Final Teacher Tool Kit_1299EDN
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Jan 9, 2024
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Khan Academy (also available as an app) https://www.khanacademy.org/
Description
Khan Academy is an educational organisation that provides free online lessons, courses and practice exercises of a wide range of academic subjects. This digital resource can be considered student-centred as the works to a greater degree as a coach or facilitator for students to be given instructions and learn in an active and collaborative environment. Khan Academy essentially follows the belief that anyone should have access to free world-class education for parents and teachers. Affordances
Khan Academy provides resources for a range of academic subjects such as Maths, English, History, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer programming, Economics and more.
This digital tool is suited for children and young people from K-12, even offering units for students in University students.
Accessible on mobile and desktop devices. iOS and Android friendly.
Can be utilised by both students and educators.
Khan Academy is a free online resource and there is no cost for membership.
Khan Academy is intended to be used to help engage and educate students in online interactive units. Example of use
In Year 8 science, students are to learn:
Cells are the basic units of living things; they have specialised structures and functions (ACSSU149 - Scootle )
Multi-cellular organisms contain systems of organs carrying out specialised functions that enable them to survive and reproduce (ACSSU150 - Scootle )
Khan academy provides libraries for Units for Highschool Biology, specifically a Unit titled “Cells” where Year 8 students can engage with concepts such by learning basic cell structures, cells membrane, Eukaryotic cell structures and Prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
In screenshot below, the students follow a course that includes videos, articles and practice exercises that engage Year 10 students in the foundational concepts of biology. Teachers can track their students’ progress with the “skill summary” on the left side of page, which indicates the total points gained through completing each course in the unit. This will encourage teachers to incorporate online learning in place of traditionally being the sole educator of the subject.
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Explain Everything (also available as an app) https://explaineverything.com/
Description
Explain Everything is an interactive and collaborative whiteboard that allows users to draw, sketch and record content in a shared online
space. This digital tool can vary from teacher to student centred, depending on the purpose of the user. If used for a teacher-centred purpose, it would mirror the physical white boards used traditionally and when shared, allow the students to write or draw on the same “whiteboard”. If used for a student-centred purpose, the teacher will give instructions or direction and the students will either work individually or in groups to complete the given tasks of planning, brainstorming, etc. Explain Everything can be used remotely, especially in distance education, allowing teachers to screencast classes into videos to be shared whiteboard and students can answer themselves by using their own screencasts. Affordances
Explain Everything allows users to:
Create videos to make tutorials or animated slides for class tasks or teacher lessons.
Create presentations with videos, rotations, and audio recording to form an interactive and engaging demonstration of class activities or student assignments.
Fosters a collaborative learning space where students and teachers can interact by sharing ideas and throughs in real time through sketching, drawing and even recording audio or video. When used as a whiteboard, the user has
The resource useability is compatible for both mobile and desktop devices as this digital tool functions as both a website and
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app.
Explain Everything is a subscription-based resource that offers discounted plans for schools. While users can create up to 3 projects, a paid individual plan allows the user to create an unlimited amount of projects, recordings, slides and 1GB cloud storage per user.
Suitable for school students K-12
Explain Everything can be used for remote learning in distance education for teachers to screencast classes and have students answer back with their own screen cast. This can be used while reading textbook chapters for classes, meeting the needs of the educator’s students.
This digital tool can be used in for students to create mind-maps, story-board, presentations, videos and more.
The purpose of Explain Everything is to model ideas and concepts for students to visually and clearly extrapolate. It serves as a means to augment how teachers teach in their classrooms and encourage students to work collaboratively in a active and creative online workspace Example of use
In Year 7 HASS students learn how:
Present ideas, findings, viewpoints, explanations and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, citations, graphic representations and discipline-specific terms, conventions and concepts (ACHASS1163 – Scootle) Explain Everything can be used in Year 7 HASS lessons for students to collaboratively explore inquiry questions, visually and clearly for the teacher and peers to share gain an understanding. In an interactive whiteboard, Year 7 students can collaboratively and visually present their investigation of ancient Rome by incorporating graphic representations of archaeological relics of gladiator relics and written accounts to form a multimedia presentation. Students can then create a Explain Everything whiteboard dedicated to communicating their findings, predictions, decisions, judgements and conclusions of their investigation into ancient Rome. In the screenshot below, it describes one of the many templates available and the screen cast feature that allows student’s to record themselves
speaking for a presentation slide or verbally explaining their graphic representations of their findings, such as archaeological artifacts of
gladiator armour and weaponry.
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Minecraft: Education Edition. (This is a downloadable game, the link takes you to games website homepage)
https://education.minecraft.net/
Description
Minecraft: Education Edition is the classroom friendly version of the traditional sand-box game. This version of Minecraft is able to run on school devices on Windows 10 or macOS, giving teachers the opportunity to augment how traditional lessons are taught. Released in 2016, this version of Minecraft has many added features that make the sand-box game easier and more effective in classrooms settings, without teachers having the need for technical skill. This digital tool can be used as a student-centred way because teachers can be the moderators of the student’s gameplay with a teacher menu where the features of Minecraft: Education Edition are available in-game Affordances
The functionality of Minecraft: Education Edition are the school resources available for schools: o
Finding lessons: Starter kits with lessons, tutorials and worlds that are available for download, are categorised in academic subjects such as language arts, science, history & culture, computer science, math and art & design. o
Finding worlds: Pre-made starter world built by other school teachers and students can be downloaded with preferences such as types of worlds (type of biomes, builds or templates) and creative or survival.
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Finding Challenges: Challenges for students to collaborate to solve problems, such as engaging in the Minecraft Education Global Build Championship where students create builds for animals and humans to live together. o
Code with Minecraft: Students can explore coding concept basics by engaging in a free “Hour of Code” lesson in Minecraft: Education Edition.
This edition of Minecraft can be played on Windows, Mac and iPad to improve useability for students and teachers
Requires Office 365 Education account for all users and is available for schools, libraries, museums and users recognised home-school organisations for purchase. It costs 5USD and the memberships will last for one year
The purpose of the Minecraft: Education Edition is for well-known sand-box games to be make classroom friendly and to allow students and teachers explore core school subjects through the world of Minecraft. It can be used as a form of inspiration for students to explore certain builds and biomes or used as a platform to create projects for assessment. Example of use
In Year 8 History, students learn:
The way of life in Medieval Europe (social, cultural, economic and political features) and the roles and relationships of different groups in society (ACDSEH008 - Scootle )
Minecraft: Education Edition can be used in Year 8 History for students to investigate the Medieval Minecraft world to explore the social, cultural, economic and political features of the middle ages. Based on medieval Britain, once downloaded, students can create builds dated to the middle ages or collaboratively role-play in medieval society. As an educational version of a well-beloved video game, In the screenshot below, it shows the Medieval Minecraft world that has
the Build and Creative options, meaning students can be given creative freedom in a pre-made world. It can also be used for assessment purposes, where students will build living spaces based on the different groups in medieval society and can use the screen-shot feature in-game as their assessment. Experience medieval Britain
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IMPACT innovators Description
Explain what the resources is
Affordances
Think about:
1.
resource useability- is it easily accessible? Costs? What are the resources features?
2.
Curriculum- How does it help a teacher teach in their subject?
3.
Purpose- Does it help a teacher understanding student development or other issues?
-help teachers to connect with each other?
-provide up-to-date information?
-give feedback to the teacher?
Example of use
Descibe how this resource could be used by the teacher for their professional development. Provide a screen shot and explain
how this relates to teacher learning.
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edX Courses https://www.edx.org/
Description
edX is an open online course provider created by Harvard University and MIT that offers university level courses in a wide range of disciplines, with some offered free of charge. edX offers optionally available MOOC verified certificates which can be used to enhance CVs for job applications. edX functions as an open source projects, which allows universities that offer courses to customise their own course platforms that differ from the edX’s general platform. edX offers MOOCs in computer science, language, data science, business & management, engineering, humanities, and much more. However, certificates from MOOCs are fee-based and optional. edX provides online professional learning and development with professional certificates, xseries and the MicroMasters program. Affordances
The accessibility of these courses can be difficult with the plethora of subjects offered through edX, students will
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have to search according to subject area, rather than the names of programs. This will allow students to reduce the number of MicroMasters programs, xseries and professional certificates to specifically find what they are wanting to study.
The availability of courses will vary from the number of learners as the wait times there can be several months between each start and end of courses.
For teachers there are courses available where they will learn teaching strategies that are fundamental to pedagogies, provide certifications from universities and transformative pedagogies that will enhance their practices.
Teachers can remain up-to-date in their teaching skills and practices by completing professional certifications from accredited universities, learning transformative teaching pedagogies and strategies.
The courses provided through edX can offer online courses at graduate level which are both eligible for credit towards a master’s degree at some universities and accepted by employers as professional qualifications. Example of use
In the screenshot below, edX offers a 6 week course named Inclusive teaching: Supporting all students in the classroom. Offered
by Columbia University, this course is offered free of charge, with the exception of a verified certificate and the course is self-
paced. Online Courses such as this are essential for teacher tool kits because teachers should endeavour to learn transformative pedagogies ensure children and young people of all social, cultural, community, and family backgrounds and all abilities and identities receive high-quality education. Teachers will receive professional qualifications from this course and receive valuable professional learning in developing teaching strategies to increase student engagement and implement inclusive education in their classrooms and schools. As a self-paced course, this will give teachers much needed flexibility in their study to work life.
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Spotify https://www.spotify.com/au/
Description
Spotify is a multi-platform music streaming and media provider that allows users to plethora of songs, podcasts and other content from artists across the globe. Functioning as both an app and web player, Spotify is considered to be the most accessible software users to be able to stream in high-quality.
Affordances
Spotify features collaborative playlists and group session option. The group option allows the user to share with one or two people, who have Spotify premium, to have control over the audio being played.
Spotify is subscription based product. It has a free version that gives users the feature to listen to whatever and the premium version offers the downloadable feature for music and media when offline.
Spotify functions as an app for desktop and mobile devices. It is free to download and can be used on a website as a web player.
This music platform provides a deep and wide library of playlists and podcasts.
Spotify can be utilised as an informal professional development tool for the podcast library for educators and teacher alike that discuss issues like teaching lens, educational passions, teaching & learning experiences, and much more.
This digital tool can be used to provide up-to-date issues in education, such as COVID-19 and its affect on school community.
Provide a community of teachers willing to learn from fellow educators advice and recommendations for teaching skills and practices. Encourage teachers to improve or learn in an area where they are unfamiliar in, such as listening to walkthroughs of
how to implement google effectively in classrooms (google forms, docs, slides, etc.)
Example of use
In these two screenshots, it describes the HMH learning moments podcast that teachers can listen and follow to receive informal professional development. In the HMH learning moments, first hand experiences of virtual learning in COVID-19 are discussed in depth for listeners to reflect upon their current situation of education. The process behind developing strategies to master virtual learning by creating digital classroom rules for students to adhere to and learning how to take time for self-care in this stressful time are explored for listens to receive advice. Spotify can be considered a social media network for its feature to share music with Facebook or twitter friends by linking the user’s existing account to their Spotify. The podcasts can be listened to anywhere and with Spotify premium are downloadable and able to be listened to when not connected to Wi-Fi. Spotify should be in a teacher’s tool kit because Spotify’s features such as downloadable music (with premium) and a wide deep library of podcasts available to teachers as an informal professional development tool.
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Pedagogical Belief Statement (400 Words)
Drawing on the concepts presented in the course write a 400-word statement about your pedagogical beliefs in regard to technologies:
Reason why you chose particular ICT tools/resources
How you intend to use these for teaching and professional learning
Supported by two
academic references.
Discuss your pedagogical beliefs about teacher centred/student centred learning theories
Your intentions on how to use digital technologies to supplement, enrich and transform.
It should show a complex theoretical understanding of the relationship between the digital resource, the content and the pedagogy (TPaCK).
Mishra, P., & Koehler, M. (2009, May). Too cool for school? No way! Using the TPACK framework: you can have your hot tools and teach with them, too. Learning & Leading with Technology
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(7), 14+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A199794723/EAIM?u=griffith&sid=EAIM&xid=ff5b6c3f