Frisco
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August 5, 2010
Two big shifts (and one big problem)
- Scott’s 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?
New technologies, new affordances
- Chris Lehmann speaks to the FCC
- Scott’s slides (pptx ppt)
- 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
Every educator should have a listening station
- Caitlin (at the Extreme Biology blog)
- Kathy Cassidy
- The Number Warrior
- Teaching The Civil War With Technology
- RSS in Plain English
- Google Reader
- Blogs
- Great blogs for busy administrators
Are your policies getting in the way of your progress?
- Scott’s 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 [READ THIS!]
- 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?
Resources
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- CASTLE
- Dangerously Irrelevant
- See the NETS-A, NETS-T, NETS-S, and NCTE 21st century literacies
- Contact me if you’re interested in CASTLE’s surveys for students, parents, teachers, and administrators [NOT for public dissemination, please]
Recommended reading
- The Global Achievement Gap
- Curriculum 21
- Disrupting Class
- Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
- 21st Century Skills (Bellanca & Brandt)
- Here Comes Everybody
- Everything is Miscellaneous
- What Would Google Do?
- Caught in the Middle [if rural]
- Hollowing Out the Middle [if rural]
- Cognitive Surplus
- 21st Century Skills (Trilling & Fadel)
- 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
- 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