Area Education Agency 14
This page contains resources from my work with Green Valley AEA 14 (Iowa). These materials are made available under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution-share alike license, which means that you are both allowed and encouraged to use them! Please contact me if you have any other questions about these resources.
April 26, 2010
MORNING
Two big shifts (and one big problem)
- Slides (pptx ppt)
- The status quo no longer suffices: An open letter to the Ames (IA) School Board
- Creating the new paradigm: Educational technology policy priorities
- The Iowa series – Wrap-up
- Notes from India – My TEDx talk
- Many service jobs will become globalized piece work
- Does your school organization reflect our new digital information landscape?
- Don’t teach your kids this stuff, please?
Some examples
- Caitlin at Extreme Biology
- Mabry Middle School Film Festival
- Kathy Cassidy – blog, Flickr, YouTube, math wiki, rituals wiki
Keeping yourself informed: Creating listening stations and personal learning networks (PLNs)
- Model schools – United States, International
- RSS in Plain English
- Google Reader
- Example – The Number Warrior
- Example – Teaching the Civil War With Technology
- Moving Forward: Subject-specific blogs
- Moving Forward: Blogs
- Great blogs for busy administrators
- Blog search engines: Technorati, Google Blog Search
Are your policies getting in the way of your progress?
- Group notes
- Slides (pptx ppt)
- Online predators: Overblown threat
- The facts about online sex abuse and schools
- Report – Enhancing child safety and online technologies
- CIPA facts
- Blocking the future
- We trust you with the children but not the Internet
- Format bigotry
- No Facebook for you!
- I don’t like my district’s AUP
- Fear
- The one percent doctrine
- Educating trumps blocking
- From the head of Zeus
- I’d like an idiocy filter, please
- Principal blogging not allowed
- I don’t like Internet filters
- Science Leadership Academy AUP
- What message does your AUP send home?
AFTERNOON
Essential questions
- How are young people changing as a result of digital technologies and media?
- How must students’ and adults’ learning environments change?
- How must learning institutions change?
- What can we do with this back in my school organization in the near future?
Shock and awe: How do we keep up? (if you do this, let me know how it went!)
- You need 3 different colors of index cards + masking tape
- Continuum end points
- List of technologies
- List of questions
Your school’s learning environment
You’re not thinking far enough ahead: Technology-mediated learning
- Video – James Gee on games and learning
- Learning climate assessment results
- 3rd world farmer
- Doug Gentile’s research on gaming
- Quest to Learn
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- Video overview
- Text overview
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See curriculum samples (Spartan Spy, Invisible Pathways, Writers of the Digital Roundtable (start at p. 11), etc.)
- Conspiracy Code
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- Video overview
- See the syllabus
- See the overview and product overview
- SimSchool
- Many more resources on educational gaming
You’re not thinking far enough ahead: Technology-mediated assessment
- The School of One
- ETS Criterion essay grading software
- ETS iCritical Thinking certification (see also video overview)
- College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA)
- Rhode Island Diploma System
- Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
- Assessment around the world
- Book - The Flat World and Education
Things that are here or nearly here
- Comprehensive, anytime/anywhere access to information (open / free / multimodal)
- Comprehensive, anytime/anywhere access to other people
- Technology-mediated teaching, learning, and assessment
- The Internet of things
Wrap-up
- Slides (pptx ppt)
- Now what?
- Please stay in touch!
OTHER STUFF
Resources
Recommended reading
- The Global Achievement Gap
- Disrupting Class
- Caught in the Middle
- Hollowing Out the Middle
- Curriculum 21
- 21st Century Skills
- Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
- Here Comes Everybody
- Everything is Miscellaneous
- What Would Google Do?
- Tough Choices or Tough Times
- Blown to Bits
- Everyware
- Wikinomics
- A Whole New Mind
- Born Digital
- Grown Up Digital
- Growing Up Digital
- and more…
Recommended viewing
- 21st century pedagogy
- Learning to change
- Did You Know? 4.0
- Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations
- Information Revolution
- Generation We
- Digital Kids @ Analog Schools
- Welcome to Your World
- We Think
- A Brave New World-Wide Web
- Networked Student
- A View of 21st Century Learners
- Kevin Kelly at TED
- Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF
- Sir Ken Robinson at TED
- Brewster Kahle at TED
- Free Range Learning
- The Human Network
- The Fourth Screen
- The Essay