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