Mrs A's Blog

I often walk away from conferences exhausted.  My brain is full, ideas are slowly forming, and I usually have a long list of things I want to try or at least research a bit further.  I wonder if this is how kids feel at the end of the school day.  Exhausted, brain full and a long list of homework…

Today has been no different.  I attended the first day of the Future Schools Future Leaders Conference.  (If you want to read, my ramblings from the masterclass click HERE)

There were a number of ideas that I connected with…

• The learning Eco system and needing to remember it is extensive (school, home, work, uni, church, library, maker spaces, nature, museums, etc)
• Change the mindset students will lead a life of learning rather than be a lifelong learner
• Creating learning communities instead of just having cells and bells.
• Needing to build from the imagination instead of from the known
• Having permission to innovate
• The reminder that “Together we Grow”
• Personal Based assessment when the student is ready

The following extended my thinking…

• The 6 edges of innovations (youth, Co-teaching/co-learning, time/place, technology, curriculum/assessment and thinking)
• The idea of Place-Based Learning
• Implementing Ipsative (personally based) assessment in the curriculum
• Innovative Thinking Skills

Lastly, I am being challenged by the following – perhaps it just needs more research…

• Where do I learn best…  Not at work…  I learn best at 3am in the dark by myself and online
• Perhaps school is not the place to learn anymore and we need to be adaptive to this as educators
• The need to do a SAMR Analysis of our teaching staff
• Complete a Digital Distractions Census
• Minecraft possibilities
• Why can’t we have a Genius bar in the back of our classroom?
• Contact Codethefuture.org

Would love to hear your feedback.