What Constitutes a Good Resource

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What Constitutes a Good Resource?
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What Is a Resource?

• Anything used directly by people resources may
  mean stock that can be drawn on. (Natural
  resources are the "stock" of the land human
  resources are people and their knowledge, skills,
  inventiveness, and ingenuity and resources
  produced by people include available goods and
  financial capital.)
• Social Studies in the NZ Curriculum
• (definition found in Curriculum Area of TKI!)

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The 23 Schools Resources

• Material to support the integration of ICT into
  teaching and learning within the classroom and
  the school.
• 4 Curriculum Materials
• 3 Administration Materials

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Material developed by teachers eg lesson plans,
spreadsheet challenges
Material developed by you for cluster
professional development eg course methodologies
Material developed by students eg their stories,
art work
Curriculum Material
Material to challenge thinking/ teaching practice
eg readings, questioning toolkits
Material to provide teachers with integration
strategies or ideas
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Material about collecting data eg staff needs
analysis, staff reaction to change, student
assessment data
Material about the workings of your cluster eg
how you network, distribute ICT
Administration Material
Material about accessing ICT eg the Internet, new
computers
Material about the management of ICT in
classrooms and schools
Material about integrating ICT into the
curriculum
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Who Are the People Who Will Use These Resources?
To start with the other 22 clusters

• The benefits are
• A sharing of professionalism within the clusters
• Support by knowing who to contact for assistance
  or discussion
• Avoidance of recreating the same resources
• Increased likelihood of material being refined
  and developed further
• The development of material that is missing eg Te
  Reo Maori material

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At a later stage

• Other schools within NZ
• The NZ Community
• Schools outside of NZ

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What Was the Purpose For These Resources?

• Each resource was developed for a specific reason
  to share, instruct, plan, demonstrate etc
• There are 127 resources so far
• They have been described using Dublin Core
  Elements

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Dublin Core

• The purpose is to describe resources in a way
  that makes them better searchable on the Internet
  
• Becoming universally acknowledged

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One category is subject of resource
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One Subject - Application courses or notes
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All Resources All Subjects
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What Constitutes Good ICT Material?
Think about the end result Student Learning
and then think about material to facilitate
that outcome.
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Some Key Thinking Pointsfrom www.benton.org

• We must define clearly what intellectual skills
  students need, and develop better techniques for
  teaching them
• Teach our children to cope with today's chaotic
  information environment
• Information Age economy places a premium on
  workers who are flexible, innovative, self
  directed, and able to solve problems
  collaboratively

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• Most schools are failing to teach the creativity,
  problem solving and life long learning skills
• little occasion to find meaning for themselves
• Knowledge is changing so rapidly that teaching
  an established body of facts is of little value
  give skills to make sense of the chaos of data
  that already are swirling around us

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Good MaterialFor Students

• Challenges them to think about thinking (risk)
• Starts with their existing skills
• Has opportunity to develop new (life long) skills
  and thinking
• Helps them become discerning users of information
• Open ended allows them to think beyond the
  resource (problem solving)
• Enables them to work with others
• Enables them to work on alone (continue at home)
• Is fun

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If We Know What is Good For Students Then

• What message do we give to teachers who then pass
  on that message to their students?

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Good MaterialFor Educators

• Challenges them to think about the process of
  learning
• Challenges them to think about their teaching
• Challenges them to try doing something another
  way
• Challenges them to refine what they do
• Motivates new ideas
• Enduring they cant do without it ( and also
  doesnt date with a new version)
• Accurate
• Can be understood easily

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The Dilemma - Useful?For Many

• Pick it up and run with it
• Saves having to plan another unit
• Has step by step instructions is that written
  down somewhere?
• Saves them having to think
• Is put away and not used again

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Good MaterialTo Publish Online

• A place for sharing in any format
• versus
• A place to see good examples
• Minimal effort to place online - this is being
  determined with these 127 resources
• As we publish this material online we will
  establish guidelines for future resource
  development.

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What Do We Need More of?

• What is the most useful for you?
• What is it that prompts you to think Id like to
  use that resource?

• Pick the resources youd most like to have a look
  at and think about why you are motivated to want
  to see them.

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• 1. A spiral bound course booklet to support
  courses at . For those that are guilty of
  endless word processing, this booklet provides a
  number of thought provoking ICT alternatives to
  integrate into the delivery of the English
  curriculum. Includes assessment and self
  evaluation suggestions.
• 2. High School has adopted the Tu Tangata
  program in their school to improve the education
  of all of their students. This PowerPoint
  Presentation explains how Tu Tangata is
  implemented and the benefits for students.
• Four staff from School visited five of
  Melbourne's Navigator Schools and report on the
  different approaches to integrating ICT into
  teaching and learning.
• A comprehensive review of a number of primary
  school Maths and English CDRoms.

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5. Growing Up Online is a Health Unit planned and
trialed by Intermediate for year 8 students.
The unit explores the issues of living in an
online environment. A detailed teaching sequence
matches devised learning outcomes. Includes
assessment tasks. 6. Staff at Intermediate use
their school Intranet to access an electronic
mark book. This allows greater flexibility in
recording and reporting on student achievement.
They discuss their plans for 2000. 7. Policy with
rationale, and guidelines for the use of email
and Internet at Primary School. 8. A report on
the inquiry into the use of student ID cards at
College. The following areas were investigated
Outline and costs of present methods.Use of cards
to control student photocopying machines and
printers. Possibility of buying a printer to
print our own ID Cards.Systems used by other
schools in this area.
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