2014 Leadership Iowa

 

This page contains resources from my conversation with the Leadership Iowa cohort in Ames, Iowa. 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 if you have any other questions about these resources.

 

December 12, 2014

Classroom transformations: Deeper learning, student agency, and digital devices

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Part 1 – Introduction

• Scott’s slides: Keynote, PDF
• Some challenges
  • Autonomy / self-actualization
  • Kids are bored out of their skulls
  • Engagement is an outcome of students doing meaningful work
  • The declining economic value of routine cognitive work
    • Google app / Siri, PhotoMath, Jibbigo, etc.
    • See also the Humans Need Not Apply video
• 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
• Model schools / networks
• Iowa 1:1 map (see also the April Iowa 1:1 Institute)

Part 2 – Mystery Skype

• Mystery Skype video
  • Description of activity
• Classroom connection and collaboration resources

 Part 3 – We’re Stuck

• Lack of faith or understanding
  • Do students need to learn lower-level factual and procedural knowledge before they can do higher-order thinking?
  • Deeper learning (Hewlett Foundation)
    • Yes, it works [RESEARCH]
    • DeeperLearning4All
  • Struggling with educators’ lack of technology fluency
• Control, fear, inertia
  • Our technology messages are important
  • Which vision are you selling?
• Implicit assumptions / mindsets
• Joy, trust, autonomy, courage, openness, connectedness
  • Teachers need these too
• Typical technology usage
• Replication or empowerment?
• The magic formula for technology failure?
• From ‘yes, but’ to ‘how can we?’ and ‘why not?’

Part 4 – Wrap-Up

• We’ve got no time, no time…
• 10X thinking / Moonshot thinking [VIDEO]
• Schools need vigor, not rigor
• Don’t be the lid [VIDEO]
  • Monkeys, flea jars, crab buckets, and educational risk-taking

 

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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. Our technology messages are important
11. Some awesome PowerPoint slides
12. Online stopwatch (or see Time Timer software)

 

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