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"The secret of good teaching is to regard the childs intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination." ~ Maria Montessori

Collaborative Knowledge Building

Posted Sun, 04/25/2010 - 11:48 by johndarcy

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The Knowledge Forum is a web-based, collaborative, scaffolded learning environment.

The Knowledge Forum (KF) may not be very attractive but it is without doubt a transformational technology. It was piloted this year by CDNIS students who were using it to improve both their metacognitive and knowledge building skills.

Our pilot groups were, Ms. Sharon Lacoste and her Theory of Knowledge classes and Ms. Susan McWhinnie’s grade 5 class.

Students in the Diploma Programme's Theory of Knowledge course used the KF to explore the complex issues of perception, reality, thinking and knowing. Ms. Susan McWhinnie’s grade 5 class used the Knowledge Forum to explore the scientific concepts related to the states of matter. 

To view the grades 5 and 11 pilot Knowledge Forum follow this link.
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Brainstorming - a Report on the F2F Experiment

Posted Sat, 05/16/2009 - 08:06 by johndarcy

This week-and-a-day brainstorming event has two purposes. One being to providing virtual and actual forums through which staff will help define the future of technology use and management in CDNIS classrooms and offices. Secondly, provide the LTT Team with the information it needs to most effectively support CDNIS staff who use technology as part of their regular work experience.

The two F2F (face-to-face) brainstorming sessions are now done. To report that 23% of our teaching staff, our Middle School Librarian, PR Manager, Head of Chinese Studies, and our Head of School voluntarily gave their time during these incredibly busy days to share their ideas over a bit of wine and cheese is, to say the least, a testament to the calibre of CDNIS staff. 

The LTT Team will spend time next week analyzing and organizing the ideas and thoughts they shared.  It is our goal to provide brainstorming feedback to the whole community as soon as possible.  As this will include the results of next weeks virtual experiment, we hope to conclude this work and report to the community by the end of May.

Technology Brainstorming Week and a Day

Posted Wed, 04/29/2009 - 15:08 by johndarcy

With the ever increasing rate of change, we need to ensure that the technology path we are following meets the needs of contemporary teachers and learners. As the end of this academic year is approaching it is a time to reflect on this year’s successes as well as failures and craft a technology vision for next year.

In the glow of Apple’s Education Leadership Summit at CDNIS we are in a great place to leverage all sorts of new insights, idea, thoughts and practices for next year.  To this end we are going to run a week-and-a-day-long visioning event that will be both f2f and virtual.

The goal of the event will be to chart a path for next year’s teacher training and support.

 

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The Event
This will be both a virtual and tangilbe. We will meet face to face and we will create a virtual document of the event and our final "vision"May 14th and 15th - Face to Face (f2f) brainstorming/discussion/wine & juice & snacks.  On each day we will meet in the

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