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
Part 1 – Introduction
- Scott’s slides:Â 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
- Greater student agency
- Technology-infused
- Model schools / networks
- Iowa 1:1 map (see also the April Iowa 1:1 Institute)
Part 2 – Mystery Skype
 Part 3 – We’re Stuck
- Lack of faith or understanding
- Control, fear, inertia
- 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]
Free!
- Supporting effective technology integration and implementation [BOOK CHAPTER]
- What’s the biggest ‘game changer’ in education?
- From fear to empowerment (VIDEO; TEDxDesMoines)
- Education in a digital world (VIDEO; AEA 267)
- Iowa, Did You Know? (VIDEO; there’s also a facilitator’s guide)
- Are schools dangerously irrelevant? (VIDEO; TEDxASB)
- 27 Internet safety talking points / Rethinking AUPs / Filtering and blocking
- If we were really serious about educational technology
- We can’t let educators off the hook
- Our technology messages are important
- Some awesome PowerPoint slides
- Online stopwatch (or see Time Timer software)
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