Idea for CoL – have one GAFE account for student. Stays with them until they leave. Kern’s school district buys a Domain name for each student and uploads all their work.
Whitelist domains so that students can transfer from intermediate domain to secondary domain
Go from handwritten to digital with Rocketbook. Draw then scan with App to upload.
Intermediate students up should do it themselves, younger need help.
With group math problem solving, students upload their work (rather than teacher). Student do the heavy lifting.
Use a Google Sheet for students to add links to for required work.
Showcase
Showcase web site – students choose their best pieces of work. Example from a student.
25 books – Google Books. Create a My library then add shelves. Add a shelf for each year to show how many books they have read in that year. Could also use Goodreads as that has a reading challenge.
Use students as tech support. See example of TechSherpas. Set up so teachers can fill in a form with query, students will prepare a how to video that shows them the solution within a week.
EdTechTeam has expanded it’s offering of Summits to three in NZ. This is the third one I have attended in Auckland and they are also great value and a good chance to connect with other like minded educators.
We’ve had tech for generations (movies in 1900s, TV in 1950s, Computers in 1970s). Now we understand the science of learning AND technology is part of our daily lives.
Generation Z – just go and learn, we needed some one to teach us.
Professor David Hopkins was hosted by ACEL for a one day workshop in Auckland that I was fortunate enough to attend. David has had a range of educational experience as both a researcher, civil servant involved in policy and as a practitioner. It is this combination of experiences and the work he has done as in the English educational system with the Blair government that makes him an authoritative voice on education.
Key learnings from the Workshop:
Session 1 – School and System Reform
Under pinning all efforts in education is a moral purpose. Every student can reach their potential (Equity)
Under the right conditions, every student can achieve. Those conditions include having the task the student is presented with being in their Zone of Proximal Development:
School development happens in Phases. Each phase needs different ‘ingredients’ and management styles. Successful strategies include:
Bottom up target setting
Inside out change
Session 2 – Teaching and Learning
Use instructional rounds (see a description by Robert Marzano) to deprivatise the classroom. Use these to identify ‘theories of action’. Over many of these instructional rounds, Hopkins identified 10 common ones:
Theories of action for the whole school
1. Prioritising high expectations and authentic relationships
2. Emphasising enquiry focused teaching
3. Adopting consistent teaching protocols
4. Adopting consistent learning protocols Theories of action for the teacher
5. Harnessing learning intentions, narrative and pace
6. Setting challenging learning tasks
7. Framing higher order questions
8. Connecting feedback to data
9. Committing to assessment for learning
10. Implementing co-operative groups
What good teachers do – assign students appropriate and engaging learnings tasks within their ZPD (in an average class this may be 4 different tasks.
Think like a doctor – diagnose the problem, apply a suitable treatment.
Improving outcomes for students is linked with shifting teachers to increase their ‘circle of competence’. The driver is intrinsic motivation which is made up (according to Dan Pink) of autonomy, mastery and purpose.
Five conditions for building intrinsic motivation among teachers
Maintain structures for scaffolding teacher development
Make peer coaching ubiquitous
Create protocols for both teacher and learning
Incentivise teacher teams
Ensure classroom observation focuses on learning
Peer coaching:
In triads rotating around turns at doing the observations
Thinking of coming along? Just fill in a couple of brief details and you’ll get a link to my presentation. Three parts to this workshop:
