This page contains resources from my leadership sessions at the 2014 EdTechTeam California Summit in Palo Alto. 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 or CASTLE – the nation’s only university center dedicated to the technology needs of administrators – as we can be of help.
July 19, 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
1. Troubleshooting Our Digital Leadership
- OUR BACKCHANNEL
- 3 big shifts
- Deeper learning
- Greater student agency
- Technology-infused
- Quick survey (see results)
- Questions? Concerns? Where are we stuck?
- 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. Toward Better Technology Integration, Part 1
- OUR BACKCHANNEL
3 big shifts
- Deeper learning
- Greater student agency
- Technology-infused
- Mystery Skype
- The 1:1 landscape in Iowa (see also our 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
- 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!
3. Toward Better Technology Integration, Part 2
- OUR BACKCHANNEL
- 3 big shifts
- Deeper learning
- Greater student agency
- Technology-infused
- Frameworks and models
- TPACK
- SAMR (see image)
-
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- Join the mailing list to stay informed and/or help us make it better!
- Background resources that we examined
- Learning redesign
- Places People Lived
- Plate Tectonics
- Fables Have World Appeal
- Geometry Architects
- Maps Galore
- Biography of an American Author
- 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!
4. Getting From There to Here (yes, that was correct!)
- OUR BACKCHANNEL
- 3 big shifts
- Deeper learning
- Greater student agency
- Technology-infused
- Replication or empowerment?
- From ‘yes, but’ to ‘how can we?’ and ‘why not?’
- The four negotiables of student learning
- 8 building blocks and some guiding questions
- The magic formula for technology failure?
- Model schools / networks
- Education blogs by discipline
- Adaptive learning
- 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!

PLEASE STAY IN TOUCH AS I CAN BE OF SUPPORT TO YOU.
I’m happy to chat anytime!
5. Using Google spreadsheets to facilitate better meetings, professional development, and class discussions
- Staff meeting / PD workshop
- Classroom