CORE Digitech Roadshow

Posted on August 14, 2017 by corney

CORE Eduction were hosting a free day with a focus on the draft Digital Technology curriculum. Hosted at the new ACG Tauranga, the day began with a keynote by Mike Walmsley of Code Avengers. Mike again reinforced the potential of the IT industry in NZ for creating jobs for our students in the near future and how important being exposed to digital experiences is throughout the education.

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Here’s a link to the day’s collaborative notes with some additional take outs for me below.

Breakout 1 – Design Thinking with Nicki Tempero

Have blogged about this before and this session presented the 5 steps in a slightly different fashion.

  • Link to the presentation
  • Filtering the ideas: Safe bet, Long shot, Darling
  • Feedback on the pitch: Rose (Positive), Bud (Opportunity), Thorn (Challenge)

Image: https://stevemouldey.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/agency-and-ownership/

Breakout 2: Coding and Robotics

Final breakout was a walkthrough of Code avengers – a site initially designed to support on line learning for NCEA Digital Technology curriculum.

Made a connection with Tessa Gray  and joined up to CORE’s Edspace, and a couple of VLN groups. On one of the posts, found this video which resonated with me about the challenge for schooling in the 21st Century.

 

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Keynote – Richard Wells

Posted on April 21, 2017 by corney

Some takeout from Richard Well’s day 2 keynote.

You don’t see the rugby coach on the field, opposite in the classroom.

Playground games – kids don’t need a teacher to play. They know the strategies.

Oblique strategies – by Brian Eno. Strategies to get out of creative funk

Students need to given strategy to play on the pitch without the coach.

Activity should recognise the individual, rather than teacher relationship.

The smartest person in the room is… the room.

Link to Tools for Student Learning – results from Crowd sourced tools.

The known unknowns

Use of Mr G to demonstrate key competencies

Give student tools to structure their work e.g. Slides template gallery

Classroom as a place where students feel they can contribute.

 

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Digital portfolios with Kern Kelly

Posted on April 21, 2017 by corney

Notes for workshop

Link to resources with Kern Kelly

Logistics – student account

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

Also paid for service with Backupify

Google Takeout or Transfer (move data to a different Google account) or Cloudgopher (paid for service)

Students digitise work

SD card with wireless connection – (Eyefi) automatically upload to cloud album. Can do the same thing with an iPad and Google Photos (shared album)

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.

Keep up to date with What’s New – Google.

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.

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Workshop – Digital Tools for your Community of Learning

Posted on April 20, 2017 by corney

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:

  1. Listen – I’ll share some background and use of tools in my experience as an Across CoL teacher
  2. Discuss – share some thoughts with others about how to best evaluate digital tools
  3. Do – have a play with all the tools mentioned then we’ll crowdsource an evaluation of some common platforms.

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Keynote – Jamie Casap

Posted on April 20, 2017 by corney

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.

Here’s my notes from the opening Keynote.

Link to photo’s from the Summit

Link to summit website

Keynote notes

Link to Jamie’s twitter profile

“Education disrupts poverty”

“The impact of a teacher goes on for generations”

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.

Tech is changing our world

Skills needed in a technology world.

Source – The Economist

What problem do you want to solve?

Iteration is the result of critical thinking. Don’t assess with a grade, that is feedback that doesn’t help the student get to the next level.

Collaboration is how problems are solved.

Convert information into intelligence.

Original Google servers

 

Google Servers now

Current latest technology is the worst technology a 5 year old will ever now.

Remember these? My first type of phone.

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