Group Genius - Innovating, Educating and Collaborating

Keynote 3, uLearn 2012
Glenn Capelli

Thinking Caps

You've got to have a philosophy

Learning in Layers

• Philosophy/Story
• Vocabulary/Conversation
• Strategies and Tools
• Methodology Stretch

Philosophy/Story

Do what you do do well.

Neoteny 

• Keeping the inner child
• Spontaneity
• Living life with a sense of wonder
• Curiosity
• What we add, as we age, is wisdom

Help our youngsters have passion for learning.

Vocabulary/Conversation

Kaizen - a little bit of improvement everyday.

Widezen - stretching your thinking. How else might we do it?

The Most Influential Songs in My Life

Strategies and Tools

• Clarification is the name of the game
• Assume I'm an Idiot and teach it back to me.
• Russian brothers and cousin
• Morov
• Lessov
• Ridov
• and Tossin

Methodology Stretch

• signing
• responsibility on the teacher and the learner

A Professional e-Learning Approach to Working with Māori and Pasifika Students

Breakout 6, uLearn 2012
Janelle Riki, Moana Timoko, Anaru White and Togi Lemanu

Blended learning -

• How the technologies and face to face learning are blended.  
• Different spaces
• No time constraints
• Rich range of media.

YouTube for schools

YouTube for teachers.

Skype in the classroom - I want to contact an expert in...

Traditional Maori Learning

• Roles and responsibilities. 
• Talents and potential spotted early and nurtured. 
• Assessment happened as part of the learning.
• Context relevance.
• Failure - seen as part of the learning.  Not ready to move on, lets start learning.
• All roles seen as important.
• Te Reo - oral language
• Chief aim was to make children "bold, brave and independent"
• Observation
• Participation
• Audience who had a vested interest, and with whom they have a close relationship with you.

Collectively we have to stand up and say we have to do something about our failing students

Engage them and inspire them, and they will do well.

BROfessional approach

• B Blending
• implies something has to be done
• blend of approaches, strategies, the good stuff
• R  Relationships
• people have to be receptive
• links
• O  Open
• open to ideas
• removing barriers
• give it all!
• opens avenues
• access to knowledge
• who they are, what they come with
• sharing about yourself

Te Mangōroa Discussion post - online one stop shop

Pasifika Learners - Relationships - People, Time, Nature

• get to know the students and their families.
• take time to get to know the cultures contexts.
• make the families feel welcome - multicultural signage, ...
• Connections and Conversations, Making Links for Learning - DVD

Relationships with families and students is most important!

What are Māori students good at?

• Sports and PE
• Arts - visual, drama, music
• Kapahaka - (rote learning)

• Think about what they are good at and use/encourage it.

Digistore !!!

• digistore.tki.org.nz/ec/p/home
• digistore.wikispaces.com
• digital images, sound files, video files
• our history, our country, our time

Alternative to pen to paper

• Track changes - on pages
• Natural reader
• + 2 new ones
• Etherpad
• Literacy learning progressions

Online tools and websites

• Wall wisher
• Storybird
• Vocaroo
• Animoto
• Software for learning
• Te Mangōroa
• Wicked
• Kōrero Māori

iPad Apps

• ibook author
• Sock puppets
• Hika
• Te Reo Dictionary online
• E-Wai
• Te Pataka pukapuka
• Kaitiaki

Automating Social Media

Breakout 5, uLearn 2012
D.K.

Social media post-101

What not to do

• Need context with social media 
• FB, twitter and blogs etc reach different audiences.  Don't share info on all. eg FB personal, twitter - global
• Aggregation tools - daily digest - each has their own context, bringing 
• auto-dm - turn off - treats people like an advertisement.

Tools

Text expander - short codes free version, just type in a small 'code' and will create a set sentence, email addresses.

RSS reader - automates the web, to cut through the noise, middle man serving us content on what we set it up for. google reader - organise the sites you want to see.

• Short cuts - F(full screen), N (next), K (mark unread)
• G+ icon  at bottom of page to send out to people you want
• Send to icon 

google.com/blogsearch

google.com/alerts

• can set it up for email and for feed

Twitter

• search, can save searches (under the cog)

bufferapp.com 

• set time when tweets will go out.  Can send things out when most followers are on twitter.
• can edit them before they go out.
• strategic tweeting.
• analytics

tweriod - app tells you when your followers are on twitter.

chimpfeedr.com

• takes several RSS feeds and mashes them into one.
• like pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

ifttt.com !!! Check this out when I get home!

• automates sending info/pics etc from one site.app etc to another.

dropbox

myhistro.com

hootsuite

uLearn Day Outtakes

Key ideas that I'll take away from this conference.

• The importance of narrative.  
• It's all about change.
• Building up trust and respect within the staff is imperative.
• Change concerns into goals.
• Understand the bigger picture and join the dots so that you understand what is really important.
• Be a door opener where I help students reach their potential.
• Digital literacy is where it's going.  We're moving away from pen on paper stories.
• Need to develop a flipped classroom where learning happens at home and at school, and students have the ability to catch up on missed lessons or review lessons they didn't understand through the use of video, blogs and other tools.
• Implementing change needs to be school wide.
• Implementing change needs to have student achievement underpinning it, not administration.
• The range of how digital technologies can be used is exponential.

How these can be used to help student achievement.

• Allow students to choose how they present their learning.  Teach them a variety of ways utilising digital technologies.
• Talk with and listen to students.  Find out their many interests.  Give them opportunities to develop these.  Don't always focus on their weaknesses.
• Further develop videos, blogs and other tools for students to prepare from and refer back to.  These can be made with the students and/or for the students.
• Always keep student achievement in the forefront.

What we need to think about as a staff.

• We all need to be on the same page when it comes to change.
• Set goals. 
• Inquire into everything we do.
• Build up a team of key players before change.  Develop skills, research, discuss and plan what is going to happen.
• Develop staff relationships through respect and trust.  

Apple Tools sMACDown

Breakout 4, uLearn 2012
Dorothy Burt, Fiona Grant et al

Fast paced forum for sharing ideas, apps, websites, shortcuts, ... for macs and for the classroom.

A Package Deal

Breakout 3, uLearn 2012
John McAleese, Neetha Mudhan, Vijay Bhagwandhin

How do we implement change in our schools?
A 90 minutes session cramming 6 years of growth and change at Howick Intermediate School.

Teachers cannot spend time planning until they've interacted with the students.

Collaborate, Innovate and Educate

Keynote 3, uLearn 2012
Kevin Honeycutt

• (ebook preview)

Flipped classroom

• make videos for students to 'rewind' and rewatch.
• cover camera with a face.

Collaboration

• twitter
• build up relationships
• support base

Secret life online

• do unto others ... always works online.
• not a good thing... talk about it.
• are you hiding things for your parents?
• everything you do online will always be there to haunt you.

Listening

• listen to peers.
• if they come to you - they listen.

Embrace technology

• will be messy - embrace it.

You learn when you have to learn

Online rollerdex - build up a list of contacts for your classroom

If we get kids spending there time doing great things with their technology, they won't have time to do stupid things.

Accountability - make students do something positive to balance out the 'negative' things.

Why!  Tell them why they're doing things.

Teach in etiquette.  Respect.

The trick is to help them learn to do it responsibly and safely!

Google Alerts - monitors your own brand or that of your students.

Charlie bit my finger - video

• A cautionary tale to think before you act.

The Coming Jobs War by Jim Clifton

How can we make it okay to invent? 

• Steve Jobs
• Bill Gates
• Albert Einstein ...

Just let it matter!  Give lessons a context.

  - what have you been doing for the last ? hours?

Apps

• Voice Band - app to change voice into instrument.
• Band - 5 instruments for $2.99

There's a million things kids can do if you stop focussing on the one thing they can't do.

If you're not willing to try and be bad at something, you'll never be good at it.

• Guitar - You've got to be stronger than blisters
• Are there cognitive blisters?

Love them enough for them to hate you for a day!

New Media, New Kids - New Literacies, New Citizens - Transforming learning through digital creativity

Keynote 1

Dr Jason Ohler

Digital storytelling in the classroom

Door openers

• interface between students and their imagination

BYOD

Building blocks for Education

• mobile
• connected - global
• where’s school? - who’s teaching whom? Immersed augmented reality

(share video with Beauty and Norah - glasses augmented reality)

art - video appears of student explaining art, half art. 

• text to media collage
• citizenship

screasel = screen and easel

literacy - consuming and producing the media forms of the day. whatever they are.

• words to collage
• value writing more than ever
• good media = good researching and writing
• visually differentiated text VDT

DAOL = Digial - Art - Oral - Write

Hans Roslings - 200 countries, 200 years. - Joy of Stats

10 digital literacy action guidelines

Attitude is the aptitude - learn, unlearn and relearn

Personal and social literacy

Every technology connects and disconnects

Cyber unsuitability

• eg photoshopping of advertisements, rating system of how much a pic has been digitally modified.

Positive digital footprints

When do we talk about this?

Stories lodge in our memory! Emotional investment in problem, solution

Planning - story map

Advice

• compensation
• assistance
• recognition
• extra time
• support to take risks, pilot  be door openers

Turn concerns into goals.

Cautions - 

• video conferencing
• shaving filters, JAM
• feigned attention, canned laughter

Go tell your story!!!

The Future is Knocking at the Gate - but How is it Going to Change My School?

Breakout 2, uLearn 2012
Charles Newton

Wiki educator - Cybersafety programme

In Great Obstacles Lie Great Opportunities

Keynote 2 - uLearn 2012

Khao Do

Solving Complex eProblems

Breakout 1, uLearn 2012
Jacqui Patuawa, John Locke, John Clark
(First-time Principals' Programme)

What eProblems are you currently grappling with?

• Staff turnover - systems.
• Staff 'keeping up'.
• Staff - thinking to make change, paradigm shifts.
• Not always jumping on the latest bandwagon. Avoid being a 'fashion victim'.
• Staff wanting the 'silver bullet'.
• Current skills.
• Change of focus - new initiatives, sustainability.
• Accessing quality PD, more responsive/flexible PD.
• Lack of synergy amongst decision makers - the right people taking ownership.
• Level of trust in schools.
• Credibility - (book) trust in organisations around 20%

BES Leadership Evidence Overview - what leaders do in schools that have the most effect on student achievement.
School Leadership and Student Outcomes: Identifying what works and why. - Robinson, VMJ, Hohepa,M., Lloyd, C. (2009)

Problem Solving and the Iceberg

• Events  (top, above water)
• Patterns and trends (below water)
• Systemic structures (further below water)
• Mental models (further below water) - what are other people thinking about this? Values, beliefs and attitudes.

It's better to hear it than not to hear it.  Allows you to take something on board, take ownership and fix it!  There may be something you haven't thought of, or seen it from a different viewpoint.

Listening!  Summarise key ideas.  Be mindful to listen and paraphrase, not think ahead!

Every now and then check in with others - someone you trust and others.

The most important part of problem solving is recognising the problem' constraints - the things that must clearly be taken into account when coming up with an adequate solution.

Communication with parents needs to move away from achievement and behaviour, and talk about what learning is!

Concerns can be Goals.  Listening to concerns and developing goals based on these.

From Good to Great (book) - Reflect on oneself.

Bypassing Techers' Theory of Action - Student-Centered Leadership

Leader's Change Agenda

• Leader's Theory of Action
• Teacher's Theory of Action

Agreed Evaluation of Each Theory

• Joint Decision to Change
• Joint Decision Not to Change