I was privy to a smorgasbord of simulating delicacies at Edutech Brisbane 2013. The following are quotes and ideas that resonated, disrupted and tantislised.

Now to action…!

Dan Pink
Have fewer conversations about how and more about why things are done.

Can I do one thing tomorrow that is better than today?

Ewan Macintosh

Be curious
Listen to yourself
Humble is cool
Good energy is infectious
Find a way

Problem Finders – curiosity is finding a problem and knowing when it is solved

Why are you doing this?

Googleable and Ungoogleable

Where have I been? Feedback
Where am I now? Assessment
Where and I going?… With my learning

FAIL – First Attempt In Learning

Replace the words “doing” and “work” with learning

Sean Tierney
Cognitive amputation – devolving tasks to technology

Change management is about changing culture.
Change the environment and force teachers to act differently.

Growing staff
Empowering students
Growing parents
Collaboration always
Questioning everything

Invent the future don’t prevent the future.

Mark Harris
If it doesn’t make the world better don’t do it.
Modern student: Connecting, collaborating, interacting, creating, publishing, entrepreneur online out of school.
Where are the modern teachers?

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” Alvin Toffler

Gary Stager

Making things is better than being passive – making good things is even better.

A good prompt is worth 1000 words (curiosity)
A good prompt is a challenge, problem or motivation
Requirements: Materials, Sufficient time, Supportive culture (including expertise)

Building a better Prompt
Brevity
Ambiguity
Immunity to assessment

Look askew – you never know what you’ll learn!

Staying with an idea long enough that they get good at it.

You can’t teach 21st Century learning if you haven’t learnt this century.

Do the impossible.

Less us, more them!

Those who know better need to do better!

Alan November
I hope that this talk is good enough to criticise.

The best learners are desperate.

The more of an expert you become in any field the more difficult it is to understand the struggles of the first time learner.

Simple Flip model
Students prepare outside class
Every student asks questions
Teachers study students’ questions
Students work in class on problems
Students debrief one another
Instruction moves towards personalisation.

More students ask questions online than face to face.

Questions of students must be the starting point and most important information for teachers preparation for the next lesson.
Conversation, debate, defend ideas most powerful way of learning – Socrates

Collaborative assessment promoting learning: After test, the students immediately retake the test but second time the group votes on the answer after debate. Half point if correct the second time. Score is combination of both. No marking for teacher.

Who owns the learning?

Kids learn better from kids.

If you have to teach something, then you have to learn.

How we learn is not how our students learn.

Stephen Heppel
For every British soldier killed in Afghanistan 10 schools could have been open. Guns or learning the better choice?

Sir Ken Robinson
HG Wells – Civilisation is a race between education and oblivion.

What matters is not what happens to us but what we make of it.