Kahealani+-+Monday

Session #1 8:30-9:30 Stratosphere: Integrating Technology, Pedagogy, and Change Knowledge (Spotlight - Michael Fullan) @ 6C SDCC


 * Intinsic motivation
 * Park Manor Senior Public School elementaryparkmanorelementary.org/ Accelerated learning framework - Digitally Rich Learning Without Limits; great student results; consistent responses to success criteria; URL... www.manorparksps.ocdsb.ca/
 * Technology has dramatically improved every field but education: success criteria + technology combined with pedagogy
 * Achievement of PISA gap between low and high performers is growing
 * Data of loss of enthusiasm from K-9...12
 * Teachers leaving the profession (55% of the teachers leave the system after 5 years...2 in Washington D.C.); More teachers in their first year of teaching than any other years
 * PISA...even the best have flatlined...technology will make the difference
 * Top 3 factors for "New Learning": technology, pedagogy & change knowledge
 * Engaging, elegantly efficient (easy to use) vs. The underside of technology, technology ubiquitous 24/7, steeped in real-life problem solving (sustainability, etc.)
 * Examples but no large scale
 * Microsoft's ITL (innovative teaching and learning)
 * Technology must be accompanied by the teacher (joining forces): major changes in the roles of teachers, student engagement, pedagogical
 * Digital savvy is not pedagogy
 * John Hattie - Teacher as activator (.84 affect size) & Teacher as facilitator (.17)
 * Students who receive a small amount of attention (students & teachers) daily...makes a difference (Ben Levin,pg.20)
 * Peer to peer teaching & choices vs. mandates
 * Change video - scroll - book
 * Change knowledge: focus (Finding your Focus), innovation, empathy (pilina...give the other party respect before they have earned it), capacity building (groups...human & social capital)..., contagion (look at other places of innovation), transparency (practice & results), elimination of non-essentials, leadership, non-judgementalism ("this is a job for capacity building")...for motivation purposes
 * Disruptive innovation@ early stages is of inferior quality (potentially better @ later stages) & therefore our attitude has to be a learning attitude

Session #2 11:00-12:00 TPACK: Will You Know It When You See It? (Spotlight - Judith Harris) @ 10 SDCC

NOTE: May skip the next two sessions to check out the exhibits Skipped to check out the exhibits

Session #3. 12:45-1:45 Spreading the Word: Eight Ways to Start Conversations Around Change (Spotlight - Will Richardson) @ 6F SDCC

Skipped to check out the exhibits

Session #4 2:30-3:30 Designing Brick-And-Mortar Libraries in the Digital Age (Spotlight - Douglas Johnson) @ 5 SDCC


 * Check out his wiki @ https://dougjohnson.wikispaces.com
 * Interested in library facility design (1976)
 * All material under the creative commons
 * The Challenge-why should I go to the library when the library will come to me?
 * 3 Different Adaptations
 * Library as social spaces: home, work, third place (bar in cheers)
 * Need to look at our rules & expectations
 * Allow games. 40% of adults play games.
 * Create zones in space or time.
 * Think from store to mall. Move more adults into the library (house tech staff, career centers, tutors, etc.).  One stop service center.
 * Group of students "nerd herd"
 * Learning Commons - what is this?
 * Weed your collection
 * Computer lab designs: (continuous device access) BYOD, 1:1
 * Collaborative team design. A team design (where old reference section used to be).  A place in your library where these high powered machines?
 * Looking at presentation space (a nice open space where people could present)...for teachers and students
 * Library classroom --> model classroom; it doesn't take much to stay a little ahead of others (Google, cut & paste)
 * The one thing the Internet doesn't have that a library does, is a librarian. Move your desk out on the floor.
 * Library design basics: community access (separate controls), visual control @ command central into all sections (put glass where you can't see) ...with stacks running parallel, traffic patterns & zoning...with fewer distractions near high traffic areas (something different with flooring (carpet tiles), plan for multiple activities (small & large groups (conference room - key with movable walls) & individual seating, aesthetics (functional & attractive...degree of warmth)
 * Visit other libraries if you are planning a remodel...make it the most interesting place in the school
 * How do you fit the design of the library to the mission of the school?

Session #5 4:15-5:15 Beyond Googling: Using Technology To Build A Culture of Inquiry (Spotlight - Chris Lehman) @ 6E SDCC
 * @chrislehmam, tweet #isteinquiry for questions during this session
 * Science Leadership Academy
 * By all means interrupt, will have think, pair shares
 * How do you define inquiry? Not asking questions you already have the answer to, creativity, passion, authentic, wonder, questions, critical thinking, student centered.  His definition:  it is a process you go through (inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, reflection).  Everything they do at SLA.  It is an iterative process.  Public high school in Philadelphia.  Creates the conditions for: choice, personalization (word profoundly misused...not that we all do the same stuff @ a different pace...get to do stuff that we care about, relevance (matters & make a connection)...understanding for adult learners..., empowerment (not only engagement...empowerment is a means to an end)...i.e. Move you have seen in the past year...not only put on a good movie, care in a classroom (ethical care + inquiry...What do you think?  Listen).
 * We have to be one school. Enable for the teachers what you want then to do for the kids.
 * What is the dark side of inquiry? (covering content, planning is harder...rushed lessons were lecture (not scaffolded inquiry of 30 difficult learners in the classroom), assessment (sophisticated rubric development-5 categories, 4 level...qualitative data versus quantitative)
 * Inquiry is not asking kids the questions we know the answers to (i.e. Socratic method)
 * When inquiry is scary: the blank page (guided/structured vs. open/blank page) we are killing the children in 5 or 6 academic classes (don't forget about the children...keep them off the ledge) i.e. cell mitosis
 * Sample projects: public information campaign (7 student selected groups) - structured guided inquiry, history project (stonewall, community buildings
 * Don't tell them to blog...they prime the pump...9th grade more structured...less as time goes on. Kids learn the Prezi on their own. They found the tool that makes the most sense to them.
 * Grade 9 science inquiry project/experiment...who is your audience (academic/busindess science oriented review
 * A lot of time in grade 9 teaching process via structured inquiry
 * Fears: a non-producer, inquiry project based learning...many, many check points along the way..., build benchmark project deadlines (teachers work hard to balance work)
 * Build consensus, an idea worth studying, critique...it takes a long time to get consensus (i.e. Standards-based report card) We workshop (2 hour faculty meetings/week).
 * Empowerment vs. Entitlement
 * Kids at SLA are not bored