Ulearn- Karen Boyes

3 in 1 Brain- Tri une brain

Reptilian-(lower brain) fight or flight part of the brain, tells you to eat sleep etc.
Limbic brain (Middle)-emotional meltdown, hissy fit, where you experience emotion
Mammalian (Frontal lobe)-higher order thinking, ability to have empathy, teaching-where we are teaching at school,

Emotional centre drives the learning-turn fear into fun!

"students that laugh more learn more"

High risk situation-putting your hand up. Try popcorn style, students pop their ideas-respond with thank you after each suggestion.

• Use think, pair, share.
• wait time-3 seconds

Listening-we have to teach students to be great listenings (listening and understanding with empathy)
-need to teach it explicitly
-Pause, paraphrase, probes-(inquiry/clarify)

Listening activity-in buddies, pose a question a and get one buddy just to talk and one to listen. While the person is talking the other buddy has to be thinking about pausing, paraphrasing and probing.

Encourage students to use great language, teachers need to model great language. Predict, compare, analyse.

New Pedagogies for Deep learning-Michael Fullan

Humans 3 innate qualities-

-wired to connect
-wired to create
-wired to help humanity


As children grow and become older we squash these qualities and now we are trying to bring them back. Michael showed an example of each of the above with very young children and even a baby that was 10 minutes old. His example of connecting was a 10 minute old baby who was in his fathers arms and the dad was pulling faces and poking tongues at the baby within a few seconds the baby was trying to pull tongues back at his dad. An example of create was a seven year old girl who loved inventing. She invented a torch for her friend who had no electricity at night and couldn't complete her homework that work through the warmth in her hand and the heat transforming into energy to run the light. And lastly help humanity was a man with a pile of books try to get into a closed cupboard a baby maybe 2 walked over and opened the cupboard for the man.


Leadership-3 key parts to leadership

+Respect and reject the status quo
acknowledging what has been done, and making change

+Be an Expert and an apprentice
I am an expert but at the same time I have a lot to learn. You have to be a learner to build relationships and to learn something new

+Experiment and commit
commit to getting it right, keep working on getting a solution


Students are the most connected but also don't respect the status quo, they want to try the new stuff.
New curriculum are connecting with humanity. Our new job description is the running leader


The job of education it to produce better citizens for tomorrow, today!  We don't need better leaders we need better citizens.

Pedagogy is the driver, technology is the accelerator

Big ideas:
#Students are change agents
#Professional capital of teachers
#Coherence

Assessing Deep Learning-Margrot McKeegan and Derek Wenmoth

ULearn- Break out 1.

• Padlet- post it application

Deep learning is:

• authentic
• transferable
• fun, engaging 
• something you connect with, real life
• collaborative
• learn, re-learn, unlearn
• problem solving
• experience based
• purposeful, meaningful

What are the indicators of deep learning? what does it look like, sound like, feel like?

ULearn 2016-Larry Rosenstock

Larry Rosenstock- ULearn 2016  Keynote speaker (America)


"Its time to change the subject...."

• Video-The Lie 
• Learning first started one on one-making a fishing rod, weaving a basket, then groups of children were sent away-boys  to study religion etc
• measure twice cut once
• collective learning-working in a group, isolative learning-learning on your own
• knowledge is socially constructive 
• No more isolation of subjects-maths, english, science, history/social studies.
• Video to watch-Chan is missing.