Greg+Whitby+at+CEO,+May+2008

Greg Whitby Executive Director of Schools, Paramatta CEO http://gbwhitby.parra.catholic.edu.au/index.html http://bluyonder.wordpress.com/ http://www.ted.com/ Ideas Worth Spreading http://www.edspeak.org/ http://torres21.typepad.com/flickschool/

Change Process - How are we going to deal with it? Ichat with Marco Torres For Marco the issues are: - help kids to see their own learning journey - what's the best deliverable for their knowledge - metacognition - engagement around their learning - limitations of exams

Greg Making the most of the Digital Education Revolution
 * Real issue is search for relevancy
 * Curriculum that builds failure
 * More and more staff in classrooms and more and more disengagement
 * Change puts people off - many are working hard at doing the wrong thing

Strategic Purpose improved learning outcomes for our students providing a rewarding professional life for teachers "Schooling is compulsory, learning is optional"

Digital Revolution requires intelligent guests
 * how do people learn?
 * what is the nature of learning?
 * what is the pedagogy for today
 * what are the appropriate enablers?

Learning at the same time as us. Students helping the teachers learn This changes the relationship and makes it more even. Changes the authoritarian approach to a more student centred approach and the student becomes a more active participant in his own learning.

One of the Paramatta kindergartens has 93 students in one room.

Pink's Hypothesis [|See video here] Abundance Asia Automation

Learning is the business of schooling We live in a conceptual age not the knowledge age. Need metacognition

A good teacher is one who will learn. It's a challenge to find someone who is engaged in ongoing PD and continues to learn. Leadership density System Alignment "Teachers learn from each other: Michael Fullan, 2005

Move from "just in case" to "just in time" Curriculum Workshops to Learning spaces PL Control to Flexibility Design Rigidity to Responsibility Teacher Work

Leverage Strategy for schools Discussion Planing Framework

[|World Trend Map 2008] tools for today's world

Signs of Engagement Metacognition and application to everyday life.

Web 2.0 Enabling Tools
 * Connectivity and commodity
 * collaboraton and communication
 * monitoring and filtering
 * personalisation capapcity
 * construction and publication
 * stage and studio

In learning spaces noone owns the desk, designed with collaborative spaces in mind and wireless network.

Instruct Plan Personalise collaborate Clarify Challenge Produce The Learning

[|Life is greater than the Internet]