Vermont
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March 25, 2010 — CVEDC
- Scott’s slides (pptx ppt)
- Video – Did You Know? 4.0
- Video – Mastering low-level content
March 26, 2010 – CVEDC
Keeping yourself informed: Creating listening stations and personal learning networks (PLNs)
- Model schools — United States, International
- RSS in Plain English
- Google Reader
- Moving Forward: Subject-specific blogs
- Moving Forward: Blogs
- Great blogs for busy administrators
- Blog search engines: Technorati, Google Blog Search
Shock and Awe: How do we keep up? (if you do this, let me know how it went!)
- 3 different colors of index cards + masking tape
- Continuum end points
- List of technologies
- List of questions
Are your policies getting in the way of your progress?
- Scott’s slides (pptx ppt)
- Online predators: Overblown threat
- The facts about online sex abuse and schools
- Report – Enhancing child safety and online technologies
- CIPA facts
- Blocking the future
- 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?
Augmented reality
You’re not thinking far enough ahead: Technology-mediated learning
- Video – James Gee on games and learning
- Learning climate assessment results
- 3rd world farmer
- Doug Gentile’s research on gaming
- Quest to Learn
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- Video overview
- Text overview
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See curriculum samples (Spartan Spy, Invisible Pathways, Writers of the Digital Roundtable (start at p. 11), etc.)
- Conspiracy Code
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- Video overview
- See the syllabus
- See the overview and product overview
- SimSchool
- Many more resources on educational gaming
You’re not thinking far enough ahead: Technology-mediated assessment
- The School of One
- ETS Criterion essay grading software
- ETS iCritical Thinking certification (see also video overview)
- College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA)
- Rhode Island Diploma System
- Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
- Assessment around the world
- Book - The Flat World and Education
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
Essential questions
- How are young people changing as a result of digital technologies and media?
- How must students’ and adults’ learning environments change?
- How must learning institutions change?
- What can we do with this back in my school organization in the near future?
Successful visionary leadership (Burt Nanus)
- Strategic vision x Communication = Shared purpose
- Shared purpose x Empowered people x Appropriate organizational changes x Strategic thinking = SUCCESSFUL VISIONARY LEADERSHIP
Wrap-up
Resources
Recommended reading
- The Global Achievement Gap
- Curriculum 21
- 21st Century Skills
- Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
- Disrupting Class
- Caught in the Middle
- Hollowing Out the Middle
- 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
- 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


