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Plenary summary of two day National Technology Conference. Critical Agendas / Crowther Centre

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  • 1. Our Journey these two daysAndrew BaylisExecutive Director, Crowther CentreDirector of Teaching & Learning, Brighton Grammar School

2. The limitation on learning is now not the access toknowledge, but the desire of the person 3. We dont know what we dont know 4. We need a step change How many students experience the same classroom every day?Insanity can be defined as How do we change thedoing the same thing and system?expecting a different result What do we value? 5. Practical Advice Record classes so students can review What you learn is no longer as important as howyou learn Ban the Ban on social media Students use multiple devices to stay connected it is no longer about the device EI, resilience and well being are far moreimportant for schools to develop in students thanacquiring content Need a licence to drive, why not a licence to surf? 6. Generation C Conservative with regard to schooling Is that because they dont know how it could be? Myth that they know more because they wereborn there. The average 11 year old has adult technologyskills. Some human beings will do bad things Dont blame the space, or the technology. If it is harder for us to protect them, we just need to give them more skills to protect themselves. Just because you can, doesnt mean you should. 7. How good could it be? 8. The BIG Issues Teacher School Control Control Skills Legal liability Time Culture Learner Distraction Effectiveness How to learn, not what 9. Optimism Schools now need to teach how to be and how tothink, no longer what to know. The internet is a whole new space in which tolive, work and learn. The good enough doctor 10. Together Schools and systems are still doing too much ontheir own Leverage the power of collaboration to make allschooling better? Leverage the power of teacher teams from morethan one school Leverage the power of the student voice