Taking the Leap EBest ICTPD Cluster 2007-2009 Ohope Beach School Allandale School Apanui School...

Taking the Leap

EBest ICTPD Cluster

2007-2009

Ohope Beach School

Allandale School

Apanui School

James Street School

Paroa School

St Joseph's Catholic School

Programme Goals

To develop a clear pedagogy for each school that reflects the needs of the 21st Century Learner. That follows an inquiry learning approach that reflects the learning style / needs of the learners / thinking strategies as the method of delivering the ‘schools curriculum’.

To develop a ‘schools curriculum’ that reflects our pedagogy, current curriculum changes, key competencies, assessment and reporting needs.

To develop a Shared Learning Community of EBest schools. This will be achieved through the development of an intranet to share resources and knowledge.

Why are we doing this?

Readiness:Getting children ready for school and getting schools ready for children.

ECE Foundations for Discovery

New Draft Curriculum and your approach to it

Changing nature of how we work and play

Paradigm Shifts -Information is Power

From what is…

Textbook as sourceTeacher as tellerFacts are primaryInformation is packaged

Assessment:Seat workTest scoresgrades

To what ought to be

Variety of media/sourcesTeacher as guide/coachQuestions are primaryInformation is discovered

Multivariable assessment:SynthesisApplicationStudents produceTeachers critiqueDemonstrationTest scores

Breivik, P.S. & Senn, J.A. (1998) Information Literacy: educating children for the 21st century. Washington, DC: NEA pp 24,59.

Creating & Connecting

Connecting

New Draft Curriculum competencies are very much aligned to the notion of, ‘connecting’.

ThinkingUsing language, symbols and textsRelating to othersManaging selfParticipating and contributing

Personalising Learning &Collective Intelligence

Personalisation - Futurelab

Web 1.0   Web 2.0

DoubleClick --> Google AdSense

Ofoto --> Flickr

Akamai --> BitTorrent

mp3.com --> Napster

Britannica Online --> Wikipedia

personal websites --> blogging

evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB

domain name speculation --> search engine optimization

page views --> cost per click

screen scraping --> web services

publishing --> participation

content management systems

--> wikis

directories (taxonomy) --> tagging ("folksonomy")

stickiness --> syndication

Ofoto

Ofoto started by simply allowing users to upload JPEG images to the online service, to share online photo albums with friends, and to purchase physical silver-halide prints of photos

Akamai

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content caching and application delivery.

BitTorrentBitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P)

file distribution protocol.

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocolBitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the whole of

the corresponding costs of hardware, hosting and bandwidth resources. Instead of the distributor alone servicing each recipient, under BitTorrent the recipients each also supply

data to newer recipients, thus significantly reducing the cost and burden on any given individual source as well as

providing redundancy against system problems, and reducing dependence upon the original distributor.

Britannica Online

The online version has more than 120,000 articles and is updated daily. It also has daily features, updates and links to news articles from The New York Times and the BBC.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers; its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Web site.

Wiki

A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and otherwise edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.

THE CENTRAL PRINCIPLE BEHIND THE SUCCESS OF THE GIANTS BORN IN THE WEB 1.0 ERA WHO HAVE SURVIVED TO LEAD THE WEB 2.0 ERA APPEARS TO BE THIS, THAT THEY HAVE EMBRACED THE POWER

OF THE WEB TO HARNESS COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE:

Wikipedia, a is a profound change in the dynamics of content creation and collective

intelligence.

Harnessing Collective Intelligence

eBay enables occasional transactions of only a few dollars between single individuals, acting as an automated intermediary.

Napster (though shut down for legal reasons) built its network not by building a centralized song database, but by architecting a system in such a way that every downloader also became a server, and thus grew the network.

eBay and Napster

RSS

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.Users of RSS content use programs called feed 'readers' or 'aggregators': the user 'subscribes' to a feed by supplying to their reader a link to the feed; the reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.

Some Web 2.0 Ideas

Wow, Web 2.0 is really here.www.globo.co.nz

Creating

User created content is really crucial when using ICT. It’s the difference between real passive activity and real active activity.

Why is creativity important?

TED

Make a quick list…

Flash

Creativity

Creations take time to create.

The process & the product matter equally.

Creativity is in the NZ Draft Curriculum

Creativity is one of the most important 21st Century skills.

Creating with ICTUser created content…

Cows

Sunnyvale Jnrs

Tower Fall

Argument Mapping

Dancing Orc

Dwarf

Ann Frank

Dada

Bodies

Morphs

Paul’s Poem

SketchUp

Hammerhead

Basic Green Screen

5+ a Day

Basic Green Screen

Clean fingernail – Sue’s

Hairs on Sue’s head

What have you seen or been doing with ICT?

Morning Tea

Luke

A Principal PodcastNo Children Left

What are other schools doing successfully?

• Underlying pedagogical focus• PD includes coaching & mentoring• PD includes accountabilities• Teachers demonstrate activities • Focus on learning outcomes• Evidence of student achievement • Reflect, review, refocus etc.• Learning community is active• Teachers and SM model the use of ICTs

St Mary’s Northcote

Summerland SchoolMarina View School

Otahuhu College

Royal Road School - Environ

Dominion Road School

Birkdale Intermediate

Waiheke Primary School

Mulberry Grove School

Dominion Road School

iPaint Project

ICT and G & T

Philosophy 4 Children

Autonomous Learner Model

What about your school?

+ - Interesting

If you went for a walk around your school on any given day

and popped into classrooms at random, what would you like to

see?

21st Century Learners

Who are they?

Age does not determine a 21st Century learner, we are all 21st Century learners.

Have you ever asked students what is happening in their world?

That was 2005, what about 2007?

• School, we power down for it

• Email is for old people

• Click it, get it

• We can get past the blocked sites

• Net Nazis!!!!

• Second Life is cool

Where do schools fit?

In a world with lots and lots of information, how do we know what

to teach?

Real life example

Mash-ups

“ We know we don't have a corner on creativity. There are creative people

all around the world, hundreds of millions of them, and they are going to think of things to do with our basic platform that we didn't think of. So

the mashup stuff is a wonderful way of allowing people to find new ways of applying the basic infrastructures

we're propagating.

In a world of social software, how do we know what to teach?

Blogs

Wikis

Social Networks

Social Guides

Social Bookmarking

Virtual Worlds

Collaborative Real-time Editors

Peer-to-peer Internet Telephony

Second Life

Skype

Skrbl

What do 21st Century students need?

Skills – used to designate an ability to perform complex motor and/or cognitive acts with ease, precision and adaptability to changing conditions.

Competencies – designates a complex action system encompassing cognitive skills, attitudes and other non-cognitive components.

Habits…perseverance…

Brainstorm Shared Statement

Knowing how to behave when you

don’t know.

Habits of MindPersisting

Managing impulsivity

Listening to others – with understanding and empathy

Thinking flexibly

Thinking about our thinking (Metacognition)

Striving for accuracy and precision

Questioning and posing problems

Applying past knowledge to new situation

Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision

Gathering data through all senses

Creating, imagining and innovating

Responding with wonderment and awe

Taking responsible risks

Finding humour

Thinking interdependently

Learning continuously

Thinking

Using language,

symbols and texts

Relating to others

Managing self

Participating and

contributing

Effective Pedagogy

NZ Draft Curriculum pp. 24-25

What is pedagogy? Definition

Webster:

The art, practice, or profession of teaching: systemised learning or instruction concerning principles and methods

of teaching.

Mulberry Grove School

• Key Competencies

• School Curriculum

• Habits of Mind aligned with KCs

• ICT aligned with HOM, LO, KCs

• Assessment Rubrics

www.mulberrygrove.school.nz

How well are we teaching inquiry & information skills?

• NEMP 1997Analysing & classifying informationIdentifying appropriate sources of informationAsking appropriate questions

• NEMP 2001Analysing & using information

Finding & gathering information

• ERO 2005 – Student learning in the information landscape

“… overall, there was wide variability of development and

effectiveness within schools across all the areas evaluated.”

NEMP 2005 – Information Skills

• ConcernsSelecting/rejecting information relevant to a topic

and to make decisions or develop arguments based on that information

Etc…

• Looking aheadStudents need modelling to help them develop an

argument and make decisions based on information.

Etc…

What does it mean to be literate?

Literacy is a state of being.

Literacy is dynamic & is constantly moving, developing & changing

Skills & strategies are the basis of literacy.

Skills need to be specified more precisely, taught explicitly.

All literacies – text, information, visual,

technological, mathematical – are not fixed

entities/destinations but states/journeys that are

constantly evolving.

Skills & strategies are the building blocks.

Skills & strategies are teachable & LEARNABLE.

Exposing children/anyone to text, information, visuals & ICTs does not

build literacy.

What builds literacy is continuous coaching to use the relevant skills &

strategies and plenty of regular, guided practice.

Training for literacy is no different from training for sport. It’s all about

coaching skills & strategies, but with literacies the skills tend to be cognitive

skills practiced in the context of the learning game.

If teachers could see themselves as coaches of the literacy learning game rather than as ‘facilitators’,

we’d have a more proactive approach to coaching literacy

skills.

The Alberta Inquiry Model

Focus on Inquiry

Lunch

The Third Wave

Read the article

Where do you think the MOE is focussing now?

What are the initiatives?

What do we need to do in our schools? Info & infrastructure?

MOE Initiatives

Pan-sector approach

Contestable funding

ICT/ELearning Initiatives

ELearning Action Plan

New conference

Info and infrastructure

Infostructure Infrastructure

Approach to curriculum Broadband Internet Access

Learning pedagogy eAdmin Environment - SMS

Assessment Rubrics Intranet, website,

Development plans communication tools

Policies and guidelines Generic software

Community Content software

Professional development Accessible peripherals

Has our shared statement changed?

Home, beer, cup of tea.

Take the Leap

Day 2

Review of Day 1.

Focus for Day 2.

• Planning for professional development delivery.

What does this look like?

Learning IntentionsApanui Ohope Beach

Allandale

St Joseph’sParoa

James Street

Sharing of resources

As a cluster, we have:6 Junior depts6 Middle depts6 Senior depts6 Principals6 Venues

A whole lot of experience, knowledge and wisdom…

We have a learning community

Is learning a…

Meaningful journeyOr a…

Trip in the dark?

What is your educative purpose?Why do you teach?

Educative Purpose

What do you fundamentally believe and value about learning?

BeliefsBeliefs are the assumptions we make about ourselves, about others in the world and about how we expect things to be. Beliefs are about how we think things really are, what we think is really true and what therefore expect as likely consequences that will follow from our behavior.

ValuesValues are about how we have learnt to think things ought to be or people ought to behave, especially in terms of qualities such as honesty, integrity and openness.

The clearer you are about what you value and believe in, the happier and

more effective you will be.

What are your core values concerning your educative purpose?

Select 5 from this list.

AcademicsAcceptanceAdmirationAppearancesApprovalAttentionAuthorityCommunicationCompetitionConformityConfidence/competenceCooperationCollaborationDistractionEfficiencyPunishmentResponsibility

HonestyEntertainmentEquityExpressionFaithFameFreedomFriendshipHappinessHard workHealthHonestyImageIntegration/wholenessRelationshipsGrowth

thoughtIntegrityKnowledgeLogicLoveMannersMaterial wealthObedienceOrganizationOthers' opinionsPeacePopularityPowerIndependence TrustCreativity

RealityReasonRights/RespectSecuritySelf-sacrificeSelf-RelianceSerenitySelf worthSelf actualisationSincerityStatusSuccessTraditionTruthWinningAdaptability

We want to be held accountable for…

developing students…

helping to develop…

contributing to the development of…

Edible Schoolyard Values

Values

Morning Tea

Professional DevelopmentThomas Guskey – What Makes Professional Development

Effective?

“A couple of years ago, I identified thirteen lists of characteristics of effective professional development that had been assembled by different professional organizations and research groups. In analyzing these lists, I found very little consensus. There wasn't even agreement on the criteria for effectiveness. Some lists were based on the concurrence opinions among researchers, others used teacher self-reports, and only a few looked at impact on student learning. My conclusion was that we may not have a true consensus on what makes professional development effective, and that moving toward one may be more complicated than most people think.”

Reference: The Evaluation Exchange Volume XI, No. 4, Winter 2005/2006 Harvard Family Research Project 2006 http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/eval/issue32/qanda.html

5 Levels of Professional Development Evaluation

Vision, beliefs, goals – head & heart

Learning community

Professional development components

21st Century, engaged learners?

3 Years

3 years, easy…

Your Plan

• Utilising your lead teachers

• Coaching strategies

• Don’t forget the basics - Learning Cone

Cone of Learning

Making Sense

• Underpinning pedagogy

• Key competencies

• Alignment – Habits of Mind

• Process - Inquiry

• Strategies – Thinking Skills» 6-hats» Learning styles» Graphic organisers

Global West ICTPD Cluster

• Cluster learning community site

• Global learning intentions

• Individual school learning intentions

• Lead Teacher PD

• In-school PD

• Management Team

• Reviews.Term Dates

Components

• PD for Lead Teachers• PD for Principals & Snr Mngmt• PD for Staff• Skills• Coaching• Leadership• Giving back to the profession

Planning Examples

GEIS

Global West ICT Cluster

Lunch

Where are you at with your plans?

What did we do for 2 Days?

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