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Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation NT and Department of Education and Training
Presentation: Maggie Garrard
Topic: What’s the place of contemporary information communication technology (ICT) and new media in the HPE classroom?
Venue: Darwin, NT
Website: www.achpernt.com.au

Summary: 21^{st century} teaching resources should reflect 21^{st century} pedagogy and 21^st century learning styles. The production and availability of digital learning objects and digital video clips make it imperative for teachers to use new pedagogical strategies that utilise these resources to the fullest extent. Students demand more interactive learning opportunities and hands-on activities that utilise technology and create interesting and authentic avenues for exploring information and research. Students today are quite adept at managing their own learning and in creating their personal responses using multimedia. Given the software and hardware needed, they are unafraid of expressing their understanding in new and divergent ways and creating new knowledge. Critical understanding of what they can produce and how they can produce it is vitally important even from an early age. Creative students can think multi-modally and understand the integration of image, sound and text and transfer this knowledge and understanding to their own digital works. But they also need to learn to discern the good from the bad, the amateur from the professional.  The really good students can then select and manipulate the best elements to produce their own digital learning objects.