Tan's Wonderings

Monday 17th April, 2017 Wow! This whole assignment business is a whole lot harder than I thought it would be! Just trying to find a topic to get started on was difficult. It's so helpful to talk to others who are not only on the course but also to those who have previously been on the course and 'come out the other side'! Things that I have struggled with so far: Choosing a topic to work on. - not because I am so awesome that I don't have to work on anything but the opposite really. So many to choose from. Laptop failing. My Macbook refused to power up and so I was 4 days without a laptop and while iPads are great for some things, you just cant beat a good old laptop. Thanks to Dazzler for solving the issue, at least temporarily. Finding enough time between teaching, management, home and Mindlab. Cyclone Cook - ripped through our town and took with it one of our trees and the power. Consequently, all devices in our house went flat and living rurally meant that...

11th April Research Informed Leadership Mandelay desktop - a place to store heaps of PDF's If you have an article download it to your computer and it allows for easy sharing Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Research Informed: Consciously draws on the taeching and learning process Acknowledging anothr's work within your own: Use an intet cittion in the main body of your work that has some brief information about the source you provide the complete informtion Library search click on article express and then pin review unitec library Google scholor and add unitec to the library links

Modelling Innovation Two Simple Models SAMR - Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition S - block is a block no matter what it is. A - Same task - increase in functionality M - technology is redesigned to redesign part of the task R - Design and create new tasks that were once unimaginable eg. Share a doc Often you see as stacked blocks - Redefinition and modification = Transformation Aug and Sub = Enhancement TPACK- Framework that contains 3 areas Technological knowledge, Google Tour Builder #SAMR or TPACK #HawkesBay Technology Proficiency Article Knowing how far you can push yourselves - not too far too soon. Technology will change learning but teachers must want to change their pedagogy and be prepared to make those changes. DIGITAL Disruptive Technologies are typically demonstrate a rapid rate of change. The more overdue a disruption is the more we are caught off guard. Google Expedition has been devised as ...

How do you go from being a Windows User to a Mac user? Don't give in to the mindset of 'I can do it quicker ..." Take as many opportunities to create new activities etc as you can Ask one of your kids at school to show you how to do things! So, that's what I did today. I got one of my students to show me how to transfer my slide presentation on 21st Century Learners into  iMovie. So I came home tonight confident i could do everything I needed to, to be able to upload onto the Mind Lab G+, only to find that I couldn't get it to upload.  Had I saved it in the correct file type? Had I even made a movie? What to do now?  Go back to school tomorrow and ask my kids!

Tuesday 28th March How do 20th Century skills differ? Do we need both? Another school had a problem but another school had already solved it’ Cognitosphere - system of knowledge creation and management Word cloud - google docs Drop data into doc and then use an add on 21st Century Skills that the ITL came up with Collaboration Knowledge construction Self-regulation Real-world problems/innovations ICT for learning Skilled communication How do you reference in a video? What does it mean to be present in your videos? An you have an introduction, message and conclusion in 1 - 3 min video? Uploading: Capture - Command shift and 4 Key Competencies in Leadership Feedback on the Practising Teacher criteria is open til July. Leading is about change. Within every school there is a sleeping giant of teacher leadership that can be a strong catalyst for making changes to improve student learning. Blog- weekly notes in ...

Tuesday 21st March Four Main Platforms Portal - weekly videos Use Chrome or Safari Signing in via Unitec eLearn After 2 hours you will be automatically logged out Google + Community Unitec Library Your reflective blog Collaborative Task Yin - What is the purpose of Education Ontology - what we know to be based on facts that are believed to be fact Epistemology - what we know and how we pass it on - study of knowledge true belief and justifies True knowledge is primarily founded on input from our senses Rationalism emphasizes reason other than experience as the primary basis for justifying beliefs and claims Formal epistomology -  the study of questions such as what is knowledge Genetic epistemology is used to study the cognitive development among children and how children understand and learn and acquire new knowledge. Social epistomology - social context for creating new knowledge Axiology - what we value, what we believe...