The pattern of the shadows

The pattern of the shadows

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The Ithaka Project

Joint schools Meeting 6 July 13, 2006

Trinity Grammar School

Julie Landvogt The Ithaka Project [email protected]

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THE ITHAKA PROJECT

Format for the afternoon/evening 4.00 – 4.30 Registration, coffee

4.30 – 5.30 Welcome:

Mr E.R. (Rick) Tudor – Headmaster, Trinity Grammar School

Thinking and design Daryl Jackson OA, Principal, Jackson Architecture The pattern of the shadows Julie Landvogt

4.30 – 5.30 • Working group Session One: Special Interest groups ELC-12

Area Chair LOTE: Colleen

Abbott English Warrick Wynne Mathematics Ian Mills Science/Geog Mark Coleman The Arts Coralie

Buckley Special Education

Vivienne Powell

History Alan Bliss Please note: we hope primary teachers will choose the area in which they are most interested. If you are a secondary teacher and your area is not included, please let me know (we may be able to form another group) – but for today, please join the “best fit”. Economics/Commerce? Go with History, and argue for pattern…!

• Working group Session Two: refining …

LOTE and Maths The Arts and English,


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Special Ed, Science,History

6.45 – 7.45

Dinner

Thanks to Trinity Grammar School, especially Rick Tudor and

Deane Blackler, for hosting and organising this afternoon and evening.

The image on the cover? The Alhambra, a famous Moorish citadel and palace, is in Granada. It is the most remarkable item of the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian historical legacy that makes Granada a hot spot among cultural and tourist cities in Spain.


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THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE By Will iam Butler Yeats I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear the water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

Jared Diamond

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Ursula K. Le Guin

`The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. Of course I do not here speak of that beauty that strikes the senses, the beauty of qualities and appearances; not that I undervalue such beauty, far from it, but it has nothing to do with science; I mean that profounder beauty which comes from the harmonious order of the parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.''---Henri Poincaré

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will… Hamlet


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I hear it in the deep heart's core.


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The only difference is our perspective, our readiness to put the pieces together in an entirely different way and to see patterns where only shadows appeared just a moment before. (Edward B. Lindaman)

Art is pattern informed by sensibility. (Herbert Read)

There is, it seems to us At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies, For the pattern is new in every moment… T.S. Eliot

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

A.N. Whitehead

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while. Francis Ford Coppola

"A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?" -- Martin Gardner

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something."

--Sandra Day O'Connor,

A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of the descendants of the mighty hosts that once moved over this broad land or lived in happy homes, protected by the Great Spirit, will remain to mourn over the graves of a people once more powerful and hopeful than yours. But why should I mourn at the untimely fate of my people? Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We will see. Chief Seattle

Things should be as simple as possible; But not simpler. Einstein


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From Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins (2004): Understanding by Design- Professional Development Workbook. Alexandria, VA: ASCD


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From Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins (2004): Understanding by Design- Professional Development Workbook. Alexandria, VA: ASCD


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KEY DATES FOR Semester Two 2006

TERM THREE Thursday July 13

Joint Schools meeting and dinner Trinity Grammar

4.30- 7.30

July 22-24 Teaching for understanding conference

Qld

Saturday July 29

Intro to Ithaka morning, For ASISTM participants and others

MGS 8.30 – 1.00

Monday July 31

Evening reading group MGS 7.15 pm – 9.00 pm

Tuesday Aug 8

PD: Special interest groups MLC 4.15- 5.45

Wednesday August 9

Thinking in disciplines day – ASISTM

MGS 9.00 – 4.00

Wed Aug 23 Leadership (Ithaka school leaders only)

Geelong

9.00- 3.00

Monday Sept 4

PD: Dr Sally Godinho, Boys and learning

Trinity

4.15- 5.45

TERM 4

Saturday Oct 7

Ithaka ‘work in progress” conference

MGS 9.00- 4.00

Thursday Nov 2

Planning day – ASISTM MGS Grimwade

9.00- 3.00


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Colleen Abbott Ithaka Deane Blackler Trinity Alan Bliss MGS Isobel Bond Trinity Ellen Bretherton Loreto Coralie Buckley St Catherine’s Edwina Cherry St Catherine’s Dee Clements Ithaka Mark Coleman MGS Geri Coughlan Trinity Paul Cross St Catherine’s Catherine Crowhurst Loreto Rita Davis MLC Chris Dineen Geelong Colin Dobson Wesley SKR Gerard Donovan Geelong Roula Duggan MLC Anne Du Pont MLC Lisa Edwards Loreto Jo Evans MLC Heather Evans Trinity Wendy Flynn Geelong Radhika Gorur Wesley St K Rd Fiona Green MLC Sylvia Guidara MLC Mark Hamilton Wesley St K Rd Virginia Hand Loreto Tracey Herft GWSC David Hibbard Geelong Paul Higgins Caulfield Grammar Sharon Holman Caulfield Grammar Sarah Horton MGS Glyn Howitt MGS Owen Hughes St Catherine’s Bryn Humberstone Trinity Rick Jacobs Trinity Karen Karlovsky MGS Julie Landvogt Ithaka Peta Langford Loreto Anne Lawson-Jones Trinity Simon Le Plastrier Trinity Chris Lloyd MLC Kathryn Locke St Catherine’s Amanda Maher Geelong Robyn Marshall Wesley Elsternwick Andrew McKie Geelong Lesley McLeod MLC Emma Millis St Catherine’s Ian Mills Wesley G/W Marie Laure Mimoun Loreto Carol Morris Geelong Di Morris MLC Al Nicolson Trinity Rebeca O’Shea St Catherine’s


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Andrew Payne Geelong Rod Perry Trinity Louise Peyton Loreto Antoinette Poulton Loreto Vivienne Powell MLC Jennifer Pratten MGS Jan Rizzo MGS Lynda Rosman St Catherine’s Pam Russell Pam Russell and Assoc Libby Russell Geelong Jo Ryan MLC Lisa Saffin Wesley GW Di Salvitti Trinity Marion Samuel Trinity Laraine Sharr St Catherine’s Jim Sptihill St Catherine’s Tiffany Stephens Loreto Eva Strasser Trinity Kollen Sussman Wesley St K Rd Tim Tainsh St Catherine’s Anthony Tasca Trinity Gary Thomas Loreto Alma Tooke MLC Kelly Watson Geelong Alistair Webster MLC Sue Wilks Uni of Melb Warrick Wynne MLC

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