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THE LEARNING POWERHOUSE: Sustaining the Spark
Friday, 10 August 2007
Session details
- Keynote Speakers
- Concurrent Session 1 -- 11:25 AM - 12:10 PM
- Concurrent Session 2 -- 12:20 PM - 1:05 PM
- Concurrent Session 3 -- 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
- Concurrent Session 4 -- 2:10 PM - 2:55 PM
- Concurrent
Session 5 -- 3:05 PM - 3:50 PM
Getting mobile
Conversation
Session 1
Robyn Jay
NSW Learnscope Manager, TAFE NSW International Centre for VET Teaching and Learning
Mobile learning is generally thought to encompass all kinds of activities where learning happens outside formal classroom situations and makes use of digital mobile devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and personal digital media players (iPods, MP3 players).
Quality m-learning takes advantage of the learners’ mobility, of being on location and being connected, and acknowledges that learning takes place across our lives and beyond formal settings. It enables authenticity, immediacy, relevance, convenience, flexibility, and accessibility in real life contexts.
In the session we’ll consider the potential that m-learning offers VET programs and the issues we need to tackle in making it happen.
Bring your mobile phone
- Learning for Sustainability, The NSW Environmental Education Plan 2007 - 2010 - Why is this relevant for TAFE NSW teachers?
- Learning for Sustainability, The NSW Environmental Education Plan 2007 - 2010 - Why is this relevant for TAFE NSW teachers?
Games and Virtual Worlds: Custom Training Materials with Standard Desktop Tools
Presentation
Session 2
Dr Thomas Benjamin
Senior Researcher, Centre for Learning Innovation
Despite much publicity surrounding the use of computer games in education most applications have involved either expensive games for high-end users or force-fitting of commercial games to the academic environment. There have been few controlled studies to find the ‘active ingredients’, let alone account for placebo. The success of non-games such as The Sims and Second Life suggests that it is the virtual world interactivity rather than game elements which is creating the addictive interest. What is well-established, however, is a demand for learning objects which can be dis-aggregated, customised, and adapted to curricula, rather than vice-versa. This requires low cost resources with flexibility, attractiveness, and a quick learning curve. Such materials have been sitting under our noses for some years in the form of the later additions to spreadsheets. The venerable spreadsheet can now serve as a presentation (ie- like PowerPoint) storyboard, quasi-animation tool, and game hub. This presentation draws together the recent advances in Control Box form tools, clip art human characters, special fonts, and modified Charts (ie- graphs) to produce the look and feel of virtual worlds without special programming, macro’s, or plug-ins.
Strength based approaches to capability development: seeing our organisations as mysteries to be embraced rather than problems to be solved
Conversation
Session 1
Maret Staron
Manager, TAFE NSW ICVET
Strength based approaches rather than deficit based approaches are having some amazing results in developing capability in organisations. This presentation will answer the following questions: What does it mean to shift to a strength based approach and what kind of capability development strategies are strength based? How does this align to a life based learning approach to capability development in organisations? The focus will be on Appreciative Inquiry as a technique within the Sterngth based approach and an opportunity to practice some of the questioning techniques.
- Learning for Sustainability, The NSW Environmental Education Plan 2007 - 2010 - Why is this relevant for TAFE NSW teachers?
- Learning for Sustainability, The NSW Environmental Education Plan 2007 - 2010 - Why is this relevant for TAFE NSW teachers?
Wikis - educational tools
Presentation
Other
James Matheson
Wiki Consultant, Saikore
Kara Whittingham
Languages Teacher, Sydney Institute
Wikis, referred to as a type of 'social media', are spreading rapidly throughout today's organisations. TAFE NSW's BA & IT Curriculum Centre has established a wiki for programme management, and the Languages Section and the Adult Basic Education Section at Randwick TAFE is working to establish wikis for their teachers to use and collaborate with other teachers. This presentation will show why education is an area that is particularly suited to using this collaborative tool and will address the following: Using wikis to aid learning and collaboration between teachers; The cultural and behavioral changes that emerge from these collaborative work methods; Identifying the challenges in adoption by teachers.
- Learning for Sustainability, The NSW Environmental Education Plan 2007 - 2010 - Why is this relevant for TAFE NSW teachers?
- Learning for Sustainability, The NSW Environmental Education Plan 2007 - 2010 - Why is this relevant for TAFE NSW teachers?