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Learning@Schools09 Link to presenters material: [] == **Ivan** Kia ora everyone! I hope you enjoyed the conference and got plenty out of it. I have recovered a lot of the lost workshop comments below. there are many new pages that don't have any links so I have listed them below.

Visual Theasaurus Tiz Us Tiki Search Pam Hook Games as a Catalyst for Learning Engaging the community, Telling, Showing, Compelling Digital Stories Different Places, Same Spaces! Tony Ryan

Jamie McKenzie = =  21st Century Time Spaces

JULIE Structured Observable Learning Outcomes. SOLO is similiar to Blooms taxonomy. Pam Hook is an advocate of SOLO I'm sure you all picked this up during her presentation Thursday morning. Edith Cross from Meadowbank  ecross@meadowbank.school.nz presented this breakout. Meadowbank school have been using SOLO for two years, this is their inquiry learning model and is also built into their planning of learning programmes. SOLO also use graphic organisers some have been developed from what is already out there to developing their own organisers see  www.hookedonlearning With the combination of SOLO and ICT or web2 tools integrated into all learning programmes Meadowbank school believe they have built up a powerful learning model. = =  Structured Observable Learning Outcomes. SOLO is similiar to Blooms taxonomy. Pam Hook is an advocate of SOLO I'm sure you all picked this up during her presentation Thursday morning. Edith Cross from Meadowbank  ecross@meadowbank.school.nz presented this breakout. Meadowbank school have been using SOLO for two years, this is their inquiry learning model and is also built into their planning of learning programmes. SOLO also use graphic organisers some have been developed from what is already out there to developing their own organisers see  www.hookedonlearning With the combination of SOLO and ICT or web2 tools integrated into all learning programmes Meadowbank school believe they have built up a powerful learning model.

Being A leader of Learning - Mary Anne Mills Breakout 3** Mary Anne was part of the team drawing up the NZ Curric. NZ Curriculum - will it transforme outcomes? " Achieving the desired impact on the NZ Curriculum will depend on leadership of principals, particularly over the next 3-4 years. Need active change. Curric change is an evolution. shifting te balance of values, competencies, knowledge & skills, Integratoin of skills, competencies, knowledge - emphasis on application, collaboration & creating. Teachers & schools will change when there are opportunities to practise, opportunities to reflect, share experiences & methods with profesional colleagues. Predictions: What will we see if this curriculum is successful? Optimistic people. Challanges: a mindshift in pedagogy, no teacher left behind, act on things we can control. In our schools we must see the NZ Curric. as a ne challenge, modell the new values & behaviours that you expect to see in others. Major Vision & Challenge: what will be different in your school by the end of 2012?
 * Lynda

**Learning to Question to Wonder to Learn - Jamie McKenzie** Breakout 5 What is a thinker? How could students spend lots of time in school thinking without ever becoming thinkers? Questions of Import - go to Google - The The Biographer maker - this shows the 11 questions necessary for questions to ask. highly recommended site: [|www.visualthesaurus.com]for words that will help chn. Some schools might need to unblock Java. recommended reading: //The Book Of Fame// by Lloyd Jones (author of Mr Pip) //The Sense of Wonder// by Rachel Carson published in the 1960s, esp page 54. Theme of the workshop - we need to daydream, to be curious, to be in a sense of positive awe. [|www.questioning.org/qtech]. [|www.questioning.org/nov04/whyquestion][|www.questioning.org/may06/LearningQuestioning] Overall impression is that Jamie mcKenzie should have been a keynote speaker, as he makes on think about thinking Ivan This workshop was all about putting together a news item using iMovie 09. Most of the workshop was about the software itself as opposed to the pedagogy of putting together a news show. However iMovie 09 is a totally different bit of software from previous versions. Much easier and far better tools. My opinion is that this is another excellent piece of software from apple. A must for iMovie users. The whole interface has changed and kids will pick it up very easily. Most of it is drag and drop with far better audio tools. And is this the CD we have just bought? A site for copywrite free music is www.freeplaymusic.com Ivan **EPS - Educational Positioning System ** <span style="color: rgb(132,26,62); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">All new cluster Schools were required to attend. We started with an explanation of this online survey tool and how it could be used. From what I picked up it is a lot harder for our 1 and 2 teacher schools to get a good accurate picture of where we are at as the survey sample is very small. Also there seems to be a few problems with the format of the survey and how some interpret questions different from others. However I think it can be a very useful tool to use as a basis for professional discussions on how your schools are operating in terms of teaching and learning. =Rebecca! <span style="color: rgb(13,0,255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__Introduction:__ Idea of moving learning journals into electronic media and transforming into an e-learning journal! = [|http://netvibes.com/moelearning] =<span style="color: rgb(13,0,255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__Andy Hargreaves - The Fourth Way of Leadership and Change:__ =
 * Lynda**
 * <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(35,81,16); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The "Just in time News Show" **

<span style="color: rgb(13,0,255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__Finland__ is performing best in the world. Number 1 in economic! Nokia = the town of Nokia. If you work for Nokia you change your job every 15 months, learning about other parts and build relationships and you don't just stick to little bits!!! Question and challenge. What mechanisms do you have to connect people across and within. Bad news must travel fast. Collaboration is tougher, direct and more gritty. Low attendance figures, let parents know immediately so they can help improve it, or do you hide it? Finland a creative knowledge society/economy. <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">You create your future by connecting to the best of what you have been in the past! <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">More composers in Finland than in any other world. All students learn performing arts with a musical instrument and food provided to all students free. Connect inspiring future = you can draw the highest quality teachers into teaching. = <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> > =<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">clear societal vision. = > =<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">strong public investment = > =<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">high quality, high status teachers = > =<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">steering by the state = > =<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">local curriculum development = > =<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">turst cooperation and responsibility = > =<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">improvement through uplift = > =<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">leader who teach = > =<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">no initiative-itis = > =<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Only one in 10 teachers actually make it through because its such a highly sought after profession! = = broad national curriculum, but localised curriculum is effective. Feel responsible for all the children in their school. Create success not by pushing genius' at the top, but lifting all the students up to their next level. Issues are dealt with immediately and collaboratively. For leadership - if sick, away, the school belongs to all of us!!! Schools working together, where the strong schools help the weak. Sharing ideas, resources etc. Great investment in parents, families and communities. __Tower Hamlets - London:__ Diverse, poor community. Christine Gilbert. inspiring vision. Poverty is no excuse for failure. What we do in our school and with our community will make the difference to student achievement. She set targets with Prinicpals together for measurable improvement over time, more ambitious than the targets the government gave. Better to ambitious targets and not quite meet them. **YOUR TARGETS, YOUR MEASUREMENTS shared together as a community so you can see how you progress over time! Strong relationships and great trust (highly success business corporations = knowing your people, close personal knowledge).** Inspiring mission, shared targets, knowing your personnel, high quality teachers! Workforce remodelling - policy to put more classroom assistants into schools. Best schools can't tell who's the teacher and who's the other adult in the school.
 * 1) <span style="color: rgb(13,0,255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">e-learning __by itself__ has absolutely no demonstrated positive effect on teaching/learning and student achievement.
 * 2) <span style="color: rgb(13,0,255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">collaborative feedback is essential, how can you use technology to enhance this.
 * 3) <span style="color: rgb(13,0,255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__1st way of change__ - Innovations without cohesion. Lots of flexibility and innovation, not not may ways of spreading it around. May still be a bit of an issue when you look at the statistics about NZ's performance when you realise how high performing most elements are. Inconsistencies prevailed. Need to get some of this innovation back.
 * 4) <span style="color: rgb(13,0,255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__2nd way of change__ - Top down government. Competitive, parental choice between schools, governments set targets. Dictated to schools to get better test results and impress parents. Beware of following other patterns when they are performing less well than NZ! Narrow curriculum, loss and retention of good educators. 16 tonne weight falling on people, falling through cracks in the ice.
 * 5) <span style="color: rgb(13,0,255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__3rd way of change__ - (Anthony Giddens has written a book about this). Top-down government, Trying to combine consistency and innovations. Public /private relationships. Lets look at the community picture, parents more involved. Lateral energy. Sharing practice across schools etc. More support from the bottom for people. Better PD, resources etc. In other countries kept extensive testing, and comparison across schools - not productive.
 * 6) <span style="color: rgb(13,0,255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__4th way of change__ - How to develop students who can create, innovate etc....global economy begins to regenerate.
 * Greatest effects on student achievement are not on what the school does, it is the parents, community etc. All money has been going into the school which has the least impact. Investment needs to be in the community and getting engagement!**

__Other Sectors__ : Competitive, Australia invests massively in the development of cricket in India - collaborates Don't pit brands over each other, doesn't help the market. Competition should not be between schools, win loose, does nothing to raise overall standards! Unit of competition is other countries, nations, systems, friendly win-win rivalry. Not one school wins at the expense of the others around it. Collaboration! When you go into a co-orporation, nobody disagrees about the metrics used to measure performance. Everbody agrees on the targets and collects data. Use the data-statistics to select seriously **. How often do you favour those students who remind you of your fabulous self?** We are all vunerable, we all need data that direct us and check us. Don't resist metrics, use them and be passionate about developing metrics that help us measure what we are trying to achieve. The right kinds of accountability.

Principles: On we = = =<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> = <span style="color: rgb(255,0,141);"> Structured Observable Learning Outcomes. SOLO is similiar to Blooms taxonomy. Pam Hook is an advocate of SOLO I'm sure you all picked this up during her presentation Thursday morning. Edith Cross from Meadowbank  ecross@meadowbank.school.nz presented this breakout. Meadowbank school have been using SOLO for two years, this is their inquiry learning model and is also built into their planning of learning programmes. SOLO also use graphic organisers some have been developed from what is already out there to developing their own organisers see  www.hookedonlearning With the combination of SOLO and ICT or web2 tools integrated into all learning programmes Meadowbank school believe they have built up a powerful learning model.
 * <span style="color: rgb(13,0,255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Always make concious decisions about what you know, what you need and should keep and __what you should leave behind__.