Network+Meeting+Feb+09

Resources from the workshop session
ICT PD Raising Student Achievement - Powerpoint file

ICT Making a Difference Wiki http://ict-making-a-difference.wikispaces.com/

Template for targeting student achievement / MoE goals etc

What is Powerful Learning?
Ideas generated in the workshop session:
 * Shifting to new ground
 * Application and transfer to something new
 * Students personalising their learning
 * Engagement / Ownership
 * Wanting to learn
 * Thinking and problem solving
 * Relevant / authentic
 * Understanding yourself as a learner
 * Differentiated learning - personalised and individual
 * What kids want / need
 * Going into the unknown
 * High expectations
 * Learning is universal - home, school, recreation
 * Good questioning
 * Meaningful (contexts)
 * Be prepared to go deeper with our learning - predict, hypothesise, analyse, debate
 * Collaborative and refelctive
 * Competent with what they are learning
 * Empowering
 * Provokes thinking, questioning and further learning
 * Develops skills - transferable
 * Embedded
 * Self sustaining
 * Scaffolded - strategies that meet the needs and abilities of students
 * Stimulating
 * Shared learning
 * Deep learning - SOLO
 * Justify decisions made
 * Applied in a variety of situations
 * Big questions
 * Synthesise information
 * Just in time skills (or just as I go)
 * Metacognitive
 * Connected
 * Use of prior knowledge
 * Literate (oracy, written, reading) and numerate
 * Leads to embedded change - sustainable
 * Builds curiosity
 * Achieve success
 * Community involvement
 * WOW - the hook in - interest
 * Rigorous - students have to grapple and sometimes struggle but are guided to achieve and succeed
 * Reflective - self monitored and set goals