Scott McLeod (@mcleod)

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May 10, 2010

Pre-thinking

• Learning climate assessment
• Group notes – Elementary
• Group notes — Secondary

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?

How can learning be different?

• Group notes – All levels

Technology-mediated learning and assessment

1. Learning climate assessment results
2. Check out the Quest to Learn School
   1. A school built around video games
   2. Video overview
   3. Text overview
   4. See curriculum samples (Spartan Spy, Invisible Pathways, Writers of the Digital Roundtable (start at p. 11), etc.)
3. Check out Conspiracy Code
   1. Read the overview
   2. See the syllabus
   3. Video overview
   4. Learn more (particularly the product overview)
4. Students can make their own games / challenges
   1. Sploder Game Creator
   2. Scratch
      1. Getting Started Guide
      2. Scratch for Educators
      3. Download Scratch
   3. Microsoft Kodu (see also video overview)
   4. Alice
   5. StarLogo TNG
   6. XNA Creators Club
   7. Lego MindStorms
      1. Components
      2. NXTLog
   8. 2DIY (see also this script archive)
   9. Wikipedia — Video game level design
   10. YouTube — Make own levels
   11. Getting started with videogame development
5. Books on gaming and simulation (coming soon)

Technology-mediated assessment

1. College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA)
2. 1. Overview
   2. Sample report
   3. Teaching to a test worth teaching to in college and high school
   4. Assessing critical thinking, analytical reasoning, problem-solving, and writing in high school
3. ETS Criterion essay grading software
4. ETS iCritical Thinking certification (also see video overview)
5. The School of One
6. Ed Sector — Beyond the Bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
7. The Kappan — Assessment around the world
8. Book — The Flat World and Education

Every educator should have a listening station

• Caitlin (at the Extreme Biology blog)
• Kathy Cassidy
• BotsHigh
• Mabry Middle School Film Festival
• Diffusion of energy drinks (at VoiceThread4Education)
• The Number Warrior
• Teaching The Civil War With Technology
• RSS in Plain English
• Google Reader
• Blogs
• Subject-specific blogs
• Great blogs for busy administrators

Wrap-up

• Group notes — All levels

Resources

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• CASTLE
• Dangerously Irrelevant

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