Heard on the Hill Term 2, Week 7
From the Principal
Bonjour à tous, and Wanju
Living on the Future Edge - PART II
“Technology changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you leave school”
Gordon Moore, one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, cofounder and chief research scientist of Intel Corporation, proposed,
“every 24 months, technology will be twice as powerful at half the cost”
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MOORE’S LAW |
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Year |
1979 |
1984 |
2010 |
2022 |
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RAM |
8K |
128K |
2GB |
208TB |
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Storage |
128K |
400K |
350GB |
40TB |
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Speed |
2MHz |
10MHz |
2.5GHz |
1.2THz |
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cost |
$5000 |
$3900 |
$400 |
$1.37 |
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1024K = 1MB 1024MB = 1GB 1024GB = 1TB |
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This may be a lot to take in but the point is that technology and the rapidly increasing capacity of it; is a new paradigm. Prensky refers to most people of my generation as “Digital Immigrants” as we can recall times before a mobile phone, the internet, fax machines (fax machines have come and gone!).
Given this exponential technological trend, we have to think about how it impacts what we do in the school. What are the skills that our students will need? Are we equipping them? Are we relevant? We need to prepare our students for a world that will be technologically so different to the one we live in now.
Although we have a BYOD program at the school, it is sometimes difficult to administer. Integrating technology into our lessons requires us to know the range of uses. How can we power-up the learning with the technology and simultaneously increase our students’ ability to apply technology? That is our challenge. There is professional learning for us also to keep our practice, current and relevant. As educators we must lead the way by moving into this new paradigm. Something that is much easier said than done along with everything else we are trying to keep up to date. But still – we try; and look for opportunities to develop the necessary knowledge to teach poor students.
En Avant
SKILLS FOR LIFELONG LEARNING – ENTERPRISE SKILLS
The Design Process
The Design Process is an approach for breaking down a large project into manageable chunks. Architects, engineers, scientists, and other thinkers use the design process to solve a variety of problems. This process can help teachers to provide a framework for students involved in projects. It allows some flexibility regarding the content of the student’s project, while also making sure that they are doing the deeper thinking we expect of them. This process does not replace explicit teaching – that is always needed. It is a possible process to do afterwards, to really synthesise the learning.
THE DESIGN PROCESS CONSISTS OF 6 STEPS:
- Define the Problem
You can’t find a solution until you have a clear idea of what the problem is.
- Collect Information
Collect sketches, take photographs and gather data to start giving you inspiration.
- Brainstorm and Analyse Ideas
Begin to sketch, make, and study so you can start to understand how all the data and information you’ve collected may impact your design.
- Develop Solutions
Take your preliminary ideas and form multiple small-scale design solutions.
- Gather Feedback
Present your ideas to as many people as possible: friends, teachers, professionals, and any others you trust to give insightful comments.
- Improve
Reflect on all of your feedback and decide if or to what extent it should be incorporated. It is often helpful to take solutions back through the Design Process to refine and clarify them.
Challenge:
Think about a topic you currently deliver in a more directed fashion. How could you open up this topic and allow for more inquiry learning from the students? What would your expectations be with regards to the project? Are there experts that you can approach to get support with implementing this in your classes? Talk to your head of learning about how you can incorporate project-based learning into your teaching repertoire.
Survey My Class
It's that time of year again, when we offer teaching staff the opportunity to survey their classes to get some feedback. We offer this twice during the year, in Term 2 and again in Term 4.
The process is simple. During the dates the survey is open (30 May - 10 June) you send the link to your students. They click on it and off they go. It is a good idea to actually give them some class time to complete it. They can use their iPads to do the survey.
The survey data for each individual teacher remains private to those teachers. The combined data of all staff is compiled into a report for the Executive Team, which is simply another piece of data used to inform our school improvement plans.
Participation is not compulsory, but it can be a useful process to do for your own professional development.
If you have any questions about the process, please contact Kelly on 78902.
Survey My Class Link
Concrete pour - Oval Car Park
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The southern oval car park will be closed for the morning of Wednesday 8 June while Perkins pour concrete for the fire tank and pump shed. No one wants concrete splatter on their car! It will be re-opened by 11am. This will also cause disruption to parents dropping students off in the morning. Students will be notified through daily notices and we will publish on our Facebook page. |
To access the Leadership Minutes from last week, see below.
Video for promotions
We love to see what projects are happening throughout the school! Across all the learning areas, we would like to capture a snapshot of what projects, activities and more happens during school for a new promo video that can be shared on our socials and website.
Ellie is available for classroom visits and can even attend incursions and excursions to get great footage of our students in action.
If you have something that you think could be videoed during class time or an incursion/excursion, please email Ellie: ellie.mackay@education.wa.edu.au with more details.
BUNBURY SHS INSTAGRAM
BUNBURY SHS FACEBOOK
Is something interesting happening in or around your classroom? Having an incursion or excursion this term? Please let me know!
We love to share updates from the school with our community and would like representation from each area of our wonderful school; no matter how big or small.
Please submit stories for our Facebook page via the wufoo link below and include as much information as you can, plus a few images to accompany the article. If you are having trouble with the wufoo form, you can email the information to me directly.(ellie.mackay@education.wa.edu.au)
Don't forget to follow us on Facebook and check out what our students and staff get up to.
What’s OnTerm 2, Week 7
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Wednesday |
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Thursday |
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Coming Soon |
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Mike's Week
Monday - Public Holiday
Tuesday
- 9.30am-10.30am Djidi Djidi Primary School
- 1.00pm-2.00pm Enrolment Meeting
Wednesday
- 7.45am-8.30am Leadership Meeting
- 9.00am-9.30am Cultural Inclusivity Committee Meeting
- 1.15pm-2.15pm BSHS Site Meeting
- 6.00pm-7.00pm P&C General Meeting
Thursday
- 11.30am-12.30pm Timetabling 2023 Planning
- 1.30pm-2.00pm Rover Duty
- 2.00pm-3.00pm Ed Exec Meeting
Friday
- 9.00am-11.00am Executive Meeting
- 1.30pm-2.00pm School Captain Meeting
- 2.00pm-2.30pm Year 10 Class Visits