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Teachers that attended ULearn09 have presented back to staff media type="custom" key="4778747" code What Ulearn 09 meant for me

People in the 21st century live in a technology and media-suffused environment, marked by various characteristics, including: access to an abundance of information, rapid changes in technology tools and the ability to collaborate and make individual on an unprecedented scale. To be effective in the 21st century, citizens and workers must be able to exhibit a range of functional and critical thinking skills related to information, media and technology. Students need to learn how they can access information efficiently and effectively and evaluate information critically and competently.

Students need to be guided to use ICT accurately and creatively for the issue at hand. Due to the increased access to information, students need to learn how they can manage the flow of information from the wide variety of sources that are now available.

Learning and innovation skills are increasingly being recognized as the skills that separate students who are prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments in the 21st century, and those who are not. A focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future.

ICT use in the classroom as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information is essential to prepare students with the skills that they will require for their future.

That's some of what I got out of Ulearn. I'd love to present there next year.

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media type="custom" key="4739895" ULearn was an amazing experience as it made everything I have learnt this year and on the contract make sense. It was like a jigsaw puzzle whre random pieces finally fitted together and I understood the big picture. Breakouts with Karen Boyes and Tony Ryan were illuminating and valuable as having already seen these two as part of PD this year, they reinforced the message I had already been getting and inspired me for the future. my children are now using the digital camera independently and after pictures are put on the computer they are looked at and commented on daily. (JG)

Teacher Comments (TW) Wow! ULearn. What an experience. On return to school we were absolutely excited and enthusiastic to provide new and exciting programmes in our classrooms. At the conference I attended a workshop on using digital cameras in the classroom. My students have learnt to download and rotate photos and then save into folders. We are currently learning to use these photos for our writing and putting them in keynote.