Blues Skies

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• Blues Skies
• Imagining ICT-advanced Teachers
• Michelle Selinger
• Chris Yapp

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What sort of environment will they need to be
ICT-advanced in?

• School environment
• classrooms
• group rooms
• quiet areas
• open learning spaces
• Learner demands and needs
• multiple tools
• multiple modes
• Curriculum design
• personalisation
• whose curriculum?
• Assessment
• what for? who for?
• how demonstrated ? how measured?

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What tools?

• Infrastructure
• Wireless
• Ethernet
• Bluetooth
• speed of access

• Kit
• Laptops
• Desktops
• Interactive whiteboards
• PDA phones
• IP TV, Video on demand,
• IP telephones
• Streaming media
• Virtual classroom tools
• Video conferencing tools

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Some other questions

• Where will learning take place?
• What type of learning?
• Will there be age related and grade related
  classrooms?
• Will learners be given free time in the school
  day?
• What will school hours be?

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Will learners make choices about

• who teaches them?
• how they learn
• where they learn?
• who they learn with?
• what they learn?
• when they learn?

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So what is the role of the ICT advanced
teacher?And what skills should be developed in
preparation?Adviser? Facilitator?Guide?
Companion?Learning mentor? Manager?Orche
strator?And what role for other adults and
peers?Leadership support?

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