Be Social in Learning Be Global inLife 新媒體，真學習新媒體，真學習

Wong Pak-yick 黃百益http://www.i-garden.org

http://www.hkict.net

Education 2.5me 24-09-2011

About me

�Subject panel of ICT / ITCCUHKFAA Chan Chun Ha Secondary School

�Edublogger of ICT Ed Blog "iGarden" �Edublogger of ICT Ed Blog "iGarden" (http://www.i-garden.org) since 1999

�Convener of HK ICT Network 香港資訊及通訊科技教育網絡(http://www.hkict.net)

About the Title

� 新媒體(Social Media)

� 真學習(Authentic Learning Experience)(Authentic Learning Experience)

� 透過新媒體->達致真實學習經驗

About the Sharing

�My School Context

� “Shift Happens” in our Students

�Social Media & Catering for Learner �Social Media & Catering for Learner Diversity

�Social Media & Teachers’ PLN

�Where we are going to?

About My School

� CUHKFAA Chan Chun Ha Secondary School

� Chung On Estate, Ma On Shan

� Founded in 2000

2005 HKCEE CIT; 2007 HKAL CA� 2005 HKCEE CIT; 2007 HKAL CA

� 2010-2011

�1 group of NSS ICT @ S5, CMI

�1 group of NSS ICT @ S4, CMI

Changes in HK studentsLearner’s Diversity – Bipolar Intake

Changes in HK studentsLearner’s Diversity – Bipolar SES

� SES (Social and Economic Status) was another source contributing to the diversity in students’ ability.

Changes in HK studentsLearner’s Diversity – Learning styles

�Visual learners

�Auditory learners

�Kinetic learners�Kinetic learners

Changes in HK studentsFew Trends

� Most kids have shorter attention span

� Know “gadgets” more than “hardware”

� Know “apps” more than “software”

Computer room syndromes� Computer room syndromes

� Intranet-phobia

� Smart phones with data plan->More attached to social network

Challenges faced by teachers

�We, teachers, are prepared to adapt to the change in learning and teaching paradigm.

�challenges in lesson planning, �challenges in lesson planning, classroom discipline and content delivery

�Lock or Leverage?

Exception

Social and Authentic Approaches

�Curriculum Planning

�Self Learning Skills

�Authentic Learning�Authentic Learning

�Building Learning Community among Schools

� Prompt Formative Assessment for Feedback and Evaluation (no time today)

Try-out 01: Authentic Learning and Self Learning Skills (RSS)

� First Task in S.4 ICT lessons – create Google account

� Provides some good ICT RSS feeds to start with

� Teachers and students could read (and share) � Teachers and students could read (and share) ICT news in the same pace

� One stop scanning & reading

� Promote students’ readinghabit and informationmanagement skill

� Demonstration

Try-out 01: Authentic Learning and Self Learning Skills (RSS)

Try-out 01: Authentic Learning and Self Learning Skills (RSS)

� students were asked to writecollaborative blog as assignment in replace of replace of newspaper cutting

Try-out 01: Authentic Learning and Self Learning Skills (RSS)

� check students’ reading habit

� promote the climate of sharing findingsof sharing findings

� Classificstion through categorization and tagging

Approaches to be tried out

Try-out 02: Authentic Learning and Self Learning Skills (Social Media)

� used Facebook as a way to disseminate IT information for students’ extended reading and reading and comment

� Embrace students’ social networking tool rather than school Intranet

� Will introduce later

Try-out 02: Authentic Learning and Self Learning Skills (Social Media)

�Be Social in Learning

�Be Global in Life

Why Social in Education?

� “The Internet has proved to be a very effective platform for building learning communities among teachers and students……both teachers and students need to participate actively and share their to participate actively and share their knowledge, experience and expertise in building and maintaining a successful learning community.”

- Section 4.6 “Building a Learning Community”EDB NSS ICT Curriculum & Assessment Guide 2007

Try-out 03: Learning Community among Schools (Why?)

� Networked Schools, Networked Teachers, Networked Students

� Increase exposure of Increase exposure of MOS (Ma On Shan) students (also to diminish the SES effect)

� Facilitate collaboration between schools

Try-out 03: Learning Community among Schools (How?)

� arrange talks (by IT professionals) and other OLE activities for their students in a large group

� encouraged students to participate actively in Q&A sessions as well as post-seminar sharing with speakers

•WTIA•eLearning Consortium•eZone•Famous bloggersbloggers•Openrice

Try-out 03: Learning Community among Schools (How?)

Try-out 03: Learning Community among Schools (How?)

Try-out 03: Learning Community among Schools (thru’ Social Media)

� HKICT Network, a “flash mob” in ICT Education

� Facebook Fans Page (http://www.facebook.com/hkict )(http://www.facebook.com/hkict )

� Growing fast, now near 450� EDB, HKEAA, University Professors, ICT

professionals, teachers and students� HK, Taiwan, USA

Try-out 03: Learning Community among Schools (thru’ Social Media)

With social network, we

are building a are building a prototype of

an “All round”

learning community!

Try-out 03: Learning Community among Schools (thru’ Social Media)

� Authentic Learning Experience for NSS Students:� Networking Talk (Cisco) and WebEx Meeting� Wireless Technology (WTIA)� Wireless Technology (WTIA)� Social Media (Blogger Jansen)� Mobile Technology in Learning (Erwin)� ICT Day Camp (EZone, Cyberport)� Japanese Animation Talk (Gundam 00

Director)� Openrice Talk (Ray Chung)

Social Media & Teachers’ PLN

� US teachers – PLN (Personal Learning Network)

� Broaden HK teachers’ horizon thru’ Twitter:� #elearning

#colearning

� @SirKenRobinson� @21stprincipal

� #colearning� #edtech� #edchat

� @21stprincipal� @karlfisch� @mcleod� @ikawhero

Summary

� Fine-tuning teaching plan proactivelty to suit students’ interest

� parallel teaching of parallel teaching of “theoretical” and “practical” topics

� Promote authentic, self, social (group) learning

Reflections – Trials and Errors

Try-out 04: Prompt Formative Assessment

Thank You !Thank You !

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