre
• lead new thinking with innovation