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Please note, this workshop has been postponed, and may be rescheduled in webinar format. As schools continue to struggle with CRT shortages, we are experiencing lower than usual registrations for face-to-face events.
Part of our Back to Professional Learning Together series, this 2-4pm afternoon workshop is for teachers able to dip their toes back into face-to-face PL in Term Two 2022.
Digital technology can give English teachers options that they never had before. Digital tools allow students to engage with material in a new and different ways. It can be used to provide more variety and transparency on assessment tasks.
Carolyn and Catherine will provide English teachers with a range of examples and demonstrate how technologies can be integrated into the English classroom.
About the presenters
Catherine Newington is the ICT Educator Specialist at Australian Computer Society. She leads the ACS national program to support schools to implement the Digital Technologies Curriculum. Catherine is a registered teacher with over 12 years’ experience in the classroom including 5 years as learning and teaching leader. She holds a postgraduate degree specialising in Education Technologies. This has tightened her knowledge of how pedagogical practices influence the potential of technology in education.
Carolyn Newall is a passionate English teacher. Over the course of her career, she spent time working in multiple states in Australia and overseas. Carolyn is the founder of We Teach Well, an online platform that promotes educational equality and improve student outcomes through high quality, subject specific, borderless professional development options, to build confidence in English and Literature teachers. Carolyn understands the potential that technology can make to support student learning.
Who Should Attend?
Primary and Secondary English and Literacy teachers
Any teacher looking to use technology in their English classes
APST standards and curriculum addressed in this workshop:
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DLTV sponsor 2simple presents the following day workshop:
Calling ALL primary teachers!
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Ideal for ALL primary level teachers, including special needs, specialist subject teachers.
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Part of our Back to Professional Learning Together series, this 3-5pm afternoon workshop is for teachers able to dip their toes back into face-to-face PL in Term Two 2022.
What will a classroom look like in ten years time? How will teaching and learning be impacted? If your school could go back in time would it have designed its classrooms differently?
In this presentation Kevin Daly and Daryl English will speculate about the impact of future technologies and learning spaces. They will discuss how these will impact on both students and teachers in the near future and beyond, and provide practical advice on how schools might future-proof their investment.
Daryl English has always been fascinated by the ways Digital Learning can enhance the educational outcomes of students. He has held a range of eLearning related positions, as a teacher of ICT, Ultranet Coach, 1:1 Project Officer for the DET, and as an eLearning coach. His most recent and exciting work was as Assistant Principal 21st Century Learning at a large P-9 College in Melbourne’s West.
Daryl is a highly skilled presenter in the field of Digital Education including presentations at BETT Singapore, Edutech Sydney and FutureSchools.
Kevin Daly was a teacher and school leader for over thirty years. He has always had a passionate interest in DigiTech for education. This interest led him to pursue a different career path over a decade ago. He has run his own eLearning consultancy, presented at conferences, and published several articles on Digital technologies and how they can be harnessed to improve outcomes for students.
Most recently Kev was SMART Technologies' Education Specialist across Australia and New Zealand. Currently he is the manager of Digital Learning Teaching Victoria (DLTV).
School leaders and tech provisioners
Primary and Secondary teachers
AITSL APST standards addressed in this workshop:
In partnership with The Geelong College, join teachers and school leaders from the Geelong and Surf Coast regions to explore Digi Tech in our schools - technologies, curriculum implementation and how to lead and manage technology change in schools.
Choose one of three concurrent professional learning sessions to attend (more details further down):
Primary and Secondary teachers from all Learning Areas
Digital Technologies teachers and curriculum leaders
School executive and technology leaders
Schedule
1:30pm: Arrival
2:00pm: Welcome session
2:15pm: Concurrent professional learning sessions
3:35pm: Hear from industry partners
3:45pm: Networking
4:00pm: Finish
Session details
OPTION 1: Your school's ICT plan: Asking the right questions
Aside from staff remuneration (and new building costs), the average school’s ICT spend is usually the highest budget bottom line. How confident are school leaders in ensuring they are getting the very best from their ICT spend?
This hands-on collaborative workshop will strengthen participants' understanding of relevant steps to shape the eLearning direction of their school. Participants will leave the sesion with resources and ideas to assist with their plans.
Digital leadership can thus be defined as establishing direction, influencing others, and initiating sustainable change through the access to information, and establishing relationships in order to anticipate changes pivotal to school success in the future.” Eric Sheninger, ( 'Digital Leadership' and Principal of New Milford HS)
At this workshop Daryl English will explore with leaders the following:
Daryl English has held a range of eLearning related positions, as a teacher of ICT, Ultranet Coach, 1:1 Project Officer for the DET, and as an eLearning coach. His most recent and exciting work was as Assistant Principal 21st Century Learning at a large P-9 College in Melbourne’s West. Daryl is a highly skilled presenter in the field of Digital Education including presentations at BETT Singapore, Edutech Sydney and FutureSchools.
OPTION 2: Getting hands-on with the DigiTech Curriculum
This session is designed for teachers and curriculum leaders new to the Digital Technologies curriculum, or in need of a short refresher.
The first half will include a brief overview of the Digital Technologies curriculum, how it is distinguished from ICT, and the three Ways of Thinking at its heart. Useful resources for next steps will also be pointed out.
In the second half, attendees will be able to get hands-on with some authentic algorithm coding on the popular micro:bit classroom device.
Note: Attendees will need to bring a laptop and charger.
Nathan Alison taught Digital Technologies, VCE Computing and Software Development in Victoria for 11 years before beginning work for DLTV. He brings a background in Computer Systems Engineering and years of hobby coding, as well as a keen desire to help teachers with more complex Computer Science concepts through clear explanations and relevant activities.
OPTION 3: Everyone's a DigiTech teacher: Integrating Digital Technologies across the learning areas
This session is designed for teachers who are looking for refreshing ways to teach the Digital Technologies curriculum across other learning areas.
The first half will include information on techniques to consider how to integrate the curriculum across other areas. Catherine will take you through considerations to get your ideas flowing!
The second session will provide a selection of hands on ideas and resources that allow attendees to experience lessons (including some fun robotics – do not worry no coding skills required) that integrate the Digital Technologies Curriculum across a range of year levels and learning areas.
For teachers from primary and secondary, in this workshop Daniel unpacks our ideas and perceptions of video games to see how they can be a point of engagement, learning and new ideas in your classroom. You will come away with a range of practical and useful ways that you can use gaming in your teaching in ways that are not just a reward, and understand that video games as tools for learning rely strongly on teacher practice.
Daniel will share with you hacks and strategies that will allow you to find the best ways for video games and video game culture to be a part of your teaching. He will share examples for science, humanities and the arts. From ways to creatively teach geography through video games to considering the way the first level of Super Mario Bros. can teach students critical thinking, design and storytelling skills.
This is not just another gaming workshop. This is for non-gamers and gaming teachers alike. It pushes beyond safety, beyond screentime and into the worlds, characters and ways that you can level up your teaching through video games.
TOPICS COVERED
Daniel Donahoo works at the intersection of play, technology and learning. He has designed alternate reality games to teach the foundation of the Chinese language, worked with top educational app designers and worked with education teams at LEGO, Disney and Apple.
Daniel brings two decades of practice-based research, innovative projects and student-centred approaches to his engaging, storytelling style.
Primary and Secondary teachers from all learning areas
Digital Technologies Curriculum strands addressed:
