Be-Dazzling Principals in Melbourne

The Day

On Monday I’m presenting Day One of a conference for primary principals from the Outer North Western area of Melbourne.  The task for the day is to inspire — to bedazzle —  these leaders with how ICTs can excite learning for themselves, their teachers and students.

Although we will explore plenty of dazzling ICTs, my goal is to do more.  I hope to empower participants with a customisable roadmap, one where they use the exciting aspects of technology to promote a sustainable culture of Real, Rich and Relevant learning in their schools.

Quick Brainstorming

Let’s begin with sharing vision our challenges and goals by getting input via

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The Vision

My unhidden agenda is that technology needs to do more than “sex-up” traditional lessons.  Here are examples of how an educator frames a task so that it inspires students to stretch to their best.

What is Dazzling?

Students engaged in autonomous knowledge building. Why?
  • It’s an expression of the Joy of Learning
  • It’s what’s called for by governments & business
  • It makes online access more than amusing ourselves to death
  • It produces better retention of information and promotes higher order thinking, superior outright performance and psychological wellness.

Here are examples:

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How do we Nurture this?

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Hands-On!

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