Manson Northwest Webster
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April 28, 2010
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
Essential questions
- How are we changing as a result of digital technologies and media?
- How must students’ and adults’ learning environments change?
- How must learning institutions change?
- What can you do with this back in your school organization?
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)
- Please stay in touch!
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