30-Mar-17 ➔ ICT Capabilities: using technology & developing It starts with teachers: technological skills Building teacher capacity in Digital Technologies ➔ Digital Technologies: understanding how our digital world works & creating digital solutions Computer Science Education Research (CSER) Group Rebecca Vivian & Lauren Stanhope @cserAdelaide | @RebeccaVivian | @LStanhope Graphic: Education Services Australia CSER F-6 Digital Technologies MOOC Challenges? ● In 2014, with support from Google, CSER launched a free online F-6 course to support Digital Technologies implementation. Unpacking content descriptors ● Contextualised, flexible learning for teachers. Language Time Motivation Resources Where to start? Recognition What PD do teachers need? (certificates, mapped curriculum) Just-in-time Meaningful Resources Flexible engagement (practical, crowd-sourced, external, free, open Sustained (purposeful, liked to source) practice) COMMUNITY Professional application Customisable Networks Course (Teachers, Associations, (self-paced, flexible) further opportunities) 1
30-Mar-17 Unpacking curriculum Course content (video and text) Links to curriculum Exemplar lessons & seed ideas Practical activities - linking to community refractionmedia.com.au/careerswithcode CSER MOOCs Additional Support ● Facilitated community-based professional learning Project Officers in each state o and territory of Australia Blended learning model o 7&8 Next Steps F-6 Fundamentals supported by the CSER MOOC courses and online community ● Additional support for remote and unconnected communities Localised resource delivery o (eTextbook model, unplugged activities) F-6 Extended 9&10 2
30-Mar-17 Lending Library ● National Lending Library Free access to Digital 9,000+ enrolments o Technologies education 5,000+ community members equipment Mapped to Digital o 5,500+ resources Technologies learning area and year bands Exemplar activities o PL-in-a-Box What participants are saying: I've gone from reluctance about this... to being I found it invaluable making contact and connections with enthralled, challenged and excited about the other people and their ideas . It really opened up some possibilities and prospect of being part of interesting lesson ideas and programs available that have something new and big. been tried by others. the language was the most challenging part [but It has given me many ideas that I have been able to use once] you saw what ‘visual programming’ or immediately in my teaching . Easily adapted ideas and the ‘algorithms and programming’ encompassed it took sharing from the whole community has provided even more the anxiety out of the topic... ideas and resources. Although I have finished this course, I keep The online access and flexible nature of the course made it coming back to make use of all the resources this community has to offer and to make possible for rural remote people to participate in sustained csermoocs.adelaide.edu.au/pdbox [high quality] PD and to interact with fellow professionals . further comments . Thanks for the opportunity to participate. CSER Project Officers Meet the Team Supporting teachers across Australia Sue Carter Lauren Stanhope with Digital Technologies Meridith Ebbs Steven Payne Celia Coffa Ben Jucius Toni Falusi (ACT) Karen Butler Peter Lelong 3
30-Mar-17 Community Based PL Digital Technologies Professional Learning ● Conferences ● Expos ● Professional Association events ● Sector Professional Learning events ● CSER hosted events School Based PL Supporting schools to present their own PL Briefing session Getting started with the MOOC Half Day Full Day 2 Day Supporting teachers with the online environment Hands-on Workshops ● Registering Algorithms ● Ongoing support ● Blended learning options Lending Library equipment Unplugged activities Robotics Visual Programming 4
30-Mar-17 Lending Library Making Contact http://csermoocs.adelaide.edu.au/ Other PL opportunities? The Hutchins School, Year 11/12 Environmental Science students are using a CSIRO-developed sensor network to conduct research into plant water usage at the school. Brett Smith, Environmental Science Teacher, in partnership with Andrew Terhorst. scientistsinschools.edu.au code.org/educate/professional-development-online computationalthinkingcourse.withgoogle.com 5
30-Mar-17 ● Upcoming events ● Online courses, blogs, podcasts, communities ● Professional Associations ● Organisations/Outreach cs4hs.com digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au Meet the Team Sue Carter Lauren Stanhope Meridith Ebbs Steven Payne acce.edu.au Celia Coffa Ben Jucius Toni Falusi (ACT) Karen Butler Peter Lelong Q&A? csermoocs.adelaide.edu.au | cser@adelaide.edu.au 6
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