So excited to hear Wes Fryer speak at our district’s June Leadership meeting this morning.
Here are my notes from his presentation . . .
Alternate title: “Leading Schools with Digital Vision in a Bubblesheet World”
Contxts enables professionals to share their contact information and more via SMS
- For handouts Txt wfryer to 50500
- “Handouts” for today’s presentation
- On Twitter: @wfryer
- Blog: Moving at the Speed of Creativity
Brad Paisley, “Welcome to the Future”
Moments of cognitive dissonance: videoconferencing with people around the world
<1> The world has gone digital . . . so must learning @school
Did You Know 4.0
5 minute activity: write down at least 3 notable facts
Poll Everywhere - Did You Know 4.0: Your Takeaways?
*Watching this again reminds me of the infographic on A Day in the Internet
Where did we ask all our questions before Google?
Digital Citizenship requires that we recognize that the learning environment and society at large has changed
57% of adults Google themselves
~”Reputation Management and Social Media,” Pew Internet Research, May 26
How can we manage our digital footprints?
<2> Digital Sandboxes are Essential
Computer Literacy?
More than Microsoft tools – move to cloud computing – Google Reader, “newspaper in the sky”
Technology 4 Teachers, a 15-week course for pre-service teachers
How many people comment on blogs and online articles? The rest of you are “lurkers”
*This reminds me of the Four Cs of Participation Online
What evidence do you have to prove you were in 6th grade?
Throwing away 6th grade – OR – The case for online portfolios
K-12 Online Conference: “What Did You Do in School Yesterday, Today, and Three Years Ago?” by H. Songhai
ISTE’s NETS for Students, etc. - Focus on Creating, Communicating, Collaborating
*Reminds me of Andrew Churches‘ great wiki on Bloom’s Digital Technology and Mike Fisher’s Visual Representations of Bloom’s Taxonomy with a 21st Century Skills Frame
Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class
2010 Creativity World Forum with Dan Pink, Ken Robinson, and more
Learning Signs: Our Family Learning Blog
<3> Consider whether technology use is Accommodating v. Transformative
Kaplan University Professor ad
If you are only using interactive white board to do what projector could, you are missing its transformative potential
All technology is “magic” at some point
“The predominant learning tool defines the predominant learning task in the classroom” ~Alan Kay
If all I’m doing with computers is word processing – same as with pencil – that’s accommodating, not transformative
Larry Cuban, Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom (links to a 1MB pdf)
Clayton Christensen, Disrupting Class
Ocoee Middle School flashmob singing “Gotta Keep Reading”
Animating a Blockbuster: How Pixar Built Toy Story 3
Inbox Zero
In the old days, learning was all about memorization – Today, I don’t have to memorize as much as I used to before
Favorite applications: Posterous, Evernote, Reuters news, simple Wikipedia, Angry Birds game
Hard drive crash = “digital stroke” ~Kevin Honeycutt
Enemies of Change
Villain #1: Fear (especially of change)
Villian #2: Ignorance
Levels of Technology Use
(from forthcoming book, Powerful Ingredients 4 Blended Learning)
1. Awareness
2. Personal Use
3. Professional Use (copied)
4. Professional Use (invented)
All of these are possible without technology; technology enhances the learning
Talk with Media: Using Copyright-Friendly Images –> use pictures whenever possible!
Tell a story in 5 frames on Flickr
Tell a story with 5 photos for Educators group
Voicethread story of daughter getting a new haircut
“The teacher B roll” ~Marco Torres
Alan Levine’s 50 Ways to Tell a Story
Copyright Friendly Pictures:
One Laptop Per Child‘s 2012 model – for $75 – Wow!
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