2014 Hudson

This page contains resources from my work with the Hudson (WI) Public School District.  These materials are made available under a Creative Commons attribution-share alike 4.0 International license, which means that you are both allowed and encouraged to use them! Please contact me as I can be of help with your technology and leadership needs.

 

August 26, 2014

9:45 Recognizing (and Facilitating) Effective Technology Integration

• OUR BACKCHANNEL
• Scott’s slides
• 3 big shifts
  • Deeper learning
    • Bloom’s taxonomy
    • Webb’s depth of knowledge levels
  • Greater student agency
    • Battling over the meaning of ‘personalization’
    • Differentiation v. individualization v. personalization
  • Technology-infused
    • Typical classroom technology usage
    • Connected Learning infographic

• Mystery Skype
  • Video
  • Lesson plan
  • School connection and collaboration resources

• The 1:1 landscape in Iowa (see also the Iowa 1:1 Institute)
• Frameworks and models
  • TPACK
  • SAMR (see image)

  • trudacot

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  • Background resources that we examined
• Learning redesign
  • Places People Lived (Elementary; Social Studies)
    • Video
    • Lesson plan
  • Plate Tectonics (Middle; Science)
    • Video
    • Lesson plan
  • Geometry Architects (Secondary; Math)
    • Video
    • Lesson plan
  • Fables Have World Appeal (Elementary; English-Language Arts)
    • Video
    • Lesson plan
  • Maps Galore (Middle; Social Studies)
    • Video
    • Lesson plan
  • Secrets of Desert Plants (Secondary; Science)
    • Video
    • Lesson plan
• How to use trudacot
• Tech tools by function (scroll down to Resources by Learning Activity)
• 30-SECOND EVALUATION: Liked this session? and/or Suggestions?
• Come say ‘hi’ afterward and grab one of my business cards so we can stay in touch!

 

Afternoon stuff

• 3 big shifts
  • Deeper learning
    • Bloom’s taxonomy
    • Webb’s depth of knowledge levels
    • Do students need to learn lower-level factual and procedural knowledge before they can do higher-order thinking?
  • Greater student agency
    • Battling over the meaning of ‘personalization’
    • Differentiation v. individualization v. personalization
  • Technology-infused
    • Typical classroom technology usage
    • Connected Learning infographic

• Adaptive learning
  • Time, place, path, and pace
  • New Classrooms, Part 1 [VIDEO]
  • New Classrooms, Part 2 [VIDEO]
• Clarity highlights
  • Call to our districts
  • Slide deck
  • Example reports
• Replication or empowerment?
• 8 building blocks and some guiding questions
• The magic formula for technology failure?
• Model schools / networks
• 27 Internet safety talking points / Rethinking AUPs / Filtering and blocking
• The four negotiables
• Are you connected?
  • Chance favors the connected mind
  • Feedly
  • Subject-specific blogs (this is being updated; check back in early September!)

• Wrap-up
  • Engagement is not a goal, it’s an outcome of students doing meaningful work
  • What schools need: Vigor instead of rigor
  • Which vision are you selling?
  • From ‘yes, but’ to ‘how can we?’ and ‘why not?’
  • Monkeys, flea jars, crab buckets, and educational risk-taking [flea jar video]
• Come say ‘hi’ afterward and grab one of my business cards so we can stay in touch!

 

Free!

1. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation [BOOK CHAPTER]
2. What’s the biggest ‘game changer’ in education?
3. From fear to empowerment (VIDEO; TEDxDesMoines)
4. Education in a digital world (VIDEO; AEA 267)
5. Iowa, Did You Know? (VIDEO; there’s also a facilitator’s guide)
6. Are schools dangerously irrelevant? (VIDEO; TEDxASB)
7. 27 Internet safety talking points / Rethinking AUPs / Filtering and blocking
8. If we were really serious about educational technology
9. We can’t let educators off the hook
10. Some awesome PowerPoint slides

 

 

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