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In a social environment, each repeating action is slightly different, even when social interactions are limited to a few actors and a limited range of actions is undertaken. Walking past a stranger and muttering 'good morning' or making a hand or facial gesture, whilst limited is also grounding. Each repeated action improves the experience of the activity. The smile gets bigger and ignoring more pronounced.  The gesture shifts from novel to heightened and then to automation. Simple transactions fall into the shadows or normality. The gesture occurs without realization. It is systematized.  Is there a way of not plateauing into reductive repetitive activity and to continually improve the experience?  Perhaps gamification? For example, one reaction for one person and another for another person.  My original and prior thoughts were that continuous and repeated actions inhibit each transaction's ability to adapt. So mix it up - change hand & facial gestures - make th...

On reflection, although I have mainly worked in a people-based industry (education), my mode of operations has been product-based. Dealing with large numbers of people invariably leans towards systematization. I focussed on systematization - that is - a step-by-step process underlined by consistency, performance, and dependability. Everyone knows, does their job, knows their timelines, and meets deadlines as expected. The systems that are designed by the controller's realities and meets expected standards. What I have found difficult over the journey and within the systematization of process and procedure were attitudes and behaviors. The intended system always seemed incomplete and momentarily lapsed into unreliability. Quite a few years back I became interested in error - more specifically accumulated error. I also became interested in values and the lingering ghosts of previous systems. I now realize that learning growth, change management, project management, and the success of...

The simplicity of services is easily boxed into a dominance-based designated hierarchy, which can be readily demonized by those who feel displaced from control. The essence of trickle-down power is easily seen and used to maintain the status quo of those who control the money, control the product, and ultimately controls the user. In short, the experiences of the user are the output of those who know best. Jingili Water Gardens is a planned space,  where you can safely enjoy the outdoors and enjoy a manicured form of nature. I enter Jingili Water Gardens with an understanding of order. Everything is in the right place for the right purpose. My role is to enjoy the experience, knowing that decisions have been made for my enjoyment. I know that there is a park and gardens hierarchical structure. There are people accountable for my enjoyment and well-being. The structure continually makes decisions and takes action to improve my experience. I don't expect tomorrow's experience wil...

Developing an Online Participation Strategy TRANSCRIPT: This video is about creating a learning participation strategy. That is, for Teachers to create a strategy to actively activate students to participate within online learning environments. Its about, Teacher employing participation data to increase learning participation. The AITSL professional teaching standards provides a strong teaching reference for quality online teaching practices.  To improve online teaching programs that sponsor increased learning participation, teachers need to implement planned teaching strategies. Teachers need to be able to select and exploit the online resources at hand to afford quality online teaching Impacting Online classrooms must have effective teacher and student communication processes centre and core. Improving online learning programs requires insightful evaluation. Quality online learning programs requires quality teaching methods. Student engagement has been an ...

Ken Robinson, Karen Cator, Donald Clark, Michael Fullan, and John Hattie.  My top 10 points Ken Robinson Need to consider the purpose of education, technology, and great teaching We live in revolutionary times and we need a revolution in education Two of the big influences on education are;  population growth and technology The rate of societal economic and technological change will continue to accelerate Educators need to recognise the scale of this challenge Educators need to recognise education as the key to the future What is considered good teaching has a long academic history The present education conversation is not occurring in a vacuum Great teachers make deep learning out of learning technology Technology in schools requires great teachers if learning improvement is to be gained Karen Cator The fundamental question that all teachers should ask is: How do we as learners learn today? Today we learn through a variety of resources It is eas...

A continuous improvement continuum (rubric) Improved Learning Program: approach and implementation Starting -> Emerging -> Applying -> Infusing -> Transformative Starting Emerging Applying Approach No quality improvement plan or process exists. School leaders and teachers realise the importance of aligning leaning program improvement with the department's and school's mission, vision, values and strategic improvement plan. School leaders and teachers work with each other to develop attainable goals within defined timelines.  School leaders and teachers are committed to continuous improvement. School leaders and teachers explicitly allocate time within their work commitments for learning program improvement. Implementation No direction of what constitutes a continuous improvement learning program, and no quality planning is evident. Whilst the school's strategic plan has been communicated action to improvement is sparodic. Not all s...

The 21st Century learner is the ‘moral purpose’ (Stiegelbauer, Fullan & Hopkins) for school transformation. The strategic aspiration is to provision online learning that empowers students to become ‘confident and capable global citizens’. The moral purpose of improvement is to develop a teaching and learning service which supports the 21st century learner to become confident and capable global citizens. This overview introduces and reflects on the implementation of teaching and systems strategy of reform and innovation. The strategy is to shift learning programs from a print ‘n post didactic transactional service to a  collaborative high class online visible learning methodology. Key Drivers for Improvement 21st Century Learner - the Driver Visible Learning. Online Course Improvement. The School Improvement Plan. Department of Education Strategic Plan. National Declarations (including Professional Standards and Curriculum). Academic Research. Community and...

In senior secondary school there is a perceived understanding that to teach the subject properly you need a subject specialist teacher - in simple terms a generalist teacher is not sufficient. The claim that many teaching positions are held by teachers ,who are not trained in their subject, implicitly point to the notion that non specialist teachers deliver a lesser service. There is little doubt that many schools employ teachers to teach subjects who are not trained in the subject, but I do not believe that they automatically offer a lesser service BUT there is no easy way to measure this assertion. How do we measure the learning impact of “Out-of-field” teaching? Do we solely evaluate on the basis that:  students learned the content, they passed their exams, and they achieved good grades?    from www.shutterstock.com.au However - is there a bigger problem? Is the real problem about developing expert teachers, who love teaching s...

Went out Pokemon hunting with my android cell phone. In case of accident I always take some friends. Then it occurred to me this, was something I really enjoy. This urge has been around for years. I need to get out and about and discover our environment. Our children are locked within the boundaries of school. They are all locked in and hard skill assessed. Placed on a conveyor belt and sorted into hierarchical pathways. Public school stripped of all that is creative. Even the arts are disciplined. In school -where is the sense of fun and play and being part of it all. What if formal learning was stationed like Pokemon go. Where youth could congregated and learn in multiple locations. Where learning encouraged youth to collectively gather and play. Where unstructured activity blended with formal knowledge. Where youth gained freedoms to self-govern, create rules, problem-solve and resolve social conflicts. The employment skills of tomorrow require youth who ca...

Can we embrace a new vision of school and work? Can school leaders embrace future visions of life in schools? Can industry leaders engage workers in the workplace? Can we build communities with purpose? Can we build a sense of wholeness across school, work and life? Can we create value through sharing rather than competing?

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