Mark Osbourne
Session Notes
How we can use the principles of mle in every space - regardless of shape of space
take existing classroom space and adapt it.
Start with a future-focused vision.
What is teaching and learning?
What is our future vision?
Equip the learners to cope with the changes that are likely to happen
What are the features of 21st Century learning?
Student Agency
Learning to Learn
Learning Disposition - content is created too quickly for us to teach it.
The new illiterates will be those who can't learn, unlearn, and relearn.
You've always had to learn on the job - but the need to adapt is increasing hugely. Crucial things for our learners to have.
More choice, more flexibility
Innovations Unit
10 ideas for the 21C
Flexiblility to think outside of 50 minute lessons
1. Open up Lessons - whole day for a subject
Understand what it is to think like a scientist / mathematicians / english all day long.
2. Thinking outside the classroom box
Can't change the physical rooms perhaps, but can think outside the box
Giving learners experiences to outdoor learning settings increases the learning connections / learning speed.
Outdoor learning settings increases the rate of learning.
Having daylight in the classroom increases the rate of learning.
3. Get Personal
Who is this person in front of you?
What do the learners want to learn?
Design thinking starts with the user - what does the end user need?
4. Tap into students' digital expertise
What are we looking at.
5. Get real with projects
Real-world, engaging, authentic, learning
6. Help and expect teachers to be students
7. Expect teachers to be students too.
8. Measure what matters
9. Work with families, not just children
10. Power to the student
All of these can be done in a traditional 65m2 classroom.
One of the values of MLEs is the power of watching other people teach.
Opportunities to come together and teach with one or two or three other teachers is rare - we need to bust down these results and get wroking together and learning from each other.
The variance between schools is much much lower than the variance within schools.
A bit of a lottery as to whether a teacher is going to succeed well - even within the same school. All comes down to the teacher in the school.
Project-based learning is coming more and more common
Friday Passions - kids bring the things that they are passionate about and the teachers wrap learning around it.
The MakerCrate
Can get the makercrate to arrive at your school for a term to do cool stuff.
Who have you got in your community?
Modern Learning Practise:
Educational Philosophy - our vision for our kids and community
How do we convene learning so real, authentic learning happens?
Pedagogical Vision
Our vision for learning
Pedagogical Practise
Our work to achieve this vision
Physical Environment
Our spaces - desks in groups as opposed to in rows
Colours, paints, creative equipment
Experience
Learning
Learning Settings:
A particular space or environment supports or promotes a particular way of doing things.
buildings designed for keeping kids inside, and for one-to-many teaching
What learning settings are a must-have in a learning environment?
Time and place for one-to-many
Many-to-many ie whole class discussions
what activities do you want learners to be doing?
collaboration group soacek
one to man
quiet reflection
peer tutoring
active learnign
outdoor learning
messy play
conferencing
display
research
social space
resources and storage
performance / drama space
The importance of the walls communicating the values and expectations
Walls are teaching all the time - what are they teaching?
Learning settings are important.
What can I provide in my environment?
Julia Atkinson
Vision: Mutually agreed upon and owned by school community.
eg. Actively involved learners
Principles: Derived from values adn beliefs
eg Learning by doing
eg success for all learners
eg Student Voice
Practises: Living expression of your values and actions, and events.
eg solving community problems, messy play solutions
eg grouping by stage not age, holding regualr breakthrough assemblies, using eportfolios and blogs
TradeMe furniture
easy chair
partitions for desks - solo mode
standing table
providing access to outside space
ability to work on floor
Kids need an anchoring to the classroom - if it's not a desk, then what?
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