Mindlab - Action reflections

Wednesday, 8 August 2018

Leadership in Digital and Collaborative learning Week 3

Conditions for Classroom Innovations.







  TPACK
Draw your own TPACK
This is the plan using TPACK for the up and coming assignment.





SAMR
Substitution - same task
Augmentation - direct substitute - different tool same thing
Modification -technology has been used to modify a task
Redefinition - Redefine the task

Google Tour Builder (Beta)

Change location name




Sunday, 5 August 2018

Digital and Collaborative Learning - Blended Learning Week 3

This video shows the use of Edpuzzle. We have used screen o matic to capture our google slides. We also used a voice over to discuss what Edpuzzle was.

Edpuzzle would be good for creating Flipped learning videos to explain a concept or idea.
You can create your own content or use content from the sight and add to it.

It could also be used by the children to create video showing their understanding of a concept or to share their knowledge with others.

Within a formal programme of learning, students study using a mix of on-site face to face learning and some degree of online learning, which may take place on site and/or remotely. There are several models of blended learning, which vary in their balance between the face to face and online learning, and how much of the online study is on site or off site. Some models emphasise some kind of rotation between learning activities, which may be more or less prescriptive, depending on the context. The important thing is that there must be some element of face to face learning, contrasting with, for example, MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) or distance learning courses, where all the learning is online. 
The flipped classroom is a form of blended learning that brings together advances in education and technology to deliver instruction online, outside of class, typically via video-based materials, and moving 'homework' into the classroom. The end result is a personalized, engaging learning experience for every student — whatever their learning style, pace, or ability.


The definition of blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns:
  1. at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace;
  2. at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home;
  3. and the modalities along each student’s learning path within a course or subject are connected to provide an integrated learning experience.
The majority of blended-learning programs resemble one of four models: Rotation, Flex, A La Carte, and Enriched Virtual. The Rotation model includes four sub-models: Station Rotation, Lab Rotation, Flipped Classroom, and Individual Rotation.

Flex Model - content that is personalised that they self manage while the teacher is with a group - Chn choose what they are doing using Google sites/

Teaching Standards
TeachingTeach and respond to learners in a knowledgeable and adaptive way to progress their learning at an appropriate depth and pace. 

Friday, 3 August 2018

Kath Murdoch Teaching and learning through inquiry

Teaching and learning through inquiry

Which of these questions are unGooglable?
Which can you Google?
Pause to question the questions
How do questions work


Provocation 
Learn the art of provocation 

Think 1
What does ... mean to you?
I think ...means...
Draw Pictures

How does my thinking compare to your thinking
Similar thinking

Design the learning experience so you can stand back and listen



 Provocation- earthquake , create an earthquake in the classroom 

What are you noticing? Not what are you noticing, that, I want you to notice.
How might I make this work?

Powering up your potential - you can't make someone learn. You need to give kids the tools to learn.

Growing my learning assets


Refer to page in handout

Building learning assets 

Creative thinking
Inquiring into learning

Turtle video
What do we relate this to inquiry? 
The learning pit
Don't save to quick

Need to know the kids - when is the right time to step in? And help? 

Kids jot down what they intend to learn during the day. Their learner pathway focus. Maybe?
Picture cards to show what 'learning skill' they have achieved during the day.
Perhaps use skills to learn during golden time
The collaborator 
The researcher
The thinker
The creator
Etc

Split screen learning intentions

Check they are learning the skills of learning


How are you as a learner
Skills for life
What does it mean to be...a learner

What does it mean for a thinker to infer?

Use the add on brainstorm technique 
Research can be done with a picture

Coding the text. Increases your understanding of the text

Questions to the author as you read.
Text to what I know
Text to text
Text to 🌎 
Could be done within guided reading session

Do activity in silence

In a circle

Note taking
How will you take notes. Get anything you want to take notes.

Come up with shared criteria 
What worked best?

Work in progress 
1-3-6 routine 1 person shares with 3 agree on lists, 3 share with another 3 have to agree.






















Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Mind Lab Week 2 Leadership

He Tikanga WhakaaroOur Values
Rangatiratanga (personal autonomy and leadership)Whakamana: empowering all learners to reach their highest potential by providing high-quality teaching and leadership.
Whakawhanaungatanga (establishing relationships)Whanaungatanga: engaging in positive and collaborative relationships with our learners, their families and whanau, our colleagues and the wider community
Manaakitanga (a context of caring relationships)Manaakitanga: creating a welcoming, caring and creative learning environment that treats everyone with respect and dignity.
Whaiwāhitanga (engagement and participation).Pono: showing integrity by acting in ways that are fair, honest, ethical and just.

Key CompetenciesHe Tikanga Whakaaro
Thinking
Using language, symbols & texts
Tātaritanga (thinking and making meaning)
Managing selfRangatiratanga (personal autonomy and leadership)
Whakawhanaungatanga (establishing relationships)
Relating to othersManaakitanga (a context of caring relationships)
Participating and contributingWhaiwahitanga (engagement and participation).

Tuesday, 31 July 2018

Mindlab Week 1 Digital

21st Century Skills
This set of 21st century skills is published by the World Economic Forum (2015). Which of these skills do you think will be essential:
  • For you on this programme?
  • Your students as you change your practice?
What do you hope to achieve during the 32 weeks of this programme?
The Illusion of Knowledge
Linking Standards for the Teaching Profession
Teaching - Use an increasing repertoire of teaching strategies, approaches, learning activities, technologies and assessment for learning strategies and modify these in response to the needs of individuals and groups of learners

Mindlab Week 2 Digital

Innovative Teaching and Learning (ITL) 21st Century Skills



Many skills frameworks seem to converge on a common set of 21st century skills (collaboration, communication, ICT literacy, and social and/or cultural competencies, including citizenship). Most frameworks also mention creativity, critical thinking and problem solving). However, many different terms are used (Voogt & Roblin, 2010).
These are the 21st Century Skills that ITL Research (2012) decided were important.
  • Collaboration
  • Knowledge construction
  • Self-regulation
  • Real-world problems / innovations
  • ICT for learning
  • Skilled Communication
We might contrast these with the key competencies of the NZ curriculum. "More complex than skills, the competencies draw also on knowledge, attitudes, and values in ways that lead to action" (MoE, 2017):
  • Thinking
  • Using language, symbols & texts
  • Managing self
  • Relating to others
  • Participating and contributing
and with the 21st Century Competencies from the World Economic Forum (2015), sometimes known as the 4 C's:
  • Critical thinking / problem-solving
  • Creativity
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
It is worth noting that collaboration-related concepts appear in two of the key competencies (MoE, 2017):
Relating to others: Students who relate well to others... know when it is appropriate to compete and when it is appropriate to co-operate.
Participating and contributing: This competency includes a capacity to contribute appropriately as a group member
Related Standards for the Teaching Profession
Teaching
Teach in ways that enable learners to learn from one another, to collaborate, to self-regulate and to develop agency over their learning.

Mindlab Week 1 Leadership

Followership 
There is a growing body of work that makes clear that some followers can be more influential than others. 

Followership Styles
Kelley (1998) identifies two ways that people follow: 
  1. Do they think for themselves? Are they independent critical thinkers? Or do they look to the leader to do the thinking for them? 
  2. Are they actively engaged in creating positive energy for the organization? Or is there negative energy or passive involvement?

Authentic followership
If we say that we want out followers to be effective, what kind of characteristics do these followers have? Avolio and Reichard (2008) discuss what they call 'authentic' followership, and characterise it with the following features:
  • Psychological Ownership - Sense of ownership, taking responsibility, going beyond the minimum to do what is required
  • Trust - Admitting mistakes and encouraging their leaders to do the same, taking on challenges without being asked
  • Transparency - Honesty, feedback and effective communication, putting the needs of the group above their own concerns