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Communicate, Collaborate and Innovate; Authentically Integrating Tech in the Early Years Rebecca Tupling Canadian International School of Hong Kong Rebecca.Tupling@gmail.com Twitter: @RebeccaTupling

Communicate, Collaborate and Innovate; Authentically Integrating Tech in the Early Years

HELLO! I am Rebecca Tupling. I am currently teaching Grade 4. I taught Early Years for 11 years. 3

Presentation Specialises in ways to communicate, collaborate and innovate in the Early Years. 4

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“ The important thing about young children is that they are powerful. They are lovable, playful, changing, and vulnerable. But the most important thing about young children, I believe, is their power. 6

Communicate /kə ˈ mju ː n ɪ ke ɪ t/ verb 1.share or exchange information, news, or ideas. 7

Communication with Parents August - December 8

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How Did We Do it? 12

Seesaw Pen Pals 13 Fort Worth Country Day School Canadian International School of Hong Kong Fort Worth, Texas, USA Hong Kong

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Communication Ideas 1. Student Reflection 2. Student Blogs Reflection Time 15 When would you use it? Why would you use it? How would you use it?

Collaborate /kə ˈ labəre ɪ t/ verb 1. work jointly on an activity or project. 16

Community Collaboration 17 “Any educator will tell you that a parent is a child’s first and best teacher.” pg. 19

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Global Connections “A working definition of online global collaboration: Online global collaboration broadly refers to geographically dispersed educators, learners, classrooms, schools and other learning environments that use 19 online technologies to learn with others beyond their immediate environment in order to support curricular objectives, intercultural understandings, critical thinking, personal and social capabilities and ICT capabilities.” Julie Lindsay

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“ What if…. Every teacher tweeted one thing that they did in their classroom to a school hashtag, and they took five minutes out of their day to read each other’s tweet? What impact would that have on learning and school culture? George Couros 21

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The Power of Twitter within your own Community 23

The Power of Twitter within the Global Cathie Matthews - UNIS, Vietnam Veronica De Vries - NIST, Thailand Community @catherine_learn @Verushkadevries 24 Pana Asavatana - TAS, Brooks Luscher - AISM, Mozambique Taiwan @ELCwithBrooks @PanaAsavatana

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Collaboration Ideas 1. Parent Involvement 2. Within School 3. With Other Schools 4. Twitter 26 Reflection Time When would you use it? Why would you use it? How would you use it?

Innovate / ˈɪ nəve ɪ t/ verb 1. make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products. 27

Coding in the Early Years 28

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Reflections “It’s a cube “ If it turns left so it’s called and left and Cubetto.” left it turns Ryan around.” Gianna “I see the “Grow makes arrow so it it get goes this bigger.” way.” Anabelle Caden “Each thing we did had instructions.” Marcus 30

The students used Google Earth to investigate the area they would go for an upcoming field trip. This field trip was connected to How 31 We Organise Ourselves.

The students used Stop Motion to show different stories. This learning engagement was 32 connected to the unit How We Express Ourselves.

The students used Pic Collage to explore and label different materials, environments and homes. This 33 learning engagement was connected to the unit Where We Are in Place and Time.

The students explored Loose Parts Play through old computer and keyboard parts. 34 They created doctors offices, restaurants, and hairdresser shops.

Innovation Ideas 1. Coding 2. Google Earth 3. Stop Motion 4. Pic Collage 5. Loose Parts with Old Computer 35 Parts Reflection Time When would you use it? Why would you use it? How would you use it?

Going Further More Early Years 21C Teachmeets https://www.21c-learning.com/events/format Teachers on Twitter; /teachmeet/ Next one - May 7th @Es_Ip Seesaw - PD in your PJs @Awykoo @Gillplittle 36 @LeoWCDNIS @FBradleybarnard Slides presented by www.carnivalslides.com Electronics resource - https://www.buzzer.hk/

THANKS! Any questions? You can find me at: 37 @Rebecca Tupling Rebecca.Tupling@gmail.com www.worldlywonders.org

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