Future Leaders Presentation

Leading Learning with ICT? Leadership in ICT? Leadership with ICT? Learning by Leading in ICT? Leading by Learning ICT? Is Leading Learning with ICT like trying to herd cats ? Goal for this session – answer this question: (and those above…  )

Session Breakdown

Who I am….

This could go for a while!

My journey to becoming a HT Maths at CHHS

Who you are……

- Please play my games!

An ICT story

An action research project results

Issues / Leadership in ICT

What my PLN reckons

What a PLN is…. and why you must get one for (before) XMAS

Some ICT solutions I am trying.

Blatant promotion of new network group

P.S. I will be using some Visible Thinking Routines (Project Zero) – to guide our thinking

I used to think – now I think – first thoughts

Visible Thinking Routine from

http://pzweb.harvard.edu/vt/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03c_Core_routines/UsedToThink/UsedToThink_Routine.htm

Write down some key ideas/thoughts

you have about Leading Learning with

ICT.

We will come back to this later.

No sharing at this stage!

Don’t copy!

Who I am…..

From Twitter

Father, Husband, Learner, HT Maths, Educator

with interest in Web2.0, Moodler, ICT Activist

From Facebook

An educator with 3 beautiful boys and a long

suffering wife. Interested in all things ICT and

Education. Have been an active firefighter in a

past life - to busy right now.

My Journey….

During Uni

Worked extensively for NSW Dept of Sport & Rec as a Vac. Camp Director & Weekend Liaison Officer

OOSH Centre Director

Boarding House Parent

Trinity Grammar School – laptop school

Maths Teacher

Coordinated various levels of Maths -set up and trialed CMS in classroom environment

Duke of Edinburgh Coordinator

Student Leadership Training Team

Head of House

NSW Rural Fire Service – Regional Community Safety Officer

Training of Volunteers to empower communities

Presented at cool conferences

UN Conference on Engaging Communities

International Wildfire Conference

Australasian Wildfire Conference

My Journey….

Left RFS

Living in Coffs Harbour desperate to go back to teaching

Tried to get casual teaching position at any school – wrote to them no luck.

Beaconhills College – back to freezing Melbourne

All staff have tablet PC’s

Head of Middle School Mathematics/Science

Head of Middle School Curriculum

Driving force behind development of Moodle Intranet Site

Action Research

Numeracy/Literacy Target Funding Coordinator

More cool conference presentations

STAVCON

ICTVIC Conference

Other Stuff

Have been actively involved in volunteer fire-fighting organisations since I was 15. Leadership training & real life application.

Landing….

Coffs Harbour High School 2009

Head Teacher Mathematics

I love it!

What was hard…

The difference between State and Independent systems

Not really knowing DET ways of doing stuff!

Being the youngest – again

Expectations?

What I need(ed)…

A mentor

The Earth to slow down so days are longer

A guide on how to say NO!

What is cool!

I am finally able to support the Public System I believe in

The vastness of DET offers so many opportunities for collaboration and sharing

I’m really into Twitter !

Who are you?

WARM UP – Find someone you don’t know!

What do they teach?

What leadership roles do they currently undertake?

What leadership roles do they aspire to?

Where do they fit on the ICT competence scale from NOVICE to SUPER GEEK?

Take careful notes you are going to have to introduce them

An ICT Story But no falling asleep!

Action Research Success 4 Boys ICT Project

A $19.4 million Federal Government initiative aimed at improving the engagement and educational outcomes of boys (and girls) – from 2003 – 2008

Over 550 schools benefitted

Beaconhills College (Valley & Village) was allocated $22 000.

Note this is a modified version of what I presented at STAVCON 2007 Thanks to Dr Peter Morgan for his input

Collect evidence and undertake ongoing inquiry on the issue, recognising that schools can advance boys’ educational success.

Adopt a flexible, whole-school approach to introducing a Success for Boys programme, charging a person or team with responsibility for planning and implementing the programme.

Ensure effective teaching for boys, and for all students in all classes

Identify the kinds of support particular boys require.

Cater for different learning styles.

Recognise that gender is an important issue and that gender stereotypes should be challenged.

Develop positive relationships with boys.

Provide positive male role models for boys both within and beyond the school.

Focus on literacy.

Use the valuable tool of ICT.

10 Guiding principles of S4B

Beaconhills S4B

All staff did the generic S4B module – large group lectures.......

Remainder of funds was allocated to small projects – interested staff were required to submit proposals for consideration.

Our proposal was for an action research project based on the Success for ICT Module

Action Research

Defined as:

research conducted by classroom teachers, often concurrent with their teaching

School and classroom-based studies initiated and conducted by teachers and other school staff. Action research involves teachers, aides, principals, and other school staff as researchers who systematically reflect on their teaching or other work and collect data that will answer their questions .

http:// crede.berkeley.edu/tools/glossary.html http://www.k12.hi.us/~atr/evaluation/glossary.htm

Congratulations

You have successfully been awarded a Future Schools grant for $5000 but the person who applied for it has left and taken all the paperwork so you have the luxury of spending the money.

What are you going to do with it!!

In Pairs

Brainstorm Questions that are worth investigating

Why are they worth investigating.

What would you and the Community hope to get out of the investigation and the process.

S4B ICT Project – Our Proposal

Focus:

Integration of ICT across the Middle Years Maths/Science curriculum

Improving achievement & engagement of boys in Maths / Science

Objectives:

Develop an effective process for the integration of ICT through the development of units in the MSC curriculum

Evaluate the success of both the process and the units developed in respect to engagement and success of boys (girls & teachers)

Outcomes:

Development of a process for the integration of ICT into the classroom

Evaluation of the success of the units and strategies in achieved improved success for boys.

The presentation of this process to all staff to facilitate the integration of ICT across all elements of the curriculum

Our Project – what it really was

Aim: To develop units of work that integrate the use of ICT in preparation for the introduction of tablet PC’s in 2009

- Does ICT improve success & engagement

What we did: Developed 2 units of work:

Year 8 Human Body – Digestive System (one element of a unit of work)

Year 7 Classification / Mammals (whole terms work)

Research Methodology

Year 8 – Digestive/Circulatory System

Did two units – one utilising ICT (Digestive System) and one traditionally (Circulatory System)

- Success:

- Pre / Post / Long Term Testing

- Engagement :

- Classroom observations

Yr 8 – The human body – Digestive system

Unit Outcomes:

To identify key parts of the digestive system.

Describe the function of each key part.

Describe and explain the process of digestion.

Process:

Identify ICT activities to enhance unit outcomes

Pre test / Post / Long term testing to measure success

Utilise BeaconNet as a platform for delivery

Classroom observations to measure engagement

Compare with a traditionally taught unit (Circulatory System)

All Year 8 undertake the unit

The Process

Collaborative planning (using Web 2.0 technology & traditional meetings – time release – 2 ½ day sessions 1300 - 1700)

Choosing ICT activities

Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0 vs Web 3.0

We used the standard S4B ICT unit planning document (although it had to be re-typed it as it was only available as a static pdf document (not very Web 2.0!)

The Pre / Post / Long term testing was undertaken electronically

A topic was established on Moodle to facilitate delivery of the unit

Active Passive

The ICT Activities

Stimulus – digestive system Rap – Capt Lambchops – found on YouTube – but I had to download it (due to student access issues) and it didn’t work in BeaconNet using Internet Explorer!

Digestive System Learning Object – but this didn’t work very well in BeaconNet either- had to modify how it was used. It was interesting to see that students mostly only used this as their source of information when it came to labelling the parts of the digestive system

Digestive System Drag & Drop – web based but the link was to a front page – kids ventured to other systems possible distraction

Digestive system hotspot activity – utilising comments in Excel

Final Digestive system activity – submitted online on BeaconNet

Stimulus – exemplar PowerPoint

Electronic note taking – prepared by Library to reduce distractions associated with trolling the Web looking for information – also allowed content to be aimed at a range of literacy levels.

Final presentation – labelling parts of digestive system and their function.

Results

Classroom observations

Some struggled with the number and type of tasks required of them.

Students were very engaged with the use of ICT to learn about the digestive system but some spent a large amount of time exploring the ICT rather than undertaking the task

I have never seen this class so engaged with a lesson after lunch!

Yr 7 Classification & Digestive System

Unit Outcomes (based on essential questions – INTEL Teach for the Future):

How are things different / the same?

How do we classify things?

How do we classify living things?

How do we classify animals?

What is so special about mammals?

Where do I come from?

Process:

Utilised 1 afternoon 1300 -1700 to devise essential questions and brainstorm ideas for ICT activities

The unit was established using BeaconNet (Moodle)

All Year 7 students undertook the unit

Engagement and success were evaluated using online surveys

The ICT Activities

Online discussion about similarities / differences in families

Online discussion – what are limitations of classification

Online discussion: “Things that can’t be classified”

Online discussion “I am alive because” .

Characteristics of Life – Inspiration Concept Map

Online discussion “Is fire alive?”

Design a brochure explaining the characteristics of living things and the five kingdoms

Develop a web –site classifying animals

PowerPoint presentation – Male & Female reproductive system.

Miracle of Life Inspiration

Results

Only two activities were surveyed...

Characteristics of Life Inspiration

Five kingdoms brochure activity

But the kids have been really engaged in the lessons....

Post testing didn’t really happen

We have a really excellent unit planned for next year 

Action Research

PLUS

For ever improving – reflective

INTERESTING

Under utilisation of laptops in senior years

MINUS

As teachers we have good ideas but don’t formalise them

Action Research

Pros

Empowering

Creates Space to Reflect on Practice

Useful approach to change.

Fosters Creativity

Interesting

Time consuming

Outcomes may be unpredictable

Open ended may not suit all

Requires commitment from participants.

Cons

We were going to do it anyway but this way its done with more purpose and some time to do it.

Take Home Messages

We hope you got

Get Money from wherever you can.

Use that Money to buy TIME

Concentrate on the Process

That Action Research is a way of becoming a More Reflective Teacher as you remember what it is like to be a Learner.

Issues /Leadership in ICT Visible Thinking Routine – Headline Activity If you were to write a headline for this topic or issue right now that captured the most important aspect that should be remembered, what would that headline be?

Issues /Leadership in ICT I don’t have all the answers so…. I asked my PLN…. Using twitter with the hashtag #EdLeaderICT What is a PLN? - Stay tuned

He or she want to turn on the computer ;O)

Active engagement & participation in open source, leave quality digital footprints,walled gardens are short term

that they must become life-long learners

Getting team to undrstnd that ICT PD does not always take you from school, spoon feed you, or happen btwn 9 and 3

Going beyond lip service and actually modeling an attitude which values creative uses for ICT

Promoting a view which begins with belief that a solution is possible: we simply need curiosity & will to find it

Challenging staff and parents to move from school planning, to planning school - challenge the dominant paradigm

being a learner themselves.

ICT is ultimately a mere tool - it's not about technology, it's about people. how well it's used, if at all, depends on 'who'.

Leadership means modelling the behaviour you would like others to follow

Teachers should NOT worry about being replaced by ICTs. Teachers will be replaced by teachers who use ICTs.

teachers with the attitude 'I can't teach that without profess. development' and their ict fear factor

Accepting that the nature of ICT may mean we never have a 'fully tested finished product' to work with - non-linear thinking

also making tchrs learn ict with students and share ideas together, not be the source of all knowledge

ICT-capability is nowhere near as important as ICT-connectivity.

Information and Knowledge are 20C skills. Knowing how to find, manipulate & sythesise information is a 21C skill

stuhasic @ SimonBorgert Ask @ pryorcommitment if he thinks all leaders should be ICT competent. Give me a "hell yeah!"

Credits

Thanks to

@StuHasic

@pryorcommitment

@c_snudden

@piphowell

@jamesbrann

@darcymoore

@TonySearl

@ozmawbs

All DET educators

Disruptive innovation

An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.

Digital technologies are transforming the way the world learns

From HT, Teams and Laptops Training Package

https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/proflearn/der/htmods/thinking/ladder.html (accessed 17/8/2009) https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/proflearn/der/htmods/thinking/ladder.html (accessed 17/8/2009)

Issues /Leadership in ICT Visible Thinking Routine – Headline Activity Part 2 How has your headline changed based on today's discussion? How does it differ from what you would have said yesterday?

PLN?

P ersonal L earning N etwork

http://nwinton.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/the-year-of-the-diagram/ (accessed 26/7/2009)

http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/04/21/connecting-colaboracion-kommunikation-across-languages-cultures/ (accessed 26/7/09)

Getting started with a PLN

Get online & connected

Use email

Follow blogs & comment

RSS

Twitter

Me @SimonBorgert

Social Networking –

Ning’s e.g. Classroom 2.0

Facebook

Social Bookmarking

Delicious

PLN – blogs worth following Darcy Moore Mel Giddins Kelli McGraw Roger Pryor Simon Job Stu Hasic Errr Simon Borgert or my student blog A year 9 student blogging about DER http:// quezon.wordpress.com / Plus heaps more

Where do I start?

Get online – create a PLN – get ideas don’t reinvent the wheel

Don’t try to be the IT expert – watch the kids and facilitate learning

Have Fun!

Faculty: what I am trying

My faculty are ICT novices.

Faculty Delicious Website – social bookmarking

Supporting progress through online software training program

Guide on the side – opportunistic learning

Working through parts of DER package with them

Making connections

School: what I am trying

Pushing change with exec. – focus should not be on policy!

Offering support to other faculties

DER working group focus on pedagogy

Enthusiasm….

Information sharing from my PLN

PL opportunities

Technical support

Support of senior exec

Visible Thinking - But now I think

Take a minute to think back and then write down your response to “ I used to think…” - we kinda cheated and did this earlier

Now, I want you to think about how your ideas about __________ have changed as a result of what we’ve been studying/doing/discussing. Again in just a few sentences write down what you now think about ___________. Start your sentences with, “But now, I think…”

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