Evaluation of the Manaiakalani Digital Teaching Academy

From the Education Counts website  click for the link
This report outlines findings from an evaluation of the first year of a pilot initiative called the Manaiakalani Digital Teaching Academy (hereafter MDTA). The Manaiakalani Education Trust and the schools within its network are described in Section 2 to provide a context for the initiative and the evaluation
Date Published: October 2015

Girls innov8 2016

Girlsinnov8 2016 at St Cuthberts link to site

#LittleGirlsInnov8 Techcamp 
Monday 18th  & Tuesday 19th January 2016

Registrations CLOSED. 20/12/15
We have reached capacity for this camp in both the MissBits and TechTween age groups.

Add your daughters details to the wait list for further expression of interest.
A place will be offered in December to those on the waitlist should a space become available.

What happens with a growth mindset? ANYTHING!!!

Famous Failures from InnerDrive on Vimeo.

Developing a Growth Mindset

The above You Clip "Growth Mindset Animation"  Kidspeak

Published on 28 Sep 2014

A Short animation explaining the theory of growth and fixed mindsets. This is a tested and effective way of teaching young people what a fixed mindset is and how we can change that. Many of the messages in this video have been taken from the theorist Carol Dweck.

Whole staff PD  (plenty of resources in this link)

Growth mindset dhs conf from shaunallison

Professor Carol Dweck 'Teaching a growth mindset' at Young Minds 2013

What is Innovation?

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Making the shift to Innovative Learning Environments…what’s the risk? blogpost by Tamara Jones

Innovation leadership in Education 2015 from Timothy Wooi

What is innovation? from Rafa Galeano on Vimeo.

MINDLAB coding PD Monday 14 Feb

Went to PD at the mindlab yesterday.
Arduino board and using scratch type coding
More to come on this

MIndlab Lit review

Innovative Leadership -
What does innovative leadership look like in the context of a NZ Primary School in 2015?
Need to define innovation
Need key stake holders to develop a growth mindset ( Staff, BoT & community)
Need to research gamification of education

My First Movie for the record

2014 Manaiakalani Film Festival   Room 25  NE class at Pt England School
HAPPY

Mindlab - Literature Review

Think I finally have my Literature Review sorted??
What is Innovation (to start with)?
 What are the characteristics of an innovative leader in DCL in the NZ primary sector?
 How do you get staff to be part of the innovation(s)?
 How do you overcome resistance to innovation/change?
On with the reading.....

DID spend quite a bit of time helping another student with their Lit review - Problem solving in maths (secondary) suggested they research Inquiry in Maths and we found some great graphics for her lit review and to go to Te Aho Arataki Marau.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2016

Wow! Well done Manaiakalani. Russell & Dorothy and all the team at PES and beyond yet another successful festival.

Link to the festival itself

Link to Janine Tito's movie  Maori


Certainly setting a very high benchmark for the rest of us

I'm totally inspired

Ako Hiko PLG 1:1 Device 20 Nov 2015

Link to presentation by James Hopkins   Ako Hiko facilitator

Learn Create Share pedagogy

Learn is a concept from a student perspective - teachers facilitate learning on a daily basis

Blogging

Like the idea of presenting a "student blog of the week" on class blog

check out this blog   tpswillyl.blogspot.co.nz/  prolfilic student blogger within Manaiakalani

SAMR ladder/model

Week 16. Mindlab

Thought wire online brainwave technology
Brainwaves in real time
Technology is 70 years old
Now instead of a net with sensors (102h on the head person wares a headset
Project image of brainwaves into screen

Mentoring (to understand and react )

Neurofeedback (to change behaviour) or retrain their brain. For example  n l p

Control (to give super power). Removing traditional layer of how we interact with ICT. Using our brains. Ours thoughts to control our devices

Can pick up neurological conditions. For example.  Epilepsy 

Devices

Mirror sky headset from USA  out since 2008 cost $200 NZ

Net is $250,000 at Auckland Uni

October 22 week 15

Open a tinker ad account. Browser based software.  Totally free

3D Printing

3D printing is a lot more than just a niche technology. Over the past few years 3D printers have started to appear within a broad range of industries from medicine, manufacturing, engineering, aerospace, retail, mechanical engineering, dentistry and food science.

As with the launch of social media 10 years ago, 3D printing is a rapid disruptor experiencing expediential uptake.

By the time our students enter the workforce there is a high likelihood that 3D printers will be as commonplace as household ink printers.

Using basic design skills 3D printing can be used to trigger new learning and acquiring new skills

Maker culture?

3D printing ...

Oct 15th. Week 14. Mindlab

TOPIC - This week we explore the integration of 'Inquiry' in the classroom to create independent motivated students who take responsibility for their learning.
We watches a you tube 'clip 'the rise of the robots and the future job market'. Audio only as is a podcast

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_RA_z1aDdiQ

Session on research skills.
Cite for me
Inquiry for teachers.  Went into groups to discuss how our schools deal with this

LDCL Gamification in Leadership

The link between gamification and leadership is one that may not seem immediately apparent, but a number of organisations have started applying game mechanics to leadership training. In this week's LDC session we will be looking at some examples of these, and thinking about how one common gamification tool, the use of badges, might be used in educational leadership training.

Gamification in Leadership

A number of companies have been exploring ways to use gamification in leadership.

Deloitte, for example, have introduced badges into their leadership academy, see: How Deloitte Made Learning a Game

Deloitte are using Badgeville as their platform for awarding badges.

Another company, NTT Data, are using games for leadership skills, see: NTT Gamification

A good badge platform for creating badges that has been used by teachers on the programme before is Credly. You can see a video about this created by one of our previous students on the portal.

Week 11 ed.ted.com. Gaming ....

Quest to teach for teacher training. http://quest2teach.strikingly.com/

Learning needs to be FUN!!!!

Games and Gamification

What experience do we have with games in our classroom? What games do we like to play ourselves?

Are you are a killer, achiever, socialite or explorer?

Choosing Games with an Educational Aspect

Game For Change believe in the positive power of digital games. See: gamesforchange.org

The Nanocrafter game enables you to contribute to important scientific research. Another form of Crowdsourcing: nanocrafter.org

Plague - science knowledge is embedded in the game: Plague Inc.

Gamification

Gamification was one of Core Education's top ten trends for 2014, see: core-ed.org

Fun theory - this video shows the Piano stairs
Serious games have been used to gamify serious issues. For example the Sparx game to tackle depression from the University of Auckland, and then move through to the Quest2Teach viurtal world games for teacher training.

Games and Gamification in Education

TedEd session

http://ed.ted.com/on/iJGm9Hs

See James Paul Gee's video at Games and Education Scholar James Paul Gee on Video Games, Learning, and Literacy

Good video games incorporate good learning principles, principles supported by current research in Cognitive Science. Why? If no one could learn these games, no one would buy them — and players will not accept easy, dumbed down, or short games. At a deeper level, however, challenge and learning are a large part of what makes good video games motivating and entertaining. Humans actually enjoy learning, though sometimes in school you wouldn’t know that.

Game design and development

Game narratives sometimes follow the model of standard linear fiction. You can adapt this when designing your own game like activities for the classroom.

Using ed.ted.com to build a lesson around any YouTube clip Setting a quiz based on the clip Change the language? Authentic context. Looking for student engagement Games and Gamification Guild Wars 2 Games can be categorized into three main groups which all connect with learning (Koskinen et al. 2014): (1) Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) games, (2) simulations, and (3) learning games. Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) games make excellent tools for addressing both content based and higher-order learning outcomes (see Van Eck, 2009). Simulations are well used, too, for example in military training (see Vahtivuori-Hänninen, Lehtonen & Torkkeli, 2005). However, learning games are the most popular in schools. Learning games have a long traditions in education especially in two game types: serious games – which are defined by their primary purpose other than pure entertainment – and instructive games – where you learn curricular content while you play games. Vahtivuori-Hänninen, S., Lehtonen, M. & Torkkeli, M. (2005). Group Investigation, Social Simulations, and Games as Support for Network-Based Education. In H. Ruokamo, P. Hyvönen, M. Lehtonen & S. Tella (Eds.), Teaching–Studying–Learning (TSL) Processes and Mobile Technologies—Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinary (MIT) Research Approaches (123–131). Proceedings of the 12th International Network-Based Education (NBE) conference (Former PEG) 2005. September 14–17, 2005, Rovaniemi, Finland. University of Lapland. Publications in Education 11. Van Eck, R. (2009). A guide to integrating COTS games into your classroom. In R.E. Ferdig (Ed.), Handbook of research on effective electronic gaming in education. Hershey, PA: Information Science, 179–199.

ipads

Tranformative Use of iPads in the Education: Pedagogy, Examples, Activities from Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano

Week 9

Cultural Intelligence

CQ quiz 

PISA survey.  Held 3 weeks ago. YouTube clip 

Education tri annual conference

PROG for international student assessment. All to to with OECD. 15 years olds only

Experts create a 2 hour test using core subjects. Focus is rotated through core subjects

Designed to find out if what the students are learning is useful in real life. Can they use the reading skills they learnt at school to gather information from other situations.

Shows countries where they stand compared to rest of world  similarities and differences around world.     Helps tracking of progress and catalyst for change of benchmarks
Juse Barback quote

Kahoot online game
Excellent pre and post assessment tool.  Like this
Set up account in kahoot.com and play with pin code on kahoot.it
Some multichoice .'s have all answers correct. My oh score points as u go. Need to be speedy with answers
Be good to do presentation on this in staff meet using recent pd or school policy ...

Week 7. blended learning

DCL in context  with Chris Clay
Blended learning
Edutopia vid of Salman Khan talking about continuum. Rote at one end and creativity at the other
It's not just about flipping the classroom
Refer to marla's blog for a LOT  more detail

Station rotations/ bus stops/ lab rotation - devices are stored.
Flipping the class = teacher records lesson then has opportunity to interact with the groups/ Individuals
Pinterest has LOTs of graphics on blended learning and flipped classroom
Individual rotation
Enriched virtual model
Face to face to get to know each other then online

Tool to check out.  Blendspace  / Zaption / Ed puzzle. Mindmup. Brainstorming tool   Padlet. Titanpad.com 

Marla's blog

click here to see Marla's Fantastic blog

Marla has some FANTASTIC notes from our AR = Augmented Reality session last week
link is attached to view

Thanks for sharing Marla

Ako Hiko Learn Create Share in Planning

Learn Create Share in Planning.  Click here for the link
This is the thought provoking presentation by James Hopkins from Ako Hiko last Wednesday at New Windsor School.

ICT Survey for Parent Teacher Student conferences next week

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Makeymakey session at the mindlab

Really enjoyed this session. So much so I have ordered my own Makeymakey via aliexpress can't wait for my class to have a go.

2015

Post graduate study with The Mindlab Applied Practice Digital & Collaborative Learning.
JULY 2015- March 2016