This page contains resources from my keynote at MASA’s Curriculum Leaders of Minnesota Fall Conference in Brainerd, Minnesota. 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.
November 14, 2014
Part 1 – Workforce and Economy
- Humans Need Not Apply [VIDEO]
- Organizational productivity v. worker benefits
- The declining economic value of routine cognitive work
Part 2 – Learning and Teaching
- The student engagement cliff
- 3 big shifts, 8 building blocks, and some guiding questions
- Places People Lived (elementary; ELA/social studies)
- Mystery Skype [VIDEO]
- Lesson (re)design
- Maps Galore (middle school; social studies)
- trudacot (how could we redesign this lesson/unit/activity?)
- 50 tech-infused lessons + videos to use with your staff for practice!
Part 3 – Wrap-Up
- We’ve got no time, we’ve got no time…
- From ‘yes, but’ to ‘how can we?’ and ‘why not?’
- 10x thinking / Moonshot thinking [VIDEO]
- Model schools / networks
- Deeper learning (Hewlett Foundation)
- Yes, it works [RESEARCH]
- DeeperLearning4All
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- 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
