SIr Ken Robinson Keynote Address
The place where talent meets passion is very important
Isn't what I do who I am?
Tweeted asking people to name a job they would hate. Importance of finding things that will fulfill your spirit. When in close harmony with others things roll smoothly.
Talent often buried and needs to be discovered. Paul McCartney didn't like music at school. HIs music teacher thought he had no talent. Same for George Harrison. Teacher had half the Beatles in his sight and he missed it!!!!!
Human talent is like the world’s resources. Able to be depleted
Two critical matters facing us.
1.Headwind of a cultural ideology that minimises human talent in a very narrow way.
2. Need to change the culture of education. A global strategic issue - we invest millions of dollars and its fundamental to the success of future economies. Often there is no reference to the children involved. All dealt with at a strategy level.
GERM - Global Education Reform Movement !
Based on standardisation of education. Has done nothing to improve systems
Relationship of data to Learning is critical
About 20% of USA kids don't enter 12th grade after completing 9th grade
System is failing now.
Many people don't find work long term. Graph of Youth unemployment in Europe tragic. Over 50% in Italy, Greece and other European countries
Tragic loss in terms of human capability.
Ed Systems industrialised in ways that are antipathetic to human behaviour - intellectual conformity - narrow idea of academic ability - people who don't fit the mould considered not to be very bright.
SIr Ken got polio. Was put into special ed with kids from 5 to 11.
Physical disability often treated as if there is some intellectual impairment as well.
Conformity encourages such ways of thinking.
Every human life is different
“To be born at all is a miracle so what are you going to do with your life?” Asked The Dalai Lama
We overlook the wonderful resources and talents in our students
The process of learning is the process of arousing curiosity and asking the questions to guide the learner, not to fill them with content
Human life is not linear, it's organic.
Our greatest creativity is in the life we compose for ourselves.
We must give our children access to the talents that lie inside them.
“Creative Schools: The grassroots revolution that's transforming education” Sir Ken's latest book.
From an industrial model to an organic model of education.
Industrial agriculture - has laid waste to soils and waterways - mass extinction of the creatures that share the planet with us.
Organic farming based on mixed farming. Not focussed on the planet but focussed on the soil. If you destroy the soil you don't get the right result.
Understand the culture of learning, An act of creation, a human process.
On the verge of a fantastic revolution in education
From the ground up revolution not the top down.
Saturday, 23 July 2016
Tuesday, 19 July 2016
Redefining the Student Experience: Personalisation and Content Optimisation
Presented by Sheryl Ching and Chris Lawrence
The "parser process" wows!
Phase 2 interactive online tools - so impressive!
Listening to students and teachers as we move forward, but move forward we must - it's what our students deserve to hold their place in today's world.
Te Kura = Learn Your Way
The "parser process" wows!
Phase 2 interactive online tools - so impressive!
Listening to students and teachers as we move forward, but move forward we must - it's what our students deserve to hold their place in today's world.
Great questions - good work you two!
Te Kura = Learn Your Way
ePortfolio - Beyond Artifacts
Presented by Krista R. Mallory - Dalhousie University
Attended by Anne
In final stages of implementing Brightspace; started last September
All expected to be working within the environment at start of Fall semester this year
Works in Centre for Learning and Teaching - instruct instructors - associated challenges
Te Kura takeouts
Similar approach taken to rolling out ePortfolio - teachers first
Strategically building belief in power and purpose of reflection on learning
Putting video at the centre of the learning experience - Capture
D2L presenters Matt Lucid, Technical Product Manager
Attendees:- Sheryl & Marg
Capture is a webcasting, media repository and video recording tool. Capture is fully searchable and can be accessed on any computer or mobile device.
Question posed at start of presentation was how to turn video into knowledge?
Key points of the product:-
Record and broadcast live or on demand with rich media
View from lectures on mobile or desktop via HTML5 responsive design
Support for HD and SD video for on-demand streaming
Users can control if its in HD or SD depending on the quality of internet connection.
With live webinars product streams according to quality of internet connection. Multi-bit streaming to keep event flowing.
Closed captioning available
Can upload content outside of capture and upload to the capture media repository.
Cross library and in-video search (useful if students want to search to just watch a piece of the video). Shows ** where the item that was searched for is found so students can go straight to the topic.
Can slow down or speed up the video.
Switch between screen share and speaker if both are being used in the video.
Automatic closed captioning via built in OCR.
Searches on tags
Mobile-first Brightspace Daylight user experience
Built in post production editing
Tight integration with Brightspace learning environment
Microsoft Outlook Integration
Real time polling with live events, allows for real time chats.
508 compliant for accessibility
With integration has widget on course
Course video is available as a course widget for students
Three components - you dont have to purchase the hardware.
Not so useful for Te Kura as its more relevant for lecture halls.
Capture Station (hardware)
Media Repository
Capture Encoder - recording software
Videonote and audionote now based on HTML5.
Attendees:- Sheryl & Marg
Capture is a webcasting, media repository and video recording tool. Capture is fully searchable and can be accessed on any computer or mobile device.
Question posed at start of presentation was how to turn video into knowledge?
Key points of the product:-
Record and broadcast live or on demand with rich media
View from lectures on mobile or desktop via HTML5 responsive design
Support for HD and SD video for on-demand streaming
Users can control if its in HD or SD depending on the quality of internet connection.
With live webinars product streams according to quality of internet connection. Multi-bit streaming to keep event flowing.
Closed captioning available
Can upload content outside of capture and upload to the capture media repository.
Cross library and in-video search (useful if students want to search to just watch a piece of the video). Shows ** where the item that was searched for is found so students can go straight to the topic.
Can slow down or speed up the video.
Switch between screen share and speaker if both are being used in the video.
Automatic closed captioning via built in OCR.
Searches on tags
Mobile-first Brightspace Daylight user experience
Built in post production editing
Tight integration with Brightspace learning environment
Microsoft Outlook Integration
Real time polling with live events, allows for real time chats.
508 compliant for accessibility
With integration has widget on course
Course video is available as a course widget for students
Three components - you dont have to purchase the hardware.
Not so useful for Te Kura as its more relevant for lecture halls.
Capture Station (hardware)
Media Repository
Capture Encoder - recording software
Videonote and audionote now based on HTML5.
Authentic Assessment in Brightspace - YouSeeU & D2L
Presented by Dr Marsha Bayless, Stephen F Austin State University and Dr Jeff Lewis, Chief Learning Officer, YouSeeU
Attended by Anne
Great session - ongoing flurry of questions from audience
Focused on Virtual Classroom and Authentic Assessment capabilities
Attended by Anne
Great session - ongoing flurry of questions from audience
Focused on Virtual Classroom and Authentic Assessment capabilities
YouSeeU - Virtual Classroom
- Seamless integration in Brightspace
- Session duration up to 90 minutes
- Up to 100 session participants
- Recordings available for four months
- Up to 250 sessions per week (for institution)
- Up to 7 webcams can run at one time - instructor plus 6 others; experience has shown that more is distracting
Recording can be downloaded at instructor level in mp4 format
Premium
- Unlimited meetings per week
- Up to 150 session participants
- Recordings available for one year
- Additional phone bridge availability
Screen configurable to however you want it
Fall/September release:
- Participants can be grouped in breakout rooms for group work
- Mobile friendly
- Polling capability
- Captioning capability
- Flash and Java removed for desktop sharing to eliminate plugin problems
Te Kura takeouts
- How to equitably allocate the standard 250 sessions across the organisation
- Great potential across all levels, but in particular to provide "classroom" space for TAH students
Measuring Student Engagment
Sean Yo
James Storm from D2L
Attendees:- Sheryl & Marg
With the daylight upgrade Class progress and User Progress are getting an upgrade to the look and feel.
The BDP ( Brightspace data platform) included with no additional charges. Uses APIs.
Two Changes to User Progress have been made which require the BDP.
1. Course access progress not just last logged in to any course
2. Notes if the content has been downloaded. ( Interesting for the PDF content that students are still accessing @ Te Kura.)
Insights improvements
Reports accessed through the Insights Portal
Tool usage i.e quizzes, assignments etc. Can be filtered by role type and throughout different time periods. Can Export all reports to CSV!
System logins by role. Can be filtered by course.
Insights can't be trialed.
Course overview and engagement views for instructors
- sits on a course widget
- overview of course access
- filters to number of logins
- access to course access report
- information is retrived from the BDP.
- information can be drilled down to sections so useful for individual teachers, senior teachers and curriculum.
Engagement report
- utlises the information in user progress
- email reminders available within this report
- shows grade distribution
- each column of information links directly to the tool
- name/student ID number for individual students within the tool
- can't view student engagement across multiple courses. Would have to do this by extracting from CSV.
Looks very useful for Te Kura!
James Storm from D2L
Attendees:- Sheryl & Marg
With the daylight upgrade Class progress and User Progress are getting an upgrade to the look and feel.
The BDP ( Brightspace data platform) included with no additional charges. Uses APIs.
Two Changes to User Progress have been made which require the BDP.
1. Course access progress not just last logged in to any course
2. Notes if the content has been downloaded. ( Interesting for the PDF content that students are still accessing @ Te Kura.)
Insights improvements
Reports accessed through the Insights Portal
Tool usage i.e quizzes, assignments etc. Can be filtered by role type and throughout different time periods. Can Export all reports to CSV!
System logins by role. Can be filtered by course.
Insights can't be trialed.
Course overview and engagement views for instructors
- sits on a course widget
- overview of course access
- filters to number of logins
- access to course access report
- information is retrived from the BDP.
- information can be drilled down to sections so useful for individual teachers, senior teachers and curriculum.
Engagement report
- utlises the information in user progress
- email reminders available within this report
- shows grade distribution
- each column of information links directly to the tool
- name/student ID number for individual students within the tool
- can't view student engagement across multiple courses. Would have to do this by extracting from CSV.
Looks very useful for Te Kura!
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