Michael Fullan: Technology, the new pedagogy and flipped teaching

I think this clip is worth watching and sharing.  I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Can technology deepen the quality of learning?   Yes it can!!!
Purposely using technology for learning you can go a long way to accelerate it!  Make it irresistibly engaging.  Use it 24/7.  Use it for real life problem solving.  Technology is now so pervasive, how do we maximise it's transformative use. 

Update 13 August 2014 - #edchatnz conference

Hi all. Here we are in week four of term three already.  What have got planned for the rest of the term? Many teachers I have spoken with lately are currently preparing for school musical.  How I loved this time, when every learner got a chance to shine, be it singing, dancing, performing, stage set, tech support, promotion.  How do you ensure all your learners get a chance to shine?

This week I am sharing highlights from the #edchatnz conference and issuing my first set of challenges to you all.  

#edchatnz began as a dream two years ago by Danielle Myburgh.  She realised her friends and family were not always that interested in her educational successes and challenges, so she looked for a medium to connect and discuss.  She began #edchatnz which is a moderated twitter chat help every second Thursday night online between 8.30 and 9.30.  Over the years the discussion has been diverse, meaningful, challenging, supporting, and very collegial.  Danielle had a second dream, to run a conference to allow the people who connected via #edchatnz to come together and meet face to face.

"The steering committee has pulled together the #edchatnz conference in 18 weeks. Yes, you read correctly: 18 weeks. Our first official minutes were dated 3/04/2014."

#edchatNZ is a community for New Zealand educators across all sectors to discuss all things education. Please feel free to use this hashtag to share anything relevant about New Zealand education. #edchatNZ conference Friday, 8 August 2014 at 9:00 AM - Saturday, 9 August 2014 at 3:00 PM (NZST) Auckland, New Zealand

Challenge 1

If you attended the inaugural #edchatnz conference at Hobsonville Point Secondary School I would like you to respond to this update by answering the following questions which are being shared as a blogging meme started by Reid Walker.  If you have already completed the blogging meme you could share the link to it by replying to this update.

1. How did you attend the #edchatnz Conference? (Face 2 Face, followed online or didn’t)

2. How many others attended from your school or organisation?

3. How many #edchatnz challenges did you complete?

4. Who are 3 people that you connected with and what did you learn from them?

5. What session are you gutted that you missed?

6. Who is one person that you would like to have taken to #edchatnz and what key thing would they have learned?

7. Is there a person you didn’t get to meet/chat with (F2F/online) that you wished you had? Wh

8. What is the next book you are going to read and why?

9. What is one thing you plan to do to continue the Education Revolution you learnt about at #edchatnz

10. Will you take a risk and hand your students a blank canvas?

Challenge 2

If you did not attend the conference I would like you to post a response to one or more of the resources shared today.  

Challenge 3

If you have not joined twitter, consider joining to develop your professional learning network. Connect and collaborate with educators around New Zealand and the world.

So on Friday the 8th of August 300+ educators gathered at Hobsonville point and the MAGIC began.  Reconnecting with friends, meeting new friends, attending workshops, discussing, challenging, networking, learning and growing together was the agenda for the two days.  

I have always held the belief that online is fabulous but face to face is MAGIC.  The upward spiral is evident when we meet a tweacher (tweeting teacher) face to face for the first time,  we have a shared journey, a kindredness, a virtual connection.  Online connections make the face to face connections more meaningful which in turn make future online connections more meaningful - a true upward spiral of success.

From the very first moments in the darkened auditorium listening to the student on the piano, to the Hobsonville learner sharing her poem, to the Hobsonville primary students sharing their learning journey, their agency, through every workshop... this conference focused on transforming opportunities for our learning.

With the most important space in the classroom or school being the space between the teacher, leader, learner's ear's, this conference truly connected us, challenged us, empowered us, engaged us.  We were given agency to make the learning over these two days work for us.  We were challenged, motivated and inspired by each other.  We had fun!!! So much fun!

A HUGE thank you to Danielle, for having a dream, believing in the dream and making the dream a reality.  As 300 educators gathered, how far will the ripples flow?  Conservatively each educator has opportunities to impact on thirty learners, meaning a very real possible impact on 9000 learners immediately.  Then, what of those following the stream from afar and indeed globally?  What is the potential reach of the goodness of these two days?  

Thanks to Hobsonville Point Secondary School for the amazing venue! You can read Maurie Abraham’s blogpost about the event.

Where to now for educators in New Zealand.   

Can you:

• Run or attend an educamp?
• Begin or reignite an e-teach group?
• Join #edubookchatnz?
• Run or attend an #eduignite?
• Attend a conference?
• Run a techni breaki at your school?
• Blog your journey?
• Share your Teaching as Inquiry?
• Attend or start up a local f2f group?
• Join in a webinar?
• Join and contribute to the vln?
• Join or connect with a new group through social media?
• Support learning and connecting at a local retirement home?
• Support a collaboration between ECE, primary, secondary or tertiary groups?
• Become a mentor?
• Find yourself a mentor?
• Join a quadblog group?

These are a few ideas I have.  What could you do?  Please share your ideas in a comment and let's really connect and collaborate for the good of all!

I would like to highlight two sessions that were incredibly valuable for me:

Booktrack is an incredibly powerful tool that is user friendly, flexible, creative, and is changing the reading experience.  Not only can readers add sound effects to published works, they can record their own story and add effects to this.  The aspects of writing and reading have the potential to be greatly enhanced. I have shared links to booktrack in the past.  I even had a go at booktracking this update if you want to read it here enhanced with sound effects.  I woud love to know what you think!

Solo Taxonomy for Primary schools was a very powerful session.  Pam is one of the slickest, humblest, down to earth presenters I have met. Her session empowered us all to use what is a simple, robust, credible, research based, extremely well resourced tool.  

#edchatnz reflections by educators around New Zealand are available.

Finally, for all of you who were unable to take part in this amazing pd... here are the links to lots of the presentations shared by Alex. #edchatnz: Super Post of Resources

Anne’s Literacy Links and Look ups…

• What Kids Should Know About Their Own Brains Do you have time in your day for a 20-minute lesson about the brain was enough to improve knowledge of brain functioning?

• More Ways to Pitch Graphic Novel BY JOHN SCHUMACHER

• A PICTURE BOOK THAT PUSHES THE GROWTH MINDSET  the  Most Magnificent Thing, which is written and illustrated by Ashley Spires, is a super way to initiate a conversation with students, or your own children, about the importance of possessing a growth mindset.

• Dogobooks book reviews by kids for kids

• International Languages Week Hot off the "NZC Online press" this resource page offers ideas, links, and stories to help schools celebrate languages and cultures with their students and communities.

Conferences:

NZLA conference Surfing the Literacy Wave

Tauranga, 28 September – 1 October 2014 www.nzla.org.nz

Workshop schedule now available.

Ngā mihi nui

Anne Kenneally

Literacy Online Facilitator

CORE Education

@LiteracyOnline2

To post to the list email: literacy@lists.tki.org.nz

Teacher Agency - storified #edchatnz

I am keeping this storify of #edchatnz Teacher Agency in my blog as this is so topical and such a huge part of our learning...

Supprorting Teachers to make Overall Teacher Judgements

Workshop with Gary Tenbeth and Colin Williams

Workshops to support Overall Teacher Judgments

Dependability, validity and reliability of moderation, and quality of the professional talk.
What systems do you have in your school to enable this to happen?

Current context:

• Curriculum = outcomes
• Progression documents = indicators
• Standards = signposts for progress

How do we develop the processes around OTJs?

Moderation is the process of sharing expectations and understanding of standards in order to improve the consistency of decisions (reaching agreement) TKI Assessment

Professional talk:

• planned
• informal

What are the planned and informal opportunities that are currently happening in your school?

Does your induction programme include regular opportunity to embrace new staff and share the discussion about what the standards are?  eg a whole year below to be below; a whole year above to be above.

Add moderation is most effective when slide....

Framework:

Learning progressions in the framework do not always naturally sit within the levels.

Utilising the framework to work with learners in the grey areas, or for teachers who are struggling with next steps for learners. 

You don't have to be able to fill in every aspect.  The more you are able to fill in the greater this portion of your OTJ will be.  

TKI  diagram..  add the diagram to show the weighting!

Using the framework:

• understanding what to notice;
• shared understanding of a progression;

Rich talk that occurs within the moderation process is where the value is. It is manageable when scaffolded. Being aware of what you are looking for is crucial.  

When enhancing moderation consider what you currently do now and look at what is possible for next step!

Clarify the purpose - clarity around what we are trying to achieve will determine what we do. 

Shared understanding of what to notice is crucial.  

The illustrations should prompt questions such as:

• What evidence do I have;
• Is this the type of level that _____ could demonstrate?
• Is this the 'kind of way' that _____ would solve these problems?
• Is this the 'kind of way' that _____ would write idea, experiences or information;
• Is this the 'kind of way' that _____ would respond to a text?

The power of professional discussion, backed with evidence and conversation around the aspects is where the value is.  

Using the frameworks to support moderation:

Moderate what?

• aspects teachers are finding difficult;
• sample selection of students;
• students for whom making aspect decisions was difficult (gaps in evidence or where making a decision about a student's achievement was difficult)

The value of common frameworks:

• Builds consistency of what to notice and recognise;
• Highlights gaps in learning opportunities;
• Gives a consistent framework within and across schools;
• Progress through learning steps is made visible.

Taking it to infinitum... how would it look if we enabled our learners to discuss and moderate their work?

Future Learning Environment Conference

Rewindable sessions thanks to eTV

Follow up MAGIC from #edchatnz

#edchatnz Reflections

View more lists from Sonya

#edchatNZ Blogging Meme

Home from the absolute MAGIC of #edchatnz I am delighted to continue the connecting, reflecting, sharing, growing and learning in this blogging meme.  Thank you to Justine for challenging me for this adventure.  

If you get included in the blogging meme: copy/paste the questions and instructions into your own blog then fill out your own answers. Share on twitter tagging 5 friends.

1. How did you attend the #Edchatnz Conference? (Face 2 Face, followed online or didn't)

I was extremely privileged to attend both days face to face, travelling a round trip of 2,940km.

2. How many others attended from your school or organisation?

CORE was extremely well represented: Mark Osborne, Karen Melhuish-Spencer, Becky Hare, Michael Lintott, Carolyn Wilson, Catriona Pene, Tania Coutts, Sarah Dwan, Margot McKeegan, Nicki Tempero,  (11 – sure hope I didn’t miss anyone!  Please let me know if I have)

3.How many #Edchatnz challenges did you complete?

·      Endless selfies and grelfies;

·      Selfie with presenters;

·      Selfie with kids;

·      Tweeted like a nutter – retweeted and shared;

·      Danced on a chair;

·      Made a MAGICAL sculpture in Design Thinking;

·      Talking to anyone and everyone from everywhere;

4. Who are 3 people that you connected with and what did you learn from them?

Pam Hook – loved the simplicity and power of her session.

Craig Wilson – love the power of booktrack to create a different reading experience for our learners.  I think this is an area to explore with all learners.  (and I love my booktrack T-shirt – thanks)

Mandy Heim & Chhaya Naraya – sharing the story of the power of developing real relationships with all students, sharing the Alan November story;

5. What session are you gutted that you missed?

Nanogirl - Boost your Science Teaching Confidence but I am trying to catch up and know we will connect face to face sometime soon!

6. Who is one person that you would like to have taken to Edchatnz and what key thing would they have learned? 

I would have loved to have taken Pauline to #edchatnz!  She would have connected with so many educators and loved it!

7. Is there a person you didn’t get to meet/chat with (F2F/online) that you wished you had? Why

Agh, there are so many people I wished I’d met face to face!

Richard https://twitter.com/iPadWells I love your reflection on the conference - #Edchatnz – NZ leads Education

8. What is the next book you are going to read and why?

"Who owns the learning?" by Alan November as shared by Mandy Heim & Chhaya Naraya

“Key Competencies for the Future” by Rosemary Hipkins, Rachel Bolstad, Sally Boyd and Sue McDowall, as it is our first book for the inaugural #edubookchatnz this term – just ordered! 

9. What is one thing you plan to do to continue the Education Revolution you learnt about at #EdchatNZ?

Connect, share, learn, challenge, reflect and do it visibly!  I am blogging more, sharing more, connecting more….

10. Will you take a risk and hand your students a blank canvas?

As a team member, I will share this journey and encourage us to use a blank canvas when facilitating in schools.

Who do will I tag with this meme:

I tag:

Mandy Heim https://twitter.com/HeimMrs

Jennie Lyall https://twitter.com/Jackbillie35

Allana Taylor https://twitter.com/kiwiallana

Katarina Reedy https://twitter.com/BubblesReedy

Fiona Grant https://twitter.com/FionaGrant