Happy Steve

Innovation and Learning

Start with clarity of intent.

Now build it out with an evocative vision. Improvise progress by tinkering: with lots of trial and lots of error. The not knowing is the best bit: the mysteries the surprises, and from time to time the windfalls! 

Hello there, I'm Steve Collis! 

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Space for Learning

These notes available at www.happysteve.com under ‘Notes -> S.A. Lutheran Schools’

Intro:

From industrial paradigm to ???

Three (of many) disrupters:

  • engagement economy (or ‘attention economy’)
  • automation of learning resources
  • hyperconnectedness / collaboration

Learning by Design

Design Elements:

 

Low Tech Watering Hole 

IdeaPaint

Butcher's Paper

Giant Post It Notes

Windows, Doors, the Floor, etc

High Tech Watering Hole

Edmodo

Google Docs

Low Tech Campfire

Bloom's/Gardner's Matrix Grid & Stimulus Cards on Paper

High Tech Campfire

Khan Academy, Douchie's Biology Podcast, Learning Landscape, YouTube etc

Student Web Publishing - Glogster, Lulu.com, Weebly, Wordpress, Youtube etc - the students publish. See Real Audience Project and Tutorials Book publishing with LuLu.comInternet Radio / Podcasting

Low Tech Cave

Whiteboard Slates

High Tech Cave

Blog

 

Other Design Elements:

Teacher Talk , 'Just in Times' or 'Pop Up' Sessions

Gamification / Tracking Systems

Combinations of Tech

IdeaPaint + Evernote

iPads + Evernote

Other Resources:

Interview with Pippa Yeoman

  • space has ‘agency’
  • as we move through we space we converse with it
  • space as backdrop, container, or habitat
  • empty space

Links:

Evernote + IdeaPaint http://blog.evernote.com/2012/08/09/evernote-and-ideapaint-creating-an-interactive-classroom-video/

iPads in Elementary School  http://davidwees.com/content/ipad-apps-elementary-school

Evernote on iPads for Anastasis Academy - http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=4744

IdeaPaint, Evernote, iPads:

Evernote + IdeaPaint http://blog.evernote.com/2012/08/09/evernote-and-ideapaint-creating-an-interactive-classroom-video/

iPads in Elementary School  http://davidwees.com/content/ipad-apps-elementary-school

Evernote on iPads for Anastasis Academy - http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=4744

iPad apps for K to by Bloom's Taxonomy

Photographs/Video from Presentation

View my slides here and here.

www.anarchyinlearning.com - footage and various links to do with NBCS. 

Ken Robinson, Do Schools Kill Creativity

Interesting side track RE Bloom's Taxonomy & Flipped Learning

Audacious Class at NBCS - 180 kids in 1 space with 0 teachers for 6 hours.

Day made of Glass 

Easter Eggs (Bonus Material!)

Finding possibilities IS a big dillemma! Use Twitter - http://search.twitter.com using these 'hashtags' (conventional search keywords). 

London riots: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2011/dec/07/london-riots-twitter

 3D virtual spaces


Anastasis Academy

a good overview of Anastasis by founder Kelly Tenkely. Kelly's blogKelly's TwitterAnother blog by Kelly.

- teacher Michelle Baldwin's blogTwitter

- cofounder Matthew Quigley's blogTwitter.

- other Anastasis blogs: http://teamanastasisbaldwin.edublogs.org/http://1mscott.edublogs.org/