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Supporting Schools with Community Engagement
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Feb 26 2009, 6:35 PM EST by
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Thread started: May 12 2008, 4:09 AM EDT
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What further support do you need to engage the community in developing a school curriculum?
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Web 2.0 projects
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Use of Technology
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Jul 3 2008, 7:51 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Jun 30 2008, 4:50 PM EDT
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Terry Freedman has an ebook out, Web 2.0 projects. This gives some great ideas for classroom teachers to use. I have attached a copy of this at the bottom of this page. He has put these into the different age levels with the web sites for you to have a look at.
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Jul 3 2008, 7:51 PM EDT
Hi Diane
I can't find the copy at the end of the page. Could you send it to me. Cheers
Clive
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How are schools engaging students in learning?
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Student engagement
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Jun 27 2008, 5:42 PM EDT by
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Thread started: May 18 2008, 12:17 AM EDT
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Some schools have created an online survey for students, across a cluster. They will use the results to decide on next steps for their individual schools and for the growth of learners across the cluster.
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RE: How are schools engaging students in learning?
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Jun 27 2008, 5:42 PM EDT
thinking more about engagement (particularly in a digital world) I thought the following slideshows from SlideShare might be useful:
Engaging young people online, Waddya Reckon? - http://www.slideshare.net/sablyth/engaging-young-people-online-whaddya-reckon?src=related_normal&rel=36264
Online engagement - http://www.slideshare.net/pbw/online-engagement?src=related_normal&rel=131249 (a nice diagram of the dimensions of engagement in the middle of this one)
Also some useful research on this from the UK in a document titled "Creating and Connecting - Research and Guidelines on social and educational networking" which contains some really useful evidence and guidelines to inform our practice in schools. It can be downloaded as a PDF from: http://www.nsba.org/SecondaryMenu/TLN/CreatingandConnecting.aspx
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Sustainable ICT use in learning centres
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Jun 27 2008, 12:40 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Jun 14 2008, 8:03 PM EDT
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In the current climate of sustainable use of just about everything, I thought it would be a good idea to discuss issues of sustainable ICT use in learning centres. How are we using ICT sustainably? What are the considerations for sustainable ICT use? Are there any other issues? For the purposes of this thread I consider learnng centres as anywhere outside the home that people go to learn. For example, early childhood centres right through to tertiary level. Are there things we can learn from each other?
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Parents/Caregivers/Whanau
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Jun 26 2008, 7:15 PM EDT by
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Thread started: May 25 2008, 10:35 PM EDT
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One really useful strategy that I have used many times to force community into engagement with the very challenging ideas that unpin the new curriculum is the use of significant experts to build capacity. At Island Bay we have invited (and paid for) Dr John Edwards, Dr Jane Gilbert, Mary Chamberlain, Kath Murdoch to present to our community. The impact of these folk has been enormous in that they build a constituency for change after a 1 or 2 hour presentation. Building this within a community can often take years as parents and teachers grapple with the nostalgia held for their own schooling experiences as opposed to the unknown as represented by the future. I know in talking to parents that there is much appreciation for the investment the school has made in acquiring significant educators and future thinkers to illuminate the shift between the 20th and 21st century paradigms.
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Jun 26 2008, 7:15 PM EDT
The main impact for community has been their participation in focus groups. These groups function as an engine to make sense of the school direction and participate in contributing to it. My goal has been to grow a real understanding of the processes that reflect the paradigm shift. A practical example of this has been the elimination of the formal term 4 school report and the implementation of student led conferences and portfolios. It has been great to note the ease with which this has happened not least because of the time built in focus groups unpacking the paradigm shift.
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While we were acquiring...
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Jun 16 2008, 2:58 PM EDT by
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Thread started: May 25 2008, 6:21 AM EDT
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The budget delivered us some money for ICT tools in our schools - the scary thing is that while we are all busy plotting and scheming as to how we can get adequate ICT equipment in front of our kids the nature of ICT is changing rapidly. It is no longer about making movies and searching the internet but about collaboration and connection in web environments that are radically changing the way we operate within the digital world. How do we keep up?
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Jun 16 2008, 2:58 PM EDT
"It actually wouldn't surprise me if some students were using web 2.0 tools already. I do think students can be a valuable resource...Clive" It would appear I have to sign in when using a hyperlink from an email, our you get listed as anonymous - Clive
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Dare to dream - ICT ideas for the future
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Jun 15 2008, 5:12 AM EDT by
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Thread started: Jun 14 2008, 9:05 PM EDT
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"Want, the mistress of invention."
(Susannah Centlivre)
I can tell you I want a laptop that has solar panels to charge it - it really would be a portable laptop then. I invite you to share your ideas for what you'd like to see as future ICT inventions
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Barriers to ICT use in schools, and how can we overcome them?
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Jun 14 2008, 7:30 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Jun 14 2008, 7:30 PM EDT
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There may be many barriers to ICT use in schools. For example, time to become familiar with ICT; lack of ICT resources or no collective school vision of ICT use to name a few. What are the barriers to ICT use in schools that you have encountered, and how were they overcome? Can you forsee any future barriers not yet encountered?
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Networks
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Collaborating across schools
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Jun 12 2008, 4:39 PM EDT by
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Thread started: May 26 2008, 5:34 AM EDT
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One EHSAS cluster has recently developed an online survey for teachers, students and parents. They used survey monkey to publish the survey. This is a free tool and because it is online, results can be quickly collated to get to the 'so what'. Teachers are looking at their own class survey results and developing goals from this. By collaborating across the cluster schools will be able to share strengths and develop some common strategies for improvement.
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Jun 12 2008, 4:39 PM EDT
Another cluster of four schools are conducting learning walks in each others' schools. The principals visit one school at a time. They spend the morning collecting data and feeding back information to the principal. It is focused on the 'home' principal reflecting on their own practice and what they can do to take next steps in their own learning. It is great role modelling and also an opportunity to share ideas. Why not try to learn and grow together rather than reinvent the wheel?
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