Connect with Tech: Engaging your staff with learning technology
Leading a Digital School - August 2017
There are always exceptions!!
Glenn McMahonPrincipal
@mackas_ict
School background
6Steps
Develop your cultureClear expectationsMake it personalConnect to learningGive them timeMake it ongoing
My challenge
Develop your culture
SAMR Digital Blooms
“Pedagogy trumps technology”
The question shouldn’t be “what devices should we buy?”, the question should be, “What learning do we want to happen?”
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Clear expectations
Setting the scene
— BIll Gates
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is most important.“
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— Nancy Kassebaum
There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.
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— Salman Khan
We have so many more great and elevated learning opportunities when we operate in a connected world.“”
— Sir Ken Robinson
Technology is not an additive to education, it is a facilitator of education.“ ”
Make it personal
Ways of working
Connect with their interests
Connect to learning
Writing focus
Connect to learning
Numeracy Targeted Teacher
- Students capture content - Teacher adds feedback- Instant learning feedback for parents
Give them time
Fortnightly PD
2017 - 1st 6 Months - Survey of staff re Learning technology- What do we want learning to look like?- SAMR - Audit of current practice- Redefine the learning technology- iPad bootcamp
2017 - 2nd 6 Months - GSuite bootcamp exploring every tool- Essential apps- Intro to coding- Revisit SAMR- Audit of current practice - Survey of skills
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Sample PD session
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Make it ongoing
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