This series of posts is all about my magical, mystery tour of Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, Washington state, USA. You can follow the feed of what happens over the next week by using the official #msftpil or the unofficial #chickengates.
I have been extremely fortunate to be selected to attend Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Institute where 50 top educators from all over the world will attend a weeks training with Microsoft and have the opportunity to share good practice and develop future collaborative projects.
This is the fifth post and is all about the first morning (well and a little about the night before involving some drinks, an impromptu trip to a break dancing club and the back injury following trying to breakdance in a dance off – actually not going to talk about that, will be on youtube in the future apparently)
I have had an amazing morning meeting the 50 teachers from 31 different countries who I will have the privilege to spend the week with, I enjoyed the initial icebreaker called 9 degrees of separation where we had to go and find 5 similarities or things in common with 9 different teachers and find a common feature that we have in common.
Next we did a great activity with Deidre Butler where in small groups we discussed what teaching and learning looks like in the 21st century – we had around 30 minutes to discuss and then present. Our group did a video see below & a Wordle see at the top of the post.
How would you describe learning and teaching in the 21st century?