Posted in ICT, risk taking, social networking on Jul 2nd, 2009 2 Comments »
On Monday morning we went to the NECC 2009 Exhibitor’s Hall. It was huge, vast, expansive . . . so American.
We were on a mission to get a Promethean and SMART t-shirt.
They made it so hard fill in forms, show a magazine bit of a hassle really!!!! Never did get the SMART shirt probably a [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Creativity, Learning environment, personalised learning, risk taking on Jul 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Gladwell’s keynote addressed THREE BIG IDEAS he wanted all attending NECC 2009 to understand it is important for students and teachers to understand them.
1. WORK HARD
Put in the effort and success will come your way.
2. RESILIENCE / PERSEVERANCE
It’s okay to make mistakes so long as you learn from them.
Trying harder brings greater reward and [...]
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, Creativity, Future Learning, ICT, risk taking on Mar 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Back in the classroom again but this time it is a luxury … an aid to set up the Macbooks and working alongside Kim.
We have a presentation to get together before Friday… with a new class.
Having the class for the first 45 mins of the day I couldn’t resist doing a bit of research. It [...]
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 DS Lites, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, risk taking on Feb 21st, 2009 No Comments »
At Belmore South Public School students have been using DS Lites in several classes for over 12 months.
Ms Fanggiadae’s Stage 2 ’s used them to promote thinking and problem solving skills.
Mrs Pericles Stage 2/3 class used them to explore the Oceans from a scientific and literary perspective.
The DS Lites had been available to students [...]
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, [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, Leadership, risk taking on Feb 1st, 2009 Comments Off
Goals for the day
1. Personalising our school vision: Creating a path to the future.
Staff in groups will deconstruct the following school exit outcomes and reconstruct them so as to put the student at the centre of learning,
eg. “I am a successful learner and I expect to:
The exit outcomes our students will [...]
Posted in Future Learning, Games and Literacy, ICT, risk taking on Feb 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Last Friday I witnessed a master teacher working with students across all ability levels in class groups from 1 to 6. All the while under the spotlight demonstrating [...]
