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future focus | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Check our biases…. 8216;Tis the night before the #edchatnz conference and I am mulling over the session I am hoping to facilitate… It’s been just over a month since I joined NetSafe as their new Director of Education, and I have thoroughly enjoyed getting my head around a ‘same but different’ view window on education. The ‘same’ being broad, effective…. August 11, 2016. Keep the fear off the set. Do you remember the actor/director John Cusack? June 3, 2016. April 29, 2016.
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Pipelines to the future – Connected Education | #ConnectAU15 | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Pipelines to the future – Connected Education #ConnectAU15. April 24, 2015. This post reflects some of the key sessions from the Connected Education Summit,. 22 April 2015, where I was presenting, and some emerging thoughts on the ideas we heard. And pragmatists (‘this is what we need to do about it’) from international business (IBM, National Broadband Network, OECD, Mindlab). Worryingly, there was quite a bit of talk about creating “pipelines” between school...The stori...
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Selected testimonials | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. 8220; The best deconstruction of myth and buzzwords I’ve ever seen. Should be compulsory work for anyone thinking about doing 21 c stuff.” – CORE Breakfast session, Nov. 2015. 8220;Exciting and thought-provoking [session which] created steps and provided tools for learning” – “Well considered with developed concepts” – “Fantastic workshop, excellent resources and evidence. Your enthusiasm is contagious” ULearn15 workshop. 8220;This has been a feast of a day…Karen’s ...
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digital | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Students, computers and learning: 5 takeaways from *that* OECD report. It was with breathlessness more suited to the daily rag that the BBC ran the headline Computers ‘do not improve’ pupil results, says OECD while the Register yelled “Don’t bother buying computers for schools, says OECD report”, prompting an outpouring of reaction that, predictably, asserted the opposite. Still, we are sensible professionals who are quite capable…. September 19, 2015. June 14, 2015.
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Futures Education | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Five tips for holding ideas lightly. Note: This post was my final piece for the CORE Education blog, published last week. I will be exploring these ideas at their ULearn16 conference in October. Join me? Go on it’ll be fun:) One should never bring a knife to a gun fight, nor a cookie cutter to a complex adaptive system. …. June 22, 2016. Harnessing the power of connectedness Growing adaptive experts #ConnectAU15. April 24, 2015. April 24, 2015. 8220;It’s in the spac...
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education | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Five tips for holding ideas lightly. Note: This post was my final piece for the CORE Education blog, published last week. I will be exploring these ideas at their ULearn16 conference in October. Join me? Go on it’ll be fun:) One should never bring a knife to a gun fight, nor a cookie cutter to a complex adaptive system. …. June 22, 2016. June 15, 2016. Keep the fear off the set. Do you remember the actor/director John Cusack? June 3, 2016. Apparently, I once taught a ‘Gra...
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21st century | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Students, computers and learning: 5 takeaways from *that* OECD report. It was with breathlessness more suited to the daily rag that the BBC ran the headline Computers ‘do not improve’ pupil results, says OECD while the Register yelled “Don’t bother buying computers for schools, says OECD report”, prompting an outpouring of reaction that, predictably, asserted the opposite. Still, we are sensible professionals who are quite capable…. September 19, 2015. April 24, 2015.
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young people | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Check our biases…. 8216;Tis the night before the #edchatnz conference and I am mulling over the session I am hoping to facilitate… It’s been just over a month since I joined NetSafe as their new Director of Education, and I have thoroughly enjoyed getting my head around a ‘same but different’ view window on education. The ‘same’ being broad, effective…. August 11, 2016. July 5, 2015. Voice and Choice: Growing great citizens for a connected world. June 7, 2015. In any of t...
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professional development | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Keep the fear off the set. Do you remember the actor/director John Cusack? He of ‘High Fidelity’ and ‘Being John Malkovich’ fame? I recently heard about ‘The John Cusack Rule’. When asked in an interview how he saw his role as film producer, he said his main job was, To keep the set free from fear. This ‘rule’ was offered to…. June 3, 2016. Harnessing the power of connectedness Growing adaptive experts #ConnectAU15. April 24, 2015. October 16, 2014. I am a few days into C...
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Harnessing the power of connectedness | Growing adaptive experts #ConnectAU15 | karen spencer
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Reimagine learning. make a dent. Harnessing the power of connectedness Growing adaptive experts #ConnectAU15. April 24, 2015. I recently presented one of the sessions at #ConnectAU15, a huge expo focused on futures thinking and connected practices, with one summit devoted to Connected Education. I’ve blogged about the other themes here:. Robotics for the future. Recent research in TALIS and Innovative schooling-focused reports. From the OECD indicates that the levels of self efficacy over their work, as ...