2014 SLATE

 

This page contains resources from my sessions at the 2014 SLATE conference in Wisconsin Dells. 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 9, 2014

 

What Does Effective Technology Integration Look Like?

Part 1 – Introduction

• Scott’s slides: Keynote, PDF
• Said No Teacher Ever video
• Autonomy, mastery, and purpose video
• Autonomy, competency, and relatedness research
• Why we should care about student empowerment
  • 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
• Model schools / networks
• 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
• 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 – Lesson (re)Design

WHEN SCOTT TELLS YOU, find your group number and click on the link!

• Groups 1 to 30
• Groups 31 to 60
• Groups 61 to 90
• Groups 91 to 120
• Groups 121 to 150
• Groups 151 to 180
• Groups 181 to 210
• Groups 211 to 240
• Groups 241 to 270
• Groups 271 to 300
• Groups 301 to 330
• Groups 331 to 360
• Groups 361 to 390
• Groups 391 to 420
• Groups 421 to 450
• Groups 451 to 480
• Groups 481 to 510
• SEE ALL RESULTS
• trudacot v1 annotated
  • Background resources
  • Join the mailing list to get trudacot updates
  • 4 negotiables of student-centered learning
• TPACK
• SAMR
• Innovation Man video
• Arizona Tech Integration Matrix (50 practice lessons / videos)

 Part 4 – 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 5 – 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

 

Utilizing New Technologies for Effective Staff Development

• Really, really bad PD video
• Where Good Ideas Come From video
• Lucian Vattel video (excerpt)
• Branch 1
  • THE PUSH
    • Subject-specific blogs OLD
  • Feedly
  • Subject-specific blogs NEW
    • Know a great blog? Submit it to the list!
• Branch 2
  • Peer-to-peer learning
• Your approaches / ideas / questions?

 

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

 

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