This page contains resources from my sessions at the 2014 Virginia ASCD Annual Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia. 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 4, 2014
Moving toward better tech integration
Student empowerment: Yes, at school!
Part 1: Youth out of school
Part 2: Youth in school
- Scott’s slides
- More of this, please [VIDEO]
- Why we should care about student empowerment
- Autonomy / self-actualization
- Kids are bored out of their skulls
- The declining economic value of routine cognitive work
- Google app / Siri, PhotoMath, etc.
- Model schools / networks
Part 3: Some ways to get there
- Genius hour / 20% time / passion projects
- J-term / May term
- Makerspaces / maker faires
- Short-term pilots
- 4 negotiables of student-centered learning
- PBL projects, Chesterfield County
- Small shifts / easy wins / plant seeds and grow them
- From ‘yes, but’ to ‘how can we?’ and ‘why not?’
- How NOT to get there
Part 4: Where 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 5: Wrap-up
- We’ve got no time, no time…
- 10X thinking / Moonshot thinking [VIDEO]
- Engagement is an outcome of students doing meaningful work
- Schools need vigor, not rigor
- Don’t be the lid [VIDEO]
- Scott’s slides
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)
Thanks, Scott, for sharing these resources and especially for showing all the kid work you showed!! What you gave us was a vision- there ARE teachers everywhere doing this work (and letting the kids do the work), but not all teachers everywhere are doing it–and we need to expect it!
I want to take all those questions from the social studies teacher and post them all over my school!