N Stygall- Mindlab 2018 blog

3D Modelling In small groups, choose and watch together at least one video from this week’s media, relating to 3D design or 3D printing (i.e. '3D printing a lunar base', '4D printing', 'What If 3D Printing Was 100x Faster?', '3D printing UAVs' or 'Kidesign - 3D Design and 3D Printing for Education'). In your groups, suggest ways in which the widespread use of these technologies in industry might require changes to current educational practice in your own context. Publish your group thoughts to the G+ Community, In Class Tasks, using #3DEducation and your location as hashtags. 3D Thinking and Spatial Intelligence SculptGL This type of 3D modelling is not only useful for learning to design 3D objects. Many researchers believe that it links to wider skills that can be developed and applied elsewhere. For example Dünser, Steinbügl, Kaufmann and Glück (2006), part of a team that have published widely on the value of students creating and ...

Flipped preparation: Flipped preparation (required): Watch the video 'Leadership Theories and Styles', then identify a change initiative that you have been involved with, where you contributed to leadership or followership. Create a diagram that links your experiences to one or more specific leadership theories, with some explanation of these links Leadership Assessment 1 In part 1 of your LEADERSHIP 1 assessment you'll need to write (either individually, or in groups of two or three) a cohesive essay where you critically analyse the leadership of a change initiative that you were involved with in the past. Identify the leadership theories, styles and attributes used and evaluate their effectiveness. You can choose the leadership theories freely, they just have to be ones that are recognised in research literature. You then plan your leadership of a future digital and collaborative change initiative. Indicate how insights gained from reflecting on the past i...

Mindsets Mindsets are beliefs; how you think about yourself, your intelligence and talents, what it is you can and cannot do. Ultimately, this affects how you perceive other people and their abilities, talents and capabilities, what they are and are not capable of. One of the flipped learning tasks before the session was to complete a  quiz to explore your own mindset Intelligence In the session we will address the question of whether   Intelligence is innate and, therefore, cannot be developed beyond what you are born with. Claxton (2008) notes that "intelligence [has] become defined as the kind of mind that responds most readily to the peculiar demands of school." Dweck's Theory of intelligence Dweck (2006) descried two different views of intelligence. The previous view is that there is a fixed intelligence that can be measured using an IQ Test. No matter how much you learn, or how hard you work, your intelligence stays the same. Her...

Flipped Preparation (required): Take the Mindset Quiz (tinyurl.com/tmlmindset) Flipped Preparation (required): Use one of the referencing/citation tools listed on the portal in week 4 to store and generate a citation/reference from a useful resource about Growth Mindset Dweck, C. (2015). Carol Dweck revisits the growth mindset.  Education Week ,  35 (5), 20-24. (from Google Scholar)

Flipped task:  TED Talk by Linda Liukas 'The poetry of programming'  Should we/could we ‘teach kids to code’? Why or why not?  Children should view computers as something they can tinker with, not that they are magic. It is a mode of self-expression "Little girls don't know that they are not supposed to like computers". Parents are the ones that put children off. It is not magic and it is not too complicated. If we don't, we raise a generation of consumers, not creators.  What is the relationship between Computational Thinking and coding?  knitting is about symbolic commands with loops Irregular verbs involve pattern recognition Computational thinking doesn't have to be about coding - but it is a key component  What is the role of storytelling in teaching coding? Storytelling gives us a reason for the code - e.g. the martian GPS anecdote Disruption starts as people with a vision - creativity Programming is about creating worlds - you can b...

Conditions for Classroom Technology Innovations The following figure is adapted from this week's Flipped Prep\article ,  and will be used for an in-class activity: In class we'll do a Jigsaw puzzle activity to share our expertise in relation to those 3 conditions. and it will be interesting to hear to what extent do you think the homework reading, a research article from 2002, is still relevant. In the article, Zhao, Pugh, Sheldon & Byers (2002) stress that successfully implementing classroom technology innovations is not just about technical proficiency: “Teachers' technology proficiency plays a major role in classroom technology innovations... However, our observations suggested that an additional dimension of technology proficiency plays an equally important part: knowledge of the enabling conditions for a technology - that is, knowing what else is necessary to use a specific technology in teaching”. A number of other interesting comments from the articl...