1) The document aims to stimulate discussion about using technology, particularly 1:1 programs, in international schools. 2) It asks respondents to share teaching tips for teaching Theory of Knowledge (ToK) or other concept-based courses in a 1:1 environment. 3) The discussion covers challenges and strategies for teaching ToK using a 1:1 model, including moving from content-based to concept-based units and incorporating technology into student presentations and discussions.

1. To stimulate and contribute to a critical discussion about using technology, in particular, a 1:1 program, at international schools To share teaching tips about teaching ToK or any concept-based course in a 1:1 program

2. About you: School and state of 1:1 program? Role within the school? Subjects or areas of interest? Do you teach ToK?

4. With research, there are many free and open source solutions Software licenses cause problems in schools

5. 1) To give a broad overview of teaching in a 1:1 environment: my observations, experiences, suggestions, strategies, etc. – what works and what doesn't work. 2) To give a specific report on how this technology forced us to change the way we teach ToK, and to explain how we changed the way we teach and report on the results, the good and the bad.

6. Amplifier -- this is what technology does Good students get better; weak students distracted Teacher as important as ever Training: teachers and students need IT training Training needs to be differentiated EVERYBODY has something to learn! Good teaching is still good teaching

7. Credit: John Hattie, Univ. of Melbourne https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/proflearn/docs/pdf/qt_hattie.pdf

8. Lecturing is not effective school teaching Good teachers Classroom management FEEDBACK Differentiation: knowing students Goals, metacognitive teaching, learning objectives, etc. Beginning each lesson: WALT Ending each lesson: plenary Teachers must be engaged listeners Gandhi days

9. Why? ToK is a “dry” subject; tends to be teacher - centered The central problem of ToK No “real” assessment until Year 13 How? Threw out old content-based units (AoKs) and went to concept-based themes in 2010 Note: Areas of Knowledge in ToK: Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Human Sciences, History, Arts, Ethics

10. Presentation: 20 points 10 minutes per student Essay: 40 points 1200 – 1600 words Two fundamental skills

11. What’s the Right Thing to Do? Dissent and Knowledge Communities Talking About Art Mathematics and Beauty

12. Introduction: Goals, Learning Objectives, Tasks Discussion, Mini – Lecture, or Activity Groups, random or self-selected Guided tasks or group work, towards presentation

13. Divide into two groups: “Inside” and “Outside”, facing each other and randomly assigned In 2 – 3 minutes, Inside person tell Outside person: what I have learned at ASB Unplugged Every outside person: shift one place to the left In 2 – 3 minutes, Outside person tell Inside person: what he or she (the person you listened to) has learned at ASB Unplugged Now, add a blog post

14. Task Tablets? Today’ goals: Form and argue an opinion about the value of art 5 minutes (no tablets) What makes a painting worth $10,000,000? What is the value of Art? 10 minutes (no tablets) Task: in groups of 3, presentations about a Quotation in the arts 20 minutes (tablets) Presentation & Discussion 10 minutes (tablets) Blog Posts with Comments 15 minutes (tablets) Discussion: What did we learn today? 10 minutes (no tablets)

15. Yue Minjun What makes this painting worth $10,000,000?

16. Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. (Henry Miller) Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. (Pablo Picasso) Art is science made clear. (Jean Cocteau) All art is quite useless. (Oscar Wilde) Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. (Victor Hugo) … we will always learn more about human life and human personality from novels than from scientific psychology. (Noam Chomsky) The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.. (George Santayana) Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. (Frank Zappa)

17. Groups of 3, random Each group selects one quotation 15 minutes to prepare 3 slides, 3 minutes: give three opinions: What does the Quotation mean?

18. Today’s goals: Finish activity re: Oppositions Get Photos Understand what the course is about: AoKs, WoKs, Knowledge Issues Short blog entries – improve knowledge claims Intorduce new Theme: What is the Right Thing to do? ToK and Philosophy: Michael Sandel – the personal risks Discussion Questions: In a moral dilemma, what basis do we use to make a decision? Is it important to live a moral life?

19. Skill Tool Blogs Wordpress Videos including cameras and mics Screencasts Screenr and Storyboards Presentations PPTs, Prezis, Spicynodes, GoogleDocs, etc

20. From Wikipedia: Literacy encompasses a complex set of abilities to understand and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture for personal and community development.

21. What makes an “EduTech 2.0”? Which 2 or 3 or 4 core literacies (Howard Rheingold) are profoundly changing how students learn, and how we teach?

22. Blogging “ the democratization of writing” Wordpress Videos “ the greatest force of the 20 th Century” YouTube Collaboration “ is INDIVIDUAL even a word anymore?” GoogleDocs

23. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Justice with Michael Sandel Larry Ferlazzo Mr Hoye’s ToK Website

24. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Justice with Michael Sandel Larry Ferlazzo Mr Hoye’s ToK Website