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As the births of living creatures are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. The teacher should “take his seat not on a platform or pulpit, but on a level with the rest.”
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What to do until we all have all the support, resources and direction we wish we had
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Not about bits, bytes, speed, or keeping up It’s going to happen anyway
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The Dumbest Generation
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◦ http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/gallery/dumbestg eneration/ http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/gallery/dumbestg eneration/ Is this how we think (or should think) about our students?
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Three Golden Ages ◦ Renaissance Florence ◦ Elizabethan England ◦ America’s Founding
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Dumbest Generation ◦ Problem of decontextualized learning Three Golden Ages ◦ Innovation/Experimentation ◦ Tradition
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Struggling for Balance Between ◦ Experimentation Innovation Need to know 21 st century skills ◦ Tradition Baby/Bathwater How good can we be at predicting what matters
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1 Willing to fail 2 Objective for kids & for you Big picture Small excuse 3 Gather resources & allies 4 Small bites 5 Lead by example (Brag) 6 Ask for more
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Life experience. ◦ Psychiatric Aide – Geriatrics Ward ◦ Purchasing for manufacturing ◦ Financial Services ◦ Poison Control ◦ Sales, Marketing, and Data Processing (VP) ◦ Industrial Computer Sales ◦ And at 43 an educator
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Computer Skills OJT ◦ Paper tape to a teletype 1969 ◦ Commodore 64 -1983 ◦ Cobol Coding – Late 80s ◦ Personal Computing ◦ Client Server Networking – 1990 ◦ No games or breadboards at home
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Social Studies 1994-1995
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English 1994-1995
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Long Term Sub Spring 1996 English – Freshmen, Freshmen SpEd, Poetry, Creative Writing
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Home Office – used LC III School Lab – Disk & Printer
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Got the lab whenever we wanted Did a little troubleshooting, but it basically worked Writing, and re-writing, and re-re-writing And rethinking everything I thought I knew about teaching writing
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District Technology Coordinator 1996-2003
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140 PCs 70 Macs 5 servers eMail Website District Office Staff Development Class in Field Engineering Tutorial in Poli Sci Information Systems Umpire Baseball & Softball
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State of NH Dep’t of Ed – Co-founder NHEON http://www.nheon.org/ http://www.nheon.org/ TERC – Mathematics & Science Education http://www.terc.edu/ http://www.terc.edu/
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2003 Dir Inst Tech High School ◦ Teach Comp Sci ◦ Ass’t Coach Softball 2005 Dir Inst Tech K-12 ◦ Teach Ethics 2007 to Present add Dir Info Systems ◦ Teach Ethics ◦ Remember to breathe
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1 Willing to fail 2 Objective for kids & for you 3 Gather resources & allies 4 Small bites 5 Lead by example (Brag) 6 Ask for more
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Not plan to fail ◦ Have Plan B Choose to teach something you already do pretty well ◦ Don’t pick a central curricular component for your first try Low stakes
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Why is this essential? Why not next year? Tools of their time ◦ Don’t teach harness making when tractors are cheap Have a big rationale Choose a small objective
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Liberal from Latin liberalis – appropriate for free people Quadrivium (where 4 roads meet) ◦ Mathematics, Geometry, Music, Astronomy Trivium (where 3 roads meet) ◦ Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic
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Rhetoric Information Technology Logic Computer Science 3 Domains of the New Trivium Grammar Information Literacy
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Information Literacy ◦ Incorporates Media Literacy ◦ Use the Big 6 ◦ Learn from librarians
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Algorithmic Thinking How tools are designed and deployed Return of what was lost in the 1950’s & 1960’s
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Laptop one example of a generic tool Use technology as a tool Presentation tools Web tools Data collections
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3 Domains of Tech Fluency Information Technology Computer Science Information Literacy Philosophy Logic Problem Solving (Tactical) Innovation
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For students & for you ◦ For them, so they’ll tell the story ◦ For you, so you’ll have the energy to do it
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Wetware – people to help you Software/Applications/Web Tools Hardware Read grants Use district & state resources (sometimes waiting to be asked – outreach funding is first to go)
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People like to be asked ◦ Community ◦ Corporate ◦ Former students ◦ Parents ◦ Other staff
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Exploit the free resources Go to the sessions today Don’t resolve to be an expert
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Don’t start with the year long portfolio Know how and where the backups are Have Plan B
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Success draws resources Don’t wait to be discovered Showcase the kids work Know your teacher’s room culture Be willing to brag Present at conferences
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Offer to help write grants Send proposals to conferences Read Grants
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Comes from everywhere Distributed computing leads to Distributed Learning Requires Distributed Leadership
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