This afternoon we did some real growth mindset learning, as we practised using quicktime and google hangouts to capture our discussion about a piece of work. In our group of 3, one person was the screen recorder (Janish), one person was the conversation MC (Susan) and one was the technical troubleshooter (moi).
On the surface level, the activity was to discuss a student's blog post from the 2017-18 Summer Learning Journey, to tease out the teaching and learning that were visible. We had a rich conversation about what we thought was the learning intention, how the student's post demonstrated the learning and how the comments had supported and extended the learner. We thought we had captured this rich discussion with this screen recording:
As you will quickly realise, we caught nothing with out first screen recording. We were upset that our conversation had been lost, but keen to figure out what gone wrong. We then went back through the process so that we would be able to do a better job next time. Our second recording captures sound and the blog we were looking at. Unfortunately our first conversation is not rewindable though!
Reflecting on this experience, I can see how the technology will enrich and enhance the learning. My worry is that when the focus was on learning, but we were experimenting with the technology, we were unsuccessful with using the technology. When we were focused on the technology, we were less focused on the learning task. This reinforces to me the need to build experience loops into learning programmes, and the importance of teachers practising the skills that were taught during facilitation so that students are focused on deep learning.
Oh, YES!
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