Everyone together.
[singing]
My name is Luca [sp].
I am a teacher here at Mimili Anangu School.
This is my third year of teaching.
One of the greatest challenges
about being up here on the lens,
I find, is
that children will vote with their feet.
So if you're not engaging,
you will know very quickly
because your class will slowly disappear.
The students will bring everything
from the community into the classroom,
and we need to absolutely acknowledge that.
So we need to basically find out
as much as we can about a particular student
so that we can engage them
into what we’re doing.
What we’re going to do today,
is we’re going to use Photo Story
to create a presentation for the community.
ICT is good because you can
differentiate between students.
And then we’re going to write about the photos
in English,
but also, if anyone wants
you can do it in your language as well
at the same time.
When we do ICT,
we will focus on the explicit tools of ICT.
[foreign language]
You’re getting good with your capitals.
So we’re using the same program,
between the same ICT skills,
and we’re accessing the same content,
but maybe with just a bit of a
slant for that particular student
just to make sure that they're …
we’re reaching them as best we can.
Which ones on the left?
So maybe we should put her name first.
So this is
Pashwa [sp] and Melissa at the zoo.
[foreign language]
When we say employ
the AWC, the [indecipherable] education workers–
[foreign language]
… to support that student a little bit.
Because often, those students
that aren’t the go-getters
are the ones that
haven’t got a really strong command of English.
They’re the ones that find everything
a little bit more difficult to access.
Finished.
Luca [foreign language].
Yeah, Luca [foreign language].
Yeah, you can add it in if you want.
Luca.
So Nakisha’s [sp] going to do a little bit
in language as well, which is fantastic.
So, what we may do is actually
have a modified task for them,
or they may be doing the first
certain amount of steps of a particular task
but not the entire thing.
Does anyone remember when we had
the Polycom in there
and we did a video conferencing call?
Which school did we do that with?
[indecipherable]
So that was a really good lesson, wasn't it?
The student needs to be able
to relate to you and see that
you want them to do well.
Tally has [foreign language],
kangaroo, [foreign language].
So yeah,
we’re going to act out one big family.
Okay?
I’ve made quite a conscious effort to
try to engage with [foreign language]
and when the students see you as a
student yourself,
you start to break down those
walls that may exist.
Students say, “Oh, teach me about that,”
and they really sort of take pride in doing so.
[foreign language].
One by one, one by one.
[foreign language].
We’re going to record it.
[foreign language]. -Okay.
We’re going to do this for the Christmas party,
so let’s do it as good as we can.
You’ve got to try to
have a spectrum of ways to engage
the students,
particularly when a lot of them
are really, really into action.
[foreign language]
So it's really putting into
practice what they’ve been learning
in theory through the book.
[foreign language]
And the kids just love
being out in country as well.
They respond completely differently.
A student that is troublesome
or problematic in class
can just really step up to a leadership role,
because traditionally of course
all the learning would’ve been done outside
and in quite a different
manner than we do at the moment.
So, we need to take that into account,
being educators here on the lens.
So you need to do two things.
Number one
is log on to Edmodo through the Internet.
Number two–
For us here,
we have a lot of well-being issues
around the community,
but we need to make sure that
regardless of what else is happening,
school is a really safe environment,
it's an inclusive environment,
and I think you get really good
at doing that.
And also, we’ve been
pushing into Edmodo
and Scootle as well just recently.
Once again, to try to give
the students
a learning
plan through ICT–
So we’ve had one person
that has uploaded theirs.
… but also going past that
and looking at collaborative web spaces.
And so that’s the way you can really tell.
For instance, on Edmodo,
on our wiki space,
you can see who’s made the most posts,
what content has been written by whom,
and how it is all coming together.
But now it's just about
finishing your publisher
and putting them up onto Edmodo
so that we can all access them together.
The only thing really more powerful than
ownership is authorship.
So if they're creating their own content,
then that’s best-case scenario.