#HASSchat Archive
A Twitter chat for K-12 teachers of the Humanities and Social Sciences, held on the last Thursday of every month at 7:00pm (Sydney, Australia).
Thursday October 27, 2016
4:00 AM EDT
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Welcome to ! Tell us who you are, where you're from, and what you teach!
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Hi! I'm Marco and I am a Geography, Commerce and Religion teacher from Sydney!
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Q1 What view do you have of technology in the classroom?
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Hi, Kurt, History, Geography and Religion teacher from Sydney too
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A1 Tech is a TOOL. It is not, and should not be, a substitute for a good teacher! It is there to augment the T&L experience
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Claire. Primary teacher. Sydney. Hi!
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2 Aussie friends, Jewish & Muslim clerics, reflect on Mideast conflict in this History module https://t.co/HB26DjwLXU
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Hi, Adam, History teacher from Perth
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A1 - interactive timelines, google earth, huge access to primary sources - Tech has transformed how we can engage students in HASS
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Welcome and welcome to Twitter too!
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Hello from Sunshine Coast! HASS teacher and Makerspace person at P-12 state college. Tech is a tool, a motivator & an enricher.
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Q2 How do you integrate technology in HASS?
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We recently skyped out Yr 8 boys to a guide on a 4g tablet at Auschwitz thru amazing experience!
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A2 I am a huge fan of the GAFE suite of products. Love the collab nature, particularly in subjects that deal w/people!
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True! The "world" it opens up is the best argument for tech. What is HASS if it's not a window to the world?
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A2 I wrote an article about using tech for Geography: https://t.co/Dq2enfE3k0 Will also be presenting at the AGTA conf. next year
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A2 - where it will enhance the learning or as said, when it allow us to bring the world to our students
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Am trialling Padlet in Sem 2. Great for individual and collaborative work for year 10 HASS
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A2 I also love using creative tools: PowToon, iMovie... creativity is key in HASS I feel!
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Apols for the Primary School answer here.. integrate it into all subjects..BYOD classroom and loving it!!!
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A2: I try to shake kids out of thinking that technology means Google and PowerPoint. We're programming robots and building games.
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Never apologise for an answer! All answers are enlightenment!
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Often feel the biggest challenge is to engineer situations to use tech rather than wait for the right time
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The fear of tech issues is certainly a factor in use/low use of HASS tech at our school
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I'm intrigued. How do you mean?
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What tech based assessment tools do you find useful?
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reflecting on my experience as learner, having a FB friend living in Egypt detained during the crackdown
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Q3 How do you balance technology and conventional resources in HASS?
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A3 You just can't fit a square peg into a round hole! If you don't need tech in a lesson, don't force it!
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A3 I've had experiences where I didn't need tech and used it anyway... made a mess of everything!
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A3 It made the process longer than it should've and too many IT issues!
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A3 Ss still need to experience books and other low tech options... not quite ready to give them up yet!
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With the move towards comp-based testing, some Ss may never write by hand in their entire life!
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Hi all, I'm Zalman Kastel from Together For Humanity, Muslim, Christian Jewish group supporting Ts w.
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This happens a lot. And you hear ALL about other schools: the iPads are greener on the other side of the fence.
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The iPads are greener on the other side of the 'firewall'?
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I fear for the loss of writing skills! You don't get a red line indicating a spelling error on paper!
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This is a great chat so far! Half-way there!
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A3: Balance is less important to me than effectiveness. If it works why do something else? If it doesn't why waste your time? 1/2
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Do they still have pen licenses in primary?
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Q4 How do you teach digital citizenship and ethical usage in HASS?
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A4 Always good to link RE with ethics!
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A3: Communicating with parents and students is easier with a tech-based solution. I can't go back to photocopied newsletters! 2/2
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A4 Hard to do sometimes in this current social media no-privacy world
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A4 online learning l, comunicating, consistency and boundaries. My kids think Edmodo is facebook!!! Classic
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Hi im Andrew from Napier New Zealand. In charge of NZ social sciences conference-developing global citizens
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A4 The hope is that by modelling digital citizenship myself, it will transfer to the Ss
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Welcome to the chat, Andrew! We're a few Qs in! Get stuck in!
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Juniors we get students to make videos as often as possible eg. exploring treaty persepctives and 1 of 2
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and re-enact US civil rights moments in video then create a digitial video timeline
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A4: Global projects like (not paid to plug; amazing!) are great at building ethical online communication.
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Do any of you use GIS in your classrooms to engage students and provide the soft skills needed for the ever changing work place?
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Q5 What apps/other learning technologies do you suggest for the teaching and learning of HASS?
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A4: certainly a challenge in the classroom when you cant easily use the same digital tools st's do i.e. facebook or snapchat
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Perhaps Twitter is the best 'middle-ground' option: a lot of classroom Twitter accounts!
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A4b: HASS is defender of truth: evidence; support; bias. In a post-truth world (cf US election) we need all the tech we can get.
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A5 I LOVE Google Expeditions! Great apps: Floodlines (uses AR), Run That Town, Earth Primer, Dynamic Plates
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Q5 google apps are good. Most museums and major places have cool interactive sites and apps. Recent find is Plickers... LOVE it.
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A5 - I would recommend using the resources of - great education team to skype to engage with online exhibits
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A5 skype classrooom is excellent to talk/experience a different place that you are studying
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Oh no the time difference tricked me again! You'd think I would learn! Hello
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A5 live cams are also fantastic. Recently been on NASA kids (and me) loved it. Engaging and facilitated discussion
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Geoguesser is brilliant for spatial awarness and students love the competition side of it
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could not agree more for A5 - our kids have access to the world thru Skype, Facetime, etc
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"When reading for pleasure, most middle school Ss read books, not on tech devices. Odd, since all have smartphones" US T
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Sorry about to join a trivia team so will have to put the phone away! Only made about 3 minutes of the chat! 😯 Next time...
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I see lots of receptive technology in our A5s. I wonder if we should/could think more about the technology needed for creating.
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Q6 What do you see as the future of technology in HASS?
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A6 I am loving the direction at VR and AR is heading! Also, 3D printing is going gangbusters!
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A5 hi all. Anyone using/considering/researching drones?
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A6 I am loving the direction that VR and AR is heading! Also, 3D printing is going gangbusters!
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Muslim teenager at Sydney HS talked yesterday re his frustration w. post fact world convo he had on line re Islam
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We're getting into the final few minutes here at !
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A6 at our school it hinges on IT constraints. i.e. BYOD or not? In the future more BYOD maybe bettet
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A6: Ubiquity; abundant diversity; the fascinating magic in unexpected relationships between old content and unusual tech. Amazing!
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a6 The focus of tech now needs to be on students creating, rather than teachers creating it for students
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A6 would love to build an augmented reality sandbox to show contour lines and relief. Hands on learning and just good old fun!
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That's all we have time for tonight! Thanks for joining us!
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A6 hand it over to them.... we need to stop expecting them to learn in our ways. Be the facilitator not the master
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We can't. School too close to Hospital helipad. Law schmaw.
