January:
This weekend I´ve learnt a lot of new tricks regarding the Google suite of applications. I think one of the best things i´ve learnt this weekend is how to use scripts within google spreadsheets. There appear to be so many scripts available which really transform the use of google drive.
I also attended Betts where I met with a number of proactive teachers and learners, some of the most impressive were with regards to the development if ideas behind flipping the classroom. I´ve been developing many of these ideas independently but it was fascinating to see so many different techniques and ideas, which I´ll be incorportating into my teaching practice. Check out my flipped online learning at Learning about the causes of the spanish civil war
Targets for next academic year will be
1. To take more teachers and students to BETTS in January 2015
2. Follow up on my inservice day in March to SIS teachers on Blended Learning My Presentation on blended learning
3. Development of more DP leader initiative in training (mac book programme) started in April 2014
ideas from BETT 2014
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ReplyDeleteFollow on from Point 1. Take and MYP and a PYP teacher to BETTS to deliver CPD in SIS and following year take students to BETTS possibly to present
ReplyDeleteWe will be attending BETT 2015! Carmelo Sanchez for PYP and me for Secondary. Looking forward to gaining some new insights, CPD sessions and ideas to disseminate as SIS in the new year. Next stage after this will be to put together an SIS presenting team (Teachers or/And Students?)
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ReplyDeleteDay 1 at BETT has been really informative. I gained some excellent new ideas for the use of social media in the classroom which I am looking forward to sharing with colleagues. Also much of the good practice that I follow in my teaching has been reflected in the dynamic governance models demonstrated in a number of the presentations I have so far attended.
ReplyDeleteTips for Twitter
ReplyDeleteUsing history or political accounts
Paradoy accounts
@KingHnryviii Henry Tudor
Need to create research group to find relevant Twitter accounts
Tweet pals
Ask questions
140 summary sum up books etc concise language set as hmwk task
Breaking news
Netiquette engage with parents get parents to follow me
Exchange ideas @teachingideas
Using podcasts in the classroom
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Audioboom
Book creator
Creative book builder
Video collaboration in the classroom
Morfo booth
Lego movie creator (make history revision)
Robotics in the classroom
Sphero
Ozobot
Documents in the classroom
G docs
Post-it plus
Curation in the classroom
Pinterest (all teachers should use)
Pearltrees
Explain in the classroom
Explain everything (not free) 1.50
Tellagami
Back channel in the classroom
Twitter (make a hashtag for your classroom
Todaysmeet
Digital leaders in the classroom
Promote students in these roles
Support digital learners
Dlchat Twitter
Learning together
Google +
iTunes U
BETT ideas on flipping the classroom
ReplyDeleteRighting the wrong flipping classroom
Dr Ashley tan
Education consultant
Using a backchannel is good: set this up ( discuss with colleagues )
Flipping is not about changing homework. Thinking about flipping is an Opportunity to question why we are giving homework.
Voice thread: Perception of flipping can be to extend curriculum time. A bad idea.
Flipped presentations made by students in advance for peers ( making students teachers)
Learners as content creators: externalising using internal schema
Learners as teacher: teachers become better at their content by teaching it, thus teachers should get students to teach
Vertical learning: an SIS example would have been the core celebration.
3sins of bad flipping:Same thing, question nature of homework, extend the curriculum
ReplyDeleteUsing mobile phones in the classroom.
Ambit tac
BYOD strategies
Use of mobile phones
Contradictions in school rules
Use of mobile phones by adults setting examples
Rethinking to allow them and teach students how to use them
George c Marshall example
1/focus on pedagogical values and responsibility
2/Encourage but respect privacy rights
3/Students learn how to use them
Protocol discussed with staff
A code access with permission
R code recreation
P code prohibit exams
S code external use
Rethink
Student involvement
Visual information
Create school apps by students
Parents using phones and QR codes around the school
The last presentation today is by Sir Ken Robinson
ReplyDeleteNational education systems worldwide are being reformed to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. As a respected adviser to governments in Europe, Asia and the United States, Sir Ken argues in this powerful presentation that many countries are pushing reforms in the wrong direction. Drawing from his groundbreaking book, Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative, he explains why too many are locked into a model of education shaped by the Industrial Revolution and a narrow idea of academic ability. Urging schools and colleges everywhere to rethink their basic assumptions about intelligence and achievement, Sir Ken focuses on the vital questions: Why is it essential to promote creativity? What's the problem? Why do so many adults think they're not creative? Most children are buzzing with ideas. What happens to them as they grow up? What should be done? Is everyone creative or just a select few? Can creativity be developed? If so, how? In exploring these questions, Sir Ken argues for radical changes in how we educate all students to meet the extraordinary challenges of living and working in the 21st century. Takeaways include: o How education wastes more talent than it saves o The three core objectives of 21st Century education o Why we're all smarter than we think o What schools and colleges should do, and how governments should help