On Saturday March 17th The LRC and ICT Committee held the annual T4L or technology for learning morning.
After a lovely breakfast, courtesy of the school, staff were treated to a special keynote
session live from London, on 3 trends in education.
Next, everyone engaged in a speed geeking session. Teachers spent
4 minutes at a station in a circuit of 13 stations and moved on to the
next station each time the whistle was blown. During each stop they
learned about a different T4L tool. Some of the themes included less
traditional teaching and learning tools such as World of Warcraft,
Minecraft, Lego and incredibots, as well as newer tools including iPads
and digital flip books. There were plenty more amazing ideas shared at
this time. They are outlined in the copy of our program below.
Next, staff members participated in 2 digital playground
sessions in which they were able further explore the tools they
were most interested in.We chose two sessions as we had more topics
than presenters and this allowed us to swap over between the two.
These were all dynamic learning experience, but what made
these sessions even more exciting is that many of them were lead by our
ABC
students.We had a total of 17 students volunteer to run sessions, both
speed geeking and in the digital playground. We gave them some
guidelines, talked to them about what they could do and they took it
from there. They were fantastic! Many members of staff came up to me
after the fact to mention how impressed they were by what the students
were doing.
PLANNING
A Google Site was created to house content for the session in the form
of web pages, one per idea. The initail Google Docs planning was also
transferred over to the site. This included lists of students, activity
rotations and presenters, circulation maps and links to the program.
Google Forms were used to collect attendee lists as well as after
session feedback from teachers. This particular site is restricted to
staff members only, but you can get a taste of some of the sessions by
looking at a few of the pages which I cloned for my Inset Wiki.
Please check out our Flickr Set and Facebook Album for more
on this great event!
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