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?
- 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:
- CSLN
- PodKids Australia
- Mabryonline.org – Dr Tim Tyson
- First Grade Fun
- Mrs Hossack’s First Graders
- Phillip Island Class Blog
- What are ClassPortals? – Intro Chapter and possible topics
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How do we Nurture this?
Look to Learn
- What is the Look to Learn activity?
- Man is no island
- Miniature Earth
- “I Can”
- 1984
- Nuclear Giving
- The Global Rich List
- The Look to Learn Site and Bookmark List
- Looking Prompts and “TubePrompter”