How do you encourage a growth mindset in your school or classroom?

Growth Mindset: A Driving Philosophy, Not Just a Tool

The concept of a growth mindset was developed by psychologist Carol Dweck and popularized in her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

“In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment,” writes Dweck. Students who embrace growth mindsets—the belief that they can learn more or become smarter if they work hard and persevere—may learn more, learn it more quickly, and view challenges and failures as opportunities to improve their learning and skills.
Taken from http://edglossary.org/growth-mindset/

Bold Innovative Thinking - It's time for a change!

I like these initial quotes from the children:
"We have the basic things that other schools have but we gave them different name. Like maths is Code World and Science is How Things Work." 

"We learn all the things that the other schools learn...but we just learn it differently."

Published on Jul 30, 2013

Katie Salen, executive director of nonprofit design studio Institute of Play, offers a look inside the ground-breaking school in New York City that she co-founded, Quest to Learn. The school uses core principles of game design as a framework to help students become lifelong learners and design thinkers. More resources at http://www.edutopia.org/katie-salen-g...

GAFE Summit 2015

We invite you to join us for the third annual EdTechTeam Summit New Zealand North Island Summit featuring Google for Education to be held at Albany Senior High 
in Auckland on April 14 & 15, 2015. This high intensity two day event focuses on deploying, integrating, and using Google Apps for Education and other Google Tools to promote student learning in K-12 and higher education. The programme features Google Certified Teachers, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers, practicing administrators, solution providers, Google engineers, and representatives from the Google education teams. 

Register now now to send teachers, administrators, tech directors, library media specialists, tech support staff, CTOs, and anyone who is interested in finding out more about leveraging Google Apps for Education to support student learning.

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Design and Development of Educational Technology

Decided to start posting on this blog again. I had switched to a new blog Endeavor which I have been sharing with my students. However this blog is for my PD and for sharing with my colleagues. I'm excited about starting a 6 week course with MIT, Design and Development of Educational Technology. I will be posting some of my course work here.

  

Powtoon

Introducing Powtoon: Overview1



Next: Overview 2

Task1 - Make a presentation to promote reading in the library or choose a new book and make a promotional video for this book.Good luck.

In the comments below make suggestions on Powtoon's you would like to create. 

Math Champ – Send Math Challenges to Your Students’ iPads

Math Champ is a neat system of two apps working together to deliver math challenges to your students’ iPads.


The Math Champ Host app is the app that you use to create classes and select questions to use in the quizzes that your students take on their iPads. With the host app you control when quizzes become active. The host app also lets you see how students are doing on the quizzes.


The Math Champ Client app is the app that students use to take the quizzes that you are pushing out to them. Students can compete to see who will become the “math champ” in your classroom that day.


Learn more about Math Champ in the video below:

BYOD?

Forrest Hill School are thinking about BYOD. Do you think this would be a good idea? 

What are the pros's and con's? What device would you like to bring? Should every one bring the same device? What if some people do not own their own device? Should the school give them one?