Principal+Management+Meetings

Tuesday 9th March 2010

Why in your school do teachers / you use computers?  To connect with different tools and different people. To see the possibilities in their own learning. To organise your data and thoughts so others can see and learn from.



1. Where do you believe the future of learning is? (What is your vision for the future?)It is in quality learning and teaching that will enable the learners to be citizens that can adapt to a different world than todays one. 2. What will children need to know in the future?Who they are, what they need to know and how they will do it. 3. How will children learn in the future? What learning styles will they have?Multi, but literacy skills will become more critical to understand the language and tasks being presented to them. 4. How will they see you as a teacher? As a facilitator, mentor and critical friend. 5. How will YOU prepare this child for their future?Provide opportunities that are real for the learner to engage with. 6. How will YOUR school prepare this child for their future?By continually talking about this issue and what our learners need. Talking to the world about where we are going.

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Homework: Add thoughts, comments and ideas that come to you from this wee reading. Great article, because it is all about quality teaching and that the toys are not a quick fix.

ICT LEAD TEACHER DISCUSSION: Agree, ICT is not a subject / learning area so it can only be used to enhance the current learning areas. It needs to be integrated. Where it fits naturally - not a forced thing. Maybe that is a barrier - people see it as an extra as opposed to doing the same thing but through a different medium. It doesn't have to be EVERYBODY EVERYTIME. We have responsibility for all children to experience ICT, they will need these skills etc for life. Some children will only use ICT beyond tvs, playstations etc at school. We need to provide this for them to be effective functional community members. Even just exposing students to ICT is beneficial.

What implications do we need to be aware of in an IT world? Is it the having of the 'toys' / tools that makes learning great? What will you do with the 'toys' / tools in your school for the betterment of students learning? How will you ensure that the 'toys' are actually tools for learning?