Whakaahuatanga: BYOD: Making it Mobile 2015

These are notes I took at the BYOD 2015 conference. They may (or may not) make sense!

Explain, reflect, and demonstrate learning through creation (Fiona Grant)

Google educator group
Google plus GEG NZ
Comments positive, specific, helpful, thoughtful, ask a question
GEG NZ events once a month- hangouts.
Use in school community to share readings with teachers
Want more face to face events
Hangouts (different from hangouts on air - broadcast live on YouTube)
Hangouts similar to Skype. Can use in classroom to connect with other schools
Schools can use hangouts on air to broadcast events. Need conversation with management. Can use a Page rather than profile. Needs to be under school domain.

The Student Perspective (Felicity Timings)

Research to evaluate success of BYOD
Every student surveyed
Year 7 - new toy, novelty, social media, home use monitored
BYOD preferred - isolated, anxiety
Students off task more so than teachers think
Device use during breaks
Do they behave differently when they got their devices
Kids felt they needed help with managing their devices
Identified learning advantages and disadvantages
Mix of handwriting and typing
Printing issues
iPads vs laptops - iPads seen as more of a toy distraction, laptops more work focussed
iPads - camera is too accessible, google docs not great, I messaging, snapchat
Facebook - groups for school problem
Year 7 banned use of devices in break time
Staff PLD -inconsistent use and skill levels
Digital citizenship - skill levels low,taught specifically, turnitin
Distraction more awareness, user protocol, PB4L
Printing - student hand in work online or by hand, hoping for cloud based
Home behaviour - newsletter column
Handwriting - both available
High multi-tasking children - harder to focus, more distraction, much worse social and emotional development
Important to practice face to face interaction.

Making learning visible and engaging in a digital learning environment (Matt Goodwin and Karen Belt)

Making learning visible and engaging in a digital learning environment
Learn create share
Accessible to all, visible to all, feedback from all over the world, blogging challenge, high engagement and motivation
Visible planning through Google sites
Visible learning through student blogs
Visible learning to teacher dashboard
Visible learning to whanau via Parent portal
Hapara
Enables students to start work straight away - they know where to look for what they should be doing
Plan online, create templates via drive, share using sites, review via teacher dashboard
Padlet - vocabulary task
Explain everything - (year) - first few weeks establishing routines, kaka of care
Create lessons on iPad and upload to hapara
Personalise projects - work for guided reading
Use record function in Explain Everything
Share learning 3-4 times per week via blog
Blog from y1 - 8
Oral language emphasis
Some choice in learning
Use of icons to communicate to non readers
Model all activities first
First page highly scaffolded later pages more independent
Use QR codes to direct students to curated content - follow up with oral discussion. Gave choice

Learn, create, share for teachers (Dorothy Burt)

Learning is active and social
Sharing includes reflection
Sharing implies that you have finished something
Finishing - hugely important for people who haven't experienced success
Ready to share =finished. More than just the teacher sees it
Children learning laterally from each other
Children capture learning process, have it in accessible location, outside boundaries of classroom
Do something once - not learned. Put it somewhere you can find it again. Rewind own thinking
Anything we want our young people to learn, we need to be modelling.
Key competencies - we need to model these. Life-long learners, active, connected
Teachers have different ways of capturing learning. Sylvia duckworth
What do you do to capture professional learning.
Sharing - how do you share?
VLN -
What percentage of teachers give back?
How to capture PLD in schools. Is it digital?
Teaching as inquiry - part of it creating and sharing
Make learning process rewindable
Manaiakalani google+ community
@teachinquire

Site tour of Hobsonville Point Primary School

In the last session I took the opportunity to do a tour of HPPS. It's open plan design is very different to the classroom that I will be taking over in just over a week.

But as Mark Osbourne said in a session I attended last year, it is not about the furniture, it is about the pedagogy. And there were plenty of examples that can be incorporated into any classroom.

Visible Planning