Jason Ohler
He believes in opening doors for people, listen to them and let people express themselves.
Kids are banging on the door to show how they learn and what they know.
We must refresh our sense of normal.
Exosomatic storage - Sagan
Screen plus Easel equals Screasel
Bring your own device should be the norm, but we shut kids off.
We have moves from the flat to a collage, currently we hope and pray that students have new literacy skills.
1. Shift new media
2. Value writing, if it ain't onnthe page it ain't on the stage
Essays and VDT
3. Adopt art as the fourth r
4. Follow the DAOW of literacy
5. Attitude is aptitude. If you follow this YOU are the new literacy. Practice personal and social literacy.
6. Personal and social Fluencey
7. Develop literacy around digital tools
8.
New Media Narrative
Media scripting is literacy under the radar
Jason Ohler's information: jasonohler.com
His storytelling site is jasonohler.com/storytelling/index.cfm
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
ISTE 2011, June 28 - Coaching Best Practices
James Gates, moderator
State of PA initiative - Classrooms for the future
Technology and PD, $200 mil
Had the $ and the tools and the PD then added coach
Rita Beane, Jim Knight
Suggested support systems - classroom walkthroughs,professional learning culture, Common planning time, logistics, and right tools
Use of a mentor coach, importance to have a sounding board for coach and a whip, we all need a Sarah :-)
Relationships, there's that word, again. Also...collaboration.
Identify the risk-takers in the school and develop expected in these people. Develop and cultivate native interest. She eloquently spoke of the selling and cajoling she had to do to push the message.
Another coach found herself fixing things...she was not alone. She spoke of putting learning objectives first. Importance of connection through list serves.
"When I was a first year teacher, I would have loved a coach."
How to document activities, tracking time on task, topic, and with whom. Also, a diary...was a pain in the neck.Job security and justification.
look at Rita Beane book
K12ware is the site for log
How did they manage the requests and communication - hall walking, drop in, train any time any where. Necessity to be assertive, need to make business for yourself.
Time must be explicit for self PD and resource development.
Through social media you can see who has what skill set.
Strategies for dealing with admin, they are the biggest hurdle
Must be a shared vision that starts from the top and should be standards-based.
Buffalo has a particular challenge, though, with the low achieving conversation.
Specialization and proximity
When the head does not know what the tentacles are doing, we are in trouble.
Use your friends
It's about collaboration and communication
Celebrate our successes
Poster sessions in schools
Relationships with tech directors.
State of PA initiative - Classrooms for the future
Technology and PD, $200 mil
Had the $ and the tools and the PD then added coach
Rita Beane, Jim Knight
Suggested support systems - classroom walkthroughs,professional learning culture, Common planning time, logistics, and right tools
Use of a mentor coach, importance to have a sounding board for coach and a whip, we all need a Sarah :-)
Relationships, there's that word, again. Also...collaboration.
Identify the risk-takers in the school and develop expected in these people. Develop and cultivate native interest. She eloquently spoke of the selling and cajoling she had to do to push the message.
Another coach found herself fixing things...she was not alone. She spoke of putting learning objectives first. Importance of connection through list serves.
"When I was a first year teacher, I would have loved a coach."
How to document activities, tracking time on task, topic, and with whom. Also, a diary...was a pain in the neck.Job security and justification.
look at Rita Beane book
K12ware is the site for log
How did they manage the requests and communication - hall walking, drop in, train any time any where. Necessity to be assertive, need to make business for yourself.
Time must be explicit for self PD and resource development.
Through social media you can see who has what skill set.
Strategies for dealing with admin, they are the biggest hurdle
Must be a shared vision that starts from the top and should be standards-based.
Buffalo has a particular challenge, though, with the low achieving conversation.
Specialization and proximity
When the head does not know what the tentacles are doing, we are in trouble.
Use your friends
It's about collaboration and communication
Celebrate our successes
Poster sessions in schools
Relationships with tech directors.
ISTE 2011, June 28 - So you have iPads...What Next
Sponsored by SIG TC! This is a table-hopping with a large forum with 10 minute then...switch!
Marymount Independent School, NYC - Science curriculum, sketchbook pro, no prior knowledge, 9th grade, sent files as email attachment, ebook template, epublishing templates from apple, teachers can make ebooks, should have pages, document storage with dropbox, using Bretford carts, ebooks are made on a computer, leaf snap? Zip file through iTunes as an IBook on a bookshelf, nobody has asked to print, but AirPrint works and print central, Apple still has no plan for volume app purchases and distribution,
Laconia School District - Learn it and EarnIt Karen Switzer from New Hampshire - Staff can use their PD funds, lottery style to use 700 dollars of PD money to get iPads, apps were not part of the $$, used Google groups to share knowledge, peer collaboration was key, iPad 2's were part of the second cohort, teachers really stepped out of their realm to push this technology forward. **Still have not heard about management, app purchase, standards, student achievement, etc...
Teachers use it as a reward system or differentiate - really? What does this mean?
1300 students with decent percentage of free and reduced
**I am still really surprised how truly mediocre some presentations are.
Fox Chapel Schools, iPads making a difference on learning
Seton Hill Technology
**So far, pages and books is best idea
Multiply formats for creative responses, great quote
Ithoughts, popplets,
How can we control and direct people to a dropbox?
Pleuritic, online iPad software
Panel discussion
Early learning, special Ed, ELL's, eBooks
Gary Stager, Mr. Constructivism
Stager.org/handouts
What do you mean by learning? Saracin
It's an admission that we have not quite figured it out - Stagar
Before we talk about buying stuff we need to ask what is Ed Tech
IPad constraints:
-no executable files, no one can make applications on the device, how about HyperCard on the iPad
-Stop driving educational policy by whether there's there is an app for that
-On the sacred continuum of evil iPads are more toward the good
All in all, this was a super session!
Marymount Independent School, NYC - Science curriculum, sketchbook pro, no prior knowledge, 9th grade, sent files as email attachment, ebook template, epublishing templates from apple, teachers can make ebooks, should have pages, document storage with dropbox, using Bretford carts, ebooks are made on a computer, leaf snap? Zip file through iTunes as an IBook on a bookshelf, nobody has asked to print, but AirPrint works and print central, Apple still has no plan for volume app purchases and distribution,
Laconia School District - Learn it and EarnIt Karen Switzer from New Hampshire - Staff can use their PD funds, lottery style to use 700 dollars of PD money to get iPads, apps were not part of the $$, used Google groups to share knowledge, peer collaboration was key, iPad 2's were part of the second cohort, teachers really stepped out of their realm to push this technology forward. **Still have not heard about management, app purchase, standards, student achievement, etc...
Teachers use it as a reward system or differentiate - really? What does this mean?
1300 students with decent percentage of free and reduced
**I am still really surprised how truly mediocre some presentations are.
Fox Chapel Schools, iPads making a difference on learning
Seton Hill Technology
**So far, pages and books is best idea
Multiply formats for creative responses, great quote
Ithoughts, popplets,
How can we control and direct people to a dropbox?
Pleuritic, online iPad software
Panel discussion
Early learning, special Ed, ELL's, eBooks
Gary Stager, Mr. Constructivism
Stager.org/handouts
What do you mean by learning? Saracin
It's an admission that we have not quite figured it out - Stagar
Before we talk about buying stuff we need to ask what is Ed Tech
IPad constraints:
-no executable files, no one can make applications on the device, how about HyperCard on the iPad
-Stop driving educational policy by whether there's there is an app for that
-On the sacred continuum of evil iPads are more toward the good
All in all, this was a super session!
Monday, June 27, 2011
ISTE 2011, Monday, June 27 - A Leadership Framework and Instrument For Technology Innovation in Schools
Presented by the William and Ida Friday Institute For Educational Innovation
Jeni Corn, NC State U
Pilots of 1:1 implementations similar to Maine. 3 year project
Features of a successful implantation measured what worked with a successful environment.
What are the successful characteristics for a technology implementation.
Hope the .ppt is available, because the presenter is going 100mph
The one point study author keeps making is that the principal must model behaviors that are expected from teachers including PD, use, observations for integration.
.ppt will be up on the wiki
The essential conditions and features are useful for us to glean for really any project initiative we are running.
The presenters are sharing some evaluator humor :-)
Very interesting study. It confirms much of what we already suspected - that principals have a vital role in the success of an Ed tech initiative due to the grip they have on many conditions in the school.
Go to the Friday Institue to get just about any construct for just about any technology project.
http://www.fi.ncsu.edu/
Search for Jeni Corn on the ISTE site for preso .ppt
Jeni Corn, NC State U
Pilots of 1:1 implementations similar to Maine. 3 year project
Features of a successful implantation measured what worked with a successful environment.
What are the successful characteristics for a technology implementation.
Hope the .ppt is available, because the presenter is going 100mph
The one point study author keeps making is that the principal must model behaviors that are expected from teachers including PD, use, observations for integration.
.ppt will be up on the wiki
The essential conditions and features are useful for us to glean for really any project initiative we are running.
The presenters are sharing some evaluator humor :-)
Very interesting study. It confirms much of what we already suspected - that principals have a vital role in the success of an Ed tech initiative due to the grip they have on many conditions in the school.
Go to the Friday Institue to get just about any construct for just about any technology project.
http://www.fi.ncsu.edu/
Search for Jeni Corn on the ISTE site for preso .ppt
ISTE 2011, June 27, Literacy Strategies For the 21st Century
Edmonton Catholic Schools
Presenter used the term "Money Bomb"
Edistorm is the main tool for the presentation: www.edistorm.com
Looks like another online sticky notes
He hit the nail on the head with the Robert Moses analogy---not sure how it fits, yet...Here come the TPACK
Engagement - Rigorous
Edistorm uses sticky notes, pictures you tube video, also produces summary reports
At the risk of being critical to the presenter, if this is TPACK in nature, why are we starting with tool and not skills?
Presentation is dying a slow death...if this is content area reading and literacy strategy...why are we only learning how to build an Edustorm? I wish the presenter would explicitly explain how does this promote collaboration, inquiry, problem solving?
Unfortunately this is the first real disappointment of ISTE 2011...The title was literacy and there is no research, no connection to 21st C skills, a mere nod to TPACK, no contextual framework for literacy instruction, no instructional model or framework demonstrated. This could have the potential for such a great presentation if the presenter could have put more effort into explicitly crafting this demonstration based on literacy instruction and not just on the Edistorm tool. Now Reg the founder of Edistorm is giving a sales pitch including an offer of a "super" 50 percent off for ISTE educators. The wireless is totally hosed up...perfect ending.
Presenter used the term "Money Bomb"
Edistorm is the main tool for the presentation: www.edistorm.com
Looks like another online sticky notes
He hit the nail on the head with the Robert Moses analogy---not sure how it fits, yet...Here come the TPACK
Engagement - Rigorous
Edistorm uses sticky notes, pictures you tube video, also produces summary reports
At the risk of being critical to the presenter, if this is TPACK in nature, why are we starting with tool and not skills?
Presentation is dying a slow death...if this is content area reading and literacy strategy...why are we only learning how to build an Edustorm? I wish the presenter would explicitly explain how does this promote collaboration, inquiry, problem solving?
Unfortunately this is the first real disappointment of ISTE 2011...The title was literacy and there is no research, no connection to 21st C skills, a mere nod to TPACK, no contextual framework for literacy instruction, no instructional model or framework demonstrated. This could have the potential for such a great presentation if the presenter could have put more effort into explicitly crafting this demonstration based on literacy instruction and not just on the Edistorm tool. Now Reg the founder of Edistorm is giving a sales pitch including an offer of a "super" 50 percent off for ISTE educators. The wireless is totally hosed up...perfect ending.
ISTE 2011, Monday, June 27, Horizon Report 2011 - K-12 Edition
2011 Horizon Report, K-12 Edition
Larry Johnson, CEO, The New Media Consortium
COSN, ISTE, and NMC collaboration.
2004, first report looking at different sectors and parts of the world.
The project is found at navigator.NMC.org
There's a wiki found at k12.wiki.NMC.org
Report focuses on students and learning and emerging technologies.
NMC tracks emerging tech and trends and boil down by ranking system with experts.
Diverse group of thinkers agree on trends:
-rethinking roles as educators
-decentralization of services and cloud
-wherever whatever whenever
-perceived value of innovation and creativity
-technology profoundly affects success
Impediments:
-personalized learning is lagging
-digital literacy continues to be paramount
-economic pressure
-k12 establishment system is under assault
-learning now takes place outside the walls
Cloud, mobiles, social networks, game based, open content, pln, learning analytics with dashboards for teachers and others,thin screens, flexible interfaces
NMC.org/horizon
COSN interested in helping CTO's identify emerging technology
What are the next steps?
What are the unintended consequences?
The toolkit is free and downloadable for how to use the tools to solve major problems for school districts. Toolkit is very accessible and flexible - use it with school board, pta's, etc...
COSN.org/horizon
#hzk11
Bit.ly/horizon-nominate
Larry Johnson, CEO, The New Media Consortium
COSN, ISTE, and NMC collaboration.
2004, first report looking at different sectors and parts of the world.
The project is found at navigator.NMC.org
There's a wiki found at k12.wiki.NMC.org
Report focuses on students and learning and emerging technologies.
NMC tracks emerging tech and trends and boil down by ranking system with experts.
Diverse group of thinkers agree on trends:
-rethinking roles as educators
-decentralization of services and cloud
-wherever whatever whenever
-perceived value of innovation and creativity
-technology profoundly affects success
Impediments:
-personalized learning is lagging
-digital literacy continues to be paramount
-economic pressure
-k12 establishment system is under assault
-learning now takes place outside the walls
Cloud, mobiles, social networks, game based, open content, pln, learning analytics with dashboards for teachers and others,thin screens, flexible interfaces
NMC.org/horizon
COSN interested in helping CTO's identify emerging technology
What are the next steps?
What are the unintended consequences?
The toolkit is free and downloadable for how to use the tools to solve major problems for school districts. Toolkit is very accessible and flexible - use it with school board, pta's, etc...
COSN.org/horizon
#hzk11
Bit.ly/horizon-nominate
ISTE 2011 - Monday, June 27, Embedding The 4 C's In The Common Core
Timothy Magner, Executive Director, Partnership For 21st Century Skills
Much conversation surrounding common core and connections to Ed tech.
Profound knowledge gap and gap in globally competitive skills.
Non-routine jobs on the rise, but school is not changing and keeping up with this trend.
Read, write, think, and be responsible and dependable!
Ability to collaborate, think creatively, and innovate.
21st Centyry Skills Framework (see p21 website)
21st Century themes
Information, Media and Tech Skills
Life and Career Skills
Learning and Innovation Skills
"applying what you know to a new, real-world situation."
What assessments are rightnfor 21st c skills?
About the Common Core:
Big shift nationwide 40 plus states aligning, integrating
Ccss needs to be looked at as the floor not the bar!
P21 putting toolkit together. Help leaders implement with alignment overview, examples, and assessments.
Ccss both explicitly and implicitly calls for P21 skills
What's not covered? CCSS dos not tell how to teach, leavingnmuch flexibility. Encourages a broad spectrum. Connections among disciplines.
Explicitly embedded outcomes with liberal self-direction.
Note to presenter...too much, too fast, too dry, please be more engaging to your audience!
Much conversation surrounding common core and connections to Ed tech.
Profound knowledge gap and gap in globally competitive skills.
Non-routine jobs on the rise, but school is not changing and keeping up with this trend.
Read, write, think, and be responsible and dependable!
Ability to collaborate, think creatively, and innovate.
21st Centyry Skills Framework (see p21 website)
21st Century themes
Information, Media and Tech Skills
Life and Career Skills
Learning and Innovation Skills
"applying what you know to a new, real-world situation."
What assessments are rightnfor 21st c skills?
About the Common Core:
Big shift nationwide 40 plus states aligning, integrating
Ccss needs to be looked at as the floor not the bar!
P21 putting toolkit together. Help leaders implement with alignment overview, examples, and assessments.
Ccss both explicitly and implicitly calls for P21 skills
What's not covered? CCSS dos not tell how to teach, leavingnmuch flexibility. Encourages a broad spectrum. Connections among disciplines.
Explicitly embedded outcomes with liberal self-direction.
Note to presenter...too much, too fast, too dry, please be more engaging to your audience!
ISTE 2011 Monday, June 27 TPACK and Professional Development
Judi Harris
College of William and Mary
Slides are on ISTE Site
We are people who help teachers learn.
Concepts and Strategies
Stop designing strategies around the tools. Instead approach with learning needs.
TPACK is a way to stop the tail from wagging the dog.
Shift the conversation from teaching the tool using the tech for effective teaching.
"Pedagogical Content Knowledge" Lee Schulman 1985
The intersection at tech, pedagogy, and content is where we live! Graphing calculator example was spot on.
The t, p and c are all interdependent - one thing changes, and all things change.
Tech is sometimes complex and daunting when combined with the burden of content. This brings into importance content pedagogical skills. This is huge.
Spend $$$ on pedagogy not all on tech skills. A shift needs to happen with PD in Ed tech.
What we are not necessarily good at is the range of PD.
Etpd.wm.edu types of PD
Teachers probably need only basic tech skills but heavy content and pedagogical skill.
Choosing, matching the affordances of the tool leveraged to task is key.
The TPACK Game!
4 colored cards and write a standard per card.Write the type of learning activities, I.e. Think pair share.
List the tech on another card. Mix, choose, and ask ..... Does this fit, why or why not?
Could put other things like affective domain things as well in the mix.
How TPACK is being deployed
Inquiry and reflection
Learning by design
Modeling
Micro teaching
Self assessment
How about if we worked TPACK into the times when we are coaching?
Situational, context, activity-based, and routinized in a set of activity types.
If we know this, why not activity-based planning? This approach is called learning activity types.WOW!
Actvitytypes.wmwikis.net
This is a potential tool for us to use as we create scaffolding for teachers and for us to create our containers. We need to view these as suggestions.
Call it a scaffold, template, guide...I see us fitting into this model seamlessly!
There is a rubric!
Activity types.wmwikis.net/assessments
TPACK.org
Go online to ISTE site to get all the slides.
College of William and Mary
Slides are on ISTE Site
We are people who help teachers learn.
Concepts and Strategies
Stop designing strategies around the tools. Instead approach with learning needs.
TPACK is a way to stop the tail from wagging the dog.
Shift the conversation from teaching the tool using the tech for effective teaching.
"Pedagogical Content Knowledge" Lee Schulman 1985
The intersection at tech, pedagogy, and content is where we live! Graphing calculator example was spot on.
The t, p and c are all interdependent - one thing changes, and all things change.
Tech is sometimes complex and daunting when combined with the burden of content. This brings into importance content pedagogical skills. This is huge.
Spend $$$ on pedagogy not all on tech skills. A shift needs to happen with PD in Ed tech.
What we are not necessarily good at is the range of PD.
Etpd.wm.edu types of PD
Teachers probably need only basic tech skills but heavy content and pedagogical skill.
Choosing, matching the affordances of the tool leveraged to task is key.
The TPACK Game!
4 colored cards and write a standard per card.Write the type of learning activities, I.e. Think pair share.
List the tech on another card. Mix, choose, and ask ..... Does this fit, why or why not?
Could put other things like affective domain things as well in the mix.
How TPACK is being deployed
Inquiry and reflection
Learning by design
Modeling
Micro teaching
Self assessment
How about if we worked TPACK into the times when we are coaching?
Situational, context, activity-based, and routinized in a set of activity types.
If we know this, why not activity-based planning? This approach is called learning activity types.WOW!
Actvitytypes.wmwikis.net
This is a potential tool for us to use as we create scaffolding for teachers and for us to create our containers. We need to view these as suggestions.
Call it a scaffold, template, guide...I see us fitting into this model seamlessly!
There is a rubric!
Activity types.wmwikis.net/assessments
TPACK.org
Go online to ISTE site to get all the slides.
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Official Backchannel For ITC PLO - April 8, 2011
OK Ladies and Gentlemen...This is your opportunity to post a running commentary on today's proceedings. Post your thoughts, reactions, comments, enhancements, etc...
Be respectful, resourceful, gracious, magnanimous, forthright, .....whatever! Just get in here and share!
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Brain research
Day 2 session 1
Brain research and21st C Learning
Engaging 21 st C Learners
Peter Scott
Gale Cengage Learning
Middle School Background-special ed
Tech integrator and lots of pd opportunity
Gale is a huge publisher
He is doing the sales pitch
Brain research 1-wired for visuals
So far we are still waiting for the science
What are the issues in the student brain?
-embarassment
-failure
-harm
There are limits to attention span for direct inatruction
Brain research 2- Fun Factor-inject the fun and people will follow
Brain research 3 - environment is important
Need compelling relevant tasks-a aittle confusing and tasks create buy-in. Need for engagement and motivation
Still waiting for the science
Overview of 21st C Skills
Brain based learning by Jensen - refer Jensen's chart for brain bSed learning
So far this has been a bit of a disappointment
Saw Joe's non-netbook-not sure what to think
The way we deliver information is crucial
Tell your story hraphically
How is Gale responding to the above discussion?
Number 5- Effective Professional Development
Brain research and21st C Learning
Engaging 21 st C Learners
Peter Scott
Gale Cengage Learning
Middle School Background-special ed
Tech integrator and lots of pd opportunity
Gale is a huge publisher
He is doing the sales pitch
Brain research 1-wired for visuals
So far we are still waiting for the science
What are the issues in the student brain?
-embarassment
-failure
-harm
There are limits to attention span for direct inatruction
Brain research 2- Fun Factor-inject the fun and people will follow
Brain research 3 - environment is important
Need compelling relevant tasks-a aittle confusing and tasks create buy-in. Need for engagement and motivation
Still waiting for the science
Overview of 21st C Skills
Brain based learning by Jensen - refer Jensen's chart for brain bSed learning
So far this has been a bit of a disappointment
Saw Joe's non-netbook-not sure what to think
The way we deliver information is crucial
Tell your story hraphically
How is Gale responding to the above discussion?
Number 5- Effective Professional Development
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