drawing on students' views of educational leadership
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During the CoSN (Consortium of School Networking) Conference 2011: Mastering the Moment in New Orleans, March 14-16, Professor Kathryn Moyle organized a session on Students' Voices. In this session she presented perspectives of students' views of learning with technologies, and reflected upon the implications of these views, for educational leadership and policy making. An international panel discussed issues such as students’ views on filtering of the Internet, what students consider to be high-quality learning using technologies, and the role of social networking sites in their education. New ways of incorporating students' views into the leadership, policy, and planning processes of schools will be canvassed. Kathryn Moyle (PhD) is Executive Director of the Centre for School Leadership, Learning and Development and Professor of Educational Leadership at the Charles Darwin University in Australia.TRANSCRIPT
Drawing on students’
views
of educational leadership
Kathryn Moyle
Charles Darwin University
Australia
Guus Wijngaards
Inholland University
The Netherlands
Views from around the world
Australia
Europe: The Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Ireland
China: embryonic research
Canada: Speak Out
USA: Speak Up
UK: Demos, BECTA, Notschool
Australia & The Netherlands
Australia & The Netherlands
National research: Listening to students views of learning with technologies
Prefer learning with a variety of styles depending on what they want to learn
Learning with technologies is ‘hands on’ learning
Want to be taken seriously
Differences between learning in and outside of school
7/04/10Percentage of respondents who indicated that ‘most’ or ‘all of the time’ computers and the Internet assist their studies
% responseAgree most or all
of time
Computer+Internet help
with studies
Computer+Internet help study
at home
Computer+Internet help
control learning
Primary 71 67 47Secondary 87 73 54VET 97 94 85International 100 100 88Pre service 94 92 80Early career 90 90 77
Global trends
Some consistent messages across countries and cohorts of students
Communication - staying in touch
Mobile technologies
Formal and informal learning
Simulations
Views of social media (eg Facebook)
Common themes
Inter-relationships between technologies and building identity
‘Moral panic’ through to ‘digital faith’
Cyber-safety and filtering
Lack of consultation on policy issues
Lack of confidence in educational leaders
Quality of teaching and learning with technologies tends to be poor and uninspiring
Success factors
Create ways in which students can demonstrate their own leadership and control over their learning
Connect required learning outcomes to emerging ways in which students are learning
Foster communication
Avoid or reduce filtering and build education programs
Enable access to IT infrastructure – ie agnostic systems
Educational leadership?
Challenges for educators legitimacy and identity
Co-construction of educational programs
What does educational leadership ‘look’ like in the 21st century?
Learning impact?
Trust
Steering at a distance
Relationships between teachers and students are fundamental
ICT is embedded across the curriculum (K-12)
Learning to learn (L2L) is encouraged
Inquiry-based learning is fostered
Problem-solving approaches are encouraged
Integrated themes are used to enable students to make connections between different learning outcomes
Learning is grounded upon authentic tasks
Multi-literacies are developed
Leadership strategies• Start with the learning: pedagogies with
technologies• School culture and strategic planning must
include technologies in teaching and learning• Infrastructure has to be a ‘non issue’• Organizational arrangements in schools must
support teaching and learning with technologies• Professional learning is required
Watch points
China: Internet access/mobile technologies
From 23 million Internet connections in 2000 to 384 million connections in 2009
Internet users in China spend about one billion hours per day online
Future directions
Mobile technologies
Building literacy and numeracy with technologies
Project-based learning
Co-creation of learning
Reconstructing learning environments
Longitudinal research
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH_Kzicf84chttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH_Kzicf84c
Key resources
Forthcoming: Student Reactions to Learning with Technologies: Perceptions and Outcomes (IGI Global)
http://studentsvoices.org
Listening to students views: http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/DigitalEducationRevolution/Resources/Documents/ListeningToStudentsVoices.pdf