orustskolautvecklingsarbete

 

Why this is so cool for me is because it literally becomes a tutorial for a good friend of mine. She´s knitting a pair of socks for me. The surplus goes to fight cancer.

 

Now, two weeks after the event GTASWE (at the Google Teacher Academy one becomes a Google Certified Teacher), I´m eager to engage the headmasters and ICT-team throughout the schools to learn more about some new powerful tools I encountered during the hectic 2 days at the Google HQ in Stockholm.

 

I will of course make this concrete in a personal action plan, but this is some first thoughts.

 

• One big process (the biggest) is to support headmasters in their pursuit for a more modern school when it comes to the view on knowledge. Depending on the dialogue with each and one of the principle I now have more own knowledge of powerful tools to "give" them. There I think I will especially push for motions graphs via speradsheets, that helps to see progress in a more vivid viusal way. For example the connection between the grades in mathematics at the final stage of secondary school compared to the first stage in the same topic at high schol. The data should be put in school by school. This is a very important factor. If one have very good results at the end of secondary school, does it have an impact that you can see when they begin at high school? And what are the possible explanations for the fluctuation between schools and years? I will also push for social media and Blogger, so that they publish their thoughts over time.

 

• Another process is how to increase the knowledge within the ICT-teams. At the moment we are focusing a great deal on making speech synthesis popular and avaliable "en masse". There we mainly use the fantastic AppWriter CLoud within the Chrome browser, we are pushing the technology forward when it comes to the swedish version. For example soon there will be a feature that allows the user to read aloud the syllabels of every word (we already for instance have sounding keybord and word prediction).

 

• Then there is the process to help merge the ideas from the headmasters with the knowledge and passion from the ICT-teams.

• I must not forget myself. As for now I´m putting a bit of a effort in to understand the beauty of League of Legends. Why gaming can be such a powerful tool in and outside the classroom.