Posted in Essential Learnings, Uncategorized, reading on Oct 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Our students read, they are taught to read using the Four Resources. They are read to, they discuss books, the storyline, the characters, the structures, the language used. They are scaffolded through modelled, guided and independent stages of learning.
They write extremely well!!! We provide them with scaffolding, experiences and the opportunity to play with words [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, authentic assessment, hyper literacy, new literacies, reading, risk taking on Apr 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Earlier in the year a friend flicked me an email with an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education attached. It was written by Mark Bauerlein and entitled Online Literacy is a Lesser Kind and it has provoked a great deal of thought and research on my part.
I do not necessarily agree with the writer’s conclusions; [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Blogs, Creativity, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, connective writing, hyper literacy, new literacies, reading, social networking, ubiquitous on Apr 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Just a few thoughts after listening to Kathleen Blake Yancey, reading Writing in the 21st Century and Will Richardson’s commentary.
The concept of connective writing is not about the act of publishing it is what happens before and after publication.
Reading and writing now, are not what they were.
They were:
Reading to inform, teach and indoctrinate.
Writing was for the [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Blogs, Creativity, Essential Learnings, ICT, Learning environment, authentic assessment, personalised learning on Mar 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Smell the Roses was a presentation made by Kim and I at the Network Literacy Conference. This conference featured the well known American educator and exponent of Web 2.0, Will Richardson.
Our presentation was his support act. We planned it using and a new tool called Prezi.
Prezi is an interactive tool which allows for great flexibility of presentation. Click [...]
Posted in Blogs, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, Uncategorized, personalised learning, risk taking on Mar 10th, 2009 No Comments »
21st Century Pedagogy Conference 2009
The “c” Generation
connect, communicate, collaborate, create
The conference today was an interesting experience. The session I presented went well . . . it was a compilation of the previous few blogs. The blog was simply there as a reference point for the Case Study presented about Belmore South Primary School.
Kim presented a really [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, Uncategorized, authentic assessment, personalised learning on Mar 10th, 2009 No Comments »
ICT becomes embedded into a school culture when there is effective curriculum and instruction, ongoing professional development, authentic assessments and a culture that embraces the learning potential of all its members.
Everything technological seems to be synonymous with speed. The best advice possible is to take it slowly. When making critical technology decisions choose carefully the steps to [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, Uncategorized, professional learning communities on Mar 10th, 2009 No Comments »
The Learning teams in the school are teams in which members
collectively pursue professional knowledge and skills and take on shared responsibility for the success of all students.
engage in the reflective practice, collegial inquiry, collaborative work, and continuous innovation on which 21st century learning environments thrive
enable teachers to refine their knowledge and skills in [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2009 No Comments »
What does the teaching and learning cycle look like?
Staff felt that this model of T/L was far too teacher centred. If we are going to truly personalise the curriculum, engage students in their own learning and teach them how to learn and reflect upon what it is they need to learn and know then the T/L should read [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, Leadership, Uncategorized, risk taking on Feb 21st, 2009 No Comments »
A curriculum model that will act as a scaffold is the Learning Teaching Scotland Curriculum for Excellence.
We are in the process of developing our school Maths Scope and Sequence, this follows the outcomes and indicators of the NSW Mathematics Curriculum. However; the outcomes and indicators will be written in the first person thus serving as a discussion [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, Leadership, risk taking on Feb 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
At the end of 2009 the SRC discussed what they wanted to achieve by the end of their primary school education in the context of our school vision:
Creating a path to the future.
Their ideals were expressed in the following personalised statements.
I am a successful learner.
I expect to:
Achieve
Enjoy learning
Learn how to learn.
I am a confident, [...]
