Brainerd 2014

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

• OUR BACKCHANNEL

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]
  • Description of activity
• Lesson (re)design
  • Maps Galore (middle school; social studies)
  • trudacot (how could we redesign this lesson/unit/activity?)
    • Additional explanation
    • Background resources
    • Sign up for the mailing list!
  • 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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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