This page contains resources from my work with the Zionsville (IN) Community Schools. 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 8, 2014
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
- Some awesome PowerPoint slides
9:00Â Recognizing (and Facilitating) Effective Technology Integration
- OUR BACKCHANNEL
- Scott’s slides
- 3 big shifts
- Deeper learning
- Greater student agency
- Technology-infused
- Mystery Skype
- The 1:1 landscape in Iowa (see also the Iowa 1:1 Institute)
- Frameworks and models
- Join the mailing list to stay informed and/or help us make it better!
- Background resources that we examined
- Learning redesign
- Places People Lived (Elementary; Social Studies)
- Plate Tectonics (Middle; Science)
- Geometry Architects (Secondary; Math)
- Fables Have World Appeal (Elementary; English-Language Arts)
- Maps Galore (Middle; Social Studies)
- Secrets of Desert Plants (Secondary; Science)
- How to use trudacot
- 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!
11:15 School Board / PTO / Foundation
- Quick question
- OUR BACKCHANNEL
- 3 big shifts
- Deeper learning
- Greater student agency
- Technology-infused
- Adaptive learning
- Clarity highlights
- 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
- Wrap-up
- 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!
12:30 High School Faculty
- OUR BACKCHANNEL
- Clarity highlights
- Do students need to learn lower-level factual and procedural knowledge before they can do higher-order thinking?
- The four negotiables
- Are you connected?
- Model schools / networks
- From ‘yes, but’ to ‘how can we?’ and ‘why not?’
- Wrap-up
- 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!
2:15Â Elementary / Middle School STEM
- OUR BACKCHANNEL
- Clarity highlights
- Do students need to learn lower-level factual and procedural knowledge before they can do higher-order thinking?
- The four negotiables
- Are you connected?
- Model schools / networks
- From ‘yes, but’ to ‘how can we?’ and ‘why not?’
- Wrap-up
- 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!


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I’m happy to chat anytime!