Your tasks for this week
- View and reflect on the professional viewing task.
- Complete your School ICT Change Plan (Sections 8 - 10) with your course partner(s) and get feedback from your me and other critical friends and begin to prepare your presentation at the final Workshop.
- Participate in our Group Online Discussion.
- Write your E-journal entry.
- Complete preparations for Workshop 3.
E-Journal
In this entry, think back over the past 13 weeks and
consider how you have grown over that time:
- What are your current feelings and reactions to your experience in this course? Have they changed over the duration of the course?
- What have you learned that you can transfer and apply in your own school context?
- What do you want to find out more about?
- What have been the most powerful learning experiences for you?
- What has been a significant event for you over the course? How did you feel and how did you react?
- What have you learned about the value of ongoing reflection to inform your practice? Is this something that you might try and continue once the course is finished?
- Issues or questions
On-line discussion:
Lets have a discussion about our ICT growth plans and
consider these questions.
I'd like to acknowledge the work you all put into you ARP documents. They are all submitted now, there were a lot of examples of deep thinking and a shift in practice. Congratulations, hopefully your ICT change plans are going well too. I'm looking forward to connecting here to discuss you planning for the future.
ReplyDeleteWe are so lucky at our school, that it really isn't a 'change' as such. In so many ways our plan will be easier to implement than other schools. Nevertheless though there still needs to be a solid structure in place, that can set the standard for the coming years.
ReplyDeleteOur school ICT change plan includes, students teachers and parents, because we are all so aware of the need to have all key stakeholders involved. We will have not only 'expert' teachers at digital apps/programs, we will have 'expert' students, so they can take on a mini-leadership role.
In 10 years time, our school will be at capacity, which is why this plan is so important, that it lasts, but it is also flexible. In 10 years time I hope to be leading teachers in some way or another. Perhaps I will be leading teachers with new technologies, building their capacity to integrate meaningful technology. In 10 years time I will no longer be classified as a 'graduate!' I'll be a 'real' teacher!! A lot can happen in 10 years, its a scary thought!!
😀 10 years is a long time! I'm glad you are feeling like you're setting the tone rather than changing the tide. It must be nice to be working in such a place
DeleteAs discussed in my E-Journal Matt, there has been some challenges doing an ICT Change Plan for a school I am just starting at, but it is proving to be a valuable process in helping me see what is currently happening and developing a vision for the future.
ReplyDeleteStudents using technology outside school - again hard to judge in a short time, but I suggest they use digital technologies constantly. How this relates and connects with what they are learning and doing at school, I'd say it doesn't really at this stage.
As far as where I want the school to be in 10 years - I want the kids to be eager to come to school and learn, connecting and collaborating with others beyond the school grounds, developing important communication and learning strategies. I want the staff to be innovators, learning with the kids, constantly changing and adapting to the learning needs of the students. I want families engaged in learning and willing to support and monitor the learning of their children, taking an active interest in what they are doing.
And me, 10 years is a long time. I want to be successful in my current role and I'll see where it takes me.
I think that part of being an educator is knowing what students are doing out of school and making every effort to tap into their interests so they are motivated. Although it can be difficult to keep up it is important that our change plan is flexible to what is happening outside of school.
ReplyDeleteIn 10 years time I would like to think that the boundaries between school and home would be lessened. Through the use of technology students are able to learn whenever and wherever they want although I tend to share Joe's view that kids wanting to come to school is most important.
In 10 years time I can probably see myself in some leadership role and utilising many of the skills learnt in the course.
Connection between school and home is so crucial, I believe there are rich opportunities for rural school to be connecting with their community to. It is a unique setting and quite different from the city. To quote Eric Sheninger how are you going to get your students doing "real work, with real tools for a real audience?" This could mean digital, but it could just as easily be blended with shovels, screw drivers or shifters.
ReplyDeleteOver the past seven years, the use of ICT by my students has changed. With the implementation of the 1:1 netbooks (2009/2010) we forged forward with a force. We had community evenings on cybersafety, massive Ultranet training and the whole business of moving forward was amazing. In comparison, the diversification of Internet technologies has spread the interest. Almost all of our students have iPads and iPods or tablets for recreational use. They often choose not to take their netbooks home or engage in the 24/7 learning platforms we have established in our school culture. They are recreating with their tools (apps) and this gobbles up a lot of time they formerly were toying with the stuff we directed and controlled. Now - they are moving in many directions and harnessing and building on the diversity is quite challenging. Any ICT training that keeps leaders and teachers riding near the crest empowers us to connect better with knowing what is out there and exploring learning applications. At this stage, I am not seeing my primary kids bringing the technologies into the classroom context to connect to their own learning - so this is a thread for the next wave for us.
ReplyDeleteOur ICT change plan is trying to make the strong home connections which we want to see. It is making our practice more transparent. This matches our video about the ideal school. Having all stake holders working together with access for all is extremely important. We have 1:1 netbooks in our upper classes and trolleys to share between classes in the lower grades. We also have some sets of iPads which are being used throughout the school. Over the next 10 years I see us being completely 1:1 with iPads or devices of some description. In the next 2 years I see us being 1:1 and almost paperless in the upper grades. It will be a big change which will take some financial commitments from our school for upgrades and purchases. It is a priority and will be done in time.
ReplyDeleteIn 10 years, we hope to have an informed confident staff that is able to move with the ever changing technology available. They will be delivering lessons and providing students many opportunities to be creative, collaborate and communicate this with the wider community.
For myself in 10 years, I would like to be consider a leader in this area. Possibly in a leadership position and helping drive this further.
Hey sorry guys - I missed this one!
ReplyDeleteOurs is really focussing on improving the mindset of our staff. We have a fair bit of low morale at the moment and some very fixed mindsets. We are also just like Tims school making a big effort to improve the connectedness of our student home life and families with school as well. Our staff will really test us around why it will be beneficial for them to get on board with us.