Learning Spaces and Technology at

Albany Senior High School 

Outline:

• Big view: on-going dialogues about learning. Community/ family involvement

• Review: previous dialogues: teaching and learning, course book, pathways & NCEA

• Preview:  • Peter Mellow: flexible learning spaces (questions)

Mark Osborne: technology (questions)Further questions

Our Vision:

"Albany Senior High School will be a school where young adults engage enthusiastically in their learning in a caring and challenging community. Graduates will be confident young people who make wise choices and contribute to the world."

Our Vision:

"Albany Senior High School will be a school where young adults engage enthusiastically in their learning in a caring and challenging community. Graduates will be confident young people who make wise choices and contribute to the world."

Goals for our use of technology:

• Engage• Create • Communicate• Contribute

"in a caring and challenging learning community"Cybersafety:• Hardware• Policies and Procedures• Education:

http://netbasics.org.nz/ http://netsafe.org.nz/

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"in a caring and challenging learning community"Partnerships with families and communitye-portfolios:• Collect• Select• Reflect•  • Example: • Mobile learning

"in a caring and challenging learning community"Skype: free video calling anywherein the world

"engage enthusiastically in their learning"You can't force commitment, what you can do ... you nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.

Peter Senge

"engage enthusiastically in their learning" 

"engage enthusiastically in their learning" 

"engage enthusiastically in their learning" 

"contribute to the world"

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Brooks Adams

"contribute to the world"

 

"contribute to the world"

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Google Earth: earthquakes

"contribute to the world"

Open source software: free programs created through the collaborative efforts of programmers from around the world

"contribute to the world"

Final Cut Pro: NZ$1999

JahShaka: free

"contribute to the world"

Photoshop: NZ$1,389

Graphic Image ManipulationProgramme: free

"contribute to the world"

 

Goals for our use of technology:

• Engage• Create • Communicate• Contribute

Next steps

• Cybersafety information evening• Feedback• Questions