David Kinane, an independent consultant from Auckland, discusses an issue that faces many schools. We put a lot of time, money and energy into developing the elearning capacity of teachers at our schools. David asks how are we sustaining this so that the capacity stays with the school when a teacher leaves.
CORE Education's Chrissie Butler explains universal design for learning. She challenges us to think of ways that we can design learning for the diverse students in our classrooms: different ways to present learning and different ways for students to demonstrate their learning.
Kevin Honeycutt was a keynote speaker at ULearn12. In this talk he provides us with three challenges: Don't stop believing in the children, leverage the available tools; and don't wait until you're good at it to do it.
Jane Carroll, speech language therapist and PhD student, talks about her project looking at what early childhood educators do when they read storybooks to groups of children. Jane explains the types of behaviours that were observed and outlines possible next steps to deepen student outcomes.
Dave Winter, project director of the connected learning community in Hamilton, talks about three things he considers as important in education today: Strategies to deal with the change that comes with the ultrafast broadband roll out; the digital society; and the connection between teaching as inquiry and professional learning communities.
Anne Kenneally is a 2012 CORE Education eFellow. She tells us about what she learned during her time as an eFellow and how she discovered the strength of letting learners lead the learning.
Laetitia de Vries from Wanaka Primary School tells us about her newsboard programme. Letitia had noticed that her students needed support with oral language development, so she instigated a video programme to allow students to see and hear themselves, and therefore self assess and make improvements.
Andrew Douch is an independent education consultant and a teacher with 22 years experience. Andrew's message is that in the second decade, teachers need a willingness to question their 20th Century paradigms and rethink their roles as educators in a world where information is available on-demand and communication is instantaneous.
Jane Carroll, speech language therapist and PhD student, discusses strategies for developing oral language in the early years environment. Jane argues that oral language is the foundation of literacy and having a really good oral language base is the best thing that teachers can do for literacy learning.
