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Australian Literacy Educator's Association
Presentation: Deborah Cohen
Topic: Engaging Gen Y with digital learning strategies
Sponsorship: Satchel Inserts
Venue: Hilton on the Park, Melbourne, Vic
Website: www.alea2011.com

Summary: Engaging Gen Y with digital learning strategies: connecting teachers and students with difital resources that employ Web 2.0 technologies

 Students today have ready access to Web 2.0 technologies and applications. Social networking sites, twitter, ‘google’ earth, and online games challenge the borders of the world where students can interact and communicate with anyone they wish. Multi-platform personal technologies give our students immediate connection to communities outside their local environment, culture group and language. More importantly, students are just not passive viewers and connectors they are increasingly becoming the producers of cyber content.

A major consideration for this generation of students (and young teachers) is visual multi-media to engage, entertain and connect. Re-purposing television and film offers a new way of engaging students in conversations about people and places that are unfamiliar. Integrating these digital resources with Web 2.0 applications offer students a new way perspective of connecting with the world.

The Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) has been working with different education and cultural partners to develop digital learning resources that use digital clip formats aligned with suggested teaching activities to engage students with multimedia, support all disciplines and address topics and pedagogical frameworks related to current curriculums. The ACTF also promotes digital authoring by students to synthesise and apply their knowledge and understanding into a ‘new package’ as a digital response.

This presentation will explore selected digital resources and evaluate their impact on learning.