#digitaledchat is a global twitter chat that covers almost everything and anything to do with modern learning, educational technology and learning spaces. Contributors are often from all over the world and new participants are always welcome to take part!
#digitaledchat a1. lot of all school community based tech integration/upgrade. purposeful, productive, engaging and definitely a step forward in the right direction.
a2. #digitaledchat In IT work every day is full of ed tech successes (and failures!) Lot of personal and professional growth this year. Look fwd to more of it next year too.
A highlight happening this week has been working with a museum for a virtual excursion in History! I had a test run with a colleague this afternoon and excited for how the students will respond in coming days. #digitalEDchat
A2: Using Google docs for collaboration effectively with Ss commenting on each other's chapter annotations. Simple, powerful, and effective, my favorite kind of #edtech. #digitalEDchat
Thank you! Yes, @ACSAcurriculum use it as a platform for PL. (Disclaimer- I'm on the executive) Using Zoom for collaboration too has been really handy to connect with colleagues beyond the school! #digitalEDchat
A2 Organising incursions & excursions for over 200 students related to edutech e.g. robots & coding, from Years 2-6 which then moved into PBL #digitalEDchat
Part of my role as Director of L&T was ensuring that students all had experiences that would support their learning in this area - creative budgeting as well - also supported teachers moving out of comfort zones #digitalEDChat
Yes! This looks fantastic! Thank you #digitalEDchat I especially love that there is a student creations page. What a great resource for starting out with VR and AR!
A3: My Ss didn't like @Flipgrid as much as I was hoping. We will try again in a few weeks. I take #extremeownership and realize that I didn't as Dale Carnegie says..."dramatize my ideas" enough. I thought it would sell itself, but it didn't. #digitalEDchat
A3 - I wouldn't say there were non-highlights. Definitely some trial and error though. I wish I used Dash and Dot robots a bit more effectively. Also, we had issues with lots of updates to the Hopscotch coding app which caused some headaches earlier in the year. #digitalEDchat
a3. #digitaledchat still struggling with certain aspects of communication using ed-tech. specially with adults. :) work in progress. figuring out new ways to engage with them.
A2. Helping to organise and run a group of student-led digital technologies workshops as a part of a curriculum day earlier this year. Was nice seeing the students lead the teachers through multiple digital tech resources. #digitalEDchat
A3) Getting headaches from trying to reverse-engineer code for a robotic mini greenhouse to make it teachable! Good fun though all the same.. #digitalEDchat
A3) Non highlight continues to be teachers with fixed mindsets :(
#digitalEDchat Just another challenge for us leaders to motivate and show/model them the benefits :)
This can be true but it's always good when people try something new. Even if it is slow and steady for them. It's one of my favourite challenges #digitalEDchat
A3: Non highlight - an ancient IWB that takes up soooooo much space and is a glorified whiteboard. I did have a trial interactive TV for two weeks and I may have cried when it was taken back. #DigitalEdChat
A3. When the server went through a massive upgrade over a holiday period which caused students to lose digital games they'd been working on for months. That wasn't a lot of fun at all. #digitalEDchat
a4. #digitaledchat tech can often be only as good as the users. well planned, timely and purposeful training lets ed tech be used aptly. user engagement with the tech critical.
A3) Like many of us I also find it challenging to shift ed-teach from the mindest of a nice spread that's used only for special occasions to the toast. Sure you may want cereal sometimes, but toast works well.. #digitalEDchat
A4: At the end of the day #edtech is a tool. The magic is not in the wand, it is the pedagogy behind it that is important. We must be intentional because our time as teachers is so limited. #digitalEDchat
A4. That sometimes the best thing to do is let go and learn from the students. The amount I've learned from them this year has been remarkable and I don't think I could have done it without them. #digitalEDchat
A4 Being involved in Edchats with focus on digitalEd/STEM has been particularly informative in seeing what is being achieved in this space in classrooms by talented educators #digitalEDchat
Learning to use, organise and set up #Zoom conferencing with colleagues beyond the school for collaboration and project work/ catch up on key meetings when unable to be there live! #DigitalEDchat
A4) I enjoy listening to podcasts but can sometimes find them a bit samey. Enter @DonWettrick who is probably the single source of most of my learning and thinking this year when it comes to #edTech and pedagogy #digitalEDchat
My biggest #edtech learning experience of 2018 has been engaging with people and organisations through Twitter. The inspiration, exposure and incredible PLN which I've developed have been astounding. #DigitalEDchat
Zoom has just popped up in multiple circles and sign up through preferred email has been easy. Can one use Hangouts without a Google login? I might be asking an obvious q here! #DigitalEDchat
A4: Working with our Innovation students and letting them lead and learn while I learned from them. I’m happy to play ‘stupid’ to see them grow! #digitalEDchat
A5: I would have used the SAMR model a bit more and not just tried something because I thought it would be cool! (So hard not to do this sometimes) #digitalEDchat
A5) Teach the students more explicitly what innovation means, what it looks like, and how they could develop and adopt strategies to practice it. #digitalEDchat
I've used it on my Samsung Galaxy Note 5 phone, a mac and an HP laptop. I've found the quality of audio and video to be better on the internet connections I'm on. #DigitalEDchat
In reply to
@TeachingInHD, @stuartkellynz, @NZWaikato
Hi #digitalEDchat in just over 24 hours, #21cEdChat kicks off. We're going to be chatting about our experiences at school (as learners) and how it has affected our teaching practice. 6:30pm AWST/9:30pm AEDT. We hope you can make it!
With the Design team…all the time. Prefer it to email and has so many advantages. Would love it to be a school wide thing…but little steps! #digitalEDchat
Do you find that some people still resort to email and present a challenge in that those using slack then have to use 2 systems for chat-style comms? Or were ppl keen to jump straight on board? #digitalEDchat
Q6: I probably couldn’t choose between @SlackHQ and @CanvasLMS If I were running a school, both would be top of my list. And both for very different reasons. Sorry! #digitalEDchat
A3 Non-highlight for me this year was not taking full advantage of the spheros in a cool STEM task with Ss. Moving year level next year so have to reimagine...
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Yeah they do, but that’s because we give them the option. I have to use both because the school uses email. For me, it's the channels #slack provides. I can be part of a few, or part of them all! #digitalEDchat
In reply to
@TeachingInHD, @stuartkellynz, @SlackHQ
I love working with the influencers for this reason. The ones who talk loudly in the staff room and plug away at the fixed mindsets. Saves the feeling of beating your head against a brick wall.
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