Lane+Clark+Keynote



What are some of the challenges our students will face in the future asking if our current education system will equip them to deal with these? media type="youtube" key="VRi8_fXz1D8?fs=1" height="344" width="425" align="center" Lane Clark challenged me to think about our Inquiry learning and teaching. On the most part, I found it very affirming but I also developed very clear next steps for myself as a teacher. More time is needed on the "So What" of inquiry. We now know this - how can we use this information to help ourselves or use it to help ourselves help others? Consideration, ideas and next steps that evolved from this Keynote are...  >  Things that make you go “hhmmm” – what does this like with kids? 
 * Create an ideas culture – generate and act on ideas
 * Kids need to explore, investigate
 * So What – if you have learnt this? Change today so you own tomorrow
 * __**Passion Project**__ – FO/SO = report writing… Can the chn Go Further and Take Action? = Summative assessment for the senior students? ie, can our children work through the inquiry cycle?
 * Relevance to learners is paramount – __**it is way bigger than interest**__ – PRESENT THE PASSION PROJECT AS WHOLE INQUIRY; brainstorm using Bloom’s tools what we might see at each stage of the inquiry – re-visit PURPOSE.
 * Questioning is reflective of synthesis
 * Wondering Wall – colour code questions progress over the weeks
 * Check points against success criteria sign posts and timelines.
 * Making a difference… Follow up with yellow fish!!!
 * Have we made a difference – make it an innovation. Celebrate innovations.
 * Learning Centres with task cards and multi literate
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Each centre has an organizer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Punt at the centres prior to teaching
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">If you are doing fiction – you are doing non fiction. The more research you do the more authentic your writing (link to Passion Project)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Author’s Circles – focus on deeper features so as to develop content
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Connectors are needed for the children – they need prompting towards the “So What” which should be happening at the FO/SO stage.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Zero outcome on effect shift if children are left to their own devices with So What stage. What do we need to know more about?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Immersed into the learning. Seperating Big Questions into little questions which become petite inquiries.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Planning tools need to be mapped out as in the bloom’s taxonomy – Put Inquiry cycle on lower wall with tools possible at wach stage
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Conferencing is needed – rigor must be used to ensure accuracy of information
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">target teaching and conferencing on-going
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Make a difference in their life or the lives of others at the TA stage
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Going Further – is often another inquiry
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Ensure that children can justify the method they use for the TA
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">They cannot know what communication method they will use at the beginning
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Chidren must identify and evaluate the tools
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Term 4 – have children evaluate Term 2 TA tools – did they achieve a purpose? Did they meet a target audience?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Team action plan, planning format – build in the success criteria… Evaluation tools to help them make decisions, make judgements. Criteria is just a tool
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 80%;">tell me what your learning job is this second?