Stephen+Heppell+Keynote

I especially enjoyed this presentation about 21st century learning and teaching because it reinforced the presentation I shared in Oamaru at "It Takes a Whole Village to Teach a Child" during the first week of the holidays. __//**Expertise vs Experience - Experience is winning. Getting on and doing it really, really matters. **//__ Matt Locke (head of cross platform at Channel4 @matlock) Expertise not as important as experience - actually doing it rather than just talking/writing about doing it.- decade been already 10% of century. “Turn off devices, turn off the child” many not turning them off anymore. __//**Need to stop talking about 21st cent learning - We’re here!!**//__ Unexpected things are happening all the time (volcano, earthquake, oil spill, etc) never know what is around the corner ->how can we prepare our students for “tomorrow’s” world? __//**Are these counter intuitive - Super classes? remote learning?**//__ Parallel teaching (and learning) works when teachers act as a team. Each has a specific role (eg 1 leads, 1 differentiation, 1 remedial) Difficult for one to do on own, but as team can be much easier - is parallel -> learning much faster. 120 students in K class. Remote learning works when //__students__// work as a team. Leads to lots of P2P support - groups self support over distance - leads to collegiality. __//**What about Learning Online?**//__ Online communities were (87-02) built around ‘communities’ almost always project based. This is what real learning looks like today. So can we look at what learning looks like online now, to see what it will look like in real life in 2025? This is the learning age - happening through all channels of communication and media. Bound to change drastically over next years. //**[When was the last time you got an email from a 13 year old?]**// We put stabilizers on learning because we think that students can’t do things. Can we take the pedals of the learning bike first without the stabilizers? How? Technology giving ability to mash up data and make new meaning and discoveries. Can translate text on the fly. Even Facebook has translation in chat function. How long till can talk and is instantly translated at other end of phone line? Timeline in google earth - can view how cities have looked in the past - “Google never forgets!” Moving towards a world of “absolute knowledge” media type="youtube" key="vVZkHuomqfM?fs=1" height="340" width="560"  //__**Portland Academy 0-21ages**__// - completely different approach to teaching and learning. No matter what you give kids (pills etc), nothing as powerful as good parenting. We know that children can excel when we give them the opportuntiy to do so. Pilictians want to see a correlation between money spent and progress made, but road is easily blocked - ICT can be a powerful method to get around this wall. They are genuinely interested in the improvement of our education system and kids. UK minister acknowledges need to let go of restrictions and provide prossional freedom to teachers. Teachers need to take control of the system to provide the best possible system and framework for children to succeed (Not well-meaning politicians). “If teachers don’t lead the way forward, they will go backwards.” Ministers need to run in front of you clearing a path for you to make best “progress” Learning will become most valuable commodity in the future -> teachers will become more valuable and sort after. What is the hook for those who don’t see the value in learning? How do we get those who are not motivated in? 1 soldier in Afgn = 20 schools, Bankers bonuses $5.8b education for 1bn children = $6bn. Links: Stephen acknowledged as putting the C in ICT - Don’t talk about 21st C learning- 3rd millenium learning![| http://www.heppell.net/] Stephen on Teachers in 2016 [] Stephen’s Writing[| http://workshop.heppell.mobi/]

"Money alone won't make the Internet fly. Ultimately, its success lies with kids and other folk who don't follow dot-com stocks. That's where Stephen Heppell comes in. He's a digital do-gooder, helping to bring ordinary people into the Internet age " (Wall Street Journal 2000).

Reflections on schooling in today’s world[| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahbBfj_DjTM]

Need commonsense to make Technology work. Ingenium photo link-[] More info on Ingenium classrooms in Richmond, UK: []

Showing Mapumental- Ewan McIntosh demoed this at CORE Breakfast a couple of months ago- He was involved in creating this tool - []

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