Marco+Torres


 * From: || "Melissa La Spina"  ||
 * Subject: || Notes so far...this should amuse you for about 3 mins ||
 * Date: || Mon, August 22, 2011 2:54 pm ||
 * To: || amcdonald@smwodonga.catholic.edu.au ||

code MARCO TORRES 22/08/11

Reflections: - Are your kids experiencing teachers who are learning or teachers who are teaching? - The interface changes according to the need at hand. - What type of analogue restraints are affecting learning at school. - Is the goal to learn the piano or to make music? - How can we now personalise, not digitalise the learning experience? - Is the learning about following instructions very well or being creative? - What are the structure within our school that restrict personalised learning? - What are we fixing? - What are the analogue restraints with our schools? Are they needed. - Educate come from latin word to pull from. - Pedagogy means to lead the child. - Why do schools spend so much time to make cooks and not chefs? - Feedback is essential for organic learners. - People who have hobbies are always in need of feedback. If your kids are getting better scores, are you a better teacher? Texas example. - If the teachers aren't learning, are the kids learning? - If you can't draw connections how do you get your point across. - When you have passion, you have learning. Passion based learning. - Hired for attitude not knowledge. love + curiosity + access + multimedia (network) = success - What worked this week, reflections? - What do we need to do in our schools to help people generate ideas? - How important is challenge for people with hobbies? - How can we help learners have a MORE personal learning experience? - Howard Gardner thinks it takes 5-7 years to change a culture. Apple changed communication within 2 years. - Never ask questions you can look up. - Intelligent people discuss ideas - We need people who are willing to learn. - Problem solving classrooms rather than curriculum (stuff) based classrooms. - Do we have the resources to identify what our problems are? - Pepsi refresh project. Come up with a problem and how to solve it pepsi would fund it. - Can we use each other to help us solve a problems. - Kick Starter website for ideas.

Project --Process & Product Product what & example Process -- why & evidence

- Prototype - great word for making mistakes with permission. - Innovation and Ingenuity - Schools have Technology plans but no education - How do you solve problems? - Using verbs instead of nouns.

Uses example of politicians responding to iphone app of how to report problems to them in the area. - Fact gathering - What is it? - Where does it happen? - What are the challenges? - How can I make it better? - Why does it happen? - Who does it? - What can we do to fix it? - How can I make the system better? - What device do we have that can help us answer these questions?

- Teach them the necessary skills to be responsible. Schools have the tendency to create rules rather than systems. Smart management skills rather than restrictions.

- Website Dan Meyer blog.mrmeyer worldwide if you colleagues stomp on your ideas, find other colleagues. find other people who share this 'love + curiosity + access + multimedia (network) = success' mindset.

- Challenge based learning www.challengebasedlearning.org

The problem of the VCE. VCE is an analogue restraint. - What will we do about it? Are we willing to do something about it?

- Of course students know about technology, its their world. - Essential questions to form a challenge. USE VERBS!

WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?

Hebrew Proverb in staff room - Don't teach a child your own lessons. He is from another time.

- Breaking VELS up into 'other words' or essential questions. Essential questions fromVELS outcomes needs to be done in planning. (do this over bottle of wine)

- Draw associations, not telling the answer.

- For next planning session, use outcomes from older year levels. Levels are analogue restrictions

Bloody hell, everything is an analogue restriction!

Planning from mind mapping. Students to mind map using 'inspiration'. Over the surface and under the surface questions. 'How do you come up with an idea?' How do we organise our ideas? No right or wrong question.

Schools are one layer places. Students mind map one layer.

APPS Cube Cheater It's not cheating! Its smart problem solving

Piano App A piano looks the way it does according to its analogue and physical rules. The piano was built for the piano rules not for your specific needs. Do you have to adhere to the analogue and physical rules to learn the piano. In the digital space, don't need analogue rules.

High End Synthesiser Frequency is a good multiple lesson.

Uses the analogy of a highway 'if your standing still, what will happen to you' schools are like highways. Everyone else is doing it, we might as well. Whereas in a jungle with no set path. How many teachers in our school would like to be in a jungle?

code || Sherie's notes __Marco Torres PD__

Are the teachers teaching or are the teachers learning?

When watching Mythbusters are two men learning or are two men teaching?

iPhone - interface that changes according to the need at hand.

Is the goal to play the piano or create piano music?

What are some of the analogue constraints that are restricting learning at school?

There are so many options now - what are the structures in our schools that hinder learning?

pedagogy = to lead the child

The analogue restraints are getting in our way at schools.

What examples do we have that our school is creating chefs instead of cooks???

Chefs have ideas - cooks do what the chef tells them to.

What is the product of our school and what is the process?

Feedback is essential for organic learners.

If the teachers aren’t learning the students aren’t learning.

Ideas are generated when you have problems and challenges.

Hobbies = people that want to create, share, learn

love + curiosity + access + multimedia (network) = success

Reflection is important - have you collected reflection this week about what has worked and what hasn’t?

What are we going to do in our school to start people generating ideas???

innovation ingenuity

How can we help learners have a more personal learning experience?

It will take 5-7 years to change the culture of a school.

Are we asking the right questions of our school/teachers/students?

Project - should be product and process (evidence of the learn). This is what’s important. Even if the project doesn’t succeed it is all about the journey and reflection.

Reflection - visualisation

Prototype - making mistakes with permission.

Lots of projects out there to help with ideas - funding etc. What amazing things could our students be achieving.

Do our students know what to do with their nouns? Can they add verbs to them? Can they make them an action?

What is a problem? How do you solve it? What does it look like? What does the journey look like?

Problem Fact gathering: Action - broken system, bad process, rethink system, improve process. Get kids to take pictures about a problem and then try to get them to problem solve it.
 * What is it? (define, photo, interview)
 * Where does it happen? (locate, google map, photo)
 * When does it happen? (interview)
 * Why does it happen? (interview)
 * What can we do to fix it? (interview)
 * What are the challenges?
 * What can we do to prevent it?
 * Can I make it better?

What are new possibilities for new solutions?

Need to teach kids the skills to survive in our world.

Teacher who puts his ‘real life’ problems/teachings on a blog: Dan Meyer - blog.mrmeyer.??? __[|youtu.be/C8Iju5CW60Y]__

Jean Francois Richard book called High Noon - 20 problems to solve And 20 years to solve them.

Link to Challenge Based Learning site - [|__http://t.co/MaaLhNB__] Mindmapping - important in the planning process. Should be planning alongside with the students. Over the surface questions - who/what/where etc Under the surface questions - take to the next level - how/why etc For example - can take a concept (ie water) and with students plan out questions. Can be creative with how you get the kids to ask questions (ask a inference question).

If kids struggle with delivery we assume they don’t know the content. We need to make sure we give students the tools to be able to deliver and watch the journey they take to get there. That is the key to show us that they DO know.

Pepsi refresh project

Hebrew quotes:

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.