To stimulate and contribute to a critical discussion about using technology, in particular, a 1:1 program, at international schools

To share teaching tips about teaching ToK or any concept-based course in a 1:1 program

About you:

School and state of 1:1 program? Role within the school? Subjects or areas of interest? Do you teach ToK?

With research, there are many free and open source solutions

Software licenses cause problems in schools

1) To give a broad overview of teaching in a 1:1 environment: my observations, experiences, suggestions, strategies, etc. – what works and what doesn't work.

2) To give a specific report on how this technology forced us to change the way we teach ToK, and to explain how we changed the way we teach and report on the results, the good and the bad.

1) Amplifier -- this is what technology does• Good students get better; weak students distracted

2) Teacher as important as ever

3) Training: teachers and students need IT training

• Training needs to be differentiated

• EVERYBODY has something to learn!

4) Good teaching is still good teaching

Students

Teachers

Family

Peers

School (including Principal)

Credit: John Hattie, Univ. of Melbournehttps://www.det.nsw.edu.au/proflearn/docs/pdf/qt_hattie.pdf

Lecturing is not effective school teaching

Good teachers Classroom management FEEDBACK Differentiation: knowing students

Goals, metacognitive teaching, learning objectives, etc.

Beginning each lesson: WALT Ending each lesson: plenary

Teachers must be engaged listeners Gandhi days

Why? ToK is a “dry” subject; tends to be teacher -

centered The central problem of ToK No “real” assessment until Year 13

How? Threw out old content-based units (AoKs) and

went to concept-based themes in 2010 Note: Areas of Knowledge in ToK: Mathematics, Natural

Sciences, Human Sciences, History, Arts, Ethics

Presentation: 20 points 10 minutes per student

Essay: 40 points 1200 – 1600 words

Two fundamental skills

What’s the Right Thing to Do?

Dissent and Knowledge Communities

Talking About Art

Mathematics and Beauty

Introduction: Goals, Learning Objectives, Tasks

Discussion, Mini – Lecture, or Activity

Groups, random or self-selected

Guided tasks or group work, towards presentation

Divide into two groups: “Inside” and “Outside”, facing each other and randomly assigned

In 2 – 3 minutes, Inside person tell Outside person: what I have learned at ASB Unplugged

Every outside person: shift one place to the left

In 2 – 3 minutes, Outside person tell Inside person: what he or she (the person you listened to) has learned at ASB Unplugged

Now, add a blog post

Task Tablets?

Today’ goals: Form and argue an opinion about the value of art

5 minutes (no tablets)

What makes a painting worth $10,000,000? What is the value of Art?

10 minutes (no tablets)

Task: in groups of 3, presentations about a Quotation in the arts

20 minutes (tablets)

Presentation & Discussion 10 minutes (tablets)

Blog Posts with Comments

15 minutes (tablets)

Discussion: What did we learn today? 10 minutes (no tablets)

Yue Minjun

What makes this painting worth $10,000,000?

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. (Henry Miller)

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. (Pablo Picasso)

Art is science made clear. (Jean Cocteau)

All art is quite useless. (Oscar Wilde)

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. (Victor Hugo)

…we will always learn more about human life and human personality from novels than from scientific psychology. (Noam Chomsky)

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.. (George Santayana)

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. (Frank Zappa)

Groups of 3, random

Each group selects one quotation

15 minutes to prepare

3 slides, 3 minutes: give three opinions:What does the Quotation mean?

Today’s goals:

Finish activity re: Oppositions

Get Photos

Understand what the course is about: AoKs, WoKs, Knowledge Issues

Short blog entries – improve knowledge claims

Intorduce new Theme: What is the Right Thing to do?

ToK and Philosophy: Michael Sandel – the personal risks

 Discussion Questions:

In a moral dilemma, what basis do we use to make a decision?

Is it important to live a moral life?

Skill Tool

Blogs Wordpress

Videos including cameras and mics

Screencasts Screenr and Storyboards

Presentations PPTs, Prezis, Spicynodes, GoogleDocs, etc

From Wikipedia:

Literacy encompasses a complex set of abilities to understand and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture for personal and community development.

What makes an “EduTech 2.0”?

Which 2 or 3 or 4 core literacies (Howard Rheingold)

are profoundly changing how students learn, and how we teach?

Blogging“the democratization of writing”

Wordpress

Videos“the greatest force of the 20th Century”

YouTube

Collaboration“is INDIVIDUAL even a word anymore?”

GoogleDocs

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Justice with Michael Sandel

Larry Ferlazzo

Mr Hoye’s ToK Website

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Justice with Michael Sandel

Larry Ferlazzo

Mr Hoye’s ToK Website