2013 Webster City PD Day

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Keynote

Getting beyond fear and control

Powerful technology, powerful students

Evaluating tech integration in our classrooms

Some guiding questions

What can we do to increase the cognitive complexity of students’ day-to-day work so that they are more often doing deeper thinking and learning work?
What can we do to better incorporate digital technologies into students’ deeper thinking and learning work in ways that are authentic, relevant, meaningful, and powerful?
What can we do to give students more agency and ownership of what they learn, when they learn, how they learn, and how they show what they’ve learned?
What can we do to better recognize and assess when students’ deeper thinking and learning work is (or isn’t) occurring?
What can we do to build the internal capacity of both individual educators and school systems to be better learners and faster change agents?
As we move toward more cognitively-complex, technology-suffused learning environments, how do we bring educators, board members, parents, communities, policymakers, and higher education along with us?
As we move toward more cognitively-complex, technology-suffused learning environments, how do we ensure that traditionally-underserved student and family populations aren’t further disadvantaged?
As we move toward more cognitively-complex, technology-suffused learning environments, what individual and societal mindsets – and local, state, and federal policy supports and/or barriers – need reconsideration?

Some other technology integration resources