1. PLP LIVE 2012 CONFERENCE Essential Ideas

2. ESSENTIAL IDEAS  1. Educational Shift  2.Professional Development & Practice  3. Technology

3. EDUCATIONAL SHIFT  Old Model: Scalable Learning/Efficiency learning a set of skills  New Model: Participating in Knowledge Flows learning how to learn and participate in knowledge flows

4. EDUCATIONAL SHIFT  Today’s students live in a multimodal world  Students learn in three spheres: 1. Academic 2. Interest Driven 3. Peer Culture  Students build context and content

5. EDUCATIONAL SHIFT Students construct new contexts 1. Remixing existing structures into something NEW Ex) Movie: students edit sound track, saturation, images Alters not only what you see but what it means

6. EDUCATIONAL SHIFTS  Play= progenitor of culture and innovation Rooted in Montessori and Dewey  Through play, students find new ideas/solutions/epiphanies  In world of play, students can fail until getting it right

7. EDUCATIONAL SHIFTS  In a world of constant change, modern students must blend epistemologies Knowing Making Playing

8. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

9. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE  1. Teacher= Mentor/Coach/Facilitator  2. Students produce more content than YOU  3. Class= OPEN PORTAL to the world  4. Amplify Students’ Interests & Voices  5. Connected Educators= Leaders of Social Learning Utilize Local/ Global Resources and Experts Create Authentic Learning Experiences & Opportunities

10. TECHNOLOGY  Promotes culture of continuous inquiry  Connects students to global community  Enables students to publish to the world Publishing no longer the end; it’s the beginning (of discussions and deeper reflection)

11. TECHNOLOGY  Integrated with Content and Pedagogy Content TechnologyPedagogy

12. TECHNOLOGY  College of William & Mary: T-PACK Technology Pedagogical Content Knowledge “attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge.” (http://tpack.org/)

13. TECHNOLOGY  Discipline Specific Resource Packs:  http://activitytypes.wmwikis.net/HOME

14. SAMPLE: SCIENCE

15. SAMPLE: ENGLISH

16. SAMPLE: HUMANITIES

17. SAMPLE: MATH

18. SAMPLE: LANGUAGE

19. PROMINENT SPEAKERS  John Seely Brown  Suzie Boss  Darren Cambridge  Bruce Dixon  Will Richardson  Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach  Jackie Gerstein  Jane Krauss,  Renee Moore

20. NOTABLE SITES: HTTP://TEACHERLEADERS.TYPEPAD.COM/TEACHMOORE/

21. HTTPS://WWW.EPICED.ORG/HOME

22. HTTP://WWW.IDEASLAB.EDU.AU