What are you passionate about? Let me rephrase that... What are you passionate about... in an educational context?
This was the question we were asked to respond to at the start of this afternoon's session. We were asked to write down on a slip of paper the one thing we we most passionate about. The end point we were aiming for was to form groups around things we were passionate about. I thought the way we arrived at that point was interesting:
1) Write down what you are passionate about.
2) Swap your slip of paper with someone else.
3) Get up, move around the room and when told find a partner to talk to.
4) Swap the slip with this partner and then between the two of you, assign a score to each idea. You have seven points to share between the two ideas, so as a pair, you might give one idea a six and the other a one. or if they are more similar, give a three and a four. Write the score on the back of the idea.
5) Move again, find a new partner again, swap slips again. Decide how to distribute the seven points again.
6) Do this five times, so you will have seen five different ideas and assigned five different points.
7) Add up the scores on the back and the most popular ideas will have the highest scores.
8) Take the top ideas and form groups around them.
Interesting way of forming groups... At least I thought it was interesting!
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Saturday, May 07, 2011
ADE Workshop
Finding out about iPad apps. These were recommended by educators in the room.
iMotionHD : Let's you create and share time-lapse movies. Great for science.
TelePrompt+ : Teleprompt utility.
Popplet (or iThoughts) : Kind of a memory map utility.
RAG : Random Activity Generaltor from John Davitt. Look for LEG online too
Museum of London Street Museum : GPS location used to deliver history info s you walk round London.
IFiles : Getting photos on and off iPhones and iPod Touches through desktops. (Alternative solution was described which involved putting stuff on a shared drive.)
Bambuser : You can stream live video onto the web.
EasyChinese : Flash card type app. Easy of use is outstanding.
Epic Citadel : Graphic adventure. Used as stimulus for other work. screenshots taken of the game and brought into Popplet. Great stimulus for writing - especially the boys. Also can use green screen to put children into the scenes.
GarageBand and Voice Memo : Record feedback to pupils and sent by email to pupils. Also links to QR Code of the recordings that are linked to particular spaces.
Photo sync : send photos wirelessly from iPhone to iPad or other iPhones.
Neu.annotate : Write on top of PDF files and then email it back And it's free!
GB Road Atlas : A big map! Also free
Proloqo2Go : Text to speech app
Audioboo : Fantasticly easy way to share audio.
Color : Like Twitter for photos
Thumb jam : easy way to produce music.
Six strings and OM Guitar ... But they have kind of been replaced by GarageBand!
Seline HD : A futuristic music interface. Select a drone and then play music on top of it. Can export music.
Percussive : Good samples of various percussion instruments.
Wella apps from the Wella website : Great for the science side of hairdressing.
Puppet pals : allows people to practice speaking for example speaking on phone or role play.
ABC Pocket Phonics and ABC Tracer : Writing apps.
iMotionHD : Let's you create and share time-lapse movies. Great for science.
TelePrompt+ : Teleprompt utility.
Popplet (or iThoughts) : Kind of a memory map utility.
RAG : Random Activity Generaltor from John Davitt. Look for LEG online too
Museum of London Street Museum : GPS location used to deliver history info s you walk round London.
IFiles : Getting photos on and off iPhones and iPod Touches through desktops. (Alternative solution was described which involved putting stuff on a shared drive.)
Bambuser : You can stream live video onto the web.
EasyChinese : Flash card type app. Easy of use is outstanding.
Epic Citadel : Graphic adventure. Used as stimulus for other work. screenshots taken of the game and brought into Popplet. Great stimulus for writing - especially the boys. Also can use green screen to put children into the scenes.
GarageBand and Voice Memo : Record feedback to pupils and sent by email to pupils. Also links to QR Code of the recordings that are linked to particular spaces.
Photo sync : send photos wirelessly from iPhone to iPad or other iPhones.
Neu.annotate : Write on top of PDF files and then email it back And it's free!
GB Road Atlas : A big map! Also free
Proloqo2Go : Text to speech app
Audioboo : Fantasticly easy way to share audio.
Color : Like Twitter for photos
Thumb jam : easy way to produce music.
Six strings and OM Guitar ... But they have kind of been replaced by GarageBand!
Seline HD : A futuristic music interface. Select a drone and then play music on top of it. Can export music.
Percussive : Good samples of various percussion instruments.
Wella apps from the Wella website : Great for the science side of hairdressing.
Puppet pals : allows people to practice speaking for example speaking on phone or role play.
ABC Pocket Phonics and ABC Tracer : Writing apps.
ADE Challenge Based Learning
Everyone is a learner.
The importance of creativity. The tools are out there to allow people to capture stuff. Learners need a studio to work with the stuff the capture. finally they need a display space. This used to be the fridge - child brings work from home and it is stuck on the fridge with a magnet. In digital age, that display place is online - Facebook, YouTube, ... What's interesting is that these display areas are (often) social and so the creators can get feedback and suggestions from the community.
The classroom of tomorrow today: Six Design Principles
1) 21st Century Outcomes
2) Relevant and Applied Curriculum
3) Informative Assessment
4) Culture of Creativity and Innovation
5) Social and Emotional Connection
6) 24/7 Access to Learning Tools
Students dropped out of high schools were asked why they dropped out. Number one answer was not that they were bored but rather that nobody cared about them - nobody in school or at home.
Challenge Based Learning
Starts with a big idea - global in scope. Example given was Resilience. Start with an essential question, building on resilience the question was how can we better support each other? Narrowed again to produce a single, actionable challenge, e.g. help a community recover from a disaster? A set of guiding questions are then produced that guide the learning process. Then guiding activities (stuff I missed) and Implementation followed by Reflection.
{Curses - I had a lot more on this but it seems to have been swallowed and lost by the painfully slow wifi here!}
The importance of creativity. The tools are out there to allow people to capture stuff. Learners need a studio to work with the stuff the capture. finally they need a display space. This used to be the fridge - child brings work from home and it is stuck on the fridge with a magnet. In digital age, that display place is online - Facebook, YouTube, ... What's interesting is that these display areas are (often) social and so the creators can get feedback and suggestions from the community.
The classroom of tomorrow today: Six Design Principles
1) 21st Century Outcomes
2) Relevant and Applied Curriculum
3) Informative Assessment
4) Culture of Creativity and Innovation
5) Social and Emotional Connection
6) 24/7 Access to Learning Tools
Students dropped out of high schools were asked why they dropped out. Number one answer was not that they were bored but rather that nobody cared about them - nobody in school or at home.
Challenge Based Learning
Starts with a big idea - global in scope. Example given was Resilience. Start with an essential question, building on resilience the question was how can we better support each other? Narrowed again to produce a single, actionable challenge, e.g. help a community recover from a disaster? A set of guiding questions are then produced that guide the learning process. Then guiding activities (stuff I missed) and Implementation followed by Reflection.
{Curses - I had a lot more on this but it seems to have been swallowed and lost by the painfully slow wifi here!}
ADE: ECIS
(Live capture of presentation)
European Council of International Schools
TheECIS launched an iTunesU presence on the 16th of April this year. The target audience is both learning materials for pupils and professional development material for teachers. For example, a Maths teacher has produced video/animated answers for International Baccalaureate past papers with audio explanation. As well as giving the answers, they also showed pupils how to check they had the right answer.
As a result, they have flipped the class. It used to be that the teacher would do the theory at the start of the lesson and set the pupils to practice for homework. Now the homework is to access the podcast with the theory as homework and then do the practice in class. This means the teachers spend a lot more time with working with the pupils.
Because iTunesU is self policing, people do check the content and errors are corrected. There is now a ratings and comments mechanism and people do leave comments.
European Council of International Schools
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As a result, they have flipped the class. It used to be that the teacher would do the theory at the start of the lesson and set the pupils to practice for homework. Now the homework is to access the podcast with the theory as homework and then do the practice in class. This means the teachers spend a lot more time with working with the pupils.
Because iTunesU is self policing, people do check the content and errors are corrected. There is now a ratings and comments mechanism and people do leave comments.
Friday, May 06, 2011
ADE Institute: Opening Sessions
Welcome
The ADE Institute is an opportunity to meet people from eight different countries who are motivated, excited and knowledgeable. We are encouraged to share our projects and look for opportunities to work with others.
There will be opportunities to hear success stories and to work with others.
What is an ADE? They are advisors, authors, ambassadors and advocates.
Trusted Advisors: often in an institution, you are the person people come to for hop and advice.
Authentic Authors: creating and sharing materials. sharing not just with the ADE community but with the world through blogs, the web, iTunesU, whatever...
Global Ambassadors:
Passionate Advocates: know thhe power of the technology and we should nurture creativity.
We will be working in groups and producing things during the institute but we will continue to maintain contact and take the programme home with us.
The ADE Institute is an opportunity to meet people from eight different countries who are motivated, excited and knowledgeable. We are encouraged to share our projects and look for opportunities to work with others.
There will be opportunities to hear success stories and to work with others.
What is an ADE? They are advisors, authors, ambassadors and advocates.
Trusted Advisors: often in an institution, you are the person people come to for hop and advice.
Authentic Authors: creating and sharing materials. sharing not just with the ADE community but with the world through blogs, the web, iTunesU, whatever...
Global Ambassadors:
Passionate Advocates: know thhe power of the technology and we should nurture creativity.
We will be working in groups and producing things during the institute but we will continue to maintain contact and take the programme home with us.
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