So, the final day. This first keynote has so many links to amazing sites and articles that it has taken me a long time to write it as I kept getting carried away looking through more and more information. I hope you click on those links and read them all as I know I learnt a lot and I am excited, and a little scared, about the future.
Keynote -
Disruptive Technology- Rich Rowley, Mindlab
Passionate about
educational change.
Struggled at school.
Adhd. Always anxious.
The reason he can do
it is because the purpose of what they do at mind lab is important to him.
NCEA is very
flexible, we just look at it wrong.
Change today is
exponential. Moore's law. Digital progress doubles every 12-24 months
Time taken to reach
100 million users:
Phone book 75yrs,
pokemon go 24hrs
Hololens world first
holographic computer.
20yrs for mobile
phone to improve. Hololens probably improve in only 4or 5
Pace of change
speeding up. Hard to predict what will happen.
Disruptive tech
The Innovators Dilemma by Christensen 1997 - book to read.
Digital camera did
Kodak out of business
Blockbuster videostore museum video clip, showing the "Authentic recreation of a video store"
Tongue in cheek but
show how quickly new tech comes in
Top 5 companies over 15 years - now all tech.
Things he likes :
Mixed reality
Magic leap company
start up. Improvements over hololens but not even out yet.
This tech will
transform the world. In 6yrs time you will laugh. No more laptops, interface
will be in glasses. It will know your
environment. Hyper-Reality video shows a possible future. You will walk round
and your every day life will be layered over with information.
Artificial
intelligence AI
He has set up a computer at
home that can write its own code to make music.
Google deep mind
challenge match 2016
Go is a really big
board, impossible for computer to win by brute force unlike chess. It beat
champion Go player. Even computer scientists thought it wouldn't be possible
for years. Specialist computer
for just playing Go.
Artificial General Intelligence: The next web
Quantum computing,
not just on or off, has maybes as well, so can be very fast.
If IBM get a 70
qubit computer working. Each calculation is performed in a separate universe.
Human genome project
took 7 years, quantum computer will take 7secs.
Global connectivity,
the Internet for all. Within 5 years you will access for free wherever you are.
If you are alive in
30yrs you will be alive in 1000yrs
Will robots take my
job?
Honest answer, yes.
It's not a problem,
it's an opportunity. Factory jobs will be taken, those workers need a more fulfilling
life anyway.
By 2020 net loss of
5 million jobs. The real challenge of the 4th industrial revolution.
Not just low ends
jobs. Already got AI lawyers. Super intelligent attorney - Ross
There will still be
lawyers, those with great people skills.
School system given
narrow academic focus where they really need social skills.
Knowledge vs skills
Kartik Gada article: The Comprehensive Disruption of Education - I like this quote:
"The superstar of the modern age is not the person with the best degree, but rather the person who acquires the most new skills with the greatest alacrity, and the person with the most adaptable skillset."
Why is change
difficult?
Need an adaptable
mindset.
Schools are not risk
friendly places
Top 10 skills
Collaboration vs
cooperation is hard. You have to
stop pretending to be good at everything. You have to make yourself vulnerable
to collaborate. It's challenging. It's liberating as well. Comes from that
point of vulnerability.
The people with
different brains are valued. Adhd kids, autistic kids think differently, they
are creative and it's now a super power. Need to celebrate and encourage them.
Futurist Gerd Leonhard on the future of jobs, work and education, the return of human only skills.
How do we stop
behaving like it's 1998?
Lecturers said
students aren't prepared for uni anyway.
Older generation
think it's really weird how it happens now.
Hard to say the bit
of paper doesn't mean anything.
No degree required
for so many jobs
NZ Talent.org - Hundred of companies
saying you don't need a degree.
Lots of poor people
in our communities who still believe in the bit of paper. Important people
understand there are other options.
Universities are
becoming more irrelevant.
Masters in
computing, everything out of date now
Students are
changing. They want to change the world. They are global. 72% want to start a
business one day.
Do we cater for them
or are we putting our perspective on what we think they need?
#transformingeducation
We don't want
40,000 at mindlab, we want them in schools.
Diversity goes
deeper than gender, culture, race. Many people think differently and have been
shafted by the system. Bipolar, dyslexic and couldn't succeed in school system.
If you get written off by the system you get exposed to other things sometimes
in a bad way but sometimes in a good way.
Every student should
want to get up and run to school to do amazing things that inspire them.
What can we do?
Don't want
creativity stifled by a system that tells her it's wrong and needs to change so
she can pass a test.
Technology means
people can change things themselves.
Government and
ministry inflexible.
We have the tools.
None of that stuff
is important
4 sentences
Agile organisations
value people and relationships over processes and tools.
Value diversity.
Learn how to genuinely collaborate. Schools at the moment are like a
competition. Needs to change. In schools, across schools a across communities.
Dweck, read it,
changed his life.
You cannot make
people do anything. You only have control over yourself. Be critically
reflective. What can you do better, try. Failing is life.
Ikigai chart. A
reason for being.
If you want to have
the mindset where you just look at the problems, that is your agency. Choose to
see opportunity in everything.
Questions...
Physical process of
writing good to have that to build neuro process
Writing torture,
when my hand starts, my brain stops, it is torture.
Should be up to
kids, if they want to write then they should, if they want to type they should
be able to, if they want to speak then they can.
What are the needs
of the individual and how do we cater for them?
Are computers
addictive? Need to learn self
management.
They are engaging,
that's why we need to build skills. Some parents use it as a baby sitter. Not
just parent job. It's a key competency.
What is the purpose
of education? Is it knowledge or fundamental skills? System needs to change
A child's mental
health is more important than the grades.
Numeracy, how much
maths do you need?
What if you want to
be an engineer?
If the kids want to
do it let them, if they don't then don't push them.
Let them come to
things when they are ready.
Change is not easy
Teaching teachers is
hard.
Digital fluency.
Information literacy. Those skills help them to filter what tech they use.
Skills are
important. When you don't have it, Brexit and Trump are what happens.
People need to be
aware that when you use systems like fb you need to be aware of how it works.
New digital
curriculum. If you don't know how to do things that is a super power, if
teachers know everything they give the answers to you. If they don't then
students have to work it out.
Mindlab course
changes your mindset. Awesome feedback.
Disobedient teaching - book to read. I also found this article by Dr Welby Ings who wrote it
book
Digital tech
curriculum for all areas, not just tech dept - Incorporate it into
all areas.
Mindset. I'm ok with
not knowing, try out, fail and is ok.
Education system has
a problem with failure.
Don't want teachers
to pretend they are amazing at everything. Model it as teachers
Best teachers we
ever had have passion
TAI Presentations - A few SCTs presented what their schools were doing around Teaching as Inquiry.
Silverstream Upper
Hutt - St Patricks
Each person has done
inquiry and SLT have linked all similar inquiry together
Learning walks
linked to inquiry
Goal setting part of
special character
Provide evidence for
PTC
Individual - 1
inquiry
Kamo High School -
Carol Stanley
5 Values of TATOU
TIA uses Dialogic
spiral
Readings in her TAI
from papers in mindlab
Swivel camera in
class to follow and can use as evidence
John Paul College
TAI using PTC as
well
East Otago HS
BOT use TAI info to
analyse and see where interventions are needed
Specific Reading and
Writing support person
Trident High
Whakatane
PD focus on
culturally responsive practice
Inquiry must fall
under that theme
Digital or paper
booklet
Prof learning groups
done through external provider around main focus
Backward mapping
template to link to Teacher Standards
2 inquiries
2 observations, one
linked to your inquiry
Linking PTC has had
impact on TAI completion
Use Rongohia te Hau to move into the space of culturally responsive pedagogy.
Went back
and did Masters as she had more questions than answers.
The
things we puzzle through in education, we are not alone.
He Kakano
came from Kotahitanga
Star path, funded by ASB, about academic mentoring and whanau engagement.
Large
institution in Whakatane and can credential up to PhD.
Not
specific to Māori, but for indigenous people
Rongohia
te Hau one way to reflect.
What's
one connection you can make from all of the things we have heard and how can
you take it back to your space?
Quite
often we get energised but what happens when we go back to our space.
Peel back
some of the layers. Why are we looking at cultural responsiveness and relational pedagogy (CR and RP)?
When we
are in a school it is very complex, lots of layers.
Why are
we currently focused on success as Māori? And why should it matter?
Eg Why
are we doing it when we don't have any Māori in our school?
Why Māori
when all students need support?
Need to
put these on the table. Emotional response. If we don't address them we can be pushed into doing nothing.
Fear and
anxiety of getting it wrong
Why??
Power is
in the conversations. All impacted by this.
Silence
can be inhibiters. Need to have the unconfortable conversations.
Same
exam, climb the tree picture
Treat
everyone the same
Equality
doesn't mean justice
3rd one
shows that there are institutional barriers we need to look at.
Think
about timetabling, think about practices of feeding back and engaging with
whanau.
Māori
learners likely experience 2011
For every
Māori 5yr old that started in 2011:
In some
spaces this has been challenged but not on a large scale, not just pockets
Kura
kaupapa Māori.
Now have
some students who have come right through from kohanga reo to PhD level.
Maori
potential approach in education.
Moving
from remedying deficit to realising potential
Targeting
deficit to tailoring education to the learner
Problems
of disfunction to identifying opportunity.
What does
it look like when the talk comes off the page and becomes the walk in cultural
responsive practice?
What are
the indicators that show where we have moved to?
All of us
are in the same waka, we need to be paddling the same direction.
When you see the anxiety if you say "I am going to call home tonight" and they cringe, says
something about what we are doing.
Standards
for the teaching profession. Clear desired move into CR and RP
ERO also
says equity and excellence.
Partnersin learning doc, learners graphic.
Kia ekepanuku doc. What CR and RP looks like to students.
Moving
from a way of doing to a way of being
How do we
engage this across everything we do, not just as a one day a week.
What is
the implication for all staff not just teachers and across all of the curriculum.
Not just curriculum but key competencies.
Students
playing cultural roulette from class to class when the bell goes.
Feel like
we need to outrun this, but need to find the connections. No one right place to
start. Start at whatever place, pedagogy, curriculum, where ever then move to
connect everything.
Snapshots
and selfies increasingly data driven.
One
positive thing that has contributed to improving outcomes for Māori in our kura.
Talked
with others on practice that is making an impact on Māori students and how do
you know? What is the evidence, not all qualitative but quantitative as well.
Effective
teaching practice
What it
looks like, sounds like, feels like and what does it act like?
Rangatahi
Māori act as the miner's canary. What's good for Māori is good for all.
Priority
students can be seen as the canary.
If they
are not living outside their comfort zone. We only plan within our place of
knowing while students live outside it.
We know
with frightening regularity at 5yrs old which are likely to succeed and fail.
What interventions are we putting in? What value are we adding?
Data is a
tool not a weapon
How do we
use the evidence? Evidence of reporting can be negative to whanau. Need to be
clear about the nature of the evidence and its purpose. How is it going to
contribute to our conversations?
What gets
measured gets done
Foundations
for data use
Quality,
Capacity,
who has the capacity to engage in the conversations? One or two gurus or
everyone?
Culture
Dataanalysis for continuous school improvement book by Bernhardt V. L. 2004
Slide Share on Data for schools. See Slide 27 - Demographic, perceptions, student learning, school processes
Overlap
of data sets allow us to ask other questions like what do ESOL students
believe...
Eg...
What do yr 9 students feel about English?
Can ask
about whanau or teachers too.
Need to
go back to the evidence that made us change the thing in the first place.
Lots of
our thinking is around process and structure.
Change
based on evidence and needs to be connected to the need.
How
normalised is evidence in your every day conversations?
The power
of the observation is about having a conversation, not about feedback.
Tools are
there to facilitate learning. They are open to critique of tools.
What
would the ultimate pd look like for CR and RP? They wanted opportunities to
grow relationships with each other, evidence based strategies from their own schools, sustainability, needed to
reflect and review, alignment with values and beliefs and strategies.
Thinking
about evidence, how do we use data to be serious about what would work for us.
As
important for us to engage with each other as it is for our Māori students
Overall, the conference was amazing. It made me think, confirmed some of my thinking already and gave me some tools and questions to go on with. I met amazing people, the speakers were all excellent and it was a very enjoyable few days. We have set up an SCT cluster in our region from this conference and I am looking forward to learning more as the year goes on.
I love learning.
