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
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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
Rebecca Tupling Canadian International School of Hong Kong Rebecca.Tupling@gmail.com Twitter: @RebeccaTupling
Authentically Integrating Tech in the Early Years
I am Rebecca Tupling. I am currently teaching Grade 4. I taught Early Years for 11 years.
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Presentation
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Specialises in ways to communicate, collaborate and innovate in the Early Years.
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The important thing about young children is that they are
playful, changing, and
important thing about young children, I believe, is their power.
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Communicate
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/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/ verb 1.share or exchange information, news,
Communication with Parents
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August - December
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How Did We Do it?
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Seesaw Pen Pals
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Fort Worth Country Day School Fort Worth, Texas, USA Canadian International School of Hong Kong Hong Kong
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Reflection Time When would you use it? Why would you use it? How would you use it?
Communication Ideas
Collaborate
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/kəˈlabəreɪt/ verb
Community Collaboration
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“Any educator will tell you that a parent is a child’s first and best teacher.” pg. 19
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Global Connections
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“A working definition of online global collaboration: Online global collaboration broadly refers to geographically dispersed educators, learners, classrooms, schools and
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
culture? George Couros
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The Power of Twitter within your own Community
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The Power of Twitter within the Global Community
Cathie Matthews - UNIS, Vietnam @catherine_learn Veronica De Vries - NIST, Thailand @Verushkadevries Pana Asavatana - TAS, Taiwan @PanaAsavatana Brooks Luscher - AISM, Mozambique @ELCwithBrooks
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Reflection Time When would you use it? Why would you use it? How would you use it?
Collaboration Ideas
Involvement
Schools
Innovate
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/ˈɪnəveɪt/ verb
especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.
Coding in the Early Years
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Reflections
“It’s a cube so it’s called Cubetto.” Ryan “I see the arrow so it goes this way.” Caden “Each thing we did had instructions.” Marcus
“If it turns left
and left and left it turns around.” Gianna “Grow makes it get bigger.” Anabelle
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The students used Google Earth to investigate the area they would go for an upcoming field trip. This field trip was connected to How We Organise Ourselves.
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The students used Stop Motion to show different
learning engagement was connected to the unit How We Express Ourselves.
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The students used Pic Collage to explore and label different materials, environments and
learning engagement was connected to the unit Where We Are in Place and Time.
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The students explored Loose Parts Play through old computer and keyboard parts. They created doctors offices, restaurants, and hairdresser shops.
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Reflection Time When would you use it? Why would you use it? How would you use it?
Innovation Ideas
Old Computer Parts
Going Further
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More Early Years Teachers on Twitter; @Es_Ip @Awykoo @Gillplittle @LeoWCDNIS @FBradleybarnard
Slides presented by www.carnivalslides.com
21C Teachmeets https://www.21c-learning.com/events/format /teachmeet/ Next one - May 7th Electronics resource - https://www.buzzer.hk/ Seesaw - PD in your PJs
You can find me at: @Rebecca Tupling Rebecca.Tupling@gmail.com www.worldlywonders.org
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