Our second session was around Student Agency. We shared a video from Core's Ten Trends, and discussed some of the key ideas from it...collecting this into a Google Doc. One of the comments I quite liked was:
"its not abdicating power to the learner, it's much more intentional...let's create an environment where learners are, and want to be, involved"
This seemed to sum up the message quite nicely, especially creating an environment where learners want to be involved...I'm excited by what that might look like for us.
We shared stories from the different schools we have been visiting. Some of the images/videos were from an excellent uLearn session I went to...the Russell St MLE journey. A colleague and I had also been to visit the school a couple of days previously, so the images etc could be backed up by our own observations.
We also completed a great activity where we had to learn 4 new skills...2 'workshops' were being offered on 2 of these skills, experts in the others were identified...and we were off! Some teachers worked solely by themselves, others in groups. The two workshops were well attended (and well run!). Technology played a role...YouTube lessons in the recorder, knot tying and origami were rustled up, and shared around. The idea behind the session was to show that there are many different pathways to travel when learning...and one size does not fit all. The way we could 'hack' the learning, to make the learning accessible to each other (with and without the teacher), and the different modes of learning...we all worked quite differently, but got to similar places with the learning...all good lessons for us.
I will say...hearing 15+ teachers on the recorders is not a sound you want to hear often!
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