Toolkit Time: Our first as presenters!

uLearn15

Empowering and affirming sums up the messages I have heard at uLearn15. Here are a few of my takeaways.

Grant Lichtman
Links to crowd sourced docs and keynote

'Technology has reimaged the transfer of knowledge and learning relationships between teachers, students and knowledge'
'fear and inertia get in the way of innovation and transfer of knowledge'
'We need to provide opportunities to evoke curiosity and problem solving skills'
'The stairway to success should be visible, inclusive and innovative'
'Students should ask own questions to generate passion'

What will I do:

• Introduce an ideas wall
• Ask my learners to describe something in 1 word then create a tagul to capture an image that represents the thinking.
• Ensure every learner has contributed at least one question to explore during inquiry time.

Dr Anne Lieberman

Link to crowd sourced docs and keynote

'Teaching is something to share with others -  learning and teaching each other -  sharing stories and giving feedback. Teachers feeling released from keeping their ideas and questions to themselves'

'We should see each colleague as a valuable contributor'

'Learning is not done on your own, it's about making meaning by connecting to others'

What will I do:

• Continue to embrace the Manaiakalani values of Learn - Create - Share

Reflecting on supporting and acknowledging Pasifika in the classroom

Annette Laban

Presentation Link

'Teachers should be asking 'Who are my learners? Where do they come from? When did their ancestors come to NZ? Why did they come to NZ? What is their culture?'

'The culture of the child cannot enter the classroom until it has first entered the consciousness of the teacher – ‘Know me before you teach me!’

What will I do:

• Create a crowd sourced inquiry (virtual atlas with facts) to establish collaboration and forge new friendships at start of year

• Use technology to afford my learners the opportunities to 'hear' and 'say' the language

Things you should be teaching, but don't

Nikki Urlich

'Knowledge in your pocket need knowledge acquisition but needs explicit teaching!'

'Search it search it search it - question, words, clarify connect….skim scan and evaluate'

What will I do:

• Run a Toolkit to share this learning
• Use tuakana teina time to help develop searching skills in younger students
• Introduce ‘Find out about Fridays’
• Share the 'Google Off' idea
• What should be in a model for searching? (What is it you want to find out? Use keywords to write your question. Skim scan is it working (Evaluate)? Change the words)

Lifting Our Game

Allanah King and Barbara Reid

Presentation

'SAMR is not a ladder - Rather how we use technology in the classroom to benefit students compared with what we did in the past'

'Dr Ruben Puentedura looked at how different technology makes a difference in student achievement'

'Technology affords our learners... padlet from workshop'

What will I do:

• Explore Link to Book Creator App
• Follow @sylviaduckworth - illustrations to represent learning concepts
• Ask: 'What is the task going to do for my students?'
• Introduce the apps in this presentation to my class
• Revisit the SAMR model when planning

ULearn15 Presentation

Today we presented our inquiries to our audience at uLearn15. Empowering to be a part of such a innovative cluster.

Manaiakalani Innovative Teachers 2015

Link to MIT15 presentation

'You can't help yourself unless you can see yourself' - Jason Borland

'Creating communities that learn how to improve student achievement' - Michelle George

'Don’t teach the same concept twice... our learners have one language tank' - Kyla Hansell

'Students re purposing docs for their own needs in the process gives an interesting insight and highlights gaps in the planning' - Karen Ferguson

'Plan lots of opportunities for our learners to collaborate' - Sheena Campell

Sharing the evolution of our Room 5 'learner speak' resource. 

'We speak two languages and it is important to remember that as teachers we do not speak ‘learner’ anywhere near as well as learners do!

Papakura Kōtuitui Presentation

Sharing both my Manaiakalani journey so far and the writing process that operates in my class with lead teachers from the Papakura Kōtuitui cluster. Great to receive such positive feedback. Thank you to Dave Winter for inviting me to take part.

Maniakalani Hui Presentation

This was my presentation at the Manaiakalani Hui. It reflects my inquiry journey so far. Our next step is to share our rubric with the other classes in our school with the challenge to adapt and change our resource so that it becomes their resource. We're looking forward to their feedback.

Manaiakalani Hui Presentation

Yvette and I after our presentations

An exciting day for Room 5 today! Both Yvette and myself presented at the Manaiakalani Hui. I shared my MIT journey so far, and Yvette did an amazing job at sharing a learning experience in our class. I was really impressed with the confident way she explained the learning process and why she enjoyed this task. Great job Yvette!  #proud teacher

MIT day @ SPARK

We're excited to be hosting the Spark Manaiakalani Innovative Teachers at Spark City today. These inspiring teachers are developing new and impactful e-learning techniques!
Posted by Spark Foundation on Thursday, 13 August 2015