Takeaways
What is this about?
Challenge – ourselves, our ideas, our views on education/technology/pedagogy
Connect – with people, with ideas
Conversation – talk with people, feel free to pursue a topic
Action Research – take on something here and follow through in your school, then share your results/ observations on the Learning 2.012 site
idea + you network = change in your school
Student learning has changed – has your classrooom?
Traditional PD vs Contemporary Professional LearningÂ
 one size fits all vs differentiated
event vs process
extra vs embedded
mandated vs self-directed
The Consultant vs Local Talent
Large group vs Individualised
Efficient vs Effective
Solitary vs Social
How to move from Traditional PD to Contemporary Professional Learning at your school?
Join the Group Action Research
Julie Lindsay – A Global Journey
She has worked in some amazing places, and found ways around the challenges of locked computer labs, devices being illegal, religious and cultural issues to be sensitive to ; Global Flat Classroom Project, from inception to current model – the virtual connections and the face-to-face conferences
Be Open To Alternatives
Itâs cool to be âflatâ – you must connect, however you make it possible
If you arenât doing it, itâs not happening (Friedman)
Jabiz Raisdana
Authentic Student Blogging Journey
I believe in the possibility of space(s) – space can affect how people connect, share, work together
Starts with boring plain classroom, started making changes – sofa, plants, posters
Asked children to bring money to buy plants – now have a plant station that the children really own and care about.
Students relaxing with computers on sofas, apparently with instrumental Beastie Boys tracks playing
Tech should be the last thing you notice – all those C words – connect, collaborate etc are the important stuff
Whereâs the rigour? Discussion Guidelines – students have found pictures to represent what each rule is
Class blog: clue: a space
Itâs like The Table but online
elements of the learner profile
music
video âhow to be aloneâ
Share each others work, the blogging they are doing
Guidance on how to comment on blog posts
Create a classroom space that works
Mirror that space online
Set protocols on how to interact
âInfrastructure as invitation not obligationâ Bud Hunt Bud the Teacher
Create inviting spaces online and offline
âArticulated nuance of screaming into the voidâ Jim Groom
Allow students to find their own voice
âItâs valuable to be wrong in public.â Alan Levine
Help students to understand that this is exploration not perfection
This year seems to be special, after 7 years of exploring and developing this concept the students are taking the blogging and running wild with it
www.jabizraisdana.com
@intrepidteacher
Dean Shareski – A Battle of Words
David Jakes – blog: Words Matter
Learning Framework – writing one for a whole district, bringing in stakeholders
rigour: strictness, severity or harshness etc etc etc
why is this word being applied to learning????
we should have âplayâ as our word
âA new culture of learningâ – book
should include âplayâ in a learning tech document, but couldnât have it so had exploration instead
where is the joy, serendipity, humility involved in play?
What do you mean by (insert buzzword here)? Enlarge the conversation, clarify our own positions and our understandings of the topics and issues
Sheldon – ICT director – conference app
Chris Betcher –Â Creativity in the classroom
Do schools kill creativity? yes, with content-driven focus, time constraints
35 circles – force yourselves to keep going, generate more ideasâŚ
Creativity isâŚ.
flexibility
finding several ways to solve a problem
different perspectives
standing on your head
piggybacking
embracing change
willingness to try things out
doing it anyway
imagination and originality
We have never needed creativity more than we do now
Seymour Papert:Â we need to prepare students for unknown situations
book âArt and Fearâ –Â quantity versus quality – the quantity group ended up with the best results, because they had the most opportunities to play, explore, practice
5 Aspects of Creativity
- The Value of Play
- Curiosity
- Idea Starters
- Offering Choice
- Combining Ideas
The Value of Play
Evan Kidd – Psychologist
TEDx Sydney 2012
research into kids with imaginary friends, and free play
play based skills and narrative language skills – much more growth in a play-based skills
Google 20% time – generates maybe 50% of the revenue
Maker Faire – encouraging play and creativity
we grew up with a concretely manipulative environment – do we have this now?
(discussion time)
http://cainesarcade.com
http://www.imagination.is/
Cardboard challenge day
Newspaper fashion challenge
as a group we each chose jobs, not too much talking, fairly basic tools but lots of fun
Curiosity
Idea Starters
relationship breakup graph, graph your favourite fruit, tell this story (pic of plane shot by arrows, pic of email request to not post photos on Facebook – prompts
Offering Choice
(paint pots picture – schools too neat – life is messy)
Mark Prensky – Verbs and Nouns work
teacherâs job – guide the verbs (communicate, design, inform, persuade etc)
studentsâ job – choose which noun to use (blogs, voicethread, keynote, tools)
but where does this kick in?
the more control you have the less control you have to exert
the teachers should be cruising and the students should be the ones doing the hard work
Combining Ideas
make something new (typewriter with sheet music emerging)
Substitute
Combine
Adapt
Modify (worth looking up SCAMPER technique)
Put
Eliminate
Reverse
borrowing is not stealing
Cubism – trying to show multiple facets and viewpoints all at once
TS Eliot – good poets steal, great poets copy (?)
talk on copyright vs CC
âcreation requires influenceâ
âwe stand on the shoulders of giantsâ
youtube: everything is a remix + copyright criminals
âoverprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting itâ – quote from Judge Alex Kozinski
noun scramble pick one and match with another person – combine the two ideas into something new