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What Adolescents Are Reading And What Their Teachers Are Not: Between The Deformed Discourse And Disdain Of The Graphic Novel, Philip R. Fitzsimmons
What Adolescents Are Reading And What Their Teachers Are Not: Between The Deformed Discourse And Disdain Of The Graphic Novel, Philip R. Fitzsimmons
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
It was only at the beginning of this year that I realised that I had spent all of my teaching and research life talking with children under the age of twelve years, and even within this group it was mostly with children under six. While I had come to understand a great deal about literacy acquisition (Geekie, Cambourne and Fitzsimmons 1999) and elementary school reading development (Harris, Turbill, Fitzsimmons and McKenzie 2001), as my own teenage daughter constantly reminded me, all I knew was ‘ankle-biter speak’. Determined to change this, I began working with a group of students in a …
Kinder Kids: Learning To Read In The 21st Century, Margaret Turner, Janice B. Turbill
Kinder Kids: Learning To Read In The 21st Century, Margaret Turner, Janice B. Turbill
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Children who enter kindergarten bring to the school environment, a wide range of abilities in reading. Prior literacy experiences in the home and the wider community have been shown to contribute towards these wide ranging abilities (Cairney & Munsie, 1992; Cairney & Ruge, 1997; Brown, 1998; Brooker, 2002; McNicol & Dalton, 2002; Manzo & Robelen, 2003). Our society today, though, is changing rapidly. Our task, therefore, as educators is to prepare our children to function in a future civilization created by the biggest leap in technology since the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago. We have entered a time when advances …
Supporting First Year Student Supporters: An Online Mentoring Model For Supplemental Instruction Leaders, Phillip Dawson, Lori Lockyer, Brian Ferry
Supporting First Year Student Supporters: An Online Mentoring Model For Supplemental Instruction Leaders, Phillip Dawson, Lori Lockyer, Brian Ferry
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Supplemental Instruction (SI), or Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) as it is commonly known in Australia, involves experienced senior student Peer Leaders who provide regularly scheduled peer learning sessions with students enrolled in university courses. Commonly implemented on first year subjects, the sessions integrate how to learn with what to learn, helping students achieve better grades and helping raise student retention rates. This paper discusses the challenges of supporting SI Leaders who are geographically dispersed across multiple campuses and considers the theoretical and empirical informs the development of an online mentoring model.
Looking Back To Look Forward: Understanding The Present By Revisiting The Past: An Australian Perspective, Janice B. Turbill, Brian L. Cambourne
Looking Back To Look Forward: Understanding The Present By Revisiting The Past: An Australian Perspective, Janice B. Turbill, Brian L. Cambourne
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Cambourne and Turbill trace the growth, change and finally marginalisation of progressive approaches to literacy education by examining whole language philosophy in Australia from the 1960s to the present. Using a critical lens, Cambourne and Turbill describe how whole language has been positioned throughout the last nearly 50 years in terms of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. Cambourne and Turbill offer a personal history of whole language in Australia and draw connections of the educational changes occurring in their country to other western democracies. Their insights are valuable in order to examine other grass roots programs and to better understand how …
In-School Professional Development: Supporting Teachers With The Inclusion Of Critical Literacy In Their Classrooms, Lisa K. Kervin, Michelle Rodwell
In-School Professional Development: Supporting Teachers With The Inclusion Of Critical Literacy In Their Classrooms, Lisa K. Kervin, Michelle Rodwell
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
The voluminous literature within the field of teacher professional development presents varied components of what constitutes meaningful professional development experiences for teachers. The case reported herein describes how components identified from an analysis of the literature have been incorporated within an inschool model of professional development to support primary teachers as they explore their literacy teaching within their own school and individual classrooms. These ongoing, in-school professional development experiences aimed to support and encourage pedagogical change as the teachers reviewed their classroom teaching and learning practices with emphasis on critical literacy. The importance of the school professional culture, the organisation …
The Frames, Foramens And Fistulas Of The Graphic Novel: An Adolescent View Of Visual Literacy In Action, Philip R. Fitzsimmons
The Frames, Foramens And Fistulas Of The Graphic Novel: An Adolescent View Of Visual Literacy In Action, Philip R. Fitzsimmons
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
This paper discusses the visual literacy praxis of fifteen adolescents that arose from within a ‘grounded-emergent’ research design. Describing themselves as avid readers of graphic novels these high school students articulated clearly an approach to reading that was aligned to the notion of reading as ‘literary cartography’. For this cohort, the text was an entrée into the visual that allowed a straddling of visual strategies such ‘interiorisation of frames’, ‘resistant internal icons’ and ‘personal orientation’. In essence, these students allowed the visual landscape within and between the ‘gutters’, borders in graphic novels, to be viewed omnisciently, so that the visual …
From The Web To Writing: The Role Of Collaboration In Providing First Year University Students With The Skills To Succeed, Sarah E. O'Shea, Julie Mundy-Taylor
From The Web To Writing: The Role Of Collaboration In Providing First Year University Students With The Skills To Succeed, Sarah E. O'Shea, Julie Mundy-Taylor
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
In contemporary university environments not only have student populations become more diverse, but also institutions have embraced technological advances to create new facets to the teaching and learning process. The challenges offered by virtual learning as well as the impact of email and e-learning remain largely under-researched both broadly and in relation to first year transition. First year students are now expected to not only acquire the implicit academic discourse in a timely fashion but also master the computing skills so central to contemporary university delivery. Skills central to effective and efficient academic research and writing are often perceived in …
The Best Approaches To Online Mentoring, Anthony J. Herrington, Gregg S. Rowland, Janice A. Herrington, Douglas Hearne
The Best Approaches To Online Mentoring, Anthony J. Herrington, Gregg S. Rowland, Janice A. Herrington, Douglas Hearne
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
The beginning year of teaching is arguably a critical year for determining the longevity and success of a teachers career, and the one that would most benefit from induction and mentoring. This paper describes the design and development of a theoretically based, generic website template for online communities of practice for beginning teachers that provides independent and experienced mentoring support. It includes a rich range of resources that are automatically updated, and links to professional websites and other relevant sources of support. The paper illustrates and compares the ways in which the online resource can be used as a model …
Exploring The Nardoo: Designing Problem-Based Learning Experiences For Secondary School Students, Susan J. Bennett
Exploring The Nardoo: Designing Problem-Based Learning Experiences For Secondary School Students, Susan J. Bennett
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
This chapter examines how instructional designers work together in teams to solve problems. It examines the advantages and disadvantages of a team approach to instructional design. This case will explore how a team of instructional designers worked together to create Exploring the Nardoo, a multi-award winning CD-ROM developed by the University of Wollongong’s Educational Media Laboratory (emLab). The case describes key issues related to the design and development of the package from the perspective of a faculty-based multimedia unit, which was established with a strong emphasis on advancing research through innovations in design.
What Is An Authentic Learning Environment?, Anthony J. Herrington, Janice A. Herrington
What Is An Authentic Learning Environment?, Anthony J. Herrington, Janice A. Herrington
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Recent research and learning theory provides a wealth of thought, ideas and strategies to inform the design and implementation of learner-centered, realistic and effective learning environments. This chapter proposes guidelines for designing authentic learning environments for higher education that can be applied across a range of disciplines and in a variety of modes.
Less Means More When It Comes To Fear Appeals And Teenage Drivers, Amanda Burrell, Tonia L. Gray, Brendan Gray
Less Means More When It Comes To Fear Appeals And Teenage Drivers, Amanda Burrell, Tonia L. Gray, Brendan Gray
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Existing road safety campaigns, while effective for many age groups, have failed to inoculate young drivers. The authors are seeking to address this anomaly by accessing recalcitrant drivers within the tertiary student population. The project has two main aims: first to investigate whether involvement in the creation of road safety messages can improve the attitudes and behavioural intentions of students involved in the study; and second, to identify creative solutions that might encourage prophylactic practices among novice drivers. This builds on a previous paper on teenagers responses to road safety advertising and analyses a range of integrated campaigns produced by …
Implementing Authentic Tasks In Web-Based Learning Environments, Younghee Woo, Janice A. Herrington, Shirley Agostinho, Thomas C. Reeves
Implementing Authentic Tasks In Web-Based Learning Environments, Younghee Woo, Janice A. Herrington, Shirley Agostinho, Thomas C. Reeves
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
The instructor’s inclusion of authentic activities improves the quality of student interaction and learning in online classrooms.
Meeting Pre-Service Teachers Where They Are: Supporting Them As Literacy Educators, Lisa K. Kervin, Barbra Mckenzie
Meeting Pre-Service Teachers Where They Are: Supporting Them As Literacy Educators, Lisa K. Kervin, Barbra Mckenzie
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Some media reports (Devine, 2005; Donnelly, 2005) have asserted that pre-service teachers often graduate without an understanding of how to teach children to read and write. In the current climate of professional milestones, national benchmarks and teaching standards for early career teachers, it is crucial that pre-service teacher education programs adequately prepare graduates for entry into the profession. This paper explores how we have tailored a final year literacy elective subject to meet the needs of our pre-service teachers and to support them in their final practicum and subsequent entry into the profession. In particular we report on the processes …
Pink Or Paris? Giftedness In Popular Culture., Wilhelmina J. Vialle
Pink Or Paris? Giftedness In Popular Culture., Wilhelmina J. Vialle
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
In gifted education there is a significant body of research that focuses on the socialising influences that enable gifted children to translate their potential into performance. However, there is very little research that has examined what role popular culture plays in the development of talent. This paper reports on the first phase of a research project investigating the impact of popular culture on gifted children and youth. It involves an analysis of the images of giftedness presented in a selection of popular culture texts. This analysis reveals that gifted young people are often stereotypically portrayed as female, studious, non-sporting and …
Representing Authentic Learning Designs Supporting The Development Of Online Communities Of Learners, Ron Oliver, Anthony J. Herrington, Janice A. Herrington, Thomas C. Reeves
Representing Authentic Learning Designs Supporting The Development Of Online Communities Of Learners, Ron Oliver, Anthony J. Herrington, Janice A. Herrington, Thomas C. Reeves
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Authentic learning designs have been explored for some time now and have frequently been shown to provide learning settings that provide many meaningful contexts for learning. These meaningful contexts provide not only encouragement for students to learn but also a raft of learning enhancements including higher-order learning and forms of learning support. The establishment of a sense of community among learners creates support mechanisms that can readily enhance learning outcomes. This paper describes several technology-facilitated authentic learning designs that involve the development and support of learning communities. The learning designs are represented in several forms to provide an overview of …
Don't Mention The 'T' Word: Value And Validity In Testing Visual Literacy, Ian M. Brown, Lori Lockyer
Don't Mention The 'T' Word: Value And Validity In Testing Visual Literacy, Ian M. Brown, Lori Lockyer
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
As a result of the expanding global view of literacy an Australian research team has been exploring the concept of testing for visual literacy development. A study has been established to develop a standards referenced test to explore learning development and learning designs appropriate for multiliteracy development for secondary students. This paper will present the development of the test, the validation and the results achieved. The establishment of a test for visual literacy will evaluate, improve and provide information on student learning.
The Net Generation Are Not Big Users Of Web 2.0 Technologies: Preliminary Findings, Gregor Kennedy, Barney Dalgarno, Kathleen Gray, Terry Judd, Jenny Waycott, Susan J. Bennett, Karl A. Maton, Kerri-Lee Krause, Andrea Bishop, Rosemary Chang, Anna Churchwood
The Net Generation Are Not Big Users Of Web 2.0 Technologies: Preliminary Findings, Gregor Kennedy, Barney Dalgarno, Kathleen Gray, Terry Judd, Jenny Waycott, Susan J. Bennett, Karl A. Maton, Kerri-Lee Krause, Andrea Bishop, Rosemary Chang, Anna Churchwood
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
A great deal has been written over the past few years about the characteristics of a new generation of students and the implications for teaching and learning. This generation, which has variously been referred to as the ‘Net Generation’, ‘Digital Natives’ and ‘Generation Y’ are claimed to be very different to their predecessors in their familiarity with technologies and the regularity with which they use them. Additionally, some commentators have claimed that their immersion in technology during their developmental years has changed the way that they learn and perhaps even the physiology of their brains. This paper reports on some …
Ipods And Podcasting Technologies To Support Talking And Listening Experiences Of Grade 4 Students, Jeff Vardy, Lisa K. Kervin, Doug Reid
Ipods And Podcasting Technologies To Support Talking And Listening Experiences Of Grade 4 Students, Jeff Vardy, Lisa K. Kervin, Doug Reid
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Traditional primary classrooms (Kindergarten to Grade 6) have been characterised with chalkboards, books, pencils and pens for decades. However, the range of technology available for use is ever increasing across educational sectors; including primary classrooms. Teachers are under increasing pressure to include new technologies into learning experiences and to also consider ways to present curricula content. In 2006 12 x 30GB 5th Generation Video iPods were provided for use in a Grade 4 classroom. This paper explores how one primary teacher integrated iPods and podcasting into learning experiences with emphasis on the Talking and Listening strand of the New South …
Reader's Response: Complicity: An International Journal Of Complexity And Education, Wendy Nielsen
Reader's Response: Complicity: An International Journal Of Complexity And Education, Wendy Nielsen
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
There is no abstract for this paper: it is a review of another journal.
Well I Got Here ... But What Happens Next? Exploring The Early Narratives Of First Year Female Students Who Are The First In The Family To Attend University, Sarah E. O'Shea
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
There is much literature and research pertaining to the First Year Experience but little that acknowledges or explores how this varies between different cohorts of students. The so-called massification of higher education has led to what Rendon (1994) terms a ‘tapestry of differentiation’ (p.33) amongst students. No longer is the typical candidate a school leaver originating from predominantly white, middle class enclaves where the tradition of attending further education is well established. Instead, many students now access university through non-traditional modes of entry or may be the first in the family to attend such an institution and as such, may …
Lessons From The Classroom: First Year Teachers Report About Their Perceptions Of Life As A Beginning Teacher, Julie M. Kiggins Dr
Lessons From The Classroom: First Year Teachers Report About Their Perceptions Of Life As A Beginning Teacher, Julie M. Kiggins Dr
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
The Knowledge Building Community (KBC) Program at the UOW was designed as an alternative model of teacher education and an intention of its underpinning framework was that it would produce beginning teachers who were confident with problem solving and collaboration. It was hoped that by exposing the students to contextual based learning and a mentoring culture they would be equipped to cope and or seek support in order to deal with the rigours and demands of the primary school classroom. This paper will look at four school and classroom features identified as significant to beginning teaching success namely: Total Responsibility, …
The Development Of Pre-Service Teachers' Conceptual Understanding Of Scaffolding Numeracy, I. Verenikina, M. Chinnappan, Andrew Foxwell
The Development Of Pre-Service Teachers' Conceptual Understanding Of Scaffolding Numeracy, I. Verenikina, M. Chinnappan, Andrew Foxwell
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Becoming a quality teacher involves the acquisition of subject matter knowledge as well as the development of appropriate pedagogical teaching skills. The latter includes knowledge and understanding of scaffolding strategies based in an increasingly popular socio-cultural theory of Lev Vygotsky. Recent research in teaching mathematics identified a wide variety of scaffolding techniques that can be used in the classroom to improve primary school students’ numeracy. However, there is a highly diverse interpretation of scaffolding in the literature which creates difficulties for pre-service teachers when they attempt to make sense of this popular teaching technique and apply it to their teaching. …
Learning Through Multimedia Construction: A Complex Strategy, Christine Brown
Learning Through Multimedia Construction: A Complex Strategy, Christine Brown
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Multimedia construction is a complex and theoretically valid process for developing higher order thinking that can be implemented as a teaching activity and optionally associated with formal assessment in many ways. This article explores the associated learning strategy-learning through multimedia construction, through research and reflective analysis of two class cases that feature learners from primary school and tertiary age ranges.
Developing A Professional Identity: First Year Preservice Teachers Inschool Experience Project, Jan Turbill, Lisa Kervin
Developing A Professional Identity: First Year Preservice Teachers Inschool Experience Project, Jan Turbill, Lisa Kervin
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
It has long been recognised that the process of ‘becoming a teacher’ is complex. The aim of any teacher education program therefore should be to provide ‘high quality learning’ (Killen 2005) that entails both theoretical and practical components. These components need to be clearly linked for as Cole and Knowles (2000) claim there is an unmistaken gap between what teachers are taught in pre-service teacher training and what they are expected to do at the ‘chalk-face’ in the beginning of their professional experience. In response to this obvious challenge current reviews of, and research into, teacher education, have paid particular …
Slowmation: Exploring A New Teaching Approach In Primary School Classrooms, G. Hoban, Brian Ferry, Deslea Konza, Wilma Vialle
Slowmation: Exploring A New Teaching Approach In Primary School Classrooms, G. Hoban, Brian Ferry, Deslea Konza, Wilma Vialle
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Digital animation is a complex process that has been used in commercial movies such as Happy Feet, Chicken Run, Shrek and in educational resources that are made by experts. A new teaching approach called "Slow Motion Animation" (abbreviated to “Slowmation”) has been developed at the University of Wollongong and simplifies the complex process of animation so that learners can make their own animations of science concepts. This paper explores the extent to which this new teaching approach was used by 10 primary teachers in their school classrooms. The teachers were introduced to the approach at a one-day inservice course in …
Ascilite Report 1 For The Carrick Exchange Project: Literature Review, R. Philip, Geraldine E. Lefoe, M. O'Reilly, Dominique R. Parrish
Ascilite Report 1 For The Carrick Exchange Project: Literature Review, R. Philip, Geraldine E. Lefoe, M. O'Reilly, Dominique R. Parrish
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
To inform the design and development of the Carrick Exchange, the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education required research into the prospective user needs, contexts of use and policies necessary to facilitate engagement of the higher education sector with the Carrick Exchange. The data collection and analysis for this research included an extensive literature review, the substance of which forms this report. This document provides an overview of the significant literature relevant to the research conducted by ascilite and should be read in conjunction with the final report. Additional literature can be found in Appendix A: Additional …
Moving Towards A University-Wide Implementation Of An Eportfolio Tool, S. R. Lambert, L. E. Corrin
Moving Towards A University-Wide Implementation Of An Eportfolio Tool, S. R. Lambert, L. E. Corrin
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
The University of Wollongong has been strategically exploring ePortfolios since 2002. Building on lessons learnt from student trials across two different disciplines in 2002/3 and 2006, the project team is on the verge of implementing a university wide ePortfolio tool customisable for all students across all faculties. This paper describes the steps taken on the road thus far, including a description and justification of a new project structure and consultative framework developed to guide the implementation.
Ascilite Report 3 For The Carrick Exchange Project: Themes, Issues And Concerns Emerging Through Focus Groups, R. Philip, Dominique R. Parrish, Geraldine E. Lefoe, Meg O'Reilly
Ascilite Report 3 For The Carrick Exchange Project: Themes, Issues And Concerns Emerging Through Focus Groups, R. Philip, Dominique R. Parrish, Geraldine E. Lefoe, Meg O'Reilly
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
This document reports on the findings of three focus groups conducted with key practitioners from the Australian higher education sector for the ascilite sub-project of the Carrick Exchange development. It continues to explore emerging themes, issues and concerns, building on the findings of ascilite Report 1. The analysis is one of several data gathering methods implemented as part of the ascilite Stage 2 sub-project research. The analysis of three focus groups with a total of twenty-two participants, follows the report of individual interviews conducted with a separate group of twenty-nine key practitioners from the higher education sector and the Vocational, …
Ascilite Report 4 For The Carrick Exchange Project: Final Report, R. Philip, Dominique R. Parrish, Geraldine E. Lefoe, Meg O'Reilly
Ascilite Report 4 For The Carrick Exchange Project: Final Report, R. Philip, Dominique R. Parrish, Geraldine E. Lefoe, Meg O'Reilly
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
Whilst the development of repositories for sharing learning and teaching resources has expanded considerably in the last few years in Australia, many repositories have a particular institutional or discipline focus. In Australia there is no dedicated national repository or community available for the higher education sector that provides a cross disciplinary forum for sharing ideas and resources about learning and teaching, and for cross-institutional collaboration. The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education is well placed to address this gap by developing the Carrick Exchange (see Phillips, Orrell & Millea, 2007). Utilising the current expansion and availability of …
Community, Exchange And Diversity: The Carrick Exchange, R. Philip, Geraldine E. Lefoe, M. O'Reilly, Dominique R. Parrish
Community, Exchange And Diversity: The Carrick Exchange, R. Philip, Geraldine E. Lefoe, M. O'Reilly, Dominique R. Parrish
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
The Carrick Exchange is a significant new online service that will provide communication and collaboration services, and learning and teaching resources across the Australian and international higher education sectors. The Carrick Exchange is sponsored by the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. It is for those who teach, manage and lead learning and teaching in Australian higher education. The Carrick Exchange aims to provide access to quality learning materials and resources; information about new technologies and ideas that impact on teaching practice and student learning; opportunities for academic and support staff to network with others, comment on …