toddleTIES 2020

A few timelessLEARNINGS

Deepanshu AroraFounder, Toddle

“ On the weekend of 16th and 17th May, we were honored to partner with 47 inspiring thinkers, doers, designers, and educators to host Toddle TIES - The Inquiry Educators Summit. Over 2 days, 23 workshops, 7 keynotes, 3 panel discussions, and 19362 participants from 147 countries, TIES was a celebration of teacher agency and collaboration. We learned to lean in, ask questions, challenge convention, break down walls, reset mindsets, and become lifelong learners! Our timeless takeaways and big ideas are captured in this compilation.

Inquiry is easy to say, Harder to do, Even harder to be, But not impossible at all!

Kath Murdoch Keynote: Schools as inquiry communities: Building a strong culture of inquiry in your school

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We need to be inquirers. We need to observe learning, recognise curiosity, notice wonderment, and lean into it with full force.

Trevor MacKenzieKeynote : A different kind of learning: Stories from the inquiry classroom

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What if we made the curriculum with things we don’t know, with our big questions, rather than the things we already know. Human beings are intrinsically attracted to questions we don’t know answers to. A curriculum of questions, instead of the things we know

Sugata MitraKeynote : Children and the internet – New ways for new times

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In math, it is essential for students to come up with conjectures—ideas that they are not sure of. Math is about creativity and ideas! Not about right answers and wrong answers!“Dr Jo BoalerKeynote: Opening Mathematics and Opening Minds

Play is self-chosen and self-directed. It sparks wonder and delight which brings satisfaction. Play is the vehicle for inquiry and shouldn’t end in the early years.“Lynn CuccaroWorkshop: Prescription for play

It’s not enough to know Math in your way. You need to have a deep understanding of it or you’ll confuse students.“Rebecca HansonWorkshop: Primary Maths - what now and what next?

Just open the door and trust your students. Talk about caves and camp fires. Use these metaphors with students to change behavior! It's in our minds! You have to be creative in your current environment.

Rosan BoschKeynote : Designing for a new world starts at school

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Teachers are designers of curriculum. We need a rigorous, challenging, meaningful curriculum that utilises higher-order thinking, real purpose, and calls for action. Teachers need to teach for craftsmanship.

Maggie Hos-McGrane Workshop: Designing Rigorous and Engaging Learning Experiences

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There is no such thing as bad weather, there’s only bad clothing!

Anne-Marie EvansWorkshop: Playful learning in nature“

Compelling questions require deep, conceptual organization to understand. They invite students into the learning. They prompt students to think about how lives might be improved. They compel students to act beyond school walls.

“Julie SternWorkshop: Deeper learning that transfers

SEL comes into the classroom with every subject teacher. You are not a subject teacher, YOU are A teacher, and you are here to build a relationship and help children become who they are.

Mona SeervaiWorkshop: Wellbeing - Today, tomorrow and into the future

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For me, mindfulness and mindful awareness are a way to train your brain to self regulate your emotions.

Dr Maria Hersey Maria HerseyWorkshop: Designing learning experiences to support well-being

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I used to think that it was my role to decide what was worthwhile to learn, now I think I can find what's worth learning in something that my students find worthwhile.

Melissa SokolWorkshop: The power of "what if?"

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You are not the homeroom teacher, you are not the Music teacher, you are not the German teacher and the like. Everybody is a teacher for our (Grade 2) students and we want to be seen this way. This allows everybody to feel competent and open-minded while sharing ideas during meetings.

“Baldwin WuWorkshop: Sustaining a culture of community and collaboration in times of online learning and beyond

What if we started with the learning rather than with the timetable? What if we valued flow in learning rather than discrete lessons? How might we seek opportunities for learning which don't fit neatly within the timetable? What if school looked more like a conference?

“Edna SacksonWorkshop: The power of "what if?"

It is important to find a balance between structure and flexibility. A flexible structure and unstructured collaboration ensures we respect everyone’s time, while maintaining social connection.“

Alex Whitaker Workshop: Sustaining a culture of community and collaboration in times of online learning and beyond

I never liked the term striving for academic excellence, because who in the world would strive for academic mediocrity? “Kevin Bartlett Keynote : Same game, new playbook

We are all language teachers: we teach the language of Math, Art, Sport, Science and much more! I urge you to explicitly teach the language of doing!“Cindy BlackburnWorkshop: Scaffolding curiosity:5 precepts for guiding inquiry

When you learn to ask the right questions, it can change your life. It is during moments like these, during extreme chaos that we must turn within and ask the right questions.“

Gahmya Drummond-Bey Keynote : The 3 MIQs (most important questions)

Many of us limit ourselves. We follow societal norms and ignore our heart and intuition. When we ask ourselves the 3 most important questions of what we want to experience in life, how we want to grow and develop ourself and how we want to contribute to the world, that’s when the magic happens.

“Vishen Lakhiani Keynote : The 3 MIQs (most important questions)

What is the enduring understanding I want students to walk away with from a content chunk? That ultimately answers the "why" behind what we are teaching.“Chris OverhoffWorkshop: Concept-driven teaching and learning

Sin importar la pedagogía o las creencias sobre currículo que podamos tener, todos los sistemas educativos hablan sobre la importancia de aprender a aprender y el desarrollo de un aprendizaje perdurable y significativo. El desarrollar en nuestros estudiantes el amor por el aprendizaje.

Regardless of the pedagogical theory or beliefs about curriculum, all educational systems talk about the importance of learning to learn, and the development of meaningful life-long learning and a love for learning in our students.

“Christianne Cowie¡Aprendiendo a aprender! Una aproximación desde los enfoques del aprendizaje

En una crisis como la que estamos viviendo es imposible no aprender.

In a crisis like the one we are experiencing, it is impossible not to learn.“

Jimena TaboadaCómo promover y facilitar las indagaciones personales en tiempos de COVID y después.

Antes intentábmos meter al mundo en el aula, ahora tenemos que sacar el aula al mundo.

Before this time, we tried to bring the world inside our classroom, now we have to take our classroom into the world.

“Claudia Ourthe-CabaleCómo promover y facilitar las indagaciones personales en tiempos de COVID y después.

Qué importante ahora más que nunca, que toda la comunidad realmente comprenda qué es lo que queremos evaluar. ¿Qué entendemos por evaluación? Porque una de las preguntas y preocupaciones de los padres en este contexto de educación es precisamente este: Si no somos maestros, ¿cómo vamos a saber si lo estamos haciendo bien?

It is important now more than ever that the whole community really understands what we want to evaluate. What do we understand by evaluation? Because one of the key concerns of parents in this context is precisely this: If we are not teachers, how are we going to know if our children are doing well?

“Elena VizurragaEvaluación formativa en el contexto de la educación a distancia

Saber en qué nivel se encuentran las habilidades de los alumnos respecto del contexto, el objetivo de aprendizaje o la etapa de desarrollo puede ayudar a los maestros a personalizar las oportunidades de práctica y aplicación de dichas habilidades.

Being able to identify the developmental stage of students' skills in relation to the context and learning objective can help teachers personalize opportunities to practice and apply those skills.

“Renata Cabarga¡Aprendiendo a aprender! Una aproximación desde los enfoques del aprendizaje

Move kids away from consumers to content co-creators“John MiktonPanel Discussion: Transformational Technology

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