Notes+7th+May+2010

=**__Goals__**=
 * What do we adapt to cater for the new curriculum. Empowering ourselves (Principals/Management included)
 * Knowing how to do things and how this affects student learning.
 * iTeam - feeding ideas to eachother.
 * Strategic planning and leadership.
 * Sharing with local community - newsletters, KNet etc. Home and school communication.

=Sharing of positives:= (Also see sharing from Tessa for more notes, challenges etc).
 * Ministry component - they expect new things fltered through the school; national standards, Maori learning, data collection/analyses.
 * Release is important for a Lead Teacher. Sandpit time - playing with tools, upskilling, looking at weblinks and ideas that have been shared.
 * Tony Ryan - connectivism; our network is part of our net worth.
 * Stacey - Learning at School knowledge put into action in class, basic ideas that are practical for the classroom. Sharing with others through workshop.
 * Gareth - Inquiry; building senior management and syndicate leaders in reshaping their vision. TIS major focusses are important in school but need to make sure teachers at TIS see ICT as part of their teaching not as an add-on.
 * Kylie - Inquiry; learning at schools feed back ideas from Tony Ryan workshop. Are looking at how we are going to assess Inquiry. Making it easy for staff. Incorporating others ideas into school model eg: Lane Clark, Tony Ryan.
 * Warren: Trialling digital portfolios so to see where GPS is heading with them. After Lane Clark put computers at the end of each station to utilise them. Would the infrastructure improvement improve students learning; no wires, ports - YES!
 * Sarah: Mimio; observing others and using new ideas. Got alot from the Learning@Schools conf. Is finding Mimio more user friendly; allowing the children to idependently use during reading etc. Has a class photographer taking photos of class in action each day.
 * Emma: Not seeing ICT as an add-on, something that is infued authentically. Skills sessions are taken during suite time. Was setting scenario and planning, has now changed it for the learners to do this. Has made the children really keen, even wanting to come and in do work during lunchtime!
 * Jo: Mimio at school still recently new; put deadlines on KNet page put pressure on teachers (challenge). After Learning@Schools Sarah and Jo did a presentation to the staff teaching one basic thing for the teachers to try.
 * Tools needs to be used effectively; what evidence do you have to show the children learnt anything. Why are they doing that, what difference will is make?
 * Mary: Empowering students to learn for themselves. Guiding students into their learning, creating critical thinkers. Higher-order cyber questionning techniques in a students led Inquiry. Using poetry as a base and using digital resources to help students understand the depth of knowledge the poem holds.
 * Barriers to work around - budgets, ICT help in schools (changing lightbulbs in projectors).

Ideas from our discussions before morning tea:
 * Index strands from the front page and relate them back to team and school goals. Our wiki - so put little comments to where to from here and how this can be used. Challenge - everyone to contribute one thing to one of those strands over the next two weeks. if you have your own name and password you can access other wiki spaces.
 * Coaching - strategies for adult learners. Ways to get people thinking deeper.
 * Inquiry process and assessment - galileo website for rubic ideas to help develop our assessment, techonologies used.