Resources and Ideas from John Davitts #Freelearning Sessions in South Africa July 2011
SchoolsnetSA11 was a rather wonderful event with keynotes from me, Naomi Harm (USA) & Jane Hart (UK). They were wonderful and structured with lots of links and URLSs and I was slightly off the wall so it all fitted together rather well. The real gold was buried however in the attitude of all the teachers, workshops leaders and the organisers Janet, Gerald & Dezlin and all the others who came prepared to share, listen and learn together.
The event characterised by wonderful infrastructure thanks to Peter Henning at the wonderful host school St John's college (a man prepared to tickle switches on the fly to maximise connection so that all 500 delegates could try out the tools live) and Maggie Verster and team who managed the back channel with a light touch and deep perception and in so doing built a platform for some serious heavy duty sharing. I think those mentioned in this paragraph deserve more credit than us keynoters - they really laid the foundations for a rather special event. Well done all.
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Anyhow as promised some links to the ideas we mentioned during the keynote and the workshops
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John's Presentation notes and links
Freelearning Creativity Matrix
ICT in the classroom
We built a school
of our collective wisdom?
www.bit.ly/ididwell
We Share a small idea/skill that has a powerful result
It is ephemeral-will only last a few more days
See the group wisdom at www.bit.ly/schoolofthemoment
First iterations of new tech are usually feudal
How do you like your..
we looked at the sensory matrix
for content & activity random
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Free sound editor lets learners see their voices and music as a wave form that they can edit and multiple tracks can be recorded
You also need the lame driver a free file leame _enc.dll that lets Audacity export MP3 files
Summary of my last slides....
Build for the future..
no one device – organic?
ebb & flow fonts
Every school a TV station? Lid Zone
Embrace the “age of agility” twitteresque cpd
Walk many paths even the 10 cent curriculum
Celebrate your own learning curve ?
Open the bandwidth of talents
Think broad & innovate Skype tutorial / subject tweet
Prepare for Internet of things & tablets
So…Time for.. Gov translation
Making things
Telling stories
Freelearning
How can new tools help us amplify, extend and share? Faultline of formal>social
Tweak our vocab of expectation
Creativity & constraint leg et al
Otherwise history will say ‘’they had what tools..they did what with them?”
Get ready for outdoor learning
& the internet of things
Possible follow ups to John’s session
Formative feedback via voucher
Keep your own slant on new tools
Explore role of sound & film &*(audacity & commoncraft style approaches)
Elevate activity design to an art form
Explore active learning props like the Learning Event Generator Trial use of tools like Learning Score for group lesson design
Celebrate different talents
Touchatag for RFID
Silos of content
await the orchestra* of activity
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