Week 13

Teaching as inquiry

the organised pursuit of curiosity

teaching as inquiry
where teachers inquire into their own practice and use evidence to make decisions about ways to change that practice for the benefit of students


inquiry learning
A process where students co-construct their learning in an authentic context

involve me and I will understand


we want to understand the world around us - ask questions
What will I learn today (a question)

Constructivest - learn ask questions, reflect - not teacher learning

Inquiry - teacher is the faciliator

plan units
develops a question or a topic to explore
designing activities to engage students
open ended questions
research and investigate
present and discuss
reflect

levels of inquiry
structured - teacher directed - question then step by step instructions
guided - students take more responsibility - teacher guides the inquiry for direction
open - students take lead in question and methods - require higher order thinking

Fertile questions
Open
undermining - makes the learner questions their basic assumptions
Rich- cannot be answered without careful and lengthy research, often able to be broken into subsidiary questions
connected relevant to the learners
chargedhas an ethical
practical

Virtual Substitute Teacher:
Introducing the concept of a classroom poxy
helping to replace the problem of the teacher being absent and the relieving teachers often not right subject, not ready, not organised.  Technology can help overcome issue of teacher absence.  Not replacing the teacher but helping for when human absent for whatever reason.  

FRIEDMAN, D., SALOMON, O., & HASLER, B. S. (2013). Virtual substitute teacher: Introducing the concept of a classroom proxy. London, 28-29 November 2013 King’s College London, UK, 186.

Scafolding - already have teacher aides assisting the teacher, although a human, could this area be taking over by the BOT
Marking would be great - already started with some programmes

WEEK 12

What is the most innovative learning space you've been in?

spacious, glass sliders, amazing furniture,

elements make a space innovative:

freedom, flexible, colour, comfortable, furniture, clean, non conventional rooming, wide open spaces, vistas,

How much does the space matter

Maker movement:  inventor not we are all makers and problem solvers

Week 11

Agile - Lean education
Cultural of learning in our schools.  But we don't have reliable ways of creating this culture.  Agile does.

www. agilemanifesto.org core is the four statements -
rewritten for education
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
meaning learning over measurement of learning
stakeholder collaboration over constant negotiations
responding to change over following a plan

Theory
agile is fundamentally about learning, people, and change, - three things we struggle with in education and handle poorly at the present time.

Agile vs Waterfall

Waterfall approach - can not change from start to finish - can not go back up
Agile  work together to proritize the next feature

Cost, scope and schedule - wait longer
-work with the team
As Steve McConnell sys, it's possible for a salmon to go back up a waterfall, but its not easy

muuda - waste

Lean Education

TO DO Doing Done


to do                       doing                          done

As
I need
so that



write some story cards that express:
What you would like to try to do in your classrooms with what you have learned about agile/lean/kanban so far

google calendar

padlet.com


The Agoile Team
Are self-organising teams

Improvement Kata
martial arets
repeating four-step routine for continuous improvement
Plan do check Act (PDCA)

1c 2c 3c test

Agile Leadership  Style

Facilitate
Remove obstacles
Encourage reflection
Be a servant leader
Create a safe environment
Allow team to self-organise

try something, reflect, try again, reflect change try again

To get better all the time - Agile mind set -

best always look to get better - what can say the same, what can be removed,
Do tiny steps to along the way

Week 10

Week 10
Leadership - played market share - good game to get the idea of ....
12 year old entreprenuers

Te Whare Hukahuka - for the students
Lean focusses on Problems, solutions, key metrics and competitive advantages and promises an actionable plan -

social enterprise - social lean canvas
socialleancanvas.com/the-canvas

Real World Problem Solving

Where to start Try?

IDEA Springboard - science focus
Thingful

Instagrok - filters the internet - really interesting - great tool

Google trends?  Crowd sourcing

What is crowd sourcing?  obtaining information from a number of people by either paid or unpaid.

hackidemia
democracyos.org
innocentive.com
openideo.com
wheretonext.school.nz

Wikis vs Encyclopedias
Citizen science - zooniverse project

Collaborative Task

What digital, collaborative, engagement, diversity and or student agency related parts of your assessment practices are you proud of and why OR

What digital collaborative, engagement, diversity and and or student agency related parts would you want to change in your assessment practices and why.

Link to #howweassess

LOVE

Pretest/post-test same one and students can see progression

Rubrics 

Formative assessments

Kahoots

Google.docs for presenting and milestones for feedback along the journey

NOT SO LOVE

Reports long winded, business plans to long winded

Presentation - report form, powerpoint

DRIVING TOWARDS

Problem solving questions

use IT ideas for presentation