4. How can we generate
intellectual rigour in
digital environments?
In ages past, great teachers took
students to a library, and supported
them in learning from those
resources.
We must now do the same with digital
environments ie take them there, and
support them in learning from those
resources.
18. •Virtual learning delivery (eg Second Life islands;
gaming environments;Wiimotes; I-Pads; brain caps)
•Global classroom inquiries - Kids Helping Kids
•Your IP for sale at ITunesU; also rated on some
version of Rate My Learning
•E-Learning? M-Learning? B-Learning concepts?
Second Decade
learning??
20. Some techno-issues!!?
• Online ‘space’ must be used creatively. It’s
not just for collating content.
• Some (many?) students have more time than
many teachers do to skill themselves online.
• Many students have little idea of how to
advance their learning with ICT.
• Low level thinking projects can encourage
online plagiarism. Intellectualise everything!
23. Digital brain issues
• Multi-tasking? Single-tasking?
• Shorter attention spans impeding the ability
to ponder and solve a lengthy problem?
• The word ‘memory’ is spelt g-o-o-g-l-e
• Capacity to ascertain the validity of online
content?
24.
25. Some dodecahedron
thinking options
•Develop a Future Focus
• Possible / Probable / Preferable
•Generate daily Challenges
•Endlessly search for Best /
Next / Zest Practice exemplars
28. How could we code ‘digital
thinking’?
1.Students are engaged only in lower-order thinking;
i.e., they either receive, or recite, or participate in
routine practice and in no activities during the
lesson do students go beyond simple reproduction.
2.Students are primarily engaged in routine lower-
order thinking a good share of the lesson.There is
at least one significant question or activity in which
some students perform some higher-order thinking.
3.Almost all students, almost all of the time, are
engaged in higher-order thinking.
Productive Pedagogies, DET, Q’land
29. Poor Sensational
Creative intent
Dry content
Irrelevant to the
topic
Interesting
material
Highly thought-
provoking
Degree of
research
๏ Hasn’t been
authenticated
Strongly
substantiated
Wiki thinking??
30. How could we code the quality of
thinking while playing WOW?
32. • There is no ‘formula’ for developing these questions
• They can be: Philosophical / provocative / quirky / thought-
provoking / unusual / intriguing
• Examples of focus questions?
• How could we viral market our school?
• Are we really what we eat?
• Which toy would choose you?
• Is more ever enough?
• Why did FaceBook become so successful?
• Does happily ever after really exist?
Rich focus questions for units
33. Provocative questions??
• Why do you believe...?
• Could you give an example of that?
• Are you suggesting...?
• What reasons do you have for saying that?
• Could you clarify that comment?
• Why did you find that interesting?
• How do you know that?
34. Student inquiry!??
Q.What do we already know about this
issue?
Q.What are our questions?
Q.What learning steps will we take?
Q.What and how will we research; and is it
useful in answering our questions?
Q. How will we share our findings?
35. Zestful inquiries!!
• When possible, develop an inquiry about
contemporary issues in their lives
• Base the inquiry upon an intellectually rigorous
question
• Generate interest with a provocative intro lesson
• Give your inquiry units some exciting titles (name
them after a movie or a piece of music)
• Design an icon, a metaphor or a general image to
represent the inquiry
37. • A specific awareness of their own thinking
• Begin with an explicit self-talk lesson
• Constantly model your own self-talk
• Ask them: What (and how) are you thinking as
you work on this learning?
The most critical single
factor in teaching children
to think: Self-talk
48. Visual Stimulus
• Children process images 10 000 times faster than text
• Students can recall 90% of images 72 hrs later, after 10 secs
exposure of each; even 63% after one yr (‘Brain Rules’ - Lee
Crockett)
• Only 10% retained from verbal
• Can rise to 65% even if you reinforce the verbal with a
visual
• Develop a visual database of ongoing classroom
achievements
55. How to find a degree in
Beijing: Just call one of
these numbers!
56. Some digital
thinking options
• Develop coding for digital pedagogy
elements
• Inject intellectual rigour into digital tasks
and focus questions
• Get very visual
58. Teacher inquiry!??
Q.What do we already know about this
issue?
Q.What are our questions?
Q.What learning steps will we take?
Q.What and how will we research; and is it
useful in answering our questions?
Q. How will we share our findings?
59. Into practice
• What teacher inquiries are taking place in
your school over the next six months?
• What explicit teacher learning opportunities
take place every day in your school?
• What great practices have been retained in
2010? What new practices have been
developed?
60.
61. Factors involved in a 1-on-1
implementation
Choice of device/s
Funding models
Support mechanisms
Insurance
Reliability + resilience
of devices
Security (on- and off-line)
PhaseOne
62. Teacher learning
Re-writing of
assessment tasks for
a digital world
Student voice in the
implementation phase The school’s pedagogy
models supporting a
one-on-one
philosophy
The connectivist theory in
practice
PhaseTwo
66. Some Teacher
Learning Options??
• A Centre For Teacher Excellence within the
school
• A requirement that each teacher clarifies
his / her philosophy on teaching
• Worldwide collaborations / sharing
mechanisms
• Professional buddy systems
73. How do you sustain good
practice??
• When you manage to sustain a worthwhile practice
in your life (eg healthy eating; saving money), what
strategies keep you going?
• When you manage to sustain a worthwhile practice
in your professional life (eg a teaching process that
you hear during this day), what strategies keep you
going?
74. ‘The Leadership Coaching Guide’
A possible dialogue
1.What do you need to achieve?
2.What’s happening right now?
3.What could you put into action?
4.What will you put into action?
5.What will be the process for
implementation?
6. How will you keep this going??