Pennant Hills High Program:
Personalised Learning
agency / engagement
Top resources:
- tutorials for 'learning landscape' or 'Flipped Learning' techniques:
- broad resources on 'The Learning Matrix', 'Flipped Learning' and 'PBL', click here
- check out Edmodo,com and Weebly.com
- iPad app is Visualize - image map it with 'Snag It'
Dr David Thornburg - SPACE
Watering Hole
INTERACTION AND ACTION
Low Tech Watering Hole
Butcher's paper, Whiteboard Slates, giant Post-It notes,
doors
the floor (chalk)
windows (liquid chalk)
High Tech Watering Hole
Edmodo and http://www.ning.com/
Minecraft
Wikis, Twitter
...pretty much the entire Internet / "Web 2.0"
(click here for a list)
Campfire
SOURCES OF EXPERTISE
Low Tech Campfire
An actual live guru could be student or teacher.
"Just in Time" sessions: optional teacher-talk sessions based on insight into current student needs.
Repeated Guru Sessions - the teacher runs session on a topic multiple times, students can opt in to any session.
Books, radio, television are low-tech campfires.
HISTORICAL OUTRAGE OVER AUTOMATED CAMPFIRES:
High Tech Campfire
Flipped Learning / Automating a Learning Landscape
(and Tutorials)
Student Publishing: (students automate selves as guru)
Book publishing with LuLu.com, Internet Radio / Podcasting
Cave
REFLECTION AND INTERNALISATION
Low Tech Cave
High Tech Cave
Blogging (for reflection) Wordpress, Weebly, Wix
Video: young boy's blog reflections become more sophisticated over time.
Gamification / Tracking Systems
Can be profoundly simple and low-tech. Each activity is worth a point, track the points.
More ambitious structures include virtual currencies, badges, and 'leveling up'.
Combinations of Technologies
Moodle for content delivery + Edmodo for social networking.
Physical Space
Explore this Prezi.
Interview with PhD student Pippa Yeoman on space. Click here and here.
Her concepts include:
- ability to appropriate space for own purposes
- space thought of as a backdrop, container, or habitat
- the 'affect' of space
- the importance of empty space
More on iPads
There are plenty of blogs recommending iPad apps. especially organised by Bloom's taxonomy. Examples here. And by Gardner's here.
Follow the story of Anastasis Academy in the USA, a new, innovative school whose tech program consists of iPads + Evernote:
Links for Anastasis Academy:
- a good overview of Anastasis by founder Kelly Tenkely. Kelly's blog. Kelly's Twitter. Another blog by Kelly.
- teacher Michelle Baldwin's blog. Twitter.
- cofounder Matthew Quigley's blog. Twitter.
- other Anastasis blogs: http://teamanastasisbaldwin.edublogs.org/, http://1mscott.edublogs.org/
- interview with Michelle Baldwin, who moved interstate to join the new school at a point where no job security could be guaranteed.
- interview with Kelly Tenkely about the process of starting the school.
- audio chatting with some young students.
- Year 9 teacher discussing her students' plans to launch a non-profit