The Presentation from the Focus Teacher Leaders Course Day 2

1. Focus Teacher Leaders
TEACHnology Focus Leaders Day 2
Prayer
‘Future’s Child’

3. Between Session Reading

4. What is Social Software?
Software that supports group interaction
Social software is about bringing minds and
ideas into contact with each other.
Relies heavily on reflection and feedback

5. Does Learning Change in a
Information Society?
How do we adapt the curriculum
to meet the needs of
our students?

6. Day One
Stage 4 Teachers

8. Action Research
• is participatory, collaborative research which typically
arises from the clarification of some concerns generally
shared by a group
• Source: Kemmis, S. & McTaggart, R. (Eds) The Action Research Planner, Third Edition. Geelong:
Deakin University Press, pp 22–25.

9. Action
Research
• is an approach to improving education by changing it
and learning from the consequences of changes.

10. • People describe their concerns, explore what
others think, and probe to find what it might be
possible to do.
Action Research
• Source: Kemmis, S. & McTaggart, R. (Eds) The Action Research Planner, Third Edition.
Geelong: Deakin University Press, pp 22–25.

11. Action Research
• develops through the spiral of cycles of
– planning
– acting (implementing plans)
– observing (systematically)
– reflecting
and then
– re-planning
– further implementation
– observing

12. • One good way to begin an
action research project is to
collect some initial data in an
area of general interest (a
reconnaissance), then to reflect,
and then to make a plan for
changes action
• Another way to begin is to
make an exploratory change,
collect data of what happens,
reflect, and then build more
refined plans for action.
•

13. • Action research..............
• is open-minded about what counts as evidence
(or data)
• involves keeping records which describe what is
happening as accurately as possible (given the
particular questions being investigated and the
real-life circumstances of collecting the data)
• involves collecting and analysing our own
judgements, reactions and impressions about

14. • Action research involves keeping a personal
journal in which we record our learnings about:
– the practices we are studying (how our
practices are developing) and our learnings
– about the process (the practice) of studying
them (how our action research project is
going)

15. • Action research involves people in making
critical analyses of the situations (classrooms,
schools or systems) in which they work

31. Networks
Social
of interest
bookmarking
Categorise Store
resources
Classify
by user
Share
defined
Search
tags
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32. Why del.icio.us?
Find your bookmarks online anywhere
in the world (not computer specific)
Collaboration & sharing
Tags- Unlike folders you may create as many as
you want. View as a list
or as a cloud
Catholic Education Office, Wollongong – Learning Services – SM - 2007

33. Don’t have an account
Let’s create one!
Catholic Education Office, Wollongong – Learning Services – SM - 2007

34. http://del.icio.us/
Catholic Education Office, Wollongong – Learning Services – SM - 2007

35. Try this Del.icio.us Activities
Create a del.icio.us account
Explore “help” and “settings”
Add “bookmarklets” (buttons) to your browser
Search the web for sites to bookmark-
“describe” and “tag” sites
Add Cynthia (cmccammon) to your network
Explore Cynthia’s bookmarks to find the the one’s indicated.
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36. What kind of young people
do we want to raise?

37. LEARNING
Activity
Where have we been and where are we going?

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40. Learning Communities

41. Learning Communities

42. • Constructivism

43. Soaking up the accumulated wisdom, facts and understandings
Absorbing of elders
Learning Fashioning new understandings instead of accepting and
memorising ideas of others

44. Teaching Focuses on the actions of the teacher transmitting and
conveying contents to students
Learning Focuses energy on how teachers are orchestrating the
questioning, thinking and discovering of students

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Brain B
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46. Critical thinking & questioning
Critical
thinking
Critical
Critical
questioning
reflection
….are crucial to effective learning

47. We must raise young ones
to question …
to wonder…
and
to
learn …
Jamie
McKenzie
Jamie McKenzie

48. Too often we give our children
answers to remember rather
than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin

49. Question
Evaluation Response

50. Question
Why?
Do you agree?
Can you elaborate?
Question Response
Can you give me an example?
Could you summarise X’s point?
encourages further student thinking

51. del.icio.us
TEACHnology
leaders

52. Activity
• With your partner explore each of the websites
under the ‘leaders’ tag.
• Make judgements about:
• Relevance of information to your setting
• Quality of website
• Locate & post at least one other site to del.icio.us
about one of the topics

53. What does this mean for
1:1?

54. Feedback
Report back about your activity and
the implications for the classroom

59. walking the line..