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Educational Administrators Technology Conference (October 12–13, 2010)
The future of learning, teaching, and assessment
- Scott’s slides (pptx ppt) [links are embedded in presentation]
- Video: Mastering low-level content
- Model schools (that you can visit): United States (see the networks at bottom too), International
- Video: Teacher movie (and administrator movie!)
- Video: You can’t be my teacher
- Video: Yes, this is the future of magazines
- Video: The future of print, part 3 (books)
- Video: Conspiracy Code
- Video: School of One
- Video: BBC – Adventure
- Help wanted – sites that connect classrooms across the globe
- Help wanted – Building a new secondary school
- Slide – Any educator that buys wall maps or globes should be fired
- Gaming survey results
- Quest to Learn school
- Rhode Island diploma system
- College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA; see also sample task)
- ETS Criterion essay grading software
- ETS iCritical Thinking certification
- Linda Darling-Hammond: Assessment around the world [Kappan]
- Linda Darling-Hammond: The Flat World and Education
- ICanHasCheeszurger
- TakingITGlobal (global projects for youth)
- Ushahidi
Are your policies getting in the way of your progress?
- 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?
Educational Administrators Technology Conference (October 29–30, 2009)
- The Last 5,000 Days (pptx ppt)
- Video: 21st century pedagogy
- Video: Hahaha
- Video: Did You Know? 4.0
- The Information Society is HERE: Are Nebraska Schools Ready? (pptx ppt)
- Video: Learning to change
Resources
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
- Did You Know? (Shift Happens)
- Chris Lehmann speaks to the FCC
- Learning to change
- 21st century pedagogy
- 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
- Introducing the Book