Sydney Region Leaders Conference

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

• Why it’s needed – overview
• Look to Learn
• ClassPortal
• WebQuests & WQ 2.0

Look to Learn

Samples

• Miniature Earth
• VisionShift: Whose Future?
• “I Can”
• Nuclear Giving
• There’s Data in them ther Kids (cartoon)
• The Global Rich List (interactive site)

Resources

• Look to Learn – overview
• Look to Learn Web site
• Look to Learn Sample Prompts
• Thinking Routines overview
• Thinking Routines from the Visible Thinking team at Harvard

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

ClassPortals

References:

• What is a ClassPortal?
• Chapter 1
• Why ClassPortals?

For Ideas & Inspiration

• OXFAM – Reshaping our World – Poverty Maps
• Idea Index from the Buckminster Fuller Challenge
• The Girl who Silenced the U.N. for Five Minutes
• Online Fundraising Efforts at Razoo
• 50 Items That Should Change the World

Interaction: Brainstorm Topics you think would make good ClassPortals

WebQuests

WebQuests by Tom

• Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?
• Tuskegee Tragedy
• CroolZone – School Safety WebQuest
• Does the Tiger Eat her Cubs?

Resources

• Detailed Process for Drafting a WebQuest (doc)
• Tom’s Current WebQuest 2.0 Process (pdf)
• Use the article above and the Designing a WebQuest 2.0 (doc) and the links below as a guide.
• Freedom Fighter or Terrorist Group Scaffold Sheet (you can modify)

Articles

• Tom’s Educational Leadership article: The Learning Power of WebQuests
• Tom’s longer version: What WebQuests Are (Really).
• Bernie weighing in on “Real WebQuests”

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

Activity: Creating Your Smart Online Space

• Complete 2 Day Workshop Handouts
• Get a WordPress Blog
• Change the theme
• Make a Post
• Embed YouTube (remember &rel=0)
• Try TubeChop.com
• Get Firefox for extensions like the video downloader?
• Embed all kinds of media in WordPress (maps, images, documents or polls?)
• A practice post with embeds

Activity – Web 2 Tools

• Download the Web 2 Tools Overview handout
• Explore the Tools Panel
• Copy and Paste the Tools Panel into a page for your site
• Choose from different Web 2 icons
• Create a menu for navigation

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

• Overview / Rationale
• Profiles (pdf)
• Rubric (pdf)