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These are my notes from day two of ULearn. They are just notes and may not always make sense, but feel free to ask for more information.
These are my notes from day two of ULearn. They are just notes and may not always make sense, but feel free to ask for more information.
Keynote - Brad Waid @techbradwaid Bradwaid.com
Engaging the
"Globally" connected student of today
One thing I noticed was the amount of clips he used in here - all worth the watch!
Augmented Reality
found it in lots of things but not education. It engaged students.
If something
resonates with you-share it.
Think about the first time you did something.
Now there is a helpdesk for everything.
Scrolls to books video - had to laugh as it shows the Manual uses the same tool as
learning
The role of the teacher has changed-have we?
21 century teacher
has to connect with 21 century learner
Would they share what we are teaching on social media?
"I took a picture of the lesson and
tweeted it" 15 yr old boy - that's great.
Are we preparing them for their future or
our future?
He needed to understand what was going on
outside of education to know what to teach.
65% of students entering school today will be in
jobs that don't exist yet.
You never know what will change a student's
life
cargobot app " The device spoke his language" and got a previously selective mute student talking
If doesn't matter what the tool is. They will
always change - it's about relationships .That will never change
50% of the population are under 30
Twitter. There was a tweet on an earthquake that got to another area before they felt it. News - you can get information right now
We are a 'physical'
goods generation
League of
legends-world champs in Asia are huge
Mine craft VS League
of hr Minecraft 1.97 kids % League of legends 22.92% Huge impact on our kids.
Pokemon Go took the power of screen time.
First time it got kids up and moving
They put the stops on Monuments and parks and
libraries. This shows we can leverage the tech for great
outcomes
Autistic children engaged
Yontubers are huge @tobyturner @ Jenna_Marbles and more
How do we make a difference?
Relationships
The most important thing is how we treat
people
Understanding
Coke did a social experiment with India is
Pakistan to bring closer together Coca-Cola Small WorldMachines - Bringing India & Pakistan Together
Learning
We need to be learners ourselves:
Brought up with you
win or you lose, but really you fail, fail, fail, fail, then win
Commercial about learning to read. New Bell's South Africa TV
Ad -- The Reader
Environment/Expression
@kevinhoneycutt "Live out loud"
One thing that you have been doing for years
could be one thing that makes a huge difference for someone else
We all have a gift to give
1st. Teaching
2nd. Sharing messages
How do you share it
to benefit students.
What does the world need?
The purpose of life is to discover your gift
The meaning of life is to give it away.
Toys that teach computational thinking
Presenter: Tim Carr, Fay Cobbett
Find tools that we
can roll out and not have to have lots of knowledge
Challenge is to find
the toys that have longevity and good learning outcomes
The future of
employment graph - the black is how many now, the white is what is left once robots take our jobs - see the full report here
How do we avoid
having our job replaced?
What can we have
that's fun, kinesthetic and in the budget
Edison - lego
compatible and can also use Python as well as block code
Rapid Router - free
tool for coding
String across
assembly, used a robot across with a gopro underneath to video the students
e-textiles as well
If this then that
concept - Make block Neuron more for junior
school
Applying authentic contexts to creative digital learning
Presenter: Peter Graham and
Samuel Phillips
Facebook:
Capitaleforchildren
Media Lab and onTV
studio
Provide crash course
on game design etc
Same with TV - make
a TV show
Collaborative piece
Roxy5 short filmcomp - Wellington only at the moment
Winning film remake
with professionals
Real world
environment that industry uses and put into schools
Given a project, a
role and task. Recognise as a real world environment not a learning environment
Learning resources
for roles - teach themselves
Process is more
important than the environment
More about soft
skills of curriculum
Surprised which
students step up. Different from the classroom persona.
Collaboration,
creativity and working together to provide something people need.
- Development - have a reason for filming. Purpose and questions it wants to answer. What is the story?
- Production - start shooting. All working to the same point
- Post Production - editing Hit film4 express - free software You can't keep up with tech, can hand learning over to the students.
- Distribution and Review What would they do differently with the process as well
Game design
Still same phases as films
Trust the process.
It will be messy but give them the power
to create and lead the content
Fidget Spinners and gadgets for learning
Presenter: Callum Tytler
BYOC - Chromebook
22 boys and 9 girls
2016 Fads- was dab and
bottle flipping - built into class activities and fitness. Bottle flipping
drove maths for a week - graphing, stats, probability
What's ordinary for
some is ground breaking for others
Some schools banned
them - lots of headlines in the papers
They were a pain in
the class, up to the teacher to reinforce the school values - respect etc -
Good chance to reinforce these.
What is student
engagement?
What is student
success - how do you define that? Some is getting really good marks, some it's
leaving today wanting to go back tomorrow
If you tell them no
- what do they do, is it worth the fight?
Growth mindset vs
fixed
Look for an
opportunity to embrace anything that can be the hook into learning
Bought some for the
class for those not having them
Got opinions across
the class - girls thought they should be banned
Opportunity for
students to ask questions:
Why does it go
backwards?
How come the colours
change?
Why does it want to
stop you moving it?
Why do the heavier
ones spin longer?
Who's seen my fidget
spinner?
It makes a circle -
talked about rotation in maths
Angles of the 3 circles
Stare at it - can
notice it going backwards - one student found out about the human eye seeing
frames per sec. They know about frame rates because of games
Talked about colour
blending
Gyroscopic recession
- got a gyroscope
PE - race as far as
possible while the fidget spinner went
3D printer did a
BATman one
Make a poster with a
modern twist
Edpuzzle - put your
own questions over YouTube clips free to use
Stats and graphs
Tinkercad - can
design your own fidget spinner
3dprinting.co.nz -
can email them and they will print it
Vertigo technologies
- printing
Scratch - coding a
fidget spinner
What's the next fad and how will you be able to embrace it for learning?
Ultimate fidget
spinner for teachers - cork screw!
Teaching and learning with artificial intelligence
Raphael Nolden
raphael@jaipuna.com
@RaphaelNolden
@mytutoramy
Possibilities that
AI gives to teaching and learning
Imagine a world
where every student has a private tutor. If you had 30 of yourselves working
with 30 students
The Matrix -
download data to brains
Apublicmind.net -
photo of matrix kungfu
Old days - all lived
in castles and had private tutors - well some did. Best way to learn. A few
people to be educated
Industrial
revolution - needed huge number of factory worker and education needs changed.
Industrial education - or schools as we call them
Nothings changed
over 200 years even though we know everything else has completely changed
Chinese students
taking an exam outside to prevent them from cheating.
When was the last
time you told an employee to sit in a room without tech etc - this is how we
decide who should work for you. Why do we use exams to measure potential
success when it has no relevance to the world they will work in.
No point memorising
data. - so why do we have exams to assess people
Goldfish video*** - in
court if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree. Modern day schooling
on trial
Ourworldindata.org/literacy
Education is not
distributed equally. Some have private tutors, some don't have lunch
How can we
distribute education more equally - technology
1:1 teaching most
effective way for students to learn
What does a 1:1
tutor do?
Many jobs will
disappear - our job is a human one. AI will allow humans to be more human.
Allow us to have time to do what we want to do. If you only role is to transmit
info, you'll be out of a job
Paperwork - marking.
AI takes over the boring mundane tasks so teachers can do the human stuff
Clown fish and the
sea anemone. Need each other. Teacher and AI partner the same - can be better
AI can't work by
itself either. Need humans to inspire student and give relevance. Motivate them
and keep them on track.
Future of teaching
is symbiotic
Watson and
understanding diagnosing cancer
Medical - who would
go to one for diagnosis
Doctors may go in
present state.
Nurses we need - to
care for us
Prescription: Watson ***
AI Lawyer Ross been
hired ***
Googles AI smarter
than human doctors ***
Babel fish from
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy *** Google announced.
Will translate 40 languages in real time. Google pixel buds
We live in the day
of the age of sci fi
A lot of the world
doesn't know as it takes a while for mainstream to get hold of it. We have to
be aware of it so we can preare ourselves and students for that
Ray Kurzweil on how
we will become God
33rdsquare.com.2014/01/ray_k
Shows how much
computational power you can buy for $1000. 2023 - could buy a
computer that has the power of a human brain
Skype - were
building the technology for Skype before there was no tech to run it. Same now =
developing tech we can't run yet. Confident that in a year or two it will be
able to run
What do you wish AI
would do for you most - most annoying things
Admin
Assessment
Marking
Information
Solving tech
problems
Ability to
personalise curriculum
Pulling sources
together coherently
Summarising
information
Attendance and admin
Reporting to parents
AI could make things
affordable
Pros:
Automatic marking
and report writing
No more plagiarism
More time to inspire
students
Real time feedback
on student/class progress and understanding - give students data. Marking
immediately
Dynamic assignments
Factorise quadratics
- end of the day outcome to be able to factorise. AI teaches what they need to
know. No student would have the same assignment to get to the end outcome.
Had favourite
teacher - engaged because the teacher taught in the way we liked. Using AI we
can change the way the teaching happens to engage students.
The language we use.
Some like short sharp responses, some like strict, some like a friend. Formal
or casual. AI teacher more of a friend. Looking at making robots more
persuasive.
Amy - private tutor
for maths. Doing trials this year.
Limited form as it's
testing. Currently getting first version ready for 2018
For students: How
could it help students
Personalised
Assess when ready
Know where they are
at all times
Who is setting the
curriculum?
AI knowing where
they are at - be able to group them from there
Contextual subjects?
Right now we are
working in Maths
Right now we know
that technology is advancing so may be able to do more in a few years.
Progressing so
quickly.
Want AI to teach at
the level they are at as well as for the level/age of the student.
Best time to learn -
not when emotionally disengaged.
Ran a trial into FB
messenger - doesn't post on your wall. Hey let's do some math while waiting for
friends. Let's have education disrupt social media.
Amy tie into Google
safesearch.
Individualised
teaching style - adapt to student likes e.g horses
Individualised
dynamic assignments
Feedback as you
solve problems
Makes learning more
efficient
Learning for
understanding - not learning for passing. Explore for understanding - process
involved in understanding.
Demo.amy.ac
Looked at Amy demo
Each student will
get different questions to cover things they got wrong. Will all have
variations so can collaborate by asking how but can't copy because numbers are
different.
Sign in and go to
demo
Keynote by Abdul
Chohan
Unfortunately by
this stage I was struggling due to my concussion and I didn't make it to this
session. However, there is another blog I found which has some notes. Thanks to
