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Transcript: Education on Air: Seven essential elements of school transformation

All right. Hello everyone. Welcome to today’s session on transforming schools as part of the education series with Google. So really glad that you’re watching and looking forward to sharing some great ideas with you. So just a little bit about the structure for the session it’s quite a short session. And so we’re going to leave some time right at the end to have some questions. And so there is a question section that you can into your questions or your comments in there. And then I’ll have a look at those rights words again. Speaking of the end at the end of the session today also give you some resources at the end. So some links to some of Google’s resources that you can go back and have a look at in more in-depth. So make sure you stick around to the end for that as well.

By the way when we’re doing the live broadcast like these sometimes the quality can be a little bit varied for different people based on bandwidth and so on. There is a little cove down in the bottom right hand corner of your screen and you can always manually change the quality of the video feed coming in and you can take that up or down accordingly. So just be a little bit aware of that. So I’m just going to share my screen with you. We’re going to run through a little bit of some information about the seven elements of School Transformation and want to be out to give you a bit of a live demonstration of the Google Transformation Center as well.

So let me just do this right now and we’ll just show screen and excellent.

So a couple of ways that we can stay connected as we go through this series and then afterwards as well. So my name is Mike Reading the lead director at Using Technology Better and I’ve been teaching in Australia for a number of years now living in New Zealand and working through the company Using Technology Better we really serve schools mainly in Australia, Zealand but also a little bit around the world. You can always tweet me @mikereading. Then we have our Website usingtechnologybetter.com where we share about ideas, resources and so on. So let me just give you a little bit of background a bit of a context to today’s session. I was part of the teaching in a high school in New South Wales and he used to be a high school science teacher and then through an interesting set of circumstances started teaching history and geography for a number of years and was teaching history and geography in a high school setting.

The government brought out the what was called the Digital Education Revolution which most Australian teachers would know about. We were and I , senior college so we didn’t have a staged rollout of technology what we had was all of the students got a device at one time so we went one to one basically overnight and to be honest it was a bit of a disaster. We didn’t have the preparation for it.