LOOK NEW – depending on what evolves – what’s relevant overtime FEEL HUMAN – keeping people inview always – what works for people SOUNDS DIVERSE – many expressions -------- Parent / Admin

• 1:1 – automating info or using technology to be more productive.
• Awareness of possibilities?
  - teachers need awareness
• Skills – tech
• Elementary/MS – need for skills base.

--------- Technolagy can ‘interfere’ with relationships – how do parents manage this? ‘Sexy’ learning – engaged in exciting creative opportunities to show their learning – collaborative group efforts. World wide connections – community service – connections. --------- Balance?

• content
• analysis
• skills

Are we expecting too much of technology? Is learning enhanced? -------- Sound like

• Collaboration
• Team work
• Authentic performance tasks
• Communication discussion

-------- Looks like

• Technology at finger tips (vs booking labs etc.)
• Laptops (smart desks)
• Library – major focus media centre

-------- Access

• Easy to use
• Wireless, mobile laptop labs
• Streamline – access a # of tools
• Big access to laptops in the library

-------- Feels like

• Open, respectful
• Self-directed
• Accounteable/responsible

-------- Are we teaching the kids the way they learn best?

• Quickly
• Multi-tasking

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• Wireless..
• Condolidates information into one thing
• Can modify easily

-------- Feels like

• Learning by doing,
• Through context,
• Authentic,
• Through interests,
• Personalised

-------- Ubiquitous

• Computing or Technology (part of the fabric)

--------- Looks like

• Everyone is involved
• Technology for everyone
• To use at school – not just a few

-------- Learning

Engagement

Connectivity facebook

-------- Content is not obsolete and tech might or might not enhance quality of learning, but for the “future tech” skills, content might become the medium for delivering these skills. -------- LEARNING DEFINED by “floors” (starting points) not “ceiling” REMOVING LIMITS but maintaining guideposts – structures. --------

Instant feedback: to direct learning

• Embed tech. standards accross curriculum
• Working, manipulating complex concept not content
• Build good performance task
• Service – outside class document digital storytelling
• Outside classroom beyond the walls
• Students & teachers learning together, teachers don’t have all the answers. Teachers = facilitators

-------- Differentiation opportunities

• Display knowledge in variety of ways – tech options
• Group work gives opp for collaboration, communication & risk-taking

-------- Do computer labs make sense?

• How do we integrate into the classroom?
• Yet.. what about tech skills?

-------- Where do kids learn skills?

• Classroom not only learning environtment – learner à to à learner.
• Skills à but then what?”
  Open – ended opportunities to use skills
  enquire – create.

--------- Students

• Every student – a computer 1 – 1
• Working together
• Excited – engrossed
• Researching, paperless work
• Permanent portfolio of work
• 1 – 1 computer needs to be monitored
• Responsible use

-------- Tablet PC ... or some other device to hold all information, i.e. digital textbooks. -------- Easy access to tools

• Communicate easily with teachers & students

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About inquiryself-directed problem solving (asking: what intelligence serves us best & how (what tools) to get there) --------

• Teachers need to know students tech skill levels.
• Learning gps. Create opportunities for students to share.
• Home environment crates opportunity for parents to extend c/room learning using technology – need advise from teachers.

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• Learning should be inspiring. Real stones individual.
• Everything under one umbrella
• Electronic portfolios
• Mac?
• Creating an environment where it doesn’t matter what you use
• Like O2 Learning should be: Seamless unobstructed, ubiquitous – anytime anywhere
• Use when it is a right tool

-------- Looks like

• Without walls
• Accross age groups
• Community of learners
• Learning through games – fun activities, play with practical base.

-------- MULTI-AGE & MULTI-SKILL GROUP learning -------- RELATIONSHIP @ THE CENTRE --------