Mind Lab - Week 1 - Digital - What is Knowledge?

DIGITAL - What is Knowledge?








Reflection
Wow - What is knowledge - What a big question, and so many different angles with which to view such a question.
Making the video was enormous fun. Although the filming and editing we completing by others in the team I learnt about time lapse videoing, how to speed up and slow down the video. Also the importance of framing your shot and making sure that you are working from a particular angle each time (to keep the shot smooth.)
Kyle - if you ever see the video please don’t sigh too deeply - just remember that I am learning!

So I have set up a new blog to save all my Mind Lab reflections. The main notes and copies of notes given to us on the course are in my Google Drive but the reflections will all be appearing on my blog. Which is public. Although I’m not currently advertising that fact to anyone!!

I’m also inviting other members of our little HNPS Mind Lab team to join my blog in the hope that we will be able to upload videos to each other's blogs when we create them during sessions.





Reflect on how your understanding of the purpose of education is visible in your classroom.
I don’t think that the purpose of education had a huge visibility in my classroom. The Learner Pathway is up there and referred to frequently.
At the time of writing this reflection it is nearly Week 3. And I have had Learning Conferences with all of my students and parents over the previous week. One thing that came up over and over again is that school is not like when we were at school. In particular maths teaching. Parents desperately want their children to learn algorithms. I want their children to learn about numbers and to develop number sense first.

In going through the Mind Lab resources this weekend there was a short video in Week 2 Leadership that explains how we are teaching students for their future, for jobs that don’t yet exist, to solve problems that we just don’t know about yet. So this video is going into next weeks notices for parents to watch and to think about how this affects their children and that this is why school is different nowadays.

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