Week 5 playing and mindset

Interesting playing with Scratch and Makey Makey.
Can see this being a really interesting ancoept of praising a child d fun tool for students.
Would be intersting to see what they could come up with if ggiven really open instructions without " a teacher spin." Would they do what most of the adults did and make a song and something that was familiar - or would they do something completely different and use the animal noises, and sound effects that the programme has?

Mindset
Great for the test to say had an open mindset. What about whne under stress or rushed for time - would his be different.
Two issues I had with praise. I understand the concept of how damaging continual prasie along the lines of you are cleer, or talented can be, and we need to be cautious of this - however some people are actually talented and have an amount of natural disposition to some tthings/areas of interest. Do we ignore that and not comment. I know that we need to mainly praise hard work, committment, adn perserverence. Part of me is wonders if we are micro managing far too much of our kids thinking and rationalising - bubble wrapping their thingking as we do activities that have been considered harmful.

Intelligence is not stagnant. Motivation is a leading attribute of whether or not we learn anything. Fantastic discussion at course, thought provoking, thinking about whether we have to do more to motivate kids, or do kids need to motivate themselves.
Discussed this with the adults at home after course - really intersting that they thought this was completely untrue and learnign is totally around your set intelligence, cause they had been told that their whole lives. So how do we get this mindset away from adults so they don't continue to give it to kids?

Towards recoceptualising leadership Week 3

every school has a wealth of leadership - strong catalyst for change to improve student learning.
Frost and Durant (2002) teacher agency central to student outcomes
teacher leadership different to administrational leadership - needs shared decision making, teamwork and community building

Shift in leadership practice needed. Principas fostering teacher leadership through distributed leadership and collective ownership of visions ( that explains alot of how garry operates.)
KNowledge creation as a social process

Principal and teacher leadership * culturally repsonsive practices adressing different needs of diverse studnets ( especially low achieveing) & invovlement of economically disadvvantaged families in curic construction.

Gilbert (2010) combine 21st century education with new political theory related to individulity. She says = appropriate theory of knowledge and appropriate theory of change.
Intersting - leaders wanting to document curric practices. not thinking about things differently.

There are multiple truths  - perceptions vs reality

Peoples views are coloured by thier exeriences, values and thinking. There will always be areas that fall outside their experiences.
Need to understand (or try to) why people may hold a certain view
Understanding of what trigger our own behaviouror thinking  important as is what our blindspots are

Conditions for classroom technology innovations

Thoughts
Finally get what pedagogival disruption means and the effect this cna have on practie
Of importance
Previous technological advnces of only a few years ago are now obsolete - so what does tis mena for what we are  currently using now?
Check out CUSeeMeto
If the system hooked up to doesn't work - nothing goes well
More successful when teachers are highly relfective about their own practice and goals
Teachers pedagogical approach needs to be consistent with technology they are using
Technology is a tool not a means to an end - or an instant fix.
Need to refelct and co front barriers we hold beofre successful integration can occur
Negotiating scjhool culture important as is social awareness within the school setting
Innovation - distance and dependeance - the distance it is away from normal in the school practie and existing culture - distanace from available tech resources

Distance from existing practice.
Human infrastrucutre - often not helpful: helping with grants, technology ad materials acquisition, maintenace and use of technologues. - tech tramslator important and helpful.

We are very fortunate to have the systems and infrastructures set up that we have in NZ.
As a staff at our school we are super lucky that we have the  support and technical knowledge and support and the number of devices and the free range we have with these.
Also fortunate is the very forward thinkiong of our Principal and DP's. There give it a go attitude seems to be quite rare, as is the importance they place on using technologies effectively and to benefit student and teacher learning

Week 3 reflection from course

Interesting discussion about how the future may look for employment and there forer education.
Found the whole  disruption conversation fascinating - especially the statement that the more over due a disruption is the more disruptive it is. I wonder if that applies to everything. Especially with all the disruptions in educaion in the last 3 years. Hmmmm

If every shild in the world had access to the same information - would that make all possibilities equal for all children?  Like the idea that when that happens then key comps and critical thinking become more important.