PLAEA Northern Consortium

What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media

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January 3, 2012

Part A. Our new landscapes

A1. Our new information landscape

A2. Our new learning landscape

A3. Our new economic landscape

A5. Wrap-up
  • What’s in your head?

Part B. Technology

B1. This is how we dream

B2. NCTE

B3. The Iowa and/or Common Core
B4. Implications for Practice

 B5. Wrap-up

Part C. Moving Forward

C1.  Simple but big ideas

C2. Sense-making

C3. Other resources / Wrap-up

Part D. Other Resources

D1. Some guiding questions
  • What can we do to increase the cognitive complexity of students’ day-to-day work so that they are more often doing deeper thinking and learning work?
  • What can we do to better incorporate digital technologies into students’ deeper thinking and learning work in ways that are authentic, relevant, meaningful, and powerful?
  • What can we do to give students more agency and ownership of what they learn, when they learn, how they learn, and how they show what they’ve learned?
  • What can we do to better recognize and assess when students’ deeper thinking and learning work is (or isn’t) occurring?
  • What can we do to build the internal capacity of both individual educators and school systems to be better learners and faster change agents?
  • As we move toward more cognitively-complex, technology-suffused learning environments, how do we bring educators, board members, parents, communities, policymakers, and higher education along with us?
  • As we move toward more cognitively-complex, technology-suffused learning environments, how do we ensure that traditionally-underserved student and family populations aren’t further disadvantaged?
  • As we move toward more cognitively-complex, technology-suffused learning environments, what individual and societal mindsets – and local, state, and federal policy supports and/or barriers – need reconsideration?

D2. Technology integration resources

D3. Problem- / Inquiry- / Challenge-based learning resources

Miscellaneous Resources

1 Comment

  1. Darci Farnum

    THANK YOU for speaking with us today!
    You are helping reinforce my position as an educator in the 21st Century!

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