Keynote

WASTAA Conference – Perth

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This Sunday and Monday brings a quick trip to Perth where I get to work with The Western Australian Secondary Teaching Administrators’ Association.  It’s a particular honour to share my thinking here because the audience are Level 3 educators, meaning they are “exemplary teachers recognised and rewarded for their exceptional teaching practices.” I’ll present a variation of the keynote I’ve been doing this year with particular focus on the pedagogical / practice frameworks in Next Era Ed.

One thing I may gloss over too frequently, I will focus more attention on with this audience.  Here’s a list of the predictable outcomes embedded in my Edge-ucators Way and CEQ•ALL approaches.

Those who know my work are aware that these bullet lists derive from Self-Determination Theory, Cultures of Thinking, Habits of Mind, Flow Theory, Grit and Authentic Happiness.

All of which get integrated through the new Classroom Routines of the Edge-ucators Way and the Seld-managed Learning Process of CEQ•LL

Look to Learn : : Learn to Look

Online Samples

How-To

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

Resources for Creating Your Smart Online Space

QSITE Conference

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It’s a joy to be back at the QSITE conference where I’ve had the pleasure to keynote several times. Because the most recent was 2007, I’m looking forward to sharing how strategies like The Edge-ucators Way and CEQ•ALL have blossomed into NextEraEd. By the way, QSITE is the Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education and my sessions are on September 29 at St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School, south of Brisbane.

The Edge-ucators Way

Look to Learn

Samples

Resources

Interaction: Comment on this Post: how could you use / support Look to Learns?

ClassPortals

References:

For Ideas & Inspiration

Interaction: Brainstorm Topics you think would make good ClassPortals

WebQuests

WebQuests by Tom

Resources

Articles

Interaction: Brainstorm Topics / Big Questions for possible WebQuests (Group 1 & Group 2)

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Interaction: ClassBubbles to share your thoughts (use key: nexteraed)

Activity: Creating Your Smart Online Space

Activity – Web 2 Tools

Recorded Keynote

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View “It’s Broke – So Let’s Fix it!” Keynote

On June 16, 2011, I had the opportunity to keynote day two of the CEFPI Conference (Council of Educational Facility Planners International) at the Sydney Convention Centre. This was a fantastic conference in a great facility.  Fortunately the organisers secured InfoShare Technologies to record the keynotes.  Simon Gazey and his team have really done a professional job.  Over the years I’ve had a number of my sessions recorded or streamed and have never bothered sharing the result, but his time the production is so good that I feel their is some benefit in making it available.

The blurb for this keynote goes like this:

We are entering an era when a self-motivated student with broadband access can learn more than he or she could in school. Society has changed around us, undermining cultures focused on standardised outcomes and the myth of uniform excellence; in other words, a culture-like “school.” The world surrounding schools has moved from a “one-size-fits-all” mentality to one where digital customisation enables “all-fit-to-one’s-size”. In this new reality, learn about the four critical pieces needed to succeed and how you can get students and staff started.

Click on the graphic above or this link to view the keynote.  The video will begin to play with the slides automatically synced.

If you’re really desperate for something to watch, I just came across this 2006 presentation recorded by the Computer -Using Educators Group of South Australia:

Tom March: It’s broke (so let’s fix it) – Remaking education for our digital era from CEGSA on Vimeo.

Sydney Region Leaders Conference

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Welcome!

Workshop

As the culmination of an evolving model called The Edge-ucators Way, Tom will engage participants in exploring three core strategies and a model to promote student self-initiated learning.
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Keynote

I have the pleasure of sharing “It’s Broke – So Let’s Fix it” with the leaders of government schools in the Sydney region.  The key points are to focus on our most important tasks: changing classroom practices to leverage ICTs to support the best in evidence-based pedagogies, to break free from a century’s worth of habits and emerge into a new Era of Education.  A pdf of the keynote is available.

The Edge-ucators Way

Look to Learn

Samples

Resources

Interaction: Comment on this Post: how could you use / support Look to Learns?

ClassPortals

References:

For Ideas & Inspiration

Interaction: Brainstorm Topics you think would make good ClassPortals

WebQuests

WebQuests by Tom

Resources

Articles

Interaction: Brainstorm Topics / Big Questions for possible WebQuests (Group 1 & Group 2)

Activity: Creating Your Smart Online Space

Activity – Web 2 Tools

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Adelaide – CEGSA

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CEGSA – August 13 – Adelaide, South Australia

Computers in Education Group South Australia

St Peter’s College Junior School, North Terrace, St Peters.

Keynote: “It’s Broke, so Let’s Fix it” – re-making education for our Digital Era

We now live in era when self-motivated students with computers and broadband access can learn more than they could in school.  Not surprising since “school” is a construct designed using the best technology available one hundred years ago.  Although education has tried many reforms in the past thirty years, all have been based on this old model.  It’s time for a new construct.  Society has changed around us, undermining cultures focused on standardised outcomes and the myth of uniform excellence.  In other words, a culture like “school.”  The world surrounding schools has moved from a “one-size-fits-all” mentality to one where digital customisation enables a world “all-fit-to-one’s-size”.  In this new reality, learn about the four critical pieces needed to succeed and how you can get students and staff started today!

Presentation slides – download: 22 mb .mov (download the file and then open in a movie viewer or Firefox)

90 min hands-on Workshop: “Unpacking Next Era Ed”

This hands-on workshop follows from the keynote, “It’s Broke, so Let’s Fix It!” and details the main strategies of The Edge-ucators Way and CEQ•ALL (“Seek All”).  Find out how Web 2 tools and rich media can be integrated into evidence-based frameworks that you can use to shift from teacher-directed to student-managed learning that will span students’ school years and result in greater achievement and preparation for their futures.

The Edge-ucators Way

Look to Learn

Samples

Resources

Interaction: Comment on this Post: how could you use / support Look to Learns?

ClassPortals

References:

For Ideas & Inspiration

Interaction: Brainstorm Topics you think would make good ClassPortals

WebQuests

WebQuests by Tom

Resources

Articles

Interaction: Brainstorm Topics / Big Questions for possible WebQuests (Group 1 & Group 2)

Activity: Creating Your Smart Online Space

Activity – Web 2 Tools

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

CEFPI Conference – Sydney Exhibition Centre

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The Council of Educational Facility Planners International is currently holding their conference at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in  Darling Harbour.  I will be contributing to a discussion session on Wednesday and a keynote on Thursday.

During the discussion session I will be able to make the case for where current schools are “broken” and during the keynote I will share my version of the “Fix:” Next Era Ed.  Essentially, today’s schools are built on the assembly line model which worked reasonably well last century given the available technology.  When resources and expertise were limited and the goals were “basic skills,” the Factory School was our best option.

Today’s digital technologies, however, “change the game.”  Not only is this the beginning of a Golden Era of access to rich digital media and interactions, but the data mining behind the scenes allows for what Alvin Toffler called “mass customisation.”  So why do we continue to operate schools based on last century’s “one-size-fits-all” mantra instead of shifting to the possibility of “all fit to one’s size?”  This is my shtick.

Theme Session: “It’s Broke”

Challenge: Contribute environmental planning ideas around 3 versions of Digital Schooling

Keynote: “So Let’s Fix It!”

Thursday morning I have the chance to make my case for the four areas we must address if we are to succeed at shifting away from the “virtual learning” of the assembly line school in favour of the Joy of Learning available in the digital era.

WASLA Conference in Perth

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School Library Conference – Western Australia

Santa Maria College, Attadale WA

It gives me great pleasure to publicly share what I’ve been working on these last years (really my whole life).

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Keynote Abstract

We are entering an era when it can be stated truthfully that a self-motivated student with broadband access to the Web can learn more than he or she could in school. Society has changed around us and one of the few certainties is that these changes will continue. Some of the main changes undermine cultures focused on standardised outcomes and the myth of uniform excellence. In other words, a culture like “school.” The world surrounding schools has moved from a “one-size-fits-all” mentality to one where digital customisation creates a world “all-fit-to-one’s-size”. In this new reality, the Next Era of Education will require re-vision of four main dimensions to “schooling.”



Digital Learning Pedagogy

Look to Learn : : Learn to Look

Online Samples

Visible Thinking Tools

 

Create a ClassPortal

Site to visit Regularly

RSS Feeds

Web 2 Tools

 

WebQuests for Constructing Knowledge

WebQuests by Tom

Resources

Articles

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Upcoming Keynotes

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May

CEGSA & SLASA – May 14 – Adelaide, South Australia

Computers in Education Group – South Australia
School Library Association – South Australia

St Peter’s College Junior School, North Terrace, St Peters.
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ICTEV – May 2 – Melbourne, Victoria

ICT in Education Victoria

Melbourne Grammar School


 
 
 
 

June

SLC-WA – School Library Conference – June 11 – Perth, Australia

School Library Conference – Western Australia

Santa Maria College, Attadale WA

 
 
 

CEFPI 2011 – June 15-16

Council of Educational Facility Planners International

Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour

Download the Program (pdf)

 
 
 
 

September

DET Head Teachers Conference, 5 September

Head Teacher/Executives DER Professional Leadership Conference

Brighton-le-Sands Novotel, Sydney

 
 
 

QSITE – September 29 – Brisbane, Queensland

Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education

St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School – Corinda

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