Teaching and learning using technology: Building capacity in your school

Teaching and learning using technology:

Building capacity in your school Dr Catherine Hart, Crowther Centre for Learning and Innovation

What students think matters

How we respond to this matters

What should inform our ‘response’?

Knowing Understanding Doing

Today's kids hate being talked at. They hate when teaching is simply telling. They hate lectures and tune them out.

Discourse about device

Discourse about praxis

Discourse about policy

It’s not the technology... It’s the connection that technology offers

Bohlen, Beal and Rogers (1957)

I don't mind failure. I've always thought that schoolchildren should be marked by the number of failures they've had.

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That's how I came up with a solution.

Building individual and institutional capacity

Add on – not instead of

Seek like-minded individuals

Internal hotspots

Find a community

Research and partnership – evidenced based practice

Building individual and institutional capacity

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