Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Introduction to our blog

Welcome to our Blog
Hopefully this digital space can engage readers to take part in the journey with us through our research. We are currently developing a behaviour management app that will help students learn pro-social values and ways of behaving positively at school. This blog relates to part of our course for our post graduate studies for the certificate in Leadership in digital and Collaborative learning. 

This blog also gives us the evidence required to help us complete our Course for the research assignment at the Mindlab by Unitec -

The Mindlab 

The Mind Lab by Unitec is a collaboration between Unitec Institute of Technology and The Mind Lab. It draws on the education expertise of both organisations to provide teachers and their students with the opportunity to learn how to integrate technology, enhance digital capability and activate new teaching practices in the classroom. We have been attending lectures at the mindlab weekly and also took our students there to learn about coding and robotics.
Please follow the link to find out more information about the mindlab

In the beginning- Nov 2014

We started developing ideas for our blogs during our first assignments for the Mindlab assignments and we brainstormed together the potential for an app to engage our learners about pro-social behaviour within our school. This led to the creation of our first LEAN CANVAS -for more information about LEAN CANVaS please follow the link
 We went from this brainstorm to the following LEAN CANVAS-



Introducing our Research team



Gerhard Vermeulen - Classroom teacher at Wesley Intermediate and Co-ordinator of the digital learning implementation at Wesley Intermediate School. Gerhard brings the real world application of digital learning for the app that we are research and trying to develop.







Lou Reddy - AP at Wesley Intermediate and Team leader of the Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) implementation at Wesley Intermediate School. Lou comes from a background in sales and marketing and is eager develop an app through evidence based research that schools will readily use. 




Purpose of the blog

It has been strongly suggested that blogs can provide a contemporary platform for our team to aggregate areas of interest as well as providing a platform that is intuitive to read, easy to follow and simple to activate. We want to be able to engage with our school community about the process of researching and developing an app. 


A model from PB4L which reflects our app development journey 

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