May 13 Leading Learning- Mark Osborne

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May 13 Leading Learning- Mark Osborne

Mark Osborne 2pm Southwell Sergel Lab

Deputy Principal

Mark and Albany Senior high school have been receiving a lot of interest from secondary schools reviewing their curriculum models and wishing to engage with student voice while succeeding with External Assessments. Mark will look at his schools approach and the outcomes for students at Albany Senior High School. Mark is an engaging speaker with innovative ideas that are based on real implementation within a New Zealand school.

Mark has recently organised the Emerging Leaders Symposium with the belief ... We need to foster emerging leaders in education. We need to give them a voice and support them to develop a vision for the future of education, because soon that future will be in their hands. To this end, a group of emerging leaders have convened a two-day symposium in Auckland on 28th and 29th April 2011. Emerging leaders are invited to attend this 'unconference' to prepare a vision for the future of education in New Zealand-Aotearoa. This vision will be presented to Karen Sewell on the second day of the symposium.

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May 13 Leading Learning- Mark Osborne

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Mark is Deputy Principal of Albany Senior High School, the country's first state senior high school and an open source school. He is passionate about open source software, Linux, Moodle, Mahara, Koha, cutting-edge IT, powerful learning and helping young people get where they want to go. He's also part of the Open Education Resource NZ planning team, committed to all things libre and gratis.

Albany Senior High School is the country's first large-scale open source school. They have 200 computers running Ubuntu Linux on the desktop, a powerful open source software stack on each machine and they even have students building open-source tools and environments for the school and community. Mark Osborne is a Deputy Principal at ASHS and will talk about the process they followed to bring about this significant turn in the future of education in New Zealand. He'll talk about what worked, what didn't work and where to from here.