Two views - debate

John Hattie

  • power of interpretation

  • assume we have common perceptions

  • ask the hard questions and answer them

  • do the task and do it well, and be seen to do it well

  • schools have to invent their own solution to create connectivity
  • tomorrows schools is yesterday's solutions

Coming out of the shadows and support unsuccessful students.

  • GAP between where they should be and where they are
  • what we mean by curriculum in technology - 21st century skills
  • qualities of school leavers - evaluation skills - evaluate the many competing plains that are in front of them.
  • if they are not challenged they are bored - school is not relevant

Providing a challenge

  • put students at centre
  • students want more than ncea - they don't see it as something they want to do

Karen Sewell -sec for ed

  • walls not there for many young students

  • knowledge society

  • children's lives will be profoundly different

  • stand up for what is good and recognise and change what is wrong

  • timetable is a handicap and an excuse

Rod Oram

  • poised on the edge of astonishing change - tech, economics, values, system - change more radical than ever before - how we reuse resources.
  • sense of community - concept of community changing very rapidly - now about remote intimacy
  • worried by the tail - thin resources - sense of disconnect
  • in the virtual world there are people who are interested in them -
  • future problem solving - think differently - our school leavers need to leave with that sort of confidence

Providing a challenge

  • emotional intelligence
  • joy of physicality of life
changed October 8, 2008