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future focus | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Check our biases…. 8216;Tis the night before the #edchatnz conference and I am mulling over the session I am hoping to facilitate… It’s been just over a month since I joined NetSafe as their new Director of Education, and I have thoroughly enjoyed getting my head around a ‘same but different’ view window on education. The ‘same’ being broad, effective…. August 11, 2016. Keep the fear off the set. Do you remember the actor/director John Cusack? June 3, 2016. April 29, 2016.
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Pipelines to the future – Connected Education | #ConnectAU15 | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Pipelines to the future – Connected Education #ConnectAU15. April 24, 2015. This post reflects some of the key sessions from the Connected Education Summit,. 22 April 2015, where I was presenting, and some emerging thoughts on the ideas we heard. And pragmatists (‘this is what we need to do about it’) from international business (IBM, National Broadband Network, OECD, Mindlab). Worryingly, there was quite a bit of talk about creating “pipelines” between school...The stori...
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Selected testimonials | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. 8220; The best deconstruction of myth and buzzwords I’ve ever seen. Should be compulsory work for anyone thinking about doing 21 c stuff.” – CORE Breakfast session, Nov. 2015. 8220;Exciting and thought-provoking [session which] created steps and provided tools for learning” – “Well considered with developed concepts” – “Fantastic workshop, excellent resources and evidence. Your enthusiasm is contagious” ULearn15 workshop. 8220;This has been a feast of a day…Karen’s ...
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digital | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Students, computers and learning: 5 takeaways from *that* OECD report. It was with breathlessness more suited to the daily rag that the BBC ran the headline Computers ‘do not improve’ pupil results, says OECD while the Register yelled “Don’t bother buying computers for schools, says OECD report”, prompting an outpouring of reaction that, predictably, asserted the opposite. Still, we are sensible professionals who are quite capable…. September 19, 2015. June 14, 2015.
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Innovate from the outside in | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Innovate from the outside in. June 21, 2015. This experience was not true for the majority but it certainly was for a few. And so, starting with the experiences. The school redesigned the process in ways that now prepare all students, offer choice and options, regularly involve the community and give everyone much greater opportunity to prepare positively for the start of the year. Innovate from the outside in. In the first image above, there is a group of apples in the c...
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Presentations – e-Odyssey
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Here be dragons: a personal journey into future learning. Here are copies of the presentations I have given – embedded where possible. An enabling e-Learning webinar with Hayden Shaw, “ Learner-centred design thinking. My N4L Point of Learning Podcast with Pete Hall, “ Language, Design Thinking, and Teacher Agency. My EDtalk: Design thinking informs professional learning:. An interview with NZTA on their game design competition, published in Interface. CLESOL ‘Flippin’ Grammar’. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Teacher Professional Learning and Development – e-Odyssey
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Here be dragons: a personal journey into future learning. Teacher Professional Learning and Development. April 7, 2015. April 7, 2015. This blogpost represents my current thinking and learning about the role and the effectiveness of professional learning. It is a personal reflection both in terms of my role at The Mind Lab by Unitec. And also my CORE eFellow research. I’ve been reading the summary of Teacher Professional Learning and Development: Best Evidence Synthesis Iteration. 2014), p. 40. Rather th...
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Futures Education | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Five tips for holding ideas lightly. Note: This post was my final piece for the CORE Education blog, published last week. I will be exploring these ideas at their ULearn16 conference in October. Join me? Go on it’ll be fun:) One should never bring a knife to a gun fight, nor a cookie cutter to a complex adaptive system. …. June 22, 2016. Harnessing the power of connectedness Growing adaptive experts #ConnectAU15. April 24, 2015. April 24, 2015. 8220;It’s in the spac...
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education | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Five tips for holding ideas lightly. Note: This post was my final piece for the CORE Education blog, published last week. I will be exploring these ideas at their ULearn16 conference in October. Join me? Go on it’ll be fun:) One should never bring a knife to a gun fight, nor a cookie cutter to a complex adaptive system. …. June 22, 2016. June 15, 2016. Keep the fear off the set. Do you remember the actor/director John Cusack? June 3, 2016. Apparently, I once taught a ‘Gra...
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Got tech? Hear me roar! | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. July 5, 2015. It’s been a week or two of interesting stories related to school students harnessing social networks in order to make a point. We’ve had school speeches on the state of education. And a plea for puffer jackets. To name the most recent two. There has been reciprocal handwringing on the part of the press in response that has varied in tone, from ‘social media amplifies opinions unhelpfully’ ( PPTA interview. I wonder sometimes whether society still has a sligh...