Saturday 26 April 2014

Have you read Open by David Price? I have and I aim to.....

... create a 'learning commons'.

Just in case you haven't got the time or resources to read  OPEN, I will share one of my goals from each chapter with you as I read it.

Below is some background information about the book to put you in the picture.

Through my online Twitter learning community, I came across a review of a recently published book called Open by David Price OBE. This morning I bought the kindle version and I can't put it down!! It links in so well with the focus of my sabbatical essay on engagement and learning and I'm keen to read more. I highly recommend this book to our whole community. Click on the book image below to link to a review of the book .

David Price regularly shares his views and links to his posts on Engaged Learning via Twitter tweets.  He recently wrote about the excellent student engagement in learning that is happening at Matthew Moss High School in the UK. I visited the school and met with the inspirational principal Mark Moorhouse in March during my sabbatical travels and I plan to adapt some of the learning ideas from my visit to our school here.

From reading the Introduction of OPEN I aim to create a 'learning commons'. 

More about this in my next post.

Thursday 24 April 2014

Excellent Learning & Change (LCN) video

Now that I have got my principal's blog going on our site, I thought that it was time to create a more interesting layout and design. I am trying to see what I can learn to do here on blogger. Once more, it will be trial and error and much googling as well !! I would like to see all of our children at St Joseph's share their learning on their own blog in the near future and if I expect them to to do this, then I must learn too.

I came across this excellent video made by a colleague  in Wellington Mr Theo and would like to share this with you. It shows the philosophy behind the Learning and Change Network that we are also part of here in North Otago. It helps to explain how schools can work together collaboratively to benefit all of our learners.

Thanks Mr Theo for letting me share this.