1. Northcross Intermediate
Teacher Only Day
January 2013

2. 1:1 pitfalls – digitising existing pedagogy

3. Re-defining the tools of learning

4. The New Basic Skills – Digital Fluencies
Solution Fluency:
Creative thinking and real time problem solving
by defining the problem and designing appropriate solutions.
Information Fluency:
a) access digital information
b) effectively assess and interpret digital information
Collaboration Fluency:
Teamworking proficiency with virtual and real partners
Creativity Fluency:
Adding meaning through design, art, and storytelling
Media Fluency:
a) Look at any media and interpret critically
b) Create and publish original digital products
matching appropriate media to intended message

5. Truthiness, bias and propaganda
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

6. Building a 5th wall in your classroom

7. Audit your own elearning planning
Higher order
Thinking

8. Use and re-use (repurposing) student work

9. Think big with collaboration – reach out
http://2012thehungergames.wikispaces.com/

10. Collaborate

11. Collaborate – Peer review
http://fanfiction.net

12. Gamification – computational thinking
• 3500 computer science – “big data” vacancies at Redmond today
• 150 000 computer science graduates required in US annually – 2020
•< 40 000 students enrol in computer science related courses in US
http://nyti.ms/WA4lsm
Need to create collaborative, open ended, problem based scenarios

13. Gamification – computational thinking
http://www.sandboxgamemaker.com/

14. Gamification – computational thinking

15. Working with real data – playing the stock market

16. Local passion – global consequences
http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/