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EdTech Vision & Plan Does your school have an edtech vision and plan?
What's your edtech vision? Insights and ideas to ensure your school is ready to launch into 2021
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Happy Term 4 to all our teachers out there! Being based in Victoria, we are excited to have primary schools resume face to face learning and with Spring on our doorstep we are full of #positivity. We are proud to share an absolutely bumper issue this month full of practical tools you can try out immediately (love Canva's new education offering), hardware for your classroom (BenQ's new IFP even allowed Marty to showcase his drawing skills), as well as a deep dive into creating a school vision and plan for edtech. Above all else, we wish to congratulate teachers across Australia, New Zealand and the globe for their remarkable resilience, adaptability and innovation during 2020. Your, and your students', wellbeing will always be the most important thing during any challenging period, so look after yourselves and each other. Take a walk, read a book, meditate, turn off notifications and spend time with those people that make you laugh. PLK (peace, love, kindness) Marty & Tser Lin
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Collaborating outside your school You can now share files with users outside your domain who don’t have a Google account and allow them to collaborate and/or comment. Previously they were forced to create a Google account in order to be a collaborator or commenter. This would be ideal for documents shared by a school board or committee that wishes to work together or even collaborating with parents who do not have a Google account. The way it works is via email and a PIN code. This type of sharing doess need to be enabled via the admin console. Full details here
Just as we are all heading back to face to face teaching, Google Meet have released a stack of new features in September: up to 49 users, just have to select tiled view in settings blur background (still no sign of custom backgrounds like in Zoom!) open a Jamboard (collaborative whiteboard) from within a Meet customise participant settings including disabling chat and/or screen sharing
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Important change to Trash (or Bin) Here’s one to make sure you let all of your staff know and remind them about. Previously our Drive Trash had no expiry, meaning it literally kept everything there forever! This has now changed to 30 days retention before being auto deleted. Full details here
Have you heard of G Suite Enterprise for Education? G Suite for Education has been and, according to Google, will always be free. The Enterprise version of G Suite for Education comes at a cost and brings with it a host of advanced features. Depending on your school's size, sector and appetite for additional security it may be worth investigating. Speaking from the perspective of a primary school, we have looked closely at the offering and in our opinion it is not a suitable investment. The advanced Meet settings, originality reports and advanced security and admin seemed tailored to larger secondary and tertiary institutions. Check out the one page cheat sheet that compares the free vs Enterprise versions. Further information about G Suite Enterprise for Education: 25 ways to use G Suite Enterprise for Education slidedeck Recent webinar (recording) for Aus/NZ schools outlining the Enterprise offering
Folders in Shared Drives Up until now you have not been able to share a particular folder within a Shared Drive- this feature has now been rolled out to all users. This is particularly useful as you may have a set of permissions that apply to the whole Shared Drive but you have one specific folder that needs additional collaborators. If you use Shared Drives this is definitely something you need to wrap your head around, read the full release here.
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You've been living under a rock if you haven't either used or seen the amazing designs that are possible in Canva. I've been using a personal account for years but was excited to discover they now have a FREE education account. This education account allows you to create "classes" and invite students.
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Step 1: Sign up for a regular account using your school email address (https://www.canva.com/signup) Step 2: Apply for Canva's Education program (you will need to send a scanned copy of your teaching qualifications) Once you have your education account setup, you can invite students to join your class: Features of the education account include: creating 'groups' to make sharing easier leaving feedback directly on students' designs (& students can reply) creating templates for your class creating shared folders with images/video (e.g. school logos) Did you know Canva was founded by Aussies! Make sure you share this with your students.
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Whilst junior students are small, they have huge imaginations with so much to say yet they are not always able to express themselves fully through writing or illustrations. This is where the app 30 Hands comes into play, an app that is easy for young students to learn and create and quite like our young students has a lot to offer. 30 Hands allows you to create simple but engaging presentations using photos, drawings and text, not to mention you are able to record voice over your slides to create a more engaging presentation. It is so easy to use and in just a few simple steps students can create a completed presentation to explore and demonstrate their learning. Presentations can be published and saved to the device allowing for quick and easy sharing to other apps such as Drive, SeeSaw or Class Dojo. A real winning feature is that students can create and work on multiple presentations at once and build a digital portfolio of their learning. At the beginning of each year I work closely with our Prep team to teach our Prep students how to use this app to set them up for success. After only a few sessions learning our little students become presentation experts who use the app to complete passion projects and assessment tasks before they can write a full sentence. Whilst my experience with the app is predominantly in the Prep classroom, it has the potential to be a powerful tool in any year level.
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Some successful lessons and ideas include: Creating or retelling a narrative - A perfect app for creating picture storybooks and retelling narratives. Students absolutely love using 30 Hands to create their own stories. By adding backgrounds, images and drawing students can create their own stories and turn them into a read-aloud to be shared with classmates. Explain different strategies to solve a mathematical problem - I think all teachers can agree that when students solve a problem we want to know how they got their answer. The draw tool is perfect for this. Start by simply drawing your answer just like you would on paper and finish by recording an explanation of your thinking. I have loved creating a presentation that is continually added to so I can monitor the development of thinking and problem solving strategies. Demonstrate understanding of the scientific concepts - By combining a range of tools found in the app, students can document the life cycle of an animal. Our Prep students watched and observed the life cycle of a butterfly and used the different slide types to demonstrate their understanding of the life cycle. Students used the draw tool to show an egg on a leaf and used the camera tool to take images of the caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly. They labeled each image with text and used the recording tool to explain their understanding.
$20 doesn't get you much these days but it can buy you and your school a micro:bit. So often schools purchase expensive coding & robotics equipment for it to sit idle for most of the year. If bang for your buck is what you're after, combined with a low floor and high ceiling...then the micro:bit should be high on your shopping list. Our resident student contributor, Mohan, has created your one stop shop for teaching with Microbits. In a series of 10 lessons that can be used by teachers as well as students, Mohan steps you through getting started with the basics all the way up to creating your very own Google Site or Slides to showcase your learning.
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Technology is used to enhance teaching and learning in classrooms across the globe but schools must also look to technology to increase efficiency in their administration. With the increased demands on accountability, OHS, policy, procedures and child safety protocols, it is a no-brainer that your visitor sign in system is super important. Let’s sack the pen, paper, filing cabinets and lanyards in favour of iPads, the cloud and ID stickers. This issue we take a close look at Passtab- school visitor management software that is proudly Australian designed, built and owned. The team at Tech in Edu Magazine recently visited a primary school in Melbourne to see Passtab in action at the start of a busy school day. Benefits for your visitors? Super easy to use and navigate- clean and simple interface Prints out a visitor name badge as a sticker...no need to remember to return those pesky lanyards. Regular visitors will love the “quickpin” option. Canteen, instrumental and allied health can all be given a pin rather than having to complete the full sign in process each and every time they visit. Parents don’t have to sign in late students, the children themselves actually love completing the process as it’s on an iPad!
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Benefits for the school? Everything stored securely in the cloud - no folders of paper to store and archive. Emergency management made easy- simply access a list of who is and isn’t on site via mobile or desktop. School admin can view summaries and search for specific users through the console. Ability to export dates and data for record keeping. Ensure every visitor to the school adheres to child safe policies through the live WWCC feature. Visitors can digitally acknowledge and agree to your school’s child safe and visitor protocol terms and conditions Staff can easily identify visitors (name, reason for visit and photograph) at a glance with the self-adhesive name badge. Pro Tip for Schools Install two sign-in stations to avoid parents/students having to queue at busy times. Even have them at two different heights if possible to make them student friendly (we found parents love not having to do the sign in for late students if the kids can do it themselves!). User Reviews “We are loving it. We are absolutely loving it. For years, we had the paper system. The flow is so much better. It just keeps things moving in the office.” - Gabrielle, Office Staff “It’s about moving with the times, so much easier.” - Alicia, Office Staff Member “Quick and convenient. Faster than the written method.” - Caitlan, Deputy Principal “It’s very high tech, it’s way better. My 7 year old daughter loves signing in.” - Lucy, Parent Conclusion We have signed into many different visitor management systems over our years as consultants. Passtab's user interface is clean, easy to use and works brilliantly in a school environment. They have tailored their product to what schools need and we have found they are always open to new ideas and discussions regarding their product and functionality. We love how Passtab support can be easily reached via email or a phone call. From a pricing perspective, Passtab is competitive and affordable for all schools (big/small). If you're looking for a visitor management system that just works and is built for education, look no further. Phone: (03) 9800 1489 www.passtab.com.au
Pro tip - Having two stations is handy for busy times
NEW AGE CLASSROOM PANEL
If you’re reading Tech in Edu Magazine there’s every chance you are the person consulted when it comes to upgrading the hardware in your school. So where is your school at when it comes to classroom displays? Are you still changing globes in projectors where the students know that all the blinds need to be closed and the sun in the right alignment so as not to make the picture indistinguishable? Are you still hanging on to interactive whiteboards (IWBs) where the touch is so out of calibration that it hasn’t been “interacted” with since the days when the iPad was the new kid on the block? Did you manage to pickup a few Aldi flat screen TVs that you can never get the Chromecast or Apple TV working when you want it? As is the mantra for our magazine, empowering teachers to innovate with technology, let us introduce the 2020 model interactive flat panel from BenQ. The RP02 panels functionality and ease of use will have teachers no longer avoiding the technology, but embracing and innovating with it. IMPORTANT STUFF TEACHERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS PANEL... What is an interactive flat panel (IFP)? It’s a touchscreen “TV” with it’s own Android operating system. In other words it’s like having a 65 inch tablet in your classroom. What’s the deal with sharing my laptop screen to the board? Once you install the InstaShare software to your computer (Mac or Windows), you can simply and wirelessly cast your screen to the board. But wait, there’s more! Your screen can then be interacted with directly on the IFP using touch. What’s the touch & interactivity like? This is where the RP02 panels absolutely shine. The touch accuracy and responsiveness has improved dramatically from the previous model (RP01). BenQ calls the new touch technology 'Zero Bonding' and 'Fine IR Plus', but all you need to know is that it feels so accurate to the touch it’s a world of difference from any large screen I’ve interacted with before. It also allows for multiple simultaneous touch (e.g. have different students/groups sharing ideas at the same time in different colours). Writing this review I was stumped as to how I could convey how responsive, sensitive and accurate the touch was on this new panel...so I decided to follow a drawing tutorial on YouTube to show our readers just how good it was. This illustration was using the “brush” tool in EZWrite.
How can the new BenQ IFP actually support innovation and enhance learning and teaching? Like any tech tool, unless it supports and enhances more effective learning and teaching...then it’s just a shiny, novel gadget. The ability to record lessons with the built in screen recorder as part of EZWrite is one of the biggest game changers. Teachers can record a lesson as they teach it or pre-make lessons ready to distribute to students in a flipped model of learning. If we examine how technology truly supports and enhances more effective learning and teaching, having the ability for students to rewatch lessons (& free up teacher time for rich, open ended tasks) is a big win. The video recordings are saved locally and can be easily shared via Google Classroom, Seesaw or your own LMS.
How can we utilise Seesaw together with this IFP? If you are one of many schools using Seesaw as a tool to share learning with parents and/or create digital portfolios, then check out how the built-in Seesaw app can be used directly on the board by students:
What else separates the BenQ RP02 panel from the pack? Germ resistant screen (rather essential in 2020!) CO2, humidity and temperature sensors which can be monitored remotely Smart Eye-Care Solutions to ensure students' eye fatigue is minimised Upgraded sound system: Speakers 16W x2 & Subwoofer 15W x1 USB C port EZWrite built in whiteboard software: Sizes We reviewed the 65" which we have found suitable for most classrooms but if you have a bigger space or your budget allows, the RP02 is also available in 75" and 86" sizes. For full specs and details: BenQ website If you're interested in pricing and/or organising a demo for your school, please reach out to Ian and the team at Learning With Technologies. Make sure to mention Tech In Edu Magazine for the best price guaranteed! sales@lwt.com.au 1300 550 717
Supercharge your IFP #2 If your school runs Windows, then you can purchase & install an OPS (open pluggable specification). In other words, the panel can run Windows natively without having to plug in or cast another computer. You don’t lose the native Android platform (to run EZWrite etc.) as you can choose to run either one each time you boot the panel. One major benefit of Windows is the ability to utilise the Snowflake software which has a myriad of interactive tools to support learning and teaching.
Supercharge your IFP #1 BenQ now have a 4K webcam available to support class video calls. With more guest speakers and incursions being conducted via video calls since COVID, the clip on webcam is perfect for engaging your whole class with a remote guest. The camera has a wide field of view, ideal for capturing your whole classroom whilst still having the ability to zoom in (via remote control) on a single speaker if required.
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DOES YOUR SCHOOL HAVE AN EDTECH VISION & PLAN?
This issue we wanted to discuss and explore the concept of having an edtech vision and plan for your school. I know when I was first in the role of ICT/DT, with one day per week allocated, it was just a matter of going term to term and week to week! Whether you are implementing a new 1:1 program or more broadly raising the profile of all things digital in your school, having a vision and plan is going to be a crucial element to your success. Attributed to a few different people (Benjamin Franklin & Winston Churchill included) is the saying: "Failing to plan is planning to fail" As this is such a big topic, we bring you insights from three experienced educational leaders in Australian and New Zealand to share their perspectives on creating an edtech vision and plan.
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In a recent episode of The Edtech Chat Podcast, host and educator Craig Kemp explores this very topic of having an edtech vision and plan. Craig outlines some key considerations that are well worth jotting down as you embark on refining your own school's plan of attack. 1. A big mistake is not to include edtech into the school strategic plan or housing it somewhere different to a schoolwide plan. 2. What is your elevator pitch (30 sec overview) for your school's edtech strategy? How would you explain it to a visitor, parent or new staff member? If you and your staff can't answer this (with a similar answer!) then it provides a good starting point for a roundtable discussion with the leadership team. 3. Get early wins! Highlight existing hotspots within your school as well as share timesaving tools to get teachers on board. 4. What is your why? As Simon Sineck puts it, "people don't buy what you do but why you do it". In creating your school's edtech vision and plan, ensure you crytalise why tech is being used in your school. Last issue we wrote about the importance of teachers understanding the 'why' and what exactly that could be. 5. Teacher professional learning must be prioritised.
FEATURE: DOES YOUR SCHOOL HAVE A VISION & PLAN FOR EDTECH?
“We are sleepwalking - government, schools and universities - into the biggest potential disaster of modern times” (Sir Anthony Seldon) As someone who is responsible for leading schools forward with the use of technology, it is important to have a vision and a plan on how to achieve your goals. Over the years in the education sector, I have seen lots of innovations and pockets of amazing teaching practice, but without a path clearly laid out, overall progress on the digital transformation journey for schools can be complex and slow. So why do we need technology in our education environments? We know the world in which we live is changing. Digital technologies play a critical role in developing our students to become innovative creators of digital solutions, effective users of digital systems and critical consumers of information conveyed by digital systems. The Australian Government has recognised this need to embrace technology and has responded in various ways, such as implementing the Digital Technologies curriculum. Furthermore the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration (2019) clearly states that “successful lifelong learners who are productive and informed users of technology as a vehicle for information gathering and sharing, and are able to adapt to emerging technologies into the future” (p. 7). But how can we as leaders help navigate this space? How can we start to improve our learning and teaching for all of our students preparing them for our ever changing world? It all starts with a clearly articulated vision. To start creating a vision, you need to think about your values and beliefs - this is what should drive all leadership decisions. A vision is a destination where we focus our efforts. Some example include: Disney: To Make People Happy Microsoft: Empower people through great software anytime, anyplace, and on any device. Google: to provide access to the world’s information in one click. For educators to be truly inspired, the vision needs to be big. It needs to be something that seems challenging, so that it will encourage your school community to draw on their best skills and knowledge to be able to achieve it. Think big picture, anything is possible, blue sky thinking! An example of a vision in the Lismore Diocese is “Empowering learners to be ethical, discerning creators of digital content and competent, flexible users of technology.” This was co constructed with the relevant networks. You may find the following questions useful when thinking about the direction of your school: What is our culture of learning driven by? Curiosity, creation, assessment, building skills, whole child or something else? What culture around technology do we want to develop? How can we engage our students in realistic examples, immersive experiences and activities that make an impact on their communities? How can students engage in critical thinking through independent learning and discovery, including problem solving, interpretation and analysis? How can technology support students’ interests and provide equitable access to learning materials? How can we encourage teachers to allow students to create products that show what they know or think and share them with others? How can we encourage teachers to create content that offers inclusive design and a variety of formats? How can we encourage teachers to foster learning opportunities for their students and themselves? Once you have clearly defined your vision, you need to think about how you are going to achieve it. A useful way to think of this is to use the following structure: “We’re doing X(what), for Y(who), because Z(why)”. This will be the start of your strategy. Remember through the process it is important to get feedback from your teacher, student and parent communities. Strategies work best when everyone feels invested and has ownership over the progress and the end product. So what next? Often it is useful to think of the strategy as covering three distinct areas of: Learning (student learning) Teaching (professional learning and instructional design) Environment (learning spaces and infrastructure) I believe all of these three things need to work together in order to achieve the goals. We cannot provide personalisation of work, critical thinking and real-world engagement opportunities without teachers who could integrate technologies and an environment that supported connectivity. We are just at the start of our journey to improve how schools and teachers offer an innovative digital experience to all learners. What is important to acknowledge is that there is no 'end' point. As fast as technology is changing and creating opportunities, we want to be harnessing this in our classrooms, whether face to face or online. Your vision does not have to be 'fixed', it can be revisited and adapted as your journey and contexts change.
Written by Guest Writer - JJ Purton Jones
DOES YOUR SCHOOL HAVE A VISION & PLAN FOR EDTECH?
WHERE TO FROM HERE? How to lead with digital technologies
PLANNING FOR EDTECH SUCCESS
Tech in Edu Magazine sat down with the ever innovative Dean Pearman (Head of Digital Learning and Practice, Wesley College) and asked him about creating an edtech vision or plan for your school. Planning an edtech vision for your school... Dean is adamant that schools can get it wrong if they focus on a stand alone edtech vision without marrying it to the overall learning and teaching goals. The more important question he believes you should be asking is 'how can you leverage technology to enable your school’s vision for learning?'. A second crucial element according to Dean is to not start any planning focusing on edtech without speaking to your people. “Find out what the status quo is, understand where staff are at on their edtech journey and importantly discover their 'pain points'. Once you do this the plan will start to become evident”. Strategies for getting those ‘reluctant’ members of staff on board... Dean’s number one piece of advice for school leaders to ensure maximum buy in is to empower the right people initially. Carefully select your influencers and, once empowered, they will be able to share the load of adoption strategy and support you in shifting the critical mass. Another strategy to support buy in from even the most reluctant of teachers is to understand their pain points, use story and shared experiences. As a coach or leader in a school, sharing your own experiences that mirror or are relatable to an individual’s own journey can be a powerful tool for change management. Common mistakes we can avoid in planning for edtech change management or planning… Top of the list of mistakes to be avoided in Dean’s experience is focusing too much energy on the actual technology itself. The focus should primarily be on the teachers, students, learning and teaching. The technology must always be seen as a tool to enable and work towards learning and teaching goals. Another common mistake to avoid is rapid deployment that is not wrapped in carefully planned coaching and professional learning. The final mistake to avoid (one that those of us who are passionate about technology can often fall into making) is to expect every teacher to move at the same pace. We must acknowledge that everyone is on their own journey and that what is seen as a small step for one teacher is an enormous step for another. Make sure that your plan and vision allows for this diversity.
In the search for ways to engage students online, HyperDocs provide a way of facilitating independent learning while giving a structure to help them navigate new ideas. Jennifer Gonzalez explained the beauty of Hyperdocs in her ‘Cult of Pedagogy’ blog post “How HyperDocs Can Transform Your Teaching.” and explains, that although the term HyperDocs was coined by Lisa Highfill, Kelly Hilton, and Sarah Landis, their work is one iteration of a series of ways educators have strived for more student agency in the classroom. Currently, with more teachers and students working on online platforms and with the added challenge of distance learning, HyperDocs are an opportunity to, as Jennifer Gonzalez said, “transform your teaching.” Getting Started The first place to start is Hyperdocs.co. This site has a whole range of resources, templates and samples for you to use, for free. There is the option for a yearly or monthly fee to get professional development content, however, starting with the free content is more than enough to get you going. Models of Learning One of the clear advantages of using HyperDocs as a teaching tool is that you can choose the structure model that suits you, your students and the context that you teach in. Whether it’s SAMR, 5 Es or a Playlist model, HyperDocs can be adapted to suit your needs. What has Worked For Me Particularly through this period of distance teaching and learning, intense experience and student feedback has led me to a few things that have worked well. Personalisation - Insert a mix of resources from external sources with videos and other multimedia that you have created. Students invest more when they can see your investment in their learning. I use Bitmojis, my own videos for demonstration and audio/ visual instruction. Task Weighting - In some cases (not all) it can be helpful to align tasks with a mark or weight scheme so that students can prioritise their time. This weighting I found particularly helpful for Mathematics HyperDocs where students had to demonstrate their understanding as well as their reasoning. GoogleApps Mash-Up - Having a variety of activities for students to engage with can help you to accommodate for the varied learning styles in the class. eg. Embedding Google Drawings, YouTube, Links to shared Google Docs and Forms. Hyperdocs aren’t limited to Google Docs either. Google Slides and Drawings are commonly used to package learning for students. Example In my example, I have used the 5E model for the Hyperdoc. Watch the video for a walk through of the Hyperdoc.
Written by Guest Writer - Ben Sandison
hYPER-ENGAGING HYPERDOCS
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Are you looking for ways to increase student engagement, improve self-regulation skills and build positive emotions? GoNoodle is one of the best free online tools that you can use to increase the well-being of students in your classroom. GoNoodle has a variety of online channels which promote movement, mindfulness and can help generate positive emotions. Consider GoNoodle as one of the best brain breaks that’s out there in the cyber world. You can use it: At the start of the day As transitions between classes When you’re needing to change the energy of the class (whether to increase their energy or help them to relax) Towards the end of the term we can notice in students a rise in anxiety, frequent low moods or energy and a lack of engagement towards their work tasks. It is important to incorporate a variety of tasks that help to change the chemicals in the brain and improve their overall focus and attention. Students need to have both movement and mindfulness incorporated in their day to help them stay balanced and their emotional state regulated. Taking 2 – 5 minutes out of the day can really help to build and nurture the well-being of students. I’ve used GoNoodle with all primary aged student and they absolutely LOVE IT! If you’re new to GoNoodle, my favourite channels to use are: Brainercise (This helps to activate both sides of the brain for optimal brain function) Awesome Sauce! (Promotes fun movement) Flow - Mindfulness activities. This is helpful when you want to help students to develop resilience, self-regulation and self-management skills. Think about it – Setting positive intentions for the day Koo-Koo Kangaroo – Dancing and singing along to ridiculous songs The best part about GoNoodle is that it has an avatar for you to choose from. The more activities you do, the bigger it grows and the students enjoy helping you to evolve this character. Another little secret is that the students love to see you enjoying the activity as well! Don’t forget to participate too. GoNoodle is addictive and one that the students absolutely love. You will begin to notice a dramatic shift in your classroom climate once you start the GoNoodle journey and it is something that you may enjoy doing with the kids too! Sign up for GoNoodle at www.gonoodle.com
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