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Aaron Davis

Safer Schools with Creative Commons |  IPAD 4 SCHOOLS - 0 views

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creativecommons Digital Footprint digital citizenship Teaching with technology Literacy

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  • Who owns the material and it’s components when it’s published?
  • How can schools not only inform but encourage the school community to start using licensing and working safely to avoid being prosecuted?
  • Understanding what is and isn;t ok is a crucial skill for all to learn and I hope this information helps schools get more confident with publishing material online.
Aaron Davis

The perils of “Growth Mindset” education: Why we’re trying to fix our... - 0 views

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growth mindset alfie kohn carol dweck dweck alfiekohn education mindset

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  • By now, the growth mindset has approached the status of a cultural meme.
  • Regardless of their track record, kids tend to do better in the future if they believe that how well they did in the past was primarily a result of effort.But “how well they did” at what?
  • even some people who are educators would rather convince students they need to adopt a more positive attitude than address the quality of the curriculum (what the students are being taught) or the pedagogy (how they’re being taught it).
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  • An awful lot of schooling still consists of making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory. And the kids themselves are seldom consulted about what they’re doing, even though genuine excitement about (and proficiency at) learning rises when they’re brought into the process, invited to search for answers to their own questions and to engage in extended projects.
  • the most salient feature of a positive judgment is not that it’s positive but that it’s a judgment; i
  • the first problem with this seductively simple script change is that praising children for their effort carries problems of its own, as several studies have confirmed: It can communicate that they’re really not very capable and therefore unlikely to succeed at future tasks. (“If you’re complimenting me just for trying hard, I must really be a loser.”)
  • what’s really problematic is praise itself. It’s a verbal reward, an extrinsic inducement, and, like other rewards, is often construed by the recipient as manipulation.
  • books, articles, TED talks, and teacher-training sessions devoted to the wonders of adopting a growth mindset rarely bother to ask whether the curriculum is meaningful, whether the pedagogy is thoughtful, or whether the assessment of students’ learning is authentic (as opposed to defining success merely as higher scores on dreadful standardized tests).
  • the series of Dweck’s studies on which she still relies to support the idea of praising effort, which she conducted with Claudia Mueller in the 1990s, included no condition in which students received nonevaluative feedback. Other researchers have found that just such a response — information about how they’ve done without a judgment attached — is preferable to any sort of praise.
  • We need to attend to deeper differences: between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and between “doing to” and “working with” strategies.
  • Dweck’s work nestles comfortably in a long self-help tradition, the American can-do, just-adopt-a-positive-attitude spirit.(“I think I can, I think I can…”) The message of that tradition has always been to adjust yourself to conditions as you find them because those conditions are immutable; all you can do is decide on the spirit in which to approach them. Ironically, the more we occupy ourselves with getting kids to attribute outcomes to their own effort, the more we communicate that the conditions they face are, well, fixed.
  • It isn’t entirely coincidental that someone who is basically telling us that attitudes matter more than structures, or that persistence is a good in itself, has also bought into a conservative social critique. But why have so many educators who don’t share that sensibility endorsed a focus on mindset (or grit) whose premises and implications they’d likely find troubling on reflection?
  • the real alternative to that isn’t a different attitude about oneself; it’s a willingness to go beyond individual attitudes, to realize that no mindset is a magic elixir that can dissolve the toxicity of structural arrangements. Until those arrangements have been changed, mindset will get you only so far. And too much focus on mindset discourages us from making such changes.
  • Aaron Davis on 11 Feb 16
     
    "An awful lot of schooling still consists of making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory. And the kids themselves are seldom consulted about what they're doing, even though genuine excitement about (and proficiency at) learning rises when they're brought into the process, invited to search for answers to their own questions and to engage in extended projects. Outstanding classrooms and schools - with a rich documentary record of their successes - show that the quality of education itself can be improved. But books, articles, TED talks, and teacher-training sessions devoted to the wonders of adopting a growth mindset rarely bother to ask whether the curriculum is meaningful, whether the pedagogy is thoughtful, or whether the assessment of students' learning is authentic (as opposed to defining success merely as higher scores on dreadful standardized tests). "
Aaron Davis

Sticking to the 'Main Thing'-A positive leadership reflection | Educational Leadership ... - 0 views

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Leadership effective schools learning

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  • One of the first leadership decisions I made was to work with staff to audit our schools meta-curriculum. That is all of those programs, events, celebrations, operational arrangements and practices which are not core to the teaching and learning that happens inside classrooms.
  • My mantra was to “give teachers permission to spend their time improving the learning of the students in their class with minimal disruption”.
  • Students are spending less time out of classrooms and more time focused on their own learning.
  • Aaron Davis on 11 Jun 14
     
    A great post from Jason Borton discussing how he worked with his leadership team to refocus his school on learning.
Aaron Davis

Rich schools become even richer | The Education Reformer - 0 views

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  • Contrast Scotch with Brookside College, a public P-9 school in Caroline Springs west of Melbourne. According to the MySchool web page, Brookside has an enrolment of 940 – half the number at Scotch but, unlike that elite school, it draws its students from a wide range of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds with more than half from non-English speaking homes where 88% are in the lower and middle socioeconomic quartiles. Brookside has 68 teachers and 24 non-teaching staff while Scotch has 191 teachers and 106 assistants. Last year, Brookside had a net-recurrent income of $9 million  – equivalent to nearly $10,000 per student and a total capital expenditure of $137,000. In contrast, Scotch’s recurrent income was $45.5 million – equal to $24,400 per student – and its capital spending came to nearly $4 million.
  • Aaron Davis on 29 Dec 14
     
    Interesting analysis of education setup in Victoria from Geoff Maslen, including a comparison between Scotch College and Brookside P-9 College
Brett Sinnett

School Sport Victoria - 0 views

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PE F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Interschool Sport

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  • Brett Sinnett on 26 Nov 13
     
    School Sports of Victoria Website. This has information about school sport. Rules, schedules, etc
Aaron Davis

How do you know if effective teaching is occurring in your school? | Educational Leader... - 0 views

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leadership Effective Teaching Walkthroughs

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  • Apart from just observation, which is very important, what rigorous processes can we implement to reflect upon and use to answer this question?
  • The analysis of the information collected is not intended to give individual feedback to teachers but to provide whole school information about strengths and weaknesses in the implementation of formative assessment strategies.
  • A high level of trust among staff is important to ensure the authenticity and success of the Walkthrough process. It is seen as a supportive way to ensure that we hold each other accountable for achieving our scoreboard.
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  • Raising the performance of our entire teaching team is the focus as well as each teacher taking individual responsibility for improving their implementation of quality teaching practices.
Aaron Davis

THINKING TOOLS - 0 views

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thinking tools reflection planning curriculum

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  • Aaron Davis on 19 Feb 14
     
    Using thinking tools is one way to "make thinking visible" and help our students explain their thoughts in a simple and explicit way. As the team from Project Zero themselves say "Visible Thinking includes a large number of classroom routines, easily and flexibly integrated with content learning, and representing areas of thinking such as understanding, truth and evidence, fairness and moral reasoning, creativity, self-management, and decision making. It also provides tools for integrating the arts with subject-matter content. Finally, it includes a practical framework for how to create "cultures of thinking" in individual classrooms and within an entire school."
Aaron Davis

Opening Learning to Parents | Digital Learning News - 0 views

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Community Engagement Online parents technology

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  • Aaron Davis on 12 Mar 14
     
    Interesting post on some of the ways in which technology can be used to further engage with the wider community, especially those who are often unable to make it to events etc ... such as videoing information evenings and school assemblies.
Nicholle Russell

Studyladder, online english literacy & mathematics. Kids activity games, worksheets and... - 0 views

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Literacy Numeracy F 1 2 3 4 5 6 resources

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  • Andrea Miles on 12 Sep 13
     
    Graded according to year level. Mainly for Literacy and Numeracy but all subjects covered. Tutorials, videos, interactive activities, assessments, worksheets.
  • Nicholle Russell on 26 Nov 13
     
    Used by over 70,000 teachers & 1 million students at home and school. Studyladder is an online english literacy & mathematics learning tool. Kids activity games, worksheets and lesson plans for Primary and Junior High School students in Australia.
Suzi Stojkov

Britannica School - 0 views

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Geography Humanities History Science 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Civics English

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  • Suzi Stojkov on 26 Nov 13
     
    Username - brooksidevic Password - carolinesp An on line encyclopaedia.
Monika Hackworthy

Dyslexia and reading diffulties - 0 views

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Dyslexia readingdifficulties

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  • Monika Hackworthy on 02 Dec 13
     
    I have recently completed PD on this topic. This dept website is a great starting point for teachers that are not sure what dyslexia is, and it provides various assessments in addition to what is completed at school. Also provides teaching strategies.
Aaron Davis

Code Club Australia | Contact Us - 0 views

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code coding resources

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  • Aaron Davis on 21 Apr 14
     
    An interesting initiative in regards to coding in schools
Aaron Davis

Class Size Does Make a Difference - David Zyngier - 0 views

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research 'Class Size'

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  • Aaron Davis on 11 Jun 14
     
    Findings suggest that smaller class sizes in the first four years of school can have an important and lasting impact on student achievement.
Aaron Davis

Digital Citizenship Wiki (Alec Couros) - 0 views

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digitalcitizenship cybersafety citizenship resources digital

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  • Aaron Davis on 24 Dec 13
     
    This is a collection of resources that can be used by educators or students regarding the issue of digital citizenship. Note: the questions used here are targeted primarily at high school students, but many of these questions apply to anyone new to the topic
Aaron Davis

From Terra Australis to Australia | Education Kit - 0 views

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Manuscripts history Research Australian History Resources humanities First Fleet

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  • Aaron Davis on 12 Feb 15
     
    "Education Kit The State Library of New South Wales and the Centre for Learning Innovation have collaborated to develop interactive learning activities for primary and secondary school students. Teachers and students can investigate further the original letters, diaries and artworks by members of the First Fleet that are held in the State Library's collections. Topics include: Bennelong Indigenous Contact Port Jackson Sydney Cove and the First Fleet Australia Day The Kangaroo  Rose Hill"
Aaron Davis

Making Student Blogs More than Digital Diaries - Getting Smart by Dave Guymon - bloggin... - 0 views

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cybersafety blogging digital footprint

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  • Put simply, a digital footprint is what your students would see if they Googled themselves. And whether or not they know it, each of them has a footprint online. A digital footprint is made up of both passive information about Internet use and actively volunteered content.
  • Establishing a positive digital footprint involves more than educating our students about what they should choose to keep offline. We should also be teaching them what to publish to improve their digital image.
  • effective uses of student blogs engage others in meaningful conversations.
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  • quality classroom blogging should transcend the classroom altogether, bridging the gap between school, home, and the world our students live in.
  • Aaron Davis on 28 Feb 14
     
    An interesting post on digital footprint and blogging.
Andrea Miles

Visual prompts/timetable freebies - 2 views

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1 2 Literacy 5 3 6 4

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  • Andrea Miles on 12 Sep 13
     
    Visual images to use in classroom. Especially useful for ESL or SEN students and as behaviour management tool.
John O'Brien

Dynamic Periodic Table - 0 views

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Science Middle School Chemistry

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  • John O'Brien on 26 Nov 13
     
    Interactive Web 2.0 periodic table with dynamic layouts showing names, electrons, oxidation, trend visualization, orbitals, isotopes, search. Full descriptions.
  • John O'Brien on 26 Nov 13
     
    Interactive Web 2.0 periodic table with dynamic layouts showing names, electrons, oxidation, trend visualization, orbitals, isotopes, search. Full descriptions.
Jen Brusey

ARTSEDGE: Lessons - 0 views

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'Visual Arts' 5 6 7 8 9

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  • Jen Brusey on 26 Nov 13
     
    Arts-centered, standards-based resources for in and out of school
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