2012 Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
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January 20, 2012
Leadership for 21st century schools
- Backchannel: TodaysMeet
The lines are blurring
- My slides (pptx)
- Video: Let’s transform education (from David Truss)
- App: What was I scared of?
- App: The fantastic flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
- App: NYPL Biblion
- App: Waste Land
- App: Algebra Touch
- App: WordWit
- App: The Civil War Today
- App: iMuscle
- App: Our Choice
Are your policies getting in the way of your progress?
- Backchannel: TodaysMeet
- Scott’s slides (pptx ppt)
- Blocking the future [READ THIS!]
- Online predators: Overblown threat
- The facts about online sex abuse and schools
- Report – Enhancing child safety and online technologies
- CIPA facts
- 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?
Administrator resources
- My landing page for parents and educators [USE THIS WITH EDUCATORS, SCHOOL BOARDS, AND PARENTS]
- IBM’s Change Toolkit
- Leadership Day (2007 – 2011)
- Implementation dip
- Diffusion of innovation
- Gartner’s hype cycle
- Bolman & Deal frameworks
- Resistance to change
- Agreement and trust
- Can schools change?
- Leadership Day (2007 – 2011)
- Change Week wrap-up
- SCAMPER
- Book: Influencer
- Book: The knowing-doing gap
- Book: Execution
- Book: The future of management (read my review)
Facilitating effective classroom technology use by students and teachers
- Backchannel: TodaysMeet
Standards you should know about
- NCTE 21st century literacy standards
- ISTE essential conditions (see also rubric)
- National Educational Technology Standards (NETS): Administrators, Teachers, and Students
Technology integration resources
- Technology and learning spectrum
- TPACK (see also handout)
- Technology integration matrix
- Learning activity types: wiki and mind map
- Web 2.0 that works
- Teacher needs in anticipation of the instructional use of technology
- Technology, coaching, and community
Tools, tools, tools
Backchanneling
- TodaysMeet
- PrimaryPad, Sync.in
- Google Docs
- Twitter: Introduction to hashtags, New York Times 1, New York Times 2, Monica Rankin
- Chatzy
- Wallwisher
- See also CoverItLive, Google jockeying
- Ideas for ways to use backchannels in class
More student interaction tools
- Tricider
- Intervue: How digital is your classroom?
- See also Google Moderator, Socrative, Keek, Using cell phones for learning, mobile learning reflections
Student content curation
- Social bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo
- Storify: Wordle resources
- See also Wikispaces, WetPaint, LiveBinders
Student content creation
- Blogs: Caitlin, Class Blogmeister, WordPress, Blogger, Edublogs
- Present.me: Ancient Rome, Garr Reynolds
- Screencasting: Khan Academy, Screencast-o-matic, Screenr, Jing, iPad apps
- See also Slideshare, YouTube QuickCapture, VoiceThread, Mind42, bubbl.us, Glogster, Animoto, xtranormal, dotSUB, Flickr, BlogTalkRadio, Weebly, Google Sites
- Get more ideas at FreeTech4Teachers
EVERY educator should be using a RSS reader
- Kathy’s basket
- Google Reader
- RSS Guide for Educators [a work in progress!]
- CASTLE blogs
- Great blogs for busy administrators
- A huge list of school leadership blogs (and Twitter IDs)
- Every teacher should subscribe to FreeTech4Teachers
- Every teacher should subscribe to Subject-specific blogs
Elementary teachers
- Kathy Cassidy: Class blog, traditions wiki, primary math wiki
- VoiceThread: Helen Keller, VoiceThread4Education wiki
- Podcasting: Portable Radio, Jamestown Elementary
- Google Lit Trips
- Education Apps Review, Appitic, Apps in Education
- Bethke Elementary student showcase
- Elementary classroom blogs
- Elementary teacher blogs
- HELP WANTED: Interesting primary/elementary educational technology projects?
Problem– / Inquiry– / Challenge-based learning
- Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
- Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
- Instructional Practices Inventory
- Buck Institute for Education (videos; student testimony and teacher restructuring; technology and PBL)
- College and Work Readiness Assessment (example report)
- Whitfield Career Academy (example projects)
- Discovery and Unlimited (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- Big Picture Learning (podcasts and videos; student testimony and personalization)
- EdVisions (videos; traditional v. self-directed students)
- Envision Schools (PBL in action and success story)
- Expeditionary Learning (stories)
- New Tech Network (videos; solar oven)
- CASTLE’s list of exemplary 21st century schools
- Online student projects
Resources