1. iPadsTeaching as Inquiry

2. Teaching as Inquiry
... the “biggest effects on student learning occur when teachers become learners of their own teaching, and when students become their own teachers”.
This allows students to show self-regulatory attributes that are most desirable for learners, such as self-monitoring, self-evaluation, self-assessment, and self-teaching
Ref: John Hattie and Magnifying Glass: Flickr M
MOE focus is on priority learners - Maori, Pasifika and Special Needs. These are the students traditionally underserved by our system. This also requires us to 'do something different' to improve learning opportunities for these students. One of the ways of doing this is to Inquire into our own practice - hence the focus on Teaching as Inquiry to bring about change.

3. Have a sceptical outlook Take responsibility for learning and
Teaching as Inquiry
Your students will be entering a complex world that requires them to be adaptable, creative problem solvers working effectively with others.
Professor Guy Claxton suggests that 21st C pedagogies require us to teach students to:
Have a sceptical outlook
Take responsibility for learning and
create possibilities
sceptical outlook: 'what is the agenda here?' 'Who is benefitting?' 'How can I check the veracity of this?'
Taking responsibility: 'I can do it', time management, self-awareness as a learner, ownership, pride, facing consequences, agency/choice, key competencies
Creating possibilities: 'what if...' 'how could we...', risk taking, knowledge creators, imagining possibilities...

4. St Joseph's School Inquiry
How can we use e-Learning to increase engagement and lift the achievement of Maori, Pasifika and SEN students in writing and maths?
How could we do this? What is possible?
School inquiry - align an inquiry of your own with this ..

5. St Joseph's School Inquiry example
What content?
What 21st C pedagogy?
What e-Learning?
How can we help our priority students work collaboratively to improve understanding of their own learning in maths using a learning log?
priority learners: MOE requirement - done properly will enhance all students
collaboratively - requires the strategies of: working effectively together, sharing strategies, showing how, effective questioning, giving effective feedback by students, teachers and whanau
learning in Mx: being able to articulate: 'how did I do this?' 'how could I do that?' 'which parts did I find difficult or easy?' 'why?'
Learning logs: ability to use key vocab, to write, crystallize their ideas, share, justify
What evidence could you gather? formative, summative, observations - video, photos, student voice, results/answers

6. St Joseph's School Inquiry
Are technologies or exciting apps enough?
Technology and 21st Century pedagogies allow students to collaborate and share their learning.
So as teachers we need to help them:
work collaboratively,
on authentic projects,
develop co-operative language and
share responsibility for learning
Technology or exciting apps is not enough to bring about change for priority learners. We need to put in place robust learning support.
Think about leadership and team building; personalised learning pathways; learner generated new knowledge, construction and creation; formative feedback processes involving peers, teachers, family and whanau, flexible design for learners, what it means to be persistent, and self managing and to have a cultural classroom shift to include a variety of audiences for student learning.
Guy Claxton - 'split screen' teaching science and how to question effectively or teaching maths and the ability to evaluate yourself as a learner; or writing as well as being a good self-editor ...

7. The process of teaching as Inquiry: Who are your priority learners, how will you evaluate thoroughly how they learn now? What strategies will you put in place to make learning different/better for them; how will you measure success of that?

8. How can we use apps to support our Teaching as Inquiry?
In Maths
apps/apps
In Literacy?

9. SAMR Model

11. SAMR Resources: Improving the Journey Transformation of tasks
Roadmap to Integration
SAMR - the padagogy wheel

12. Extending, creating, challenging and assessing
How do we know?
s/apps-1

13. Critique an app ... What level of SAMR is it?
How you would use this in your classroom to support priority learners?
Write your comments here:

14. Professional Learning Community to support you
Using the VLN
register at:
Finding your own resources
Join the iPad User Group in the VLN

15. Where to next?
Resources used today will be put into the St Joseph's School VLN group
Your task is to craft a blog post in the VLN about your next steps for the St Joseph School inquiry

16. Contact: Diane Mills & Barbara Reid Blended e-learning Facilitators
Tel: + 64 ( )