ULearn14 - Helan Henkin I’m the boss of me

Helan Henkin

I’m the boss of me

Importance of curiosity

Putting up a random picture in the morning to get children thinking about possibilities and ideas

Children need to be capable

Provide opportunities to manage themselves

Student Planner

Complete work by deadlines

Set of tasks handed out on Monday due of Friday

Plan the weeks work and when they need to do their learning

Drop in the must dos/workshops

Writing reflections, peer reflections

Weekly Mahy timetable

Suiting the needs and learning styles of our children

Do tasks in different ways, allowing for differentiation and creativity

Putting the planner on the blog so they can access this

Quality Controllers – who are the experts in certain tasks that the children see before submitting their work

ULearn14 - Derek Wenmoth Ten Trends for 2014

Derek Wenmoth

Ten Trends for 2014

5 Key areas of change

Technology (Technological advances)

Cloud based storage

Structural (How schools are organised and managed)

How are schools used, accessed etc

Process (How we do things with our schools)

Economics (demands on resources, being a global player)

Cultural (Things that influence the school)

Learner Agency

Actively involved in making decisions about their own learning

Student choice, Student voice, lifelong learners, personalised learning, learner access to tools and information, pursue own learning, culture of participation

What are the skills for the participatory culture

Play, performance, Simulation, Appropriation, multitasking, distributed cognition, cognitive intelligence, judgement, trans media navigations,

How is student voice reflected in all aspects of school life

How pervasive is the notion of participatory culture in our school

Living in the digital now

How do we teacher our children to navigate the rapidly moving digital present, conscious reflecting and develop various literacies and act appropriately in different spaces.

Using tech to assist improve our lives, learning, leading

Needs

Open ness to

Using the cloud

Online services

Digital citizenship

Digital literacy

Cyber safety

Kids deserve to be able to thrive in a digital world

Gamification

Knewton.com/gamification-education/

Clearly defined goals

Scorekeeping

Frequent feedback

Personal choice

Consistent coaching

Global Connectedness

Connecting with other parts of the world

Intercultural awareness

How do we connect globally

Learner Orientation

The focus on the learner is the focus, how we design the buildings, the curriculum.

Design – begin with the leaner at the centre, how will they walk, work, sit move, relax, learn collaboratively independently etc

Learning in this century

Learning Analytics

Collections of data from a range of contexts

What do we do with the info we get from students

How is the data inform us at a school level

Facebook and Google Docs are the biggest tech analytics in the world

How do we harness this

Culture

Maker culture encourages informal shared social learning focused on construction

Thinking 3D

Titanium jawbones

9 Jobs humans may change to robots

1.   Phamacists

2.   Lawyers

3.   Drivers

4.   Astronauts

5.   Store Clerks

6.   Soldiers

7.   Baby sitters

8.   Rescuers

9.   Sports writers and reporters

    Coding at schools

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/04/coding-school-computing-children-programming

How are we encouraging children to be creators/inventors

Are we offering programming opportunities

Networked Organisations

Borderless – networked with others

Collaboration

Pervasively networked

What networks are we part of?

The power of twitter

Assessment

Eportfolios

Badges

Online exams

Big data

Assessment for learning

Use of Badges – to recognise achievement (Came from gamification)

Singularly

Its about you, that it’s a part of who you are, what you do etc

Bring all the tech to be part of you - Google glasses, iwatch

Google tattoo possibilities

ULearn14 - Mark Osborne Where Learning Takes Place

Mark Osborne

Where Learning Takes Place

What does Education 1.0 mean?

Learn from experts, family, face to face, family (Name Cooper as a barrel maker)

What does Education 2.0 mean?

Building systems, schools are like factories, one size fits all, teacher dictating, industrial model

What does Education 3.0 mean?

It not a teacher at the front,

Obsolete technology

Paper, connected phone, video stores, film,

People are consuming media via alternative forms/digital forms/mobile forms

Transferring of information – there are continuing issues with this.

Vanishing Jobs

50% of USA jobs are under threat

What can we do that a machine cant do

Jobs that can be done by computers ‘bankers beware: city soon will be run by robots’ The telegraph

Any job that can be routined is rapidly being automated or off shored

“Its hard to test something that has no known answer”

“Its easy to test things that are routine cognitive”

The front half of the NZC have provided the key to this  - VALUES

The school commandments – things that have always been done

-       Group children according to year of birth

-       Learning happens inside the classroom from 9 – 3

-        That we don’t learn outside

-        Class sizes of 25 – 30, physical spaces, shoe boxing children

-       teachers shall teach

-       50min sessions

-       working towards a yearly standard

Changing physical spaces will not change anything, need to think about the systems. MLE Planning Matrix

Make decisions based on what is good for the children not what is easy. Spaces should be build from schools vision

Think about the dentist and your classroom – what do you want to see?

What are affordances our physical environments offer?

Allowing children to not being limited by one teacher

Maximise the flexibility of our environments

How do we want to be shaped – as “We shape our building; thereafter they shape us” Winston Churchill

ULearn14 - Yoram Harpaz The Ideologies of Education

Yoram Harpaz

The Ideologies of Education

Only three ideologies in education

We need to choose only one of these ideologies to follow

(Ideologies of an imagined picture of society)

Utopia – image of a perfect place, image of perfection

Diagnosis – description of actual society

Strategy – The means to change the Diagnosis to Utopia, to reduce the gap.

Collective – A group to carry out the change

Socialisation – Adapting the children to society

Teacher = manager, imparts facts and skills, exercising instructions, all students are all the same, learning from imitation, content is practical and useful. (Training animals at a circus)

Acculturation – Shaping the child’s character in light of the preferred culture. Demanding values and truth, students are different, we teach what you want to know, instruction is modelling, learning is internalization, inner value content. (Who are we God to shape children’s minds)

Individuation – Fulfil own destiny, invent self, fostering the autonomy, personalisation of learning, teacher as a facilitator, guide on the side, teaching is sensitive to individual needs, individual development, each student is unique, self regulating learning. Students are regulating their own learning.  (Let them choose)

We need to choose one of these ideologies to lead our educational practice. You can not teach a combination of all as they contradict each other. An effective school has one ethos! Talk in the same language and believe in one way.

If we change of way, we become indifferent, not sustainable, or believable. We need to make a pedagogical choice/sentiment

T + I + C + S = P

Teacher + instruction + content = purpose

Purpose = knowledge, skills, traits, worldview

When we get into school we are seeing double, we see that there is a gap and we need to minimise the gap, we educate.

Chalk and Talk

Frontal teaching is a form of supervision not teaching