hillpark library's List: Mobile Devices

• Teachers need to drive children through challenging assessment tools in collaboration with tech to increase and inspire attainment.

• Many schools have created virtual spaces to support face-to-face learning, enabling transitions from the real world to virtual spaces and back again, seamlessly in diverse contexts.

  • -use this as introduction to main topic
• the importance of physical space as the cohesive component that facilitates global change.
• Redesign spaces around collaborative teaching,
   - Retrain teachers to work collaboratively and
   - Empower and resource teachers to be the agents of change in any context
• The challenge for schools is to identify the different spaces it inhabits – virtual, pedagogic and real, and to draw these together in meaningful ways so that learning can focus forward, enabled through technology.
• At the heart of our transformation has been the shift to collaborative learning. This has necessitated a lot of unlearning by the teachers, in order to build their new skills as collaborative designers of curriculum delivery

• The greatest challenge to change in learning is our reticence to simply take action:

   

  - change the space
   - change the program
   - expect high outcomes.

   

  The formula – do, then think!

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