Mark+Treadwell

__**Tony Ryan - Transformational Teachers...**__

Language is critical - very important we look for the best. (Professional Dialogue)

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 * //New Paradigms of life and learning://**
 * Lifespan is extending
 * Increasingly electronic environment
 * The Zeitgeist (Time Ghost - the winds of change) of 'lifelong learning' - one way to cope with change is to be a learner
 * Significant financial reframings - implications for all future consumption patterns


 * //We need a transformational humanity //**
 * people need to believe that they can make a difference
 * everyONE needs to take responsibility for the environment
 * WHO DO WE NEED TO BE? - not what do we need to teach

**__Energisers:__** Colour Comments and quotes - in places where students can see them People can choose their thinking pathways - you can change your neural pathways Look at 'Where the hell is Matt' clip I am a legend - in your head (get your students to do this) - success spiral (set a goal and then succeed)

Feedback needs to be critical - become aware of this (provide why it is that a students has done well) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead

Think outside the dodecahedron

__**10 years in 90 minutes -Wesley from NMC School in Sydney**__

One to one school - 13 years with a one to one laptop scheme - http://www.mlcsyd.nsw.edu.au Skoolaborate - online virtual school - http://www.skoolaborate.com/ The Horizon Report - what future technology should we plan for. - http://www.nmc.org/horizon

We need to be in a situation when we call upon technologies like skype - doesn't need to be pre-planned. Be able to record this so that students

Conference recorder - records skype (beneficial so that if students are not their they can go back and listen) - http://www.ecamm.com/mac/conferencerecorder/ - works with ichat http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/ - ichat and skype just audio http://share.skype.com/sites/mac/2007/03/record_skype_video_calls.html - works with Skype  Use dashboard to work out the times of places that are easy to collaborate with. 

//**What are the big web 2 application**// >  Content management system - has the ability to embed you tube vids, music images etc. This way students don't have to be driven by the teacher as students can access this information in their own time. This helps aggregate the information into one spot. So the teacher can say here are the resources within one site so teacher isn't the only source of information. Wesley suggests that teachers should add content - drill and kill and the students can access this prior to the lesson so that students can further develop and personalise their learning.  They have set lessons up with Second Life - students can then work at their own pace.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">You Tube
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Flickr
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Animoto
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">itunes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Facebook

The key is teacher management - having the ability to inspire and encourage their students to take risks. Being flexible in their teaching approach in that students don't need to be working on the same thing at the same time.

One to one learning improves pedagogy

Frank Crowther - Idas Project in Queensland Strategic Foundations Community on board Infrastructure Pedagogy Matches Vision - central

Creating vision - split staff into groups and ask them to come up with four points that are important to them What is important for your students? School, region, country All groups considered Big picture concerns Millennium goals OECD

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Slow release - of technology - a couple of things at a time <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Having a content management system - is much better than a server. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Teachers can go there for notices, for templates, for resources...all teachers can add and download the appropriate information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Teachers decide on the vision - work towards what is essential for them.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Teachers vote and decide what it is that they cannot live without.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Over time teachers vote, change and add more
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Over time decide and break down the 4 they have chosen from.

Research shows that teachers do not participate in online discussions - however students do. Does the LMS allow for students to have screen names - this stops bullying. Teacher can see names but students can and then they can have free student voice.

Speak out about bullying - students can type issues in here and this is passed on to pastrol care. Gallery - no more posters - this is up in the student gallery - saved $25,000 (consistent with vision - saving the planet) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Content management system - may be free but you need someone who can manage it in the school - therefore pay money if you want quality and ease of use - don't use Moodle.

Hopscotch - content management - have a look Nightclass

__**Mark Treadwill**__

Websites to Visit: www.schoolv2.net www.i-learnt.com www.teachers.work.co.nz www.knowledge.net.nz

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">__**Books to look at:**__ > <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> __**Competencies:**__ //Building a new paradigm// >
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">What ever next - Curriculum Framework - coming out in 6 weeks
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Five Minds for the Future - Howard Gardner (discipline mind, synthesizing mind, creative mind, respectful mind, moral mind)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> The Flight of the creative class - Richard Florida
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Creative Sector - running out of people.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Staff meetings should be held in cafe (out of school).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Tolerant of difference.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Creativity is lacking - we want students to e creative in all disciplines.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Speaking is more important than reading and writing because it is more important when you leave school- confident, connected, creative...
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">We need all people to have the ability to lead and drive change.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Teach people more than just knowing - interrogate and manipulate through inquiry to form understanding.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Teaching competencies explicitly in order to develop creativity and innovation.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Thinking - understanding the nature of being human (its not about the hats, habits of mind...) Thinking concepts <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Neurons don't run your brain - its astrocytes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Competencies to capability - refer to DeSeCo **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Human qualities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Thinking processes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Thinking approaches
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Thinking dispositions

The Centrality of the Competencies (Worth a look) http://www.i-learnt.com/Paradigm_Competencies.html

Concepts development - how do you manage this? Students needs to identify strengths and weaknesses and grow strengths Map concepts Human Qualities - our thinking and how we interpret ideas is influenced by our unique world. level 1-5 (This is in Whatever next)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">__**Waikowhai Primary - Inquiry Learning Approach - STAR MODEL**__

Decile 3 school - 217 school How we are helping our Year 0-3 students know themselves as learners using solo taxonomy and ICT.

How we changed mindsets > > >
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">We took into account the skill level and ability of individual teachers - slow start
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Looked at Inquiry models around the country - Principals talked it up however no evidence in the classrooms
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Challenge teachers to critically reflect on their teaching styles (raised expectations, appraisal, assessment, focused PD, staff meetings)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Only 3 staff meetings a TERM - admin morning meeting (teachers switch off) so staff meetings are very focused
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">School vision "students will be equiped with a foundation of knowledge and skills to prepare them for adaptation and change in an interconnected and global society.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">SOLO taxonomy (Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes) (links with Asstle) Pam Hook and Julie Mills 'Hooked on Thinking'
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Biggest movement linking to appraisals
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Language of learning - common language and understanding of what they are doing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">SOLO (Biggs and Collis 1982)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">**__STAR MODEL__** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Starter Knowledge Time for Questions Accessing and Sorting Reportng and Presenting Self Evaluation <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> This process is not linear <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Integration through all curriculum areas Lots of visual cues Colour coding

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">**Planning process** Outline PUSH AND PULL - Change One competency for each Term - thinking

How did rubber ducky escape? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">
 * Fertile Questions** - open, undermining, charged and practical
 * Questions for learning**
 * Insights** - main ideas that students will learn (pushes and pulls make things work)
 * Controversies** (questions that students wouldn't normally ask or think about)
 * Colour coded** - everything in their books is colour coded if they are doing something at starter stage - students highlight blue.
 * Push and Pull** - students brought in their toys they talked about what was push and pull. took them to technology

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