Post on 21-Jul-2015
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To stimulate and contribute to a critical discussion about using technology, in particular, a 1:1 program, at international schools
To share teaching tips about teaching ToK or any concept-based course in a 1:1 program
About you:
School and state of 1:1 program? Role within the school? Subjects or areas of interest? Do you teach ToK?
With research, there are many free and open source solutions
Software licenses cause problems in schools
1) To give a broad overview of teaching in a 1:1 environment: my observations, experiences, suggestions, strategies, etc. – what works and what doesn't work.
2) To give a specific report on how this technology forced us to change the way we teach ToK, and to explain how we changed the way we teach and report on the results, the good and the bad.
1) Amplifier -- this is what technology does• Good students get better; weak students distracted
2) Teacher as important as ever
3) Training: teachers and students need IT training
• Training needs to be differentiated
• EVERYBODY has something to learn!
4) Good teaching is still good teaching
Students
Teachers
Family
Peers
School (including Principal)
Credit: John Hattie, Univ. of Melbournehttps://www.det.nsw.edu.au/proflearn/docs/pdf/qt_hattie.pdf
Lecturing is not effective school teaching
Good teachers Classroom management FEEDBACK Differentiation: knowing students
Goals, metacognitive teaching, learning objectives, etc.
Beginning each lesson: WALT Ending each lesson: plenary
Teachers must be engaged listeners Gandhi days
Why? ToK is a “dry” subject; tends to be teacher -
centered The central problem of ToK No “real” assessment until Year 13
How? Threw out old content-based units (AoKs) and
went to concept-based themes in 2010 Note: Areas of Knowledge in ToK: Mathematics, Natural
Sciences, Human Sciences, History, Arts, Ethics
Presentation: 20 points 10 minutes per student
Essay: 40 points 1200 – 1600 words
Two fundamental skills
What’s the Right Thing to Do?
Dissent and Knowledge Communities
Talking About Art
Mathematics and Beauty
Introduction: Goals, Learning Objectives, Tasks
Discussion, Mini – Lecture, or Activity
Groups, random or self-selected
Guided tasks or group work, towards presentation
Divide into two groups: “Inside” and “Outside”, facing each other and randomly assigned
In 2 – 3 minutes, Inside person tell Outside person: what I have learned at ASB Unplugged
Every outside person: shift one place to the left
In 2 – 3 minutes, Outside person tell Inside person: what he or she (the person you listened to) has learned at ASB Unplugged
Now, add a blog post
Task Tablets?
Today’ goals: Form and argue an opinion about the value of art
5 minutes (no tablets)
What makes a painting worth $10,000,000? What is the value of Art?
10 minutes (no tablets)
Task: in groups of 3, presentations about a Quotation in the arts
20 minutes (tablets)
Presentation & Discussion 10 minutes (tablets)
Blog Posts with Comments
15 minutes (tablets)
Discussion: What did we learn today? 10 minutes (no tablets)
Yue Minjun
What makes this painting worth $10,000,000?
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. (Henry Miller)
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. (Pablo Picasso)
Art is science made clear. (Jean Cocteau)
All art is quite useless. (Oscar Wilde)
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. (Victor Hugo)
…we will always learn more about human life and human personality from novels than from scientific psychology. (Noam Chomsky)
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.. (George Santayana)
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. (Frank Zappa)
Groups of 3, random
Each group selects one quotation
15 minutes to prepare
3 slides, 3 minutes: give three opinions:What does the Quotation mean?
Today’s goals:
Finish activity re: Oppositions
Get Photos
Understand what the course is about: AoKs, WoKs, Knowledge Issues
Short blog entries – improve knowledge claims
Intorduce new Theme: What is the Right Thing to do?
ToK and Philosophy: Michael Sandel – the personal risks
Discussion Questions:
In a moral dilemma, what basis do we use to make a decision?
Is it important to live a moral life?
Skill Tool
Blogs Wordpress
Videos including cameras and mics
Screencasts Screenr and Storyboards
Presentations PPTs, Prezis, Spicynodes, GoogleDocs, etc
From Wikipedia:
Literacy encompasses a complex set of abilities to understand and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture for personal and community development.
What makes an “EduTech 2.0”?
Which 2 or 3 or 4 core literacies (Howard Rheingold)
are profoundly changing how students learn, and how we teach?
Blogging“the democratization of writing”
Wordpress
Videos“the greatest force of the 20th Century”
YouTube
Collaboration“is INDIVIDUAL even a word anymore?”
GoogleDocs
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Justice with Michael Sandel
Larry Ferlazzo
Mr Hoye’s ToK Website
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Justice with Michael Sandel
Larry Ferlazzo
Mr Hoye’s ToK Website