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The ELT environment has seen enormous changes over the past decades. Now as we enter the 21st century we find ourselves in a new era where digital technologies will be key to enhancing the learning experience. In this talk we will look at these new tools and how our concepts of education are evolving around them. We will also discuss what impact this has on the relationship between teachers and students.
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The ELT environment has seen enormous changes over the past decades. Now as we enter the 21st century we find ourselves in a new era where digital technologies will be key to enhancing the learning experience. In this talk we will look at these new tools and how our concepts of education are evolving around them. We will also discuss what impact this has on the relationship between teachers and students.
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Culture, Network and Engagement - Presentation for BCPVPAChris Kennedy
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Presentation exploring the rationale for change to ensure our schools are future focused and operate in ways that prepare young people for their future, not our past!
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Business is from Mars, Education is from VenusNAFCareerAcads
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LEARNING ANALYTICS IN SCHOOLS
https://latte-analytics.sydney.edu.au/school/ for updates.
Date: Monday 5 March, 2018
Time: 8.30am—3.15pm
Venue: SMC Conference & Function Centre, 66 Goulburn Street, Sydney NSW 2000
In association with the 8th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, Society for Learning Analytics Research
Briefing papers: https://latte-analytics.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/k12_papers-1.pdf
You are warmly invited to join this inaugural event!
The data and analytics revolutions are disrupting and already transforming many sectors in society: finance, health, shopping, politics. Data is not new to education, but for many, it is still challenging to articulate the connection between the potential of using data to support decision making, and the every day-to-day operations occurring in learning environments.
School leaders, teachers, data analysts, academics, policy makers and all other interested parties are invited to join a professional learning and development day focused on the practical applications of Learning Analytics in school (K-12) education.
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You will leave with a deeper understanding of:
The diverse forms that Learning Analytics can take, and especially how technology extends this far beyond conventional school data to create better feedback
How such data is being used by school leaders to support strategic reflection
How new kinds of data are being used by teachers to support their practice
The practicalities of initiating such work in your own school
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An update from the Head of School on the recently completed strategic plan framed within the framework of data trends and models for "schools of the future" - SGS being one of them!
Blog entry with links here: http://www.reachcap.com/blog/post/2016-edtech-outlook
It’s hard to believe it’s been three years since we published our first ReimaginED report. When we first drafted ReimaginED, we set out to expose systemic challenges in our nation’s K-12 education system and to highlight some of the innovative solutions edtech entrepreneurs were developing to address these challenges. In last year’s report, we showcased ways technology could help our school system become an escalator to opportunity for all.
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This year’s publication, rebranded as “Reach Capital’s 2016 Edtech Outlook”, touches on these persisting challenges, while also highlighting key drivers that make us optimistic about the potential of technology to improve access and opportunity for kids. This year, our publication is not a roundup of everything in K-12 edtech, but rather our perspective on the challenges,opportunities and promising solutions in the space that we find most compelling. If you're looking for a full report on the state of K-12 edtech, our friends at Edsurge in partnership with AT&T Aspire have recently published a state of edtech report and we encourage you to check it out.
Given our unique vantage point, we also provide a peek “around the corner” into emerging solutions that align with our mission. We continue to see a need for more innovations in critical areas like English Language Learner instruction and Social Emotional Learning. We look forward to finding and supporting talented, mission-driven entrepreneurs innovating in these and other areas that will improve access and opportunity for kids.
Thank you to co-authors Chian Gong, Aditya Kaddu, and Jennifer Wu as well as the entire Reach team for their guidance and feedback.
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Vernon Back to School Presentation
1. This is theYear
Flexibility and Networks in a ChangingWorld
September 18, 2017
CHRIS KENNEDY
Superintendent of
Schools,West
Vancouver School
District
Presentation to the staff
of School District 22 -
Vernon
#sd22learns
#brightfutures
2. With thanks to Bill Selak: http://www.billselak.com/2012/thingsthatsuck
AWESOME OR NOT!?
11. Weakness of the relationshipbetweenachievement andfamilybackground (ESCS Index)
Studentachievementinreading,mathematicsandscience(PISA)
Weak equityandlowquality
Strong equityandhigh quality
Strong equityandlowquality
Weak equityandhigh quality
12. • Singapore
Weakness of the relationshipbetweenachievement andfamilybackground (ESCS Index)
OECD, 2016
Studentachievementinreading,mathematicsandscience(PISA)
Qualit
• HongKong
• China
2015
13. • Reduce the prescriptive nature of curriculum
• Allow for flexibility and choice for teachers and student
• Respect inherent logic in disciplines while supporting
interdisciplinary learning.
• Enable teachers to be creative and innovative in their
design of learning experiences
Guiding Principles
14. • Core competencies provide the foundation for the
curriculum
• All core competencies are now posted
• Created on a continuum (not by grade level)
Curriculum – Core Competencies
Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting
15.
16. How do I acquire and
then make sense of all
of the information
available
to me so I can make
choices that will benefit
me in the future?
17. Individual Challenge #2How do I find hope?
Once found, how do I
build and sustain the
enthusiasm, energy and
just plain will
to be continuously
adaptive?
18. Individual Challenge #3Where do I fit in this
world? What is
available to me? How
do I achieve a balance
between my needs and
all of the forces and
influences around me?
19. Individual Challenge #4
How do I make all of
these decisions, and
take all of these
actions, in a way
that allows me to
maintain a sense of
who
I am? How do I take
pride in what I do?
44. “Students today depend too
much upon ink.They don’t know
how to use a pen knife to
sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will
never replace the pencil.”
National Association ofTeachers, 1907
72. All of the digital shifts are
part of ONE story
73. WHAT ARE THE DIGITAL TOOLS YOU ARE USING
IN YOUR SCHOOL? WHICH ONES ARE YOU
MODELING? WHAT IS THE STORY YOU ARE
TELLING ABOUT THE MOVE TO DIGITAL?
?
77. INNOVATION IN ACTION
Letter grade
free
assessment
Maker
movement
iPads in
elementary
music class
Reggio Emilia
inspired
programs
Bienalle arts
projects
across
schools
Passion
projects
Heart rate
monitors in
PE
80. Teachers
Schools
Districts
Governments
• Will make it easier
for students...
• Will make it easier
for teachers...
• Will make it easier
for schools...
• Will make it easier
for districts...
To be
FLEXIBLE
171. I make them criticize.
I make them apologize and mean it.
172. I make them write.
I make them read, read, read.
173. I make them spell definitely beautiful,
definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful
over and over and over again until they will
never misspell
either one of those words again.
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and if someone ever tries to judge you
by what you by what you make, you give them this.
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Here, let me break it down for you, so you
know what I say is true: