Thursday, October 11, 2012

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.  

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