Fostering student engagement with Stile (K-12) Video Lecture | Teach Online: A Comprehensive Approach for Teaching Online - Professional Skills

my name is Jesse black I've teach up
Mount Sinai College in Sydney Australia
I've been here for four years and 33 out
of those four years we've been using
technology in the classroom I teach year
three and that involves a whole range of
courses from maths to English creative
arts we teach 41 children between two
teachers so we're responsible for all in
all 41 children I think the main reason
behind us using technology at the school
in particular was not so much the fact
that it's it's coming and we need to
adapt but more about how do we enable
the best pedagogy for our students and
and when you look at it from that
perspective there is a whole world that
opens up when you're willing to kind of
take some risks in it and adapt and put
technology back into your curriculum so
I think for us it was more about
answering the question what is going to
drive the best outcomes for our students
and when you look around it's really
hard to do to deny the the power of
technology to help us meet those
outcomes I padstow you all use and we
use computers and smartphones so one of
the core technologies we use at Mount
Sinai college college is called style
STI le and style is a little bit hard to
describe it's not a learning management
system it's more like a content creation
and delivery system there's some
pedagogy actually embedded into style
and in short it allows me to create
lessons that I can then push to my
students on the iPad ok so you're
looking at the homepage of style once
you login and you can see down here on
the left side there are various subjects
these are what you would have access to
as a teacher so I'll just walk you
through one briefly my favorite is
probably how amusing style in maths so
when you click on your subject it will
load up for you any lesson that you
might have created and this is really
where it's powerful because for example
I have a lesson topic called YouTube and
underneath here lives all of my
pre-recorded YouTube videos you'll see
this black line here called students and
one
i slide that I can make the videos
visible to students or invisible which
is really nice to keep some focused and
engage so that maybe they're not
spending time on on topics you've
already covered or that they shouldn't
be on I'll give you an example of one
we've done recently this is called a
YouTube session on elapsed time I'll
flip the student mode so you can see
what they see so a student might open
their iPad go to this log in the style
go to this link they'll read the
instructions and they'll scroll down and
they'll watch this video in this video
I'll walk you through in a moment I've
created and uploaded via youtube so it's
kind of style you can think about is the
wrapper that delivers the content which
is on YouTube the software I use to
create all of my youtube videos is up
here in the tabs called smooth draw it's
free which is nice and it's quite
powerful some of the draw lets you
pretty much do any annotating you want
on your screen I record with open
broadcaster software which is also free
this is really a really easy painless
program to use once I've recorded my
lesson I upload via YouTube YouTube is
obviously quick painless and it's almost
never down so you can rely on it quite
well now I could just send my students
links to my videos if I click on video
manager over here I can pull any link
that I've made but I find style is
really that extra step I'll give you an
example as to why so here I am in my in
my video that I made let's go look at at
one of the lesson that I've done called
Sam's alarm clock so I've taken some
screenshots of a problem i really liked
they have to solve it and this is where
style really shines i can make these
multiple choice questions that the
students can answer and it will mark it
for me and then give me feedback on on
how they've gone and that's really
really powerful so this is what the
students see and it was so simple to set
up so just kind of two little insights
into what styles style is doing its
allowing me to send my lessons to the
students via youtube and it's law
allowing me to collect data on them and
give them feedback so when i record my
lectures on on youtube it's a pretty
simple process I
I use a number of different ways but
he'll be the most basic is I record
myself drawing on my computer and
speaking at the same time so i can give
any kind of didactic instruction
straight into the computer it's recorded
i save that recording maybe do some
editing upload it to youtube then I can
use style to push that YouTube content
to the students and in style it's
contextualized so they're looking at it
exactly how I want them to see it and I
can put follow-up questions that can be
automatically marked if I need so style
is kind of like the rapper youtube is
how it's delivered and it's it's
recorded on my computer
I think my I think my main problem was I
had this mindset of I need to find the
killer app like I need to find that one
thing that's going to make the ipad
worthwhile it took a long time to
realize that that one thing is like is
me like the killer app for students is
their teacher so it once you once you
realize that you try to think about how
how does the ipad enable you to spend
more time with your students and and
that took me it sounds like a very
simple lesson but it took me a few years
to even figure that out because I I just
kept looking for that one app app that's
going to solve solve everything and it
doesn't exist you know you still need to
develop that teacher-student
relationship I think we often wondered
how much technical skill do we need to
to use this kind of technology in the
classroom and my answer to that would be
the absolute bare minimum is what's
needed and I and I think I can say that
because if you have the mindset that you
will work with your students and that
you will learn from them as much as they
learn from you you can approach it in
almost with them in a collaborative
sense if your school's supportive and
you have the least one person in your
school that you can go do to ask
I start from what do the students
already know so there'd be some kind of
pretest involved a way that I can gauge
where they're at so that when I do
deliver the content really we're doing
two things are not boring them and and
we're not giving them something that's
too difficult and so we can
individualize the second kind of tier of
the pre-flight checklist is going
straight back to the syllabus you know
what are the outcomes that we're kind of
beholdin to and I find it's nice to go
back to that frequently because you do
forget and and you do realize that you
see them again you think oh I could be
doing that a different way so it it's
asking where the students are from using
using the syllabus and then finally just
thinking about what technologies are
going to fit how you want to deliver the
lesson I mean sometimes it might be You
Tube sometimes might be style and that's
only going to come with experience you
know I think when you first start it's
fine to not know what to do just jump in
but you know after a few years it'll be
very clear to you oh this this lesson
needs this technology to be enabled you
can watch videos in style and you can
upload photos and have writings
everywhere for depends what subject like
you can make a link for any subject you
want you can get like a lot of subjects
and you can put loads of like things
that did you just ask
I find the students response to
technology is evolving if I had was a
death answer this question a few years
ago I'd probably a bit different I'd say
now we almost feel second nature the way
they respond to it i would say they
expect it it often creates a feedback
loop in your classroom so in the past if
a student wanted feedback from their
teacher you know it's kind of bound to
time and space in a funny way it kind of
releases you from timing space you can
give students feedback at home you can
give them feedback you know different
parts of the school it's all and and
that creates kind of a like I said a
feedback loop and enables them to then
push their work further
we've been on a three-year journey
really to embed technology deeply at our
school and it could not have happened
without the support of everyone I mean
it is a collaborative enterprise what
we're doing here
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