Wednesday, 18 March 2015
This week my colleagues and I have been preparing our video answering the question "What is your vision of an ideal school?" Part of the process has been to interview a number of people in our school community. One of my tasks was to ask a groups of grade1,2,3,4's about this and collate their responses as a word splash on the IWB. SAHPS has a strong values system which our kids clearly know well and identify with. interestingly, when asked about the ideal school all of their answers reflected their knowledge and understanding of their school's values but not one of them mentioned technologies. I was shocked and disappointed but on reflection maybe this just indicates the thinking of our digital natives who have use iPad or laptops for their entire schooling. maybe they see it as something that is a given, always there in the background to be used, an ever-present tool. Maybe this also shows me as a teacher that we might need to make more explicit the link between learning and learning how to learn via technology. Another positive part of this experience was my teaching partner, Terena's response. She happened to be cleaning up after making pumpkin soup with veggies from our school garden. She commented that ideal schools have real, hands on, purposeful learning experiences. I wonder if she had already read A Rich Seam?
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I'm not sure it's a bad thing that technology was invisible to them Bec - I would be much more excited about their view of learning and knowledge of themselves as learners.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to viewing your film.
"ideal schools have real, hands on, purposeful learning experiences." This is second nature to some Bec and I also always find it exciting when teachers see this as one of our core redponibilities. In these days of standardised testing and accountability measures our focus on producing learning tasks that generate memories to anchor skills and knowledge to is so important. I'm looking forward to seeing the video!
ReplyDeleteThanks Nikki and Matt.
ReplyDeleteIt probably is a reflection on todays' digital natives that these technological tools are just part of everyday life and no big fuss. It seems their attitude to learning shows how receptive they are to discovering themselves as learners.