Teaching our Digi Kids: Stories, strategies and skills to help early childhood teachers integrate technology in their classrooms

by Hanan Harrison, National Networker and Digi Kids Hub Coordinator for the ANSN.

The author of this book, Hanan Harrison, is an ANSN National Networker and has coordinated the development and growth of our highly successful Teaching our Digital Kids hub around Australia. She has also designed and delivered a range of related professional learning programs. An outstanding educator and communicator, Hanan contributes enormously to the broad scope of our work, which includes new thinking about learning, pedagogy, curriculum development and delivery and school organisation, as well as the use of new technologies. Her own interests include curriculum design, continuous improvement of pedagogy and technology integration in the classroom, particularly as these relate to the early years of schooling.

The ANSN has been at the forefront of IWB training in Victoria with over 600 teachers taking part since the work began in 2007. The network fosters a cooperative learning environment based on an action research approach to learning.

The ANSN is continuing its series of successful IWB hubs in Victoria in 2010.

There are several professional learning opportunities in terms 2 and 3, in Darwin, for participants who wish to explore the Dimensions of Learning Framework.  For registration please contact Tina Doe or use the fax back registration form on the appropriate attached flyer.  We are exploring the potential for DoL hubs in Alice Springs so register your interest with Tina via return email or phone if this is your situation.

Edited by Keith Redman

Topics covered in this edition include:

• New ANSN Snapshot on use of IWBs in a secondary school context
• ANSN Interactive Whiteboards Hub for 2010 under way in Victoria
• Additional IWB Hub ‘start-up’ sessions in Term 2
• 1:1 Laptop Learning Hub
• Cognitive CoachingSM: Training in Northern Territory, Victoria and Queensland
• John Hogan’s reflections on protocols
• New Dimensions of Learning Hubs in Queensland and Victoria
• Reports from DoL professional learning sessions in NSW and Queensland
• Website undergoing some redesign
• Some interesting reading

In 2009 Stephen Seddon was Science Coordinator at Noble Park Secondary College, in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. In 2010 he is Head of Junior School (Years 7-9) at the College. At the end of 2009 he was interviewed by Keith Redman, Editor of ANSN E-News. This Snapshot is based upon that interview and subsequent conversations.

The Australian National Schools Network would like to invite all interested teachers (P-12) to participate in the Dimensi

Cognitive CoachingSM training focuses on the maps and tools needed to mediate another’s thinking.The metaphor of maps

Cognitive CoachingSM training focuses on the maps and tools needed to mediate another’s thinking.The metaphor of maps

Cognitive CoachingSM training focuses on the maps and tools needed to mediate another’s thinking.The metaphor of maps a

Cognitive CoachingSM Advanced Seminars provide refinement and depth of learning for those desiring to achieve expert proficiency in Cognitive CoachingSM. By participating in this training, learners will: