Keynote by Abdul Chohan

Set up Olive Tree Primary School

Devices are like taps. The water doesn’t come from the taps it’s the plumbing behind it that makes it work

All our teachers are trained on twitter

To change Belief – must be Simple and Reliable

Six most expensive words in education: “We’ve always done it that way”

“The best app for Maths is the Maths teacher”

Content is on iTunesU, feedback given via Showbie iPad app.

Weekly PD – Teachers share One best thing, One best failure

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Ignite session with Maniakalani teachers

Each teacher had 6 minutes to speak, slides on auto advance. Audience asked to ask a Why, What and How question. Presenter then answers questions from the floor.

Link to resource site – contains details of the MIT programme.

Philosophy: Learn, create, share

Ignite 1

Aim to develop critical thinking skills.

Paidiea group discussions-similar to Socratic method

Interesting to note that the teacher focused on one student

How did you track talk time?

Ignite 2

Troy England-PE teacher at Papakura High School

Problem-low literacy and attendance

Solution-develop self efficacy

Innovation-voice typing. Started with recording a conversation with teacher, then speaking directly into device.

Does it matter whether students speak or type their answers?

Ignite 3

Kelsey Morgan from Chrischurch

Aim-engage students in maths via blogging.

Students created explainer slides on their blogs.

Ignite 4

Dot from Tamaki College teaching social studies

Aim: engaging year 9s via blogging

Linked with Primary schools to find out familiar writing frameworks

Used SOLO framework to guide writing

Students had to quad blog-What is quad blogging? Students comment on 3 others students post that was positive and helpful.

Slogging-blogging plus SOLO

apeluattc.blogspot.co.nz

Ignite 5

Alicia from Ohaewai Primart

Collaboration in open learning environments

Teachers as role models that learning takes risks and make mistakes.

PQP strategy to give effective feedback

Ignite 6

Hinera Anderson from Tamaki College

Aim: visible teaching and learning (VTaL)

https://sites.google.com/a/tamaki.ac.nz/visible-teaching-and-learning-vtal/

Ignite 7

Angela at Point England School. Aim-increase reading mileage. “A child who reads will be an adult who thinks”.

Other related resources

Manaiakalani outreach facilitation presentation

Kootuitui – Manaiakalani Outreach programme

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Keynote – Brad Waid

Changing tools  – From scroll to book

What would our students share about their learning? Are we preparing them for ‘Their Future’ or for ‘Our Future’?

Example of Cargo Bot. The relationship is what’s important; tools keep changing.

The changing world that we may not fully understand (e.g. popularity of games such as League of Legends, Youtubers etc.)

Link to Storify – collection of tweets.

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World without order – Citizenship through Minecraft

Campbell Potter shared his use of Minecraft with Y9 Social Studies classes. I’ve experimented with this in the past but haven’t got past the intricacies of setting this up with multiple platforms and paid for accounts. Here the technical setup you need in order to have students interact in a shared world/realm:

Two Options:
1) Paid for Minecraft apps ($10 for mobile) with mobile devices then set up Realm on mobile-but only 10 users at a time in the realm

2) Paid for accounts (lap top and mobile) and run on laptop with the Minecraft app (unlimited number in the realm)

Minecraft Education (https://education.minecraft.net/how-it-works/tech-specs)
Possible free alternative is Mine test (https://www.minetest.net/#about)

Structure of unit – Orion Prime

1) Set up an undeveloped ‘realm’


2) Have a government and divide class into ‘Ministries’

3) Ministries organise Work team plans for the two teams of 4 (8 in total) to complete within an agree time period.
4) Learning comes from reflection via Seesaw on their experience based around citizenship:


Other ideas
Work individually to design machines, build tools and buildings related to unit of study

 

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The innovation stream – interdisciplinary innovation at Howick College

Student’s choose to go into Innovation Stream (other options are Sport in Education, Learning Support etc)

Focus on the 6 C’s which is the content. Context are the subjects e.g. Maths, Science etc.

Similar structure to TBC’s Inquiry programme (15/25 hours in IS). A term per unit: Eg Housing Crisis, Transport and Technology, Future of food and food systems, Colony development.

No Learning Intentions or Success Criteria, each session starts with a Learning Spark.

Some push back from other subject areas about content coverage in the Innovation Stream.

Reporting involves the 6C’s as well content assessment.

Neat idea for designing a lander and a rover for an ‘eggstranaut’. Needed to survive a 7 m drop then roll down a ramp. Had to do physics calculations etc.

Edge projects (Living on the Edge of one’s competencies)  – similar to passion projects.

Resources

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