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Friday, July 1, 2011

ISTE 2011 and A Piece of History



Day 2 at ISTE11...amazing!

Keynote: Mindsets for the 21st Century:Unleashing Leadership Potential in Students - Dr. Stephen R. Covey and Muriel Summers with moderation by Boyd Craig

Favorite quote: "Seeing a child as a test score is the worst form of identity theft."


Coaching, Technology, and Community: Power Partners in Professional Development
– ISTE

White Paper Release

Cognitive Coaching Program – Garmston and Costa

1. thought and perception produce all behavior
2. teaching is constant decision-making
3. to learn something new requires engagement and alteration in thought
4. humans continue to grow cognitively


Instructional Coaching – Jim Knight, Kansas Coaching Project


Equality
Choice
Voice
Dialogue
Reflection
Praxis
Reciprocity

Join ISTE Coaching Center

Get Ready, Get Set, Get Organized! – Beth Still, Josh Allen, George Couros, Paula Naugle, Jason Schrage

Edmodo:
a. private social learning platform
b. similar to Facebook for the classroom
c. Glogster imports easily into Edmodo
d. students cannot have one-to-one conversations
e. can collaborate with other schools using Edmodo

Livebinders:
a. 3-ring binder for Internet
b. can be used as a portfolio

New Media, New Literacies: Educational Transformation through Digital Creativity
– Jason Ohler

1. ‘New media literacy’ instead of digital storytelling
2. Don’t use storyboarding! Use story map.
3. The "DAOW" of literacy - digital, art, oral, written

Late in the afternoon, I decided to walk from my hotel to see the Liberty Bell.



Day 3 at ISTE11...bittersweet

Copyright Clarity: Using Copyrighted Materials for Digital Learning – Renee Hobbs

"To promote creativity, innovation and the spread of knowledge."

Who is telling the story?

Educational Use Guidelines are NOT the Law!

Intellectual property is the 2nd largest export that we have.

People may use copyrighted material “for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship or research.” ~Section 107, Copyright Act of 1976

The copyright law balances the rights of owners and users by deciding if the benefits the users more than it hurts the owners.

Is your use of copyrighted materials a fair use?

Nature, purpose, effect, amount

1. Did the unlicensed use “transform” the material taken from the copyrighted work by using it for a different purpose than that of the original, or did it just repeat the work for the same intent and value as the original?
2. Was the material taken appropriate in kind and amount, considering the nature of the copyrighted work and of the use?

Did I transform the work or did I copy it?

User’s Rights video ala Schoolhouse Rock

Transformativeness = add value + repurpose

Transforming to make something new = fair use

The Yeah, Buts: Answering the Top 10 Arguments Against Change
– Will Richardson & Rob Mancabelli

Book: Personal Learning Networks

How to build a framework or strategy for change.
Favorite Yeah Buts: Check out presentation for top 10 results

1. Time
2. Fear/safety
3. blocking/filtering
4. it’s always been this way
5. watering down of rigor/standards
6. no access/technology
7. not proficient at technology
8. it’s disruptive in the classroom
9. no value in classroom
10. alignment with assessment

Two good books:
Switch by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Change or Die by Alan Deutschman

To effect change we need to elicit the emotional AND rational responses to ‘yeah but’

Brainstorm with the teachers (perhaps by a facilitator) what is good and bad about what change you are proposing…allows teachers to publically express “yeah but”

Can you Hear Me Now? Next Level of Mobile Learning – David Thornburg

The network is the computer.

Metcalfe’s Law > Moore’s Law

If the network is the computer, the browser is the OS.

Computing as a service

Internet world of stats

Mainframe computers + 40 years = iPhone

Disruption events in education:
1st phonetic alphabet – Gilgamesh
2nd mass produced book, books printed before purchased – Guttenburg
3rd mobile revolution – is as important as the phonetic alphabet and mass produced book

Students should be able to write their own software. App Inventor for Android Let kids invent their own apps and share via qr codes

Howard Rheingold – 21st century literacies
Attention
Participation
Collaboration
Network awareness
Critical consumption

Ray Ozzie – A New Day

A new day…
Multiple interconnected devices
Living in a post-PC world
Ubiquity reigns supreme

Day 3 was bittersweet. I was ready to go home, but I met several people that I wish I had met earlier in the week--shared passions and great conversations. Just more to look forward to next year in San Diego!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Where am I?



Interesting way to find your room. If you can't remember your room number, you can use your GPS. Do all hotels in Philadelphia label their rooms with latitude and longitude?

Well, I'm taking a breather from the License Plate Game to participate in the 2011 International Society for Technology in Education Conference (ISTE). However, I have seen Connecticut (not counting it), and New Jersey must be Philadelphia's Illinois.

Here's a brief look at what I learned today:

Monday, June 27, 2011

This is Not a Unit: Eight Shifts for Every Curriculum – Will Richardson
Presentation

Eight shifts that already affect learning outside the classroom but are mostly absent from inside the classroom:

1. Talk to strangers
2. Create your own e-portfolio
3. Share widely
4. Manage multiple streams of information
5. Detect misinformation and develop attention literacy
6. Follow your passions
7. Learn for learning's sake
8. Problem solve

• Educators must connect students to their passions and help them collaborate productively around those passions.
• How do you measure or value people's participation online?
• How do you verify a tweet? via TwitterJournalism
• Survival of the focused
• How do we help students become “Googled well”?

Creating Digital Culture – Roger Wagner

Hyperstudio is publishable to YouTube. It also makes citing images easy by noting all the URLs used in project. They are found in attributes.

Do projects demonstrate a solution to a problem, not just how to use software/application?

YouTube: My Name is Cholera
Problem: Tell a story from the standpoint of being cholera.

Make learning visible. Document or share the process with the parents.

HEC-TV Live! Unlock Students Potential by Connecting Classrooms and Experts
– Helen Headrick & Tim Gore
HEC-TV LIVE!

Flashmob – checked off bucket list

Taking the PULSE: Content Analysis of an International Online Community – Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Sofia Pardo, Research Roundtable
Presentation

Study looked at quality of conversations between IdeasLAB in Australia and Powerful Learning Practice in USA.

What happens in online teacher communities? NING and Pulse, a closed community of educators who committed and joined.

Asynchronous, team-based, online community of practice

Content analysis – computer mediated analysis used in qualitative or quantitative analysis

Flow – function – content

Findings: most posts were broadcast to all 68% of participants

20% of the participants chose not to post, but preferred to observe or lurk.

Found that lurkers might be high-level thinkers and too busy to interact…next study.

PULSE – online communication analysis and coding for computer mediated communication for researchers and teachers for blogs, wikis, etc.

Whew, what a great day of learning!

View from hotel room: