Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools 2011
This page contains resources from my work for the 2011 NESA Fall Leadership Conference in Athens, Greece. 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.
October 20, 2011
Keynote
- Video: Iowa, Did You Know?
- My slides (pptx)
- 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
Workshops
- Questions and concerns survey: October 22 (see results)
- SCAMPER
- Mission impossible: October 20, October 22 (no textbooks); BLANK
- 6–3-5: October 20, October 22 (more PBL); BLANK
- Reverse assumptions: October 20, October 22 (learning environments of the future); BLANK
- Lotus blossom: October 20, October 22 (staff reluctance to ‘shift’); BLANK
- Book: The innovator’s toolkit
- Book: Gamestorming
- Book: Thinkertoys
School technology leadership resources
- My landing page for parents and educators [USE THIS WITH STAFF, BOARD, AND PARENTS]
- 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
- IBM’s Change Toolkit
- Book: Influencer
- Book: The knowing-doing gap
- Book: Execution
- Book: The future of management (read my review)
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
Problem– / Inquiry– / Challenge-based learning
- Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
- Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
- 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
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
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Resources