A day out at Boulcott School with 2 guest speakers.
The first was Derek Wenmoth who talked about the purpose of ICT in learning and how we need to make sure technology is inclusive.
The second speaker was Mark Osborne from Albany Senior High, he discussed BYOD and how they developed the wireless at Albany High.
Below are some notes from the day.
ICT Cluster Professional Learning Day
Derek Wenmoth: Director of eLearning
CORE education
Pass the Learning:
“What is our purpose?” Huge investment in ICT in New
Zealand, so what is the impact? Change happens and has always happened.
“Technological change is not additive, it is ecological”. A
new technology doesn’t just change something…….. it changes everything”
Have we reached a
tipping point in education?:
1980’s: Added
computers to the classroom, put in the back of the class. (games)
1993: Commercial
web browser, came to NZ in 1995 and teachers were the first to see and use the
world wide web. Opened up the world to everyone: stuff!
2000’s: Transition
from world wide web of it as a consumer environment to communication and
sharing information. Instead of taking information from the web able to share
what you knew on the web. The power of the social network
Trends:
- Will become more
digital and more mobile, multimedia.
(cool clip about future technology: glass company/Sweden
winning world cup)
Digital: More things are connected to the Internet
than there are people!
Openness:
- GCSN: Greater Christchurch Schools Network website. The
need that came out of the Christchurch earthquake was the importance of kids
being able to work from home, getting rid of the walls of the classroom.
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Hippo Campus Resources: gave them a free
subscription to Christchurch schools. Great animation resources
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OER university: imitates
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Wikieducator.org: resource development into this
environment
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Kids need to be able to think in 3 dimensions:
think and visualise what is behind the picture. Need to add layers to the basic
literacy to equip kids for the world that they will be working in.
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Google sketch up: great resource
Network and inter-connected:
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Important that schools link up and share and
communicate. Video conferencing used in Christchurch to teach and learn.
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Great for language learning
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Skype use it more this term.
Accessible and online:
Self-directed, Individualised, Personalised education
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twitter a great professional learning tool (sign
up)
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Book “Growing up digital” Don Truscott ( great
to follow)
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Bringing your own device….. different devices
okay and contribute to their learning. (Different is okay)
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Portfolio: students make decisions about what to
put in
Mobile:
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Necessary and wanted
WHAT DO STUDENTS EXPECT?
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How to make it easier to use technology in
schools?
Top students demands:
1.
Let me use my own tools and device
2.
Give me unlimited Internet access
3.
Let me access my projects anywhere
4.
Provide me with communication tools
5.
Give me access to the school network even from
home
So what is my purpose? Why am I here? Vision of the future…
am I passing the learning on? Looking at the future not your past.
What makes a really good player? Pass to where the player is
going to be not where they are now!
Something to think about with our students and our teaching
Notes:
Albany Secondary School: New school, great to go and see!
Carol Moffet: E learning, ministry to start 1998 cluster and
ict strategy
WORKSHOP 1:
Derek: “ Driving
decisions from a pedagogical model”
It is all about how you “think” about technology and use
within the classroom. Is it an add on, or supporting and enhancing the
learning. How to do this effectively
with the equipment, time, expertise and constraints in place?
Infrastructure: moving off site, servers
Discussion Questions:
Q 1. How would
you describe the pedagogical approach
at your school?
Pedagogical approach
-“ The method of teaching and practice” Basically the way you teach. The craft
and science of teaching.
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Some focuses were on enhancing learning through
technology that can’t be done in other ways.
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Why are you doing things?
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Creating choices for curious learning and pursue
their own lines of inquiry
Q 2. Does your
school have a learning model that it uses to help explain this?
One approach:
At one Primary school:
Teaching and learning
Processes:
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Learn - Engaging
with existing knowledge.
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Create - New
knowledge
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Share -
Communicating ideas, sharing and celebrating
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Assess- that
idea of reflection should underpin the whole approach
Principles:
What makes
this different in the 21st Century?
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Ubiquity –
learning anytime and anywhere, anyplace, device.
Life long and life wide learning
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Agency – Learner
choice and control (personalised and adaptive)
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Connected –
Collaborative skills and knowledge within a shared network
Services
Infrastructure
Good to read and have a look at George Siemens
“Connectivism”
Knowledge exists within the spaces between us not just
within us, hence the importance of connectiveness.
Secondary School Approach:
LEARN – CREATE – SHARE (do
we spend enough allowing for sharing?)
Share – feedback- reflect – improve!
Final thoughts: “ Share your model with your students.
Create a learning culture where everyone is able to communicate and share the
model for learning and teaching at your school” Shift the culture of the our
learning into the whole community”
Keynote Speaker 2: Mark
Obsorne
“BYOD: Putting
into personalised learning”
Technology is a tool to be used by people, a servant to
learning.
· BYOD: bring your own device.
Putting the person into personalised learning
http;//bit.ly/LwAoXr
WHY:
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Consider your school vision and where you are
headed.
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Decide what they can bring: It is not what it is
but how you use it!
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Assumptions we have about technology and
learning.
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Students already have them. At a secondary level
most students already have a phone, why not use this as a tool for learning?
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Openness and flexibility of learning outside of
school hours
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Collaboration of learning for students and
teachers.
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Creating spaces for this kind of learning
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“ The question is not if you are bright, but how
are you bright”
Albany High School
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Tools to show how they are bright.
HOW:
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Be a new school everyday: Albany School
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Wikieducator:
info from A S for everyone to access and use
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Respect for each-other and the learning
environment
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Bring in any device
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Issues around charging and sercuity
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Must be sustainability and transferability
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Laptop lockers with plugs
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Connect to wifi and put in user name and
password, covered by sercuity and watch dog
WHAT:
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Able to use any devices
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It needs to wireless capable
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Use of QR codes to use to go directly to
websites etc and download learning resources.
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Use only free apps
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Breaks down the walls of who knows what and when
can learn it
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Authentic learning, inside out learning, project
learning
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Context Learning: learning tools that are
location aware (augmented reality)
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App: Wikitude
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Moodleinschools.org.nz – so don’t need to
download apps. They use a browser
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Koha Integrated library system – open source
software. Community developing the software then is put back out there for
everyone to use.
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Youtube: has a video editor
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Celesita: space
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Freemind: mind maps
Workshop 2: Mark
Obsorne
“Big progress
through little steps”
E-port-folios
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E-port-foilios: Way forward with the learner
making choices and it gets passed on through the different stages of education.
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Myportfolio.school.nz
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Student should own the port-folio not the school
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Students need to be very active in their
learning
Impact Projects
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Get to work on a project of their choice for 1
day a week.
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Deep learning with a benefit to the community
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Posterous –blog site
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status.net
good for creative posts
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