This page contains resources from my 2012 work with the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center in Elmsford, New York. 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.

May 18, 2012

BACKCHANNEL: TodaysMeet and/or #lhricevent on Twitter (@mcleod)

1. Scott’s slides (pptx)

• Crowdsourced Amateurs
• Open, Accessible, & Free
• Active & Interactive
• Gallery Walk: Student Agency & Voice

2. Apps!

• App: What was I scared of?
• App: The fantastic flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
• App: Factor Samurai
• App: Algebra Touch
• App: WordWit
• App: iMuscle
• App: Tick Bait’s Universe
• App: NYPL Biblion
• App: Waste Land
• App: The Civil War Today
• App: World War II Interactive Timeline
• App: Our Choice
• iBooks Author (see also this story)
• App building tools

3. Check out this pre-assessment. How could you use something like this to spark movement in your school system? (see also Will Richardson’s “Bold” schools)

BREAK [<a href=“http://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch/” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘http://www.online-stopwatch.com’]);”>10 minutes]

4. Adaptive and tech-mediated learning systems - Knewton, Knewton demo, and more Knewton videos; Rocketship Education, overview, NBC video, and Rocketeers in Action (9:00); School of One and New Classrooms; Khan Academy; Grockit

5. Parallel systems of educational reform - Knewton investors, Rocketship Education board and partners, New Classrooms board, New Schools Venture Fund and Seed Fund, Khan Academy team and investment/stats, Boom time for education startups, Crunchbase, Kirsten Winkler, Audrey Watters

6. Implications

7. Bookmarks: PBL and Competency-Based Education

8. Scott’s slides: Exponential Change (pptx)

9. CASTLE’s new School Tech Leadership courses and programs

Miscellaneous resources

Leadership resources

1. Scott’s landing page for parents and educators [USE THIS WITH EDUCATORS, BOARDS, AND PARENTS]
2. Implementation dip
3. Diffusion of innovation
4. Gartner’s hype cycle
5. Bolman & Deal frameworks
6. Resistance to change
7. Agreement and trust
8. Can schools change?
9. Leadership Day (2007 – 2011)
10. Change Week wrap-up
11. IBM’s Change Toolkit
12. Book: Influencer
13. Book: The knowing-doing gap
14. Book: Execution
15. Book: The future of management (read my review)

Technology integration resources

1. Technology and learning spectrum
2. TPACK (see also handout)
3. Technology integration matrix
4. Learning activity types: wiki and mind map
5. Web 2.0 that works
6. Teacher needs in anticipation of the instructional use of technology
7. Technology, coaching, and community
8. Educational technology bill of rights for students
9. iOS education apps reviews and web sites
10. School connection and collaboration resources

Problem– / Inquiry– / Challenge-based learning resources

1. Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
2. Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
3. Buck Institute for Education (videos; student testimony and teacher restructuring; technology and PBL)
4. College and Work Readiness Assessment (example report)
5. Whitfield Career Academy (example projects)
6. Discovery and Unlimited (Christchurch, New Zealand)
7. Big Picture Learning (podcasts and videos; student testimony and personalization)
8. EdVisions (videos; traditional v. self-directed students)
9. Envision Schools (PBL in action and success story)
10. Expeditionary Learning (stories)
11. New Tech Network (videos; solar oven)
12. Independent Curriculum Group
13. Band of Educators
14. CASTLE’s list of exemplary 21st century schools

Examples of critical thinking prompts (have students make these!)

1. Writing – Photo prompts,
2. Science – Discrepant events,
3. Math – What can you do with this?
4. Math – 101questions

Standards, frameworks, and reports you should know about

1. NCTE 21st century literacy standards
2. ISTE essential conditions (see also rubric)
3. National Educational Technology Standards (NETS): Administrators, Teachers, and Students
4. NAIS Guide for Becoming a School of the Future: PDF or HTML interactive
5. See also Kevin Kelly’s 6 Words for the Modern Internet
6. See also Scott’s The Future of Learning

RSS resources (build your internal capacity as learners)

1. Kathy’s basket
2. Google Reader
3. RSS Guide for Educators [a work in progress!]
4. CASTLE blogs
5. Great blogs for busy administrators
6. A huge list of school leadership blogs (and Twitter IDs)
7. Subject-specific blogs (see also Scott’s Delicious tags)

Thinking / group facilitation tools

1. SCAMPER
2. Book: The innovator’s toolkit
3. Book: Gamestorming
4. Book: Thinkertoys

Presentation resources

1. Online Stopwatch
2. Timer Tab

CASTLE resources

1. Dangerously Irrelevant (Scott)
2. Mind Dump (Scott)
3. Education Recoded (CASTLE directors)
4. CASTLE
5. Video: Iowa, Did You Know?
6. Recommended reading (including Scott’s new book!)
7. Recommended viewing
8. Other resources