Patrick Green is a Technology Integrator at Singapore American School. Here are notes from his key note on The Relevant Teacher.
Focus on schools doing stuff differently (e.g. Da Vinci Innovation Lab, Sequoyah – institutionalise failure (called it ‘iteration’))
It is the teachers that impact learning, not school wide programmes = relevant teachers
Relevant teachers
- knows their role is different than in the past
- look at what they teach with a new lens (not content focused) – example of teaching students how to do a bibliography
- not afraid of access to information, even in exams
- not making students do what adults don’t do
- helping students to craft a digital footprint (portfolios – “here’s what I did and how I did it”)
- key to motivation (Daniel Pink – Drive) Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose.
- think of things they can get rid of
- value the ability of students to not follow instructions. Implication – Don’t use exemplars.
- The Shoulder Shrug
The End of Average by Todd Rose. One size fits nobody.
Classroom Management in the Digital Age
iTime (@aliwh_white, @shaunyk)
TRi time at SAS (Imagine, investigate, iterate)
Algebra unit (set content, allocated tools, narrow assessment) compared to Minecraft (open world, unlimited tools, open assessment and ability to respawn)
Super Mario Bros (go from A to B) compared to modern games (side quests)
Great ideas to base your practice on. #edtechteam @pgreensoup pic.twitter.com/5PPW5HHyXO
— GenYouMind (@genyoumind) April 15, 2018
Work vs Play (we overuse the term work in our schools – homework, schoolwork)
Be a learner – growth and change.
What are you doing to be relevant to your students?
