tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39489406705550602332024-03-13T09:51:41.712-05:00Edina Digital Age LearningIdeas and Tips on Digital Age Learning from Michael Walker. These thoughts and ideas may not represent the views of my employer.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger352125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948940670555060233.post-80194351374751546252019-12-17T11:14:00.002-05:002019-12-17T11:14:23.243-05:00ImpactEDU 18 Tuesday Keynote: Jimmy Casas- Live Your Excellence Starting Today! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://jimmycasas.com/" target="_blank">Jimmy Casas</a> was the Tuesday Keynote at the <a href="https://impact.sourcewelltech.org/" target="_blank">2019 Impact EDU conference.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Casas was a principal in Iowa <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="as well as" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: and" data-pwa-id="pwa-D372C55ED6AA311A703FC3831F933E3B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_117" data-pwa-suggestions="and">as well as</pwa> Milwaukee. For the last three years he has been a consultant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Casas started by thanking educators. We cannot keep working as hard as we are without expecting our health or our relationships to suffer. We use all of our patience at work and then go home and we can't do that for our families. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Living our excellence in every aspect of our lives is his message.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beginning with Mindsets. 16 years ago, Casas realized he needed to shift.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every time you bring a group of people together is an <b>opportunity to build a community. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think back to August, and all the excitement. Are we still bringing that same level of excitement when we enter the building in September? What if we did reach out to others and let them know how much we appreciate them?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A person who feels valued and appreciated will always do more than what is expected.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>When you forget your why, you forget your way. </i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes we forget that. We need to take inventory of ourselves and our mindset. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>Remember what you said you <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="were going to" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: would" data-pwa-id="pwa-F9488880B1DED5635695FDF1B5AF4A49" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1482" data-pwa-suggestions="would">were going to</pwa> do for students when you sat in the interview chair.</b></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Casas shared the story of his family, who were migrant workers. In 1966, they decided to make the sacrifice to help their children get an education and a better life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Later, during his first interview, he talked about his passion and <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-unused" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="desire," data-pwa-heavy="true" data-pwa-hint="Possible comma splice" data-pwa-id="pwa-5100E43CC3C13F1D889983A93EA5D36D" data-pwa-rule-id="COMMA-SPLICE_CE" data-pwa-suggestions="desire.">desire,</pwa> "Let <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-unused" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="me" data-pwa-heavy="true" data-pwa-hint="Possible capitalization mistake" data-pwa-id="pwa-2989E53E5E5C552F49EBA926E20D7F33" data-pwa-rule-id="CAPITALIZATION_CE" data-pwa-suggestions="Me">me</pwa> show you...."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His goal is to get us to reflect on why we do what we do, and how</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>This is a "Teaching AND Learning" profession, not just a Teaching Profession. Without reflection, there is no growth."</b></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Casas's goal is to inspire educators to want to be great again. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After 12 years as a principal, he was on his couch telling his wife he wasn't sure he could do the job anymore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Joy of the work is the students whose lives we get to touch every day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Students are opportunities by the dozens. We need to <b><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="culturize," data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="It appears that you have an unnecessary comma in a compound predicate. Consider removing it." data-pwa-id="pwa-C0BEC4F8503FB00B4C770202BAC841D1" data-pwa-rule-id="UN_COMMA" data-pwa-suggestions="culturize">culturize,</pwa> </b>and <b>see the culture of the school through your student's eyes!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Start with yourself. </b>He walked in and said that he is a community builder. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The most powerful words in Leadership: <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Make sure that all of the quotations and brackets in this paragraph are closed." data-pwa-id="pwa-BDFAF3CEED2C82D6D512561C96E2C8E1" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">"</pwa>I Need Your Help!"</i></b></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every one of us can be a "<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-unused" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Culturizer" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Culturizer" data-pwa-id="pwa-E6F2B95791C45A5A0DFE7E05A4354DB4" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Calorizer~Cicatrizer~Idolatrizer~calorizer~cicatrizer~idolatrizer">Culturizer</pwa>," and community builder. If you don't believe it, it won't happen. We need to remember our "Why." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't just talk about excellence, LIVE your excellence. You can't be a great teacher and then go home and be a poor husband/father/wife/mother/partner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We see the culture of our buildings, but there is also <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="something called " data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-88F3EF8681741D5E144C6E202E4AFF72" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2447" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">something called </pwa>the "<b>Undercurrent</b>." That is the REAL culture in the building. Sometimes, that can be a culture of "compliance." That might work for short amounts of time, but ultimately it doesn't work. The adults in schools are creating these undercurrents. It is a hard truth school leaders need to understand. It is an unintended consequence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The number 1 culture killer in schools is Anonymous Surveys...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It hurts because we spend lots of time trying to figure out who is saying that about us...We give everything we have and then one comment strips it away...Then we lose our way. Ultimately, we need to change our practice. The best survey is really One on One conversations. That is where you really find out the culture of the school. The question that needs to <pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be asked" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-5EFD6448A3C555B788ECF300E7F61424" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="">be asked</pwa> by building leaders is: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>If you became the principal today, what is the first change you would make and why?</i></b></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That is where you find out the sub-culture/undercurrent that is going on in your building. This helps you find out where "average exists" in your organization. This helps to change the status quo. "We cannot allow average become our standard."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Don't fear failure, fear being in the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="exact " data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-64A1363190E5E65695AB58A0CF7820C6" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2506" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">exact </pwa>same place next year as you are today. </i></b></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Any time you create change, you must have the students/staff there. If you don't want your <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="leadership" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Missing punctuation" data-pwa-id="pwa-B752DF0721CC9F68E2B237EC4D1B1E69" data-pwa-rule-id="END_PUNC" data-pwa-suggestions="leadership.">leadership</pwa>/teachers to be great, then they won't be. We have to stop "awefulizing!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-unused" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Awefulizers" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Awefulizers" data-pwa-id="pwa-8C3308AAEB7D878A731C4F17CF9AE110" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="">Awefulizers</pwa> may get in your head. BUT: YOU are responsible for your own morale! It is not on anybody else. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Great <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="change," data-pwa-heavy="true" data-pwa-hint="Possible unnecessary comma" data-pwa-id="pwa-B05DAEAC421CE26091504EF8BE022A4E" data-pwa-rule-id="UNNECESSARY_COMMA_CE" data-pwa-suggestions="change">change,</pwa> begins with self-change.</b></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No one went into education to be average. Those that have fallen back to average have <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="simply " data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-B38D702EF5B0F1D2247FE4A187AA279F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1123" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">simply </pwa>lost their way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Casas finished with an amazing story of a student he had in <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Bettendorff" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Bettendorff" data-pwa-id="pwa-6BF70A442A38254A24C0F04814F8EB07" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Bettendorf">Bettendorff</pwa>, IA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://impactedu19.sched.com/speaker/angela3" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0960ab; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Angela Maiers">Angela <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Maiers" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Maiers" data-pwa-id="pwa-64B35CFCC43E9E243C6FD38EAC2D4B89" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Maierà~The Makers~Mamers~Măieruş~Maieru">Maiers</pwa></a> was the keynote speaker on Monday at the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="ImpactEDU" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: ImpactEDU" data-pwa-id="pwa-2EF244EA89AD9C4D3064D3BBDDF7D0F3" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="impacted~Impacted~impactite">ImpactEDU</pwa> 2019 Conference.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Technology doesn't change lives, people do. Her mantra is "You Matter!"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today's to-<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="do list" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: listed" data-pwa-id="pwa-30C065F035168023A6F66080D418C21D" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_626" data-pwa-suggestions="listed">do list</pwa> is overwhelming!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who do you want to be? Thinking about the future and seeing yourself <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in the future " data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-D4F662DFD57A4C0B2780B409257AC894" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_295" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">in the future </pwa>is a 21st century skill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our reality is that the world contains </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>VUCA- <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Volitility" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Volitility" data-pwa-id="pwa-5E0E5A29095EA570E05BB4E84D9A3071" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="volatile~availability~volatility~vitality~Violette">Volitility</pwa>, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is what our world is like now...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The world of the past favored the bold, now we need to bring our courage into practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="In the end, we" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: We" data-pwa-id="pwa-7E9A04E3F0E669DF0896DE00EE82440B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_259" data-pwa-suggestions="We">In the e</pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="In the end, we" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: We" data-pwa-id="pwa-7E9A04E3F0E669DF0896DE00EE82440B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_259" data-pwa-suggestions="We">nd, we</pwa> need <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="ot" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: ot" data-pwa-id="pwa-F5596DC68F77130A0EA7EBF46E58AF35" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="to~not~it~or~hot">ot</pwa> be "braver!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She asked us to think about what brave was... (I said, "Stepping out of your comfort zone.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The opposite of courage is "comfortability." We have to get <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="comfortable with being" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Consider using 'comfortable being'." data-pwa-id="pwa-6E93F67AD12BBCC2889CA9C305276692" data-pwa-rule-id="COMFORTABLE_WITH_VBG" data-pwa-suggestions="comfortable being">comfortable with being</pwa> uncomfortable!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hard to transition when we <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are used" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-0ACD320BD93692096010493AC6705149" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="">are used</pwa> to always doing "best practice." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Maiers" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Maiers" data-pwa-id="pwa-DCB0E42CC064894986A2074C8C3C82CE" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Makers~Maier~Mayer's~Maker's~Mailer's">Maiers</pwa> noted that staying "SAFE" is the riskiest thing we can do in this environment of VUCA. We need to resist the urge that parents have to want students to avoid being "uncomfortable." There are no safe answers anymore.<span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1576509333174_9139893529330798" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Important to bring into our practice. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Maiers" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Maiers" data-pwa-id="pwa-F9D7662546336B006D829FEE33BC1B77" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Makers~Maier~Mayer's~Maker's~Mailer's">Maiers</pwa> <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="intereviewed" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: intereviewed" data-pwa-id="pwa-8FD3B3B37500D11A02AE5D7D3D971740" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="interviewed">intereviewed</pwa> leaders and asked what does it mean to "BE" Brave. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Four year Olds" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Hyphens are required but missing" data-pwa-id="pwa-E08783744917D2F2AE77025977A57F6C" data-pwa-rule-id="HYPHENATED_TRIGRAMS" data-pwa-suggestions="Four-year-Olds">Four year Olds</pwa>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Educators often feel helpless that they didn't do enough. <pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Maiers" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Missing punctuation" data-pwa-id="pwa-4A778DB27F726B2C75D98C1EA4093D0D" data-pwa-rule-id="END_PUNC" data-pwa-suggestions="Maiers."><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Maiers" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Maiers" data-pwa-id="pwa-9DB02DE76FAF7DADBD794ABC0132478F" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Makers~Maier~Mayer's~Maker's~Mailer's">Maiers</pwa></pwa> argues that if you brought everything and did your best, you did all you could!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She shared a story of teachers using <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="postit" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: postit" data-pwa-id="pwa-E2CF6982CEE081B539D8A4ACF3207D73" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="post-it">postit</pwa> affirmations in the bathroom and students asking if they could do that to. She likens it to a Wall of Worth!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We need personal branding or owning our genius. You are a unique human being that is more that what you "Do"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perfection is suspect. It is ok to be a <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Make sure that all of the quotations and brackets in this paragraph are closed." data-pwa-id="pwa-27E103EEAEB4418AA4C7F58727539D98" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">"</pwa>hot mess" sometimes. None of us have it all together all the time. <b>#WordsMatter</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ask instead <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""What's " data-pwa-heavy="true" data-pwa-hint="Possible redundant possessive apostrophe" data-pwa-id="pwa-567184E40D03DA178B3ABE191197C76C" data-pwa-rule-id="REDUNDANT_POSSESSION_CE" data-pwa-suggestions="“">"What's </pwa>Your Genius?" <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="4 year olds" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Hyphens are required but missing" data-pwa-id="pwa-E5153188EE4B0635488FE18A36786659" data-pwa-rule-id="HYPHENATED_TRIGRAMS" data-pwa-suggestions="4-year-olds">4 year olds</pwa> can do that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Give me 10"- 5 nouns associated with your future self<pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="In dialogue you should always have a punctuation mark, usually a comma before a closing quote mark." data-pwa-id="pwa-97B68A005B95ED334E34EE16BF31BD7D" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=",""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Make sure that all of the quotations and brackets in this paragraph are closed." data-pwa-id="pwa-14DE29E8F9EAC7E07954EBD052D564D9" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">"</pwa></pwa> 5 Verbs associated with your future self.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Maiers" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Maiers" data-pwa-id="pwa-D9859D00E6EC36C14714609A41996A51" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Maierà~The Makers~Mamers~Măieruş~Maieru">Maiers</pwa>, it looks like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where is the comfort level? Adding a "Courage Quotient" to dream audaciously and wonder boldly EVERY day! Am I acting on my dreams and pursuing our passions?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She promotes this through her hashtag: #WeAreBraverTogether</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was inspired by the great work of our South View and Valley View Middle School 8th grade staff on incorporating Inquiry in their instruction, as well as Project Lead the Way Engineering teacher, <a href="https://twitter.com/jodiramirez" target="_blank">Jodi Ramirez</a>, who had her kids sifting dirt to learn about composition. This focus on inquiry has continued to evolve, after some great professional development from <a href="https://twitter.com/dlaufenberg" target="_blank">Diana Laufenberg</a> a few years ago!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Earlier that day, I saw <a href="https://hechingerreport.org/piqued-the-case-for-curiosity/" target="_blank">a great article noting that fostering curiousity in students can have a huge impact</a> on closing our acheivement gap with low income students. Incorporating inquiry in instruction can be a great way to make that happen! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sean and I are having a blast recording these sessions. It really is an extension of the great conversations we have when we get together in the office. We hope it is meaningful for you. If you have suggestions for upcoming topics, please let us know!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948940670555060233.post-69344626009131749992019-05-07T16:27:00.000-05:002019-05-08T08:54:30.759-05:00Sometimes I Have to be the Fun Police...<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PcmO0NPtgGs/XNGtrrGaJbI/AAAAAAAAVvs/3AC6ySh93mkVaVedwQJKDMgH2_9dLfDbACKgBGAs/s1600/20190507_110548.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Fun Police Picture" border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1043" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PcmO0NPtgGs/XNGtrrGaJbI/AAAAAAAAVvs/3AC6ySh93mkVaVedwQJKDMgH2_9dLfDbACKgBGAs/s320/20190507_110548.jpg" title="Fun Police Picture" width="208" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday, I had two instances where I had to be the "Fun Police," in my role as Digital Learning Specialist. It is not a role that I rellish, as philosophically, I want our staff and students to have an authentic experience as possible and utilize tools that may be of benefit to their learning. However there are times, when for safety or due to missuse of a tool, I have to put on the hat and shades...</span><br />
<b style="color: blue; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Case #1</b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first instance was when I got a request for a group of 5th grade students to use <a href="http://prezi.com/" target="_blank">Prezi </a>as a presentation tool. Now Prezi may not be as popular as it was a few years ago, and <a href="https://www.prezi.community/t/top-10-things-wrong-with-prezi-next/3128" target="_blank">some folks wish they had kept their "Classic" tools and format</a>, but it still offers a nice way to make non-linear presentations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, for elementary educators, there is another component that makes Prezi problematic: their <a href="https://prezi.com/terms-of-use/#toc4" target="_blank">Terms of Service</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Given this restriction, unless the student has been held back 3 years, odds are the 5th graders will not be able to use Prezi for their presentation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What to me is interesting, is that when Prezi first came out, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100128103427/http://prezi.com:80/terms-of-use/" target="_blank">they were even more restrictive!</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fortunately, the kids have options, and if they want to make it non-linear, they can<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn_F_jXoNSQ" target="_blank"> create navigation on Google Slides</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have created <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/apps.edina.k12.mn.us/elearning2/edina-digital-age-learning-toolkit" target="_blank"><b>this site</b> </a>as a resource for staff to know the age restrictions and recommendations for most common Web tools. In many instances, the sites require teachers to get parent permission prior to having students sign into the site. Even sites that are popular with elementary teachers, like <a href="http://flipgrid.com/" target="_blank">Flipgrid</a>, require parent permission for students under the age of 18!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In a perfect world, organizations like the <a href="http://iste.org/" target="_blank">International Society for Technology in Education, ISTE</a> would require vendors to include the age restrictions of their products in promotional materials. Currently, few vendors do this, leaving it to educators to read the "fine print." <b><i>If they are truly committed to digital citizenship, ISTE should mandate that vendors at their conference give full disclosure. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">he second case of me putting on the Fun Police persona came last night. One of my colleagues sent me a direct message sharing this thread from</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><a href="http://mrsbyars.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Kathryn Byers</a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">, an AP World History Teacher from California. A quick look at her blog shows that she is a generous teacher, who is working hard to make connections with her students. She in the thread below, she talks about using </span><a href="https://buffer.com/library/instagram-stories" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Instagram Stories</a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> as a way to help her students prepare for the AP exam. </span><br />
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1) What a crazy amazing way to build community and rapport with my students. They get to see a different side of me and engage with me outside of class without me having to actually make time outside of class to do the work.</div>
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2) I talk a lot about how in order to really teach digital citizenship we have to erase this us/them divide on social media and provide students with models of positive use. This totally does that, it shows that social media can be used in positive and impactful ways.</div>
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3) By having a social media account for content and classroom stuff that students engage with I am creating a positive example that helps drown out the negative.</div>
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4) My account can help validate the belief that social media is a place where learning occurs. I think adults in the room often forget that which is why the work of people like <a href="https://twitter.com/samwineburg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@samwineburg</a> is so important, our kids learn from media so we need to teach & model how to navigate it.</div>
— Mrs. Byars 🌎 👩🏫 (@mrsbyarshistory) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrsbyarshistory/status/1124701320374407168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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5) And finally, my favorite part, kids get to teach me how stuff works. They give me suggestions for things I can do to make my posts better and more interesting and in doing so they end up teaching me how to better use the tools. THIS IS SO EMPOWERING and a relationship builder.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Byars does a great job here, articulating how and why she utilizes the tool and the modeling she is doing for her students. She is helping them learn about proper use of social media AND connecting with her students around World History. My colleague wanted to know my thoughts, and whether this was something he could pursue based on our policies?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Up until about a month ago, Instagram was open on our network for students. While Byars is using the tool effectively as an educator, unfortunately, it was not being used that way by students in my district. My colleague, Jack Salaski, put together this presentation for our Technology Advisory Team that illustrates the distraction Instagram had become. Ultimately the group, made up of parents, teachers, students and administrators, chose to block Instagram on our network.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fortunately for my teaching colleague, there are alternative options. Many of my colleagues use Twitter in a similar way that Byars uses Instagram. Erik Anderson is a great example of that...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For a more "walled garden" approach, especially for younger students, our learning management system, </span><a href="http://schoology.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Schoology</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> includes a built in </span><a href="https://support.schoology.com/hc/en-us/articles/207256417-Course-Materials-Media-Albums" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Media Album</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> that can be added to courses. It can act in a similar fashion to Instagram, with the added benefit that posts can be moderated. Granted it is not as authentic as Instagram, nor is it as accessible for students, but it is an option. Here is a quick video demonstrating the process.</span><a class="twitter-timeline" data-height="400" href="https://twitter.com/MrAndersonGov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">v</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's not always easy being the "Fun Police," but it is a necessary one to make sure that terms of use are being followed to protect student privacy and that the tools we use enhance learning and don't distract from it.</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948940670555060233.post-68536254486769508822019-04-29T12:57:00.000-05:002019-04-29T12:57:12.784-05:00Speaking of Podcasting...<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last month, I shared about some work I was doing around Student Podcasting (<a href="http://edinatech.blogspot.com/2019/03/giving-students-voice-and-choice.html" target="_blank">Giving Students Voice & Choice Through Podcasting</a>). This month, my colleague, <a href="https://sites.google.com/edinaschools.org/beaverson-edina-work-log/home" target="_blank">Sean Beaverson</a> and I are launching our own podcast!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://anchor.fm/sbeaverseps/episodes/" target="_blank">Safe for Prep </a>is a short but sweet look at the great things we see in our roles in Edina Public Schools. As the name implies, it is something you can listen to, in the background during your prep!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below is Episode 1! We highlight some great work the 8th grade teachers at South View Middle School shared with staff last week, and Sean's efforts to help some students. Have a listen!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few staff were interested and so I put together this presentation for students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I shared how I still remember my 6th grade project where I recorded myself as a 12 year old in Moscow, and my dad interviewed me to demonstrate what life was like in the Soviet Union. (Yes, I'm that old! The collar above gives it away! In addition, I cannot remember any of the multiple choice tests I took to demonstrate learning...) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On Friday, March 15, the world awoke to the news of the horrific attacks at the mosques in New Zealand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was feeling pretty down after I heard the news. The rise of hate and extremism left me feeling not very hopefull for our world. Then I received an e-mail from my colleague Laura Mestler. She shared that one of her students, Rahael, had chosen to complete the podcast challenge and that she just submitted it. I decided to take a moment to listen. I invite you to do the same...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was blown away! This 6th grader so elequently shared her hopes, dreams and ideas for eradicating hate that it immediately made me realize that there IS HOPE! Kudos to Rahael, kudos to NPR and kudos to Laura for taking a chance on giving her students voice and choice in how they share their learning! Podcasts provide authentic opportunities for students to share their learning outside the walls of the classroom. It is another example of how school doesn't just prepare students for real life, it is real life!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948940670555060233.post-28288821153838777412019-03-01T16:16:00.003-05:002019-03-01T16:16:27.627-05:00My Thoughts on Digital Learning Day 2019<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So yesterday was Digital Learning Day. In the past, I have shared how we have celebrated it in <a href="http://edinatech.blogspot.com/2015/03/digital-learning-day-2015just-another.html" target="_blank">Edina </a>(Of course most of the post was aggregated from a tool that no longer exists....sigh!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, yesterday, I saw this tweet from Schoology and so I thought I'd share my thoughts...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In honor of this special day, we’re having a contest!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1️⃣ Reply to this tweet answering the question “What does digital learning mean to you?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">— Schoology (@Schoology) <a href="https://twitter.com/Schoology/status/1101125534669570048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2019</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/jcasap?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank">Jaime Casap</a>, Education Evangelist with Google was the Monday Keynote at the <a href="https://ties2018.ties.k12.mn.us/" target="_blank">2018 TIES Conference</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jaime helped launch Google Apps, Chromebooks and helped found the Phoenix Coding Academy. He also teaches Communication to 10th graders. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He authored the book, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Our-Street-First-Poverty-Around/dp/145981617X" target="_blank">On Our Street</a>," a children's book about poverty. He grew up in Hell's Kitchen in the 70's, so he knows a little about the topic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> All of the milestones he has achieved were based on Education. He was invited to speak at the White House to help launch Michelle Obama's <a href="https://www.bettermakeroom.org/reach-higher/" target="_blank">Reach Higher initiative</a>. What we sometimes forget is that the impact we have on students goes on for generations! Since he went to college, her daughter just assumed that she would go on to college. The life his children have comes from the educators that impacted Jaime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Casap doesn't think education is broken, because it worked for everyone in this room. AND it has changed in the last 100 years....AND technology has had an impact! However, since 1995, it really hasn't changed much. The world on the otherhand has changed a lot! How many in the room haven't used technology today? No hands....Remember calling the Internet with our home phones? And sometimes it was busy and you needed a different number?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Expectations today are that everything is instantaneous. <b>We were the generation that were minding our own business before the Internet showed up. What do people who have always had it think about learning?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This generation just starts learning, BUT, they really don't know how to use the tools! Helping them take advantage and learn to use the tools safely and responsibly is our responsibility. We now live in a different economy-The Digitalization Economy. Change happens gradually AND suddenly!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What will this technology look like in 10 to 20 years? 4.5 million people currently drive for a living. Workers won't be needed for as many tasks. Self-Driving cars can be purchased today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Minnesota, 13,477 open computing jobs in the state right now. 3 times the average demand for every other job. What is the economic impact of this?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">895 graduates of Computer Science in 2017. Only 13% female. Only 59 schools offer the AP Computer Science course in Minnesota.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We need to understand the future and where we are headed. Process work is going away. Just look at the checkout lanes at supermarkets! Nobody needed a PD session on how to self checkout, either!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jobs are changing, not going away. Think about how we used to fill out pieces of paper to go to a bank teller instead of an ATM. Yet, there are more banking jobs now than 20 years ago. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now instead of checkout and stockers at stores, now there are nutritional consultants to support people buying ingredients for quality meals. ALL work will be digitized to some degree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We need to re-examine what learning is. What did the world look like in 1864? Look at everything in front of us now. ALL of the things available now were also available in 1864! Why didn't we invent it then? Learning was slower. Today, we can learn anything we want at much higher speeds. Learning how to use a camera is a lot different today than 10 years ago, but there are 10,000 videos explaining how to do it! In 3 months, he has been able to learn what he needed and get thousands of views of his photos.</span><br />
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<li><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>How do you want to solve it? </i></b></li>
<li><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>What skills do you need and what knowledge do you need to solve that problem?"</i></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Collaboration is how problems are solved. Unfortunately, education is set up to be a "single player" sport. Why are we teaching kids that collaboration is cheating!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At Google, they asked people about their leadership skills. How do we build that skill?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, only 30% of the world is online. We need to iterate and innovate. We are currently creating the new learning model for the future, to bring education to the next level. A Google example is this picture of what it used to look like and what it looks like now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Electricity had a similar start. It took businesses to see the possibilities of what it could look like before it really took off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think about a 4 or 5 year old and what they think of the world around them, and then think of the technology you have around you. The tech now is their "Commodore 64!" It will be in the $.50 box in the thrift shop 20 years from now, and she will pick it up remembering that's what dad used to have! AND it had to be plugged into a wall for hours!! How did they live like that?! </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948940670555060233.post-90074171449364375382018-08-07T10:03:00.000-05:002018-08-07T10:03:15.258-05:00My Notes on the Personalized Learning Summit Day 2 Keynote: Virgil Hammonds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://twitter.com/virgelhammonds" target="_blank">Virgil Hammonds</a>, chief learning officer with <a href="https://knowledgeworks.org/" target="_blank">Knowledgeworks</a>, was the day 2 keynote at the <a href="https://personalizedlearningsummitm.sched.com/" target="_blank">2018 Personalized Learning Summit. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Changing the culture of education through personalized competency-based learning.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Transforming policy</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Growing Educator Impact</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is your spark? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is important for you to know yours as well as your colleagues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hammonds had us do a "Magic Number" sorting activity using the numbers 1-9 and trying to sort them between 2 jars, where no number could be created by adding other numbers in the same jar. We found that given those constraints, it isn't possible. His point is that sometimes we sort our students into jars in much the same way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He shared how there is a movement nationally to get to proficiency based learning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a transformation from school districts to learning communities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By 2020, over 40% of the US workforce will be independent, short-term contractors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 4th Industrial Revolution today:</span></div>
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<li>Nano & Bio Technologies</li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do our students need to be ready for in 2040? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three Core Social-Emotional Skills: Knowing what makes us tick and what ticks us off!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Social Awareness: Empathy and Perspective Taking</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Self Discovery: Deep Self-Knowledge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Individual Awareness: Emotional Regulation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do we help folks have a seat at the table when they currently don't have one? Will our learners be ready? Are WE ready to support these conditions?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When Hammonds was a <a href="http://lhs.lindsay.k12.ca.us/" target="_blank">High School principal in California</a>, his very first day on the job, he went to work and a former student and his parents came in. He was excited to see him, but the student didn't respond. The student's dad, shows the article announcing Hammonds was the new principal, but the student didn't respond. The student, then complained to the dad, saying, "you know I don't know how to read." Hammonds was shocked, as he had the student for two years. The dad said, "I will take care of my son, but make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else." Unfortunately, because the student was a "good kid," people gave him the benefit of the doubt and moved him on. Hammonds put out a message on Facebook to learn more from recent alumni. Most talked about how supportive the staff were, but that the staff didn't prepare them for life beyond. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was a realization from staff that they needed to do something different. They needed to hold students up to a level of mastery. They needed to come up with a way to not move students on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Students after a week said they would walk out, or come up with a solution. Staff and students spent three days to come up with a plan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At state testing time, the school found that they had made 72 pts. growth. They targeted readiness, held students to mastery, and they accelerated and grew over 20% each year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teachers lead with purpose, with specific students in mind. Hammonds used this video to make this point. <b>Know your why!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you think about making learner centered, if you are crystal clear about your why and your purpose, the "how" will come naturally. You also need to know they why and purpose of your colleagues AND your community!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://raviunites.com/info" target="_blank">Ravi Hutheesing,</a> who bills himself as a cultural catalyst and keynote speaker was the keynote at the 2018 Personalized Learning Summit. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shared the story of his Uber driver, an immigrant from Laos. Cultural competency is one of the most important skills today. He learned more in the 40 minute Uber ride about world history than in any classroom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Education is no longer about providing knowledge, it's about inspiring students to absorb the lessons of the world!</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He shared stories of working in Iraq with people who had just escaped ISIS, and a trip to Lebanon, where he visited a city that was in a dangerous area, but then he received texts from his hometown of Charlotesville during the racial protests last year.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He believes world peace is possible...How: Make it profitable!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cultual Competency is the MOST important skill for the future</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Education is the means of solving all the world's problems</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Huthseeing shared that he is a relative of Nehru, Indira Ghandi and that his father was one of the first people from India on Wall Street. He was a musician in high school and college at New York University. He asked his professors if he could pay them to learn from them, but not attend class. It was a pathway to personalized learning. He became the guitarist for Hanson in 1997 and played Madison Square Garden. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He got to play on SNL, Letterman, and even at the White House. Mostly in 1997! Hanson was his "Havard Business School" of Rock and Roll! It was one of the first Milennial Bands, and he learned a lot about Millennials as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Millennials are the largest population group right now. Friends and Family are the main goals, just as it is with Baby Boomers! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday's Likes were T-Shirts, today Instagram and Facebook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Politics and Policy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby Boomers vs. Millennials have differing views on most issues, but the Millennials didn't show up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Generational Baggage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Could Millennial idealism organically eradicate social injustices?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Issues and Events that have shaped Millennial Values</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Secular</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meaningful</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enterpreneurship</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Relevance</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2008, he gained his pilot's license. The cockpit was the greatest classroom, as he learned STEM, Decision Making and Data Triangulation. <b>If we taught data triangulation in every subject, there would be no "fake news."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Millennials love music...Number one priority. How can we harness this? Half of pilots play a musical instrument. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The future requires an entreprenurial mindset The first person to live to 150 has already been born! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">38% of jobs will be automated by 2030, but creative and critical thinking will be highly valued, as will emotional intelligence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Benefits of a Liberal Arts Education is to lay the foundation which is common to them all. We must teach agility over knowledge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Millennial and GenZ are Mobile AND Global</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He had an opportunity to become a cultural ambassador, meeting with diplomats in the United States and India. "Do they realize I was the guitarist for Hanson?!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are we educating youth to rise above disaffection and radicalism</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Career Pathways leading to disaffection of youth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He started <a href="http://americanvoices.org/program/hiplomacy/" target="_blank">YES Academy</a> as a way to bridge cultures through music. It has expanded from Asia to the Middle East. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hutheesing notes that music and art are a conduit to peace among people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He has started "<a href="http://raviunites.com/schools/" target="_blank">Ravi Unites Schools</a>" network of schools to unite students. With privilege comes responsibility and opportunity to use that privililedge to promote social justice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Education not an institution, it is a culture of lifelong learning. It requires us to:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nurture Talent</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inspire Curiosity</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Provoke Critical Thinking</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We create the future based on how we educate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://thetechrabbi.com/about/" target="_blank">Rabbi Michael Cohen</a>, "The Tech Rabbi," was the third keynote Tuesday at <a href="https://conference.iste.org/2018/" target="_blank">ISTE 2018</a>. I had the pleasure of hearing Cohen speak at a session at ISTE 2016, and was excited to hear him keynote. His background is in design and graphic arts, and his slides showcase his amazing skills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">....<b>So much energy is invested in helping students to squire knowledge, but how much time is green to help them think about the abstract.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cohen said we should focus on instilling B</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">elief in Self, Belief in Others , and that there is something bigger than
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Experiment take risks and courage to do something about
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What abilities are we helping our students do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cohen had some VERY "tweetable quotes!"</span></div>
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<li><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every educator is a designer for someone.</b></li>
<li><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creativity is a
mindset not an artset.</b></li>
<li><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes our creativity is purged by the fear of being
judged by others.</b></li>
<li><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes the person judging us is ourselves. We need to unpack that. </b></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lunch elective</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20% time</span></li>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How can we turn 20% time into 100%
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://katielmartin.com/" target="_blank">Katie Martin</a>, author of "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079MBX43M/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1" target="_blank">Learner Centered Innovation</a>," was the 2nd Tuesday Keynote at <a href="https://conference.iste.org/2018/" target="_blank">ISTE 2018</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <b>"If we want to change how students learn, we need
to change how educators learn." </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Prepare kids to solve problems, not for the
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As she reflects on her journey. She went into
teaching because she didn’t see the purpose of school at times. She wanted to teach to
show students that their voice matters!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She showed her kids at 4 and 5 learning how to make
soap. Now they see themselves as scientists.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her daughter’s teacher said she was “needs
improvement” in Science. She hadn’t finished her “packet.” She can see at home
how interested she is making slime and lipstick…what is she could build on
those passions in school. There are so many requirements placed on teachers with benchmark
testing rather than providing authentic learning opportunities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our system was developed for the Industrial
model. That doesn’t work anymore. We need to change to meet the needs of our
modern world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s not just our students who miss out when we
don’t provide students opportunities. <b>We all miss out.</b> We have a lot of
challenges!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have to redefine the roles we want students
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Blended and Personalized learning mean different
things to different people and have an impact on what students get to do. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One classroom shows students memorizing the 50
states, even w/ iPad in the middle. Pretty crouded desk.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another model has students with laptops open
with students moving at their own path. Still doesn’t give choice and voice.</span></li>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>We have an opportunity and obligation to change how we do things.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">What if…</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can create new and better experiences for the
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Example of what is possible.from her husband’s
class<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Those students aren’t learning for the test or
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We need to provide opportunities for teachers to
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We empoowerd learnes to discover their passions
asnd share their ideas wotih the world?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have to get to know them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://inservice.ascd.org/6-questions-to-ask-your-students-on-day-one/" target="_blank">6 questions:to ask kids<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>We can’t change how students come to us, but we
CAN change how we support them!</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We can create the conditions that empower
learners to find the right questions rather than providing the right answers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">#WhatifISTE18 <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Martin’s hope: Spark curiosity, Ignite Passion
and Unleash Genious<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>It’s people, not programs that will make this
happen!</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm excited to read Katie's book after this!</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948940670555060233.post-39500695205814422762018-06-26T11:23:00.002-05:002018-06-26T11:23:28.581-05:00ISTE 2018 Tuesday Keynotes: Andy Weir Conversation<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.andyweirauthor.com/" target="_blank">Andy Weir</a>, a former software engineer, and author of “<a href="http://www.andyweirauthor.com/books/the-martian-movie-tie-in-tr" target="_blank">TheMartian</a>,” was intervened at <a href="https://conference.iste.org/2018/" target="_blank">ISTE 2018</a> about his passion for STEM and creativity. Gillian King-Carlile founder of <a href="http://www.stemread.com/" target="_blank">STEM Read</a> facilitated the conversation. Here are my notes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The very first thing he wrote was Beverly Cleary fan
fiction, at 6 years old. He started working at a National Lab at age 15! More
of an internship cleaning test tubes. Got to start analyzing data in the 80’s.
Learned how to program. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Enjoys the process of learning new things. Researching,
problem solving. Goes out of his way to see what others have done, but make his
own path. The writing process is solving a series of problems. Software
engineering is breaking down solvable problems, but there is artistry to it!
Misses beng part of a team. Now he works alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Failure based learning-sentence by sentence, page by page.
There is a lot of failure on the path to publishing. Wanted to be a writer from
the get go. Wanted to be a writer, but liked regular meals, so he became a
software engineer. Dropped out of college due to low funds. HS degree is his
highest level. 1000 started working for AOL. 1005 worked for Blizzard and
developed World of Warcraft 2. Got laid off at the all-time peak of AOL stock.
Started writing for 3 years, and developed a novel that really sucked, so no
one never heard of it. Went back to software engineering. The Martian came
after.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Started posting The Martian chapter by chapter on his
Website where he dumped his creative writing. Was writing 3 serials at once.
The only one people cared about was The Martian. Still had a full time job.
Started positing on the site, then people asked for download, then on Amazon
for $.00 a chapter. Really snowballed from there… He got $.35 a copy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An agent contacts him. Then a publisher, then
Fox. The deals came together within 4 days… Boom All your dreams have come
true! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ax Cop, a Web comic written by a 5 year old and illustrated
by his 27 year old brother. It’s possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Characters use their brain rather than their fist. Working
out solving problems. He likes books that have problem solving, and….”Please
wrap!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weir shows that you can be a "techy" and still be a creative writer. </span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948940670555060233.post-38954643029260490212018-06-25T00:09:00.001-05:002018-06-25T00:09:58.167-05:00ISTE 2018 Opening Keynote David Eagleman on the Brain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neuroscientist, David Eagleman, author of "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Story-You-David-Eagleman/dp/0525433449" target="_blank">The Brain: The Story of You</a>" was the 2018 opening keynote at <a href="https://conference.iste.org/2018/" target="_blank">ISTE 2018</a>. Eagleman has had <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=David+Eagleman+Ted&disable_polymer=true" target="_blank">several TED talks</a> discussing the possibilities with the human brain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eagleman started broadly, noting that humans have developed programming languages and yet haven't come close to the amazingness of the human brain. What does our knowledge of the brain tell us about education and technology?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forrests look pretty similar to what they looked like hundreds of years ago, but cities are like motherboards rising out of the muck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our brains have evolved to have larger distance between input and output. More pathways. The prefrontal cortex gives us the ability to ask, "What If?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most mammals are born and within a few minutes are walking around. Humans, not so much, but eventually, humans can do a lot more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Classrooms haven't evolved from when they were created for the industrial revolution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Digital Brain:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Kids are adicted to teh internet and because of that, they are losing their social skills." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The world IS changing fast. This is no longer the world we grew up in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the age of 21, kids have logged 10,000 hours of video.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Generation Z communicates differently from previous generations. What does this mean from the brains point of view. We drop in half baked, The brain of a newborn, has few connections, but there are massive changes from birth to 2. Then things start to get pruned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How your brain turns out depends on what you were exposed too. It reconfigured (Brain/neuro Placticity). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Technology DOES effect neuroplasticity. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Study of these effects is problematic, due to finding good control groups. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Digital Natives move their eyes differently.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They scan like they look at a Web Page. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This has implications on how they learn the fastest </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had "Just in Case" learning. Students today are learning "Just in Time"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The learning is not out of context with the learning. When you are curious, then it sticks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Comfort zones are different. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ADHD-No, just a normal GenZer interacting in their world if they are board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The onus is on educators to meet them half way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is it cheating to look up on Google? Ask or rephrase the question so it is active investigation. "How do sphere's of influence form?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Video Games....Benefits</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do they teach us about engagement and learning...Piaget</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Medical students get 2 years of lecture before they meet their first patient. They invented a game to impart this information and saw 28% increase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frustrating but acheiveable is the optimum lo learning. Homework: Get 2 levels better tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sandboxing- Play w/o consequences. Children learn better when the risks aren't as high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We train kids for jobs that exist now, instead of teaching for the future. We need to teach them to be <b>cognitively flexible.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imagine standing on a beach at sunset. Brains are made up of neurons that are associated....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thinking in new ways builds connections between brain cells. Creativity helps make this happen!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are moving to a "Creative Economy." What matters will be innovation. This is good, because humans are good at this!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teaching Creativity:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It doesn't emerge out of thin air!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The iPhone evolved from the IBM Simon, NeXt, etc. There </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Main Brain Operations to creating:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bending</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Breaking</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blending</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eating the World-Encyclopedia Britannica then, now Internet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We aren't limited by the home room teacher in our little town anymore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our job is to challenge the brain!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What other answers are down there?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Question Everything! Shake ourselves off the path of least resistance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Generate Options to move beyond the path of least resistance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thomas Edison asked for 7 answers to solve a problem, forcing people to get deeper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Failures are the portal of discovery!! Cultivating creativity requires holding up failure as a positive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James Dyson took 5,000 failures. Here is SpaceX blooper reel:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Plasticity requires emotional engagement. Tech can help with this. What are you doing in your classroom to engage and inspire?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing in the classroom should be glued down. You need to change things up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We need to insure that EVERY student has creativity as part of their curriculum. T<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/opinion/lost-einsteins-innovation-inequality.html" target="_blank">his NY Times article speaks to that.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eagleman has some things to say that teachers should think about, and I'm glad ISTE invited him to keynote. I felt as though he was rushed for time, and didn't go as in depth into the Bending, Breaking, Blending idea as much as I would have liked. I guess I'll need to buy the book, and/or watch a few of his TED talks to go deeper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948940670555060233.post-77892638719567648642018-05-28T08:07:00.004-05:002018-05-28T08:20:43.779-05:00South View Digital Use Awareness Pilot<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Recently, my department was approached about the possibility of testing out locking pouches to explore l<a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/kansas/articles/2018-04-15/kansas-high-school-pilots-cellphone-pouches-to-limit-usage" target="_blank">imiting access to cell phones by students during the school day</a>. To be honest, I was skeptical, because I knew that while it is clear, some students (and adults) are addicted to their device, I was concerned that students would not be able to complete certain tasks. (It is hard to take a video or picture for an assignment with a conventional, non-touch Chromebook, for example.) Students come to school today with d<a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a25655/nasa-computer-iphone-comparison/" target="_blank">evices in their pocket that are more powerful than the computing power that put a person on the moon</a>, and yet teachers sometimes want to ignore that reality. We know that there are many beneficial aspects to mobile tools for learning, AND, we know that for many people, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/06/30/cellphones-distraction-study_a_23009948/" target="_blank">even having the device in one's pocket can be detrimental to attention and impact learning</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few staff at South View Middle School were interested in the idea of using the locking pouch. Rather than treating it as a "punishment" for student misuse, instead they looked on it as an opportunity for student reflection on what it is like to go without a cell phone. I decided that it would be good for me to get to experience a couple of days without my device as well, and so I decided to participate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the end of the experience, students will respond to the following questions:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #595959; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“What else could I do to get what I need?”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jfBZYgz87gh8-cKf5vXRgQgnJ_LDpcjLoxDHrL7uwQo/preview" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Here is the letter that went home to parents explaining the program.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the start of the day, the instructors in three Advisory classes presented the following to students:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Students then added their phones into the pouches, knowing that in an emergency, they could go to the office, or back to the Advisory classroom to unlock the pouch. (Being careful not to impale themselves on the pin!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below are my reflections on going without a device... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Day 1 </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As soon as I put the phone in the pouch and made my way out of the building, I thought about how I was missing the opportunity to respond to an e-mail or two, or check my calendar for the day as I walked back to the office. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Later in the day, we had guest speakers at a district meeting, and I so wanted to take a picture and tweet out some of the great information they were sharing, AND look up some of the resources they shared. I did have access to my laptop and solved the latter problem that way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the end of the school day, I went in and unlocked my phone. Caitlin Bailey, one of the teachers piloting the project noted that students had a hard time getting over their initial feelings about the pilot being "punitive." One student went so far as to insert a pad of post-it-notes into the sleeve to trick staff into believing the phone was secured. Still others texted parents, claiming their 4th Amendment rights had been violated! Bailey noted that as a social experiment, it has been extremely revealing at how emotionally students have reacted to not having instant access to their device. It is giving students first hand evidence of possible "addiction." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another teacher mentioned that he had to use one of the pouches when he went to a concert at Paisley Park, as they have a no cell policy, so it isn't just schools exploring this issue.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> As I expected, at least one student cut themselves on the pin at the top of the case. Overall, I was able to navigate my job without my phone, fairly well. At least I didn't miss any meetings, which for me was my biggest concern. We'll see what tomorrow brings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Day 2</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As we met in Advisory for Day 2, students discussed their anxiety about not having access to a device. To avoid this, many kids chose to leave their device at home. Once concern that at least one teacher mentioned was the anxiety that kids were feeling after t<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/21/texas-school-shooting-police-active-shooter-strategy/630146002/" target="_blank">he school shooting in Texas last week</a>. What if there was an emergency, and needed to get in touch with their parent? Good questions, and it speaks to the importance of thinking about the impact to student's mental health, both anticipated and unanticipated when considering a solution like this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another aspect of this is the overall policy at South View. Three years ago, the school instituted a "no cell phone" policy, as the school has 1:1 devices through our <a href="http://edinaschools.org/elearning2" target="_blank">eLearning2 program</a>. While students may have mobile devices, they are only to be taken out at teacher discretion, if needed for a photo or video for example. Bailey notes that had the pouches been tested a few years ago, there might have been more of an impact on behavior. Now, if kids are going to be off task, they are usually on their 1:1 device rather than phone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I found I was less likely to reach for my phone today, though there was that moment I wanted to send a text to my wife and realized I couldn't! </span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Day 3 and 4</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The pilot moved to new classrooms. Students seemed to be reluctant to participate, though many did, or chose to not bring their phone to school. We did find some students went to extreme measures to access their phones, and a couple chose to tamper with the pouch. </span> Still others discovered that other magnets were able to release the mechanism. We did have a few parents e-mail to say they didn't want their students participating. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the two days, we asked students to reflect on their experience. (As I write this, the pilot is ongoing. I will try to update with results of the student reflections later.) Here are a few of the questions we asked them to ponder:</span><br />
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<li><i style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "droid serif", serif;"><span class="user-generated notranslate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>How often did you reach for your phone during the 2-day pilot? <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(Estimate)</span></b></span></i></li>
<li><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #274e13; font-family: "droid serif", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="user-generated notranslate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Please rate your level of discomfort (FOMO = "Fear of Missing Out") during the 2-day pilot?<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (0 = "None" and 10 = "Significant")</span></em></b></span></em></li>
<li><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #274e13; font-family: "droid serif", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="user-generated notranslate" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="user-generated notranslate" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Were there any SCHOOL RELATED (classroom) activities that were more difficult without your phone?</span></span></em></span></em></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On day 5, a local TV station came to do a story on the pilot. Note at the end, kids who still had their phones made a connection with a local celebrity!</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If we are going to have kids reflect on their use, and they find they have a lot of anxiety around access to their phone, what can they do? I put together this resource for parents and students to consider as they reflect on the activity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I stated previously, there are many great ways that mobile technology can benefit, but there are also addictive behaviors and distractions that can take away from the learning process. The teachers who are exploring this and are looking for ways to mitigate the distraction. Those featured in the news story are doing some great projects involving digital age learning in their classrooms to provide pathways for students to access content, engage in the content and express their learning. Hopefully this activity will raise awareness in students on how mobile technology impacts their learning and take steps to ensure that they avoid distracting behaviors.
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<a href="http://elizeducation.wixsite.com/elizeducation" target="_blank">Susan Nelson,</a> Coordinator of 3D Design Thinking, Innovation and Personalized Learning for Spring Lake Park Schools presented on Design Thinking and their 3D model of design.<br />
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She shared this video to illustrate the importance of design thinking for Fortunate and her mother!</div>
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The Stanford team wrote a grant to visit Nepal to learn more about the problem. There were plenty of incubators, but instead the issue of needing a mobile warmer. </div>
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They designed and built a prototype and went to India to test, but the mothers didn't warm it enough. They didn't trust western medicine to warm it to the full 37 degrees Celsius, so they updated it to only say OK when it reached the correct temperature. Success!</div>
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They have used the process to change food service delivery as well as lesson design changes.</div>
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Nelsen then had the group try design thinking around the idea: "Attending a Conference."</div>
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First we worked to understand the user experience. Someone pointed out there is no defined lunch break!</div>
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Ask "How Might We..." questions such as "How might we make ice cream more portable?</div>
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What would a "home run" look like?</div>
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What would be fair? What would be foul?</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ken Shelton followed up his Monday Keynote with a session on Culturally Relevant and Responsive Pedagogy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shelton noted that there are many instances where students are funneled to different classes based on gender and skin color/ethnicity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In his experience, he was the only person of color in the AP and upper level classes when he was in high school. This is his story. What are the stories of the students coming in to our schools?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Much of this talk is based on the work of Pedro Nogieri.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The addition that Shelton makes to this work is technology, as he believes that today it is not culturally relevant not to include it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In school, he wanted to be in the front, but was always told to go in back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If instruction is only happening in front, that is a problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If raising your hand is the only way you'll get called on, 85% of the people called on will be in front. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He used a back channel to encourage EVERYONE to contribute to the conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If students don't have hope, they will not be successful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>5 Characteristics of a Culturally Relevant Teacher</b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Socially Conscious-If you're not on social media or aware of how they communicate and make connections, you aren't relevant.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Students backgrounds are ASSETS, not liabilities!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Identify/Create a moral imperative that EVERY student can be successful.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Know your students lives</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Technology-What do we have access to to <b><i>make learning contemporary and relevant!</i></b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/apps.edina.k12.mn.us/t-t-edina-cohort/clr-strategies" target="_blank">Here are some examples of CLRT Strategies our Hopdina Cohort have developed.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Are we designing lessons for the high acheivers, low achievers, or are we making it possible for every student to be a part of a shared learning experience in accordance with their needs?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Is there a prescribed formula for success? If a "rubric" is a prescribed formula...Shelton says that won't cut it. The high flyers will only do the minimum. It MUST be adaptable! <b>The intended learning outcome must have multiple pathways for the student to demonstrate mastery.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Equity-Giving people what they need based on their individual needs</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Engagement</b>- where the student is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Relationships</b>- what kind are we encouraging and modeling? With peers, too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Cultural Identity</b>- What do I identify as my culture and how does it fit into the learning environment?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Vulnerability</b>- Am I willing to make a mistake and own them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Asset Focused Factors</b>- Students backgrounds are assets not liabilities</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Rigor</b>- Higher order thinking and deeper learning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He then asked us to fill out <a href="http://bit.ly/culturalrelevance" target="_blank">this form</a> with a partner. All but the last one seemed fairly clear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For question 1, Shelton notes, you can't have Rigor without Engagement!! In some cases there are multiple options.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Techquity</b>!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Merging the use of educational technologies with culturally responsive learning experiences to help students develop essential skills!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shelton noted that learning about stories (Fables and Myths) requires tying in to cultural relevant themes. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Game of Phones was an example of Cultural Identity, Engagement and Collaboration.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a4vr5_1w9VqTPUZDoRPnPekaopv0aydO" target="_blank">Tequity Assets</a>- is a link to resources Shelton shared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He encouraged us to take a look at a current lesson and use the Techquity lens to see how it might be improved and share out with the world!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://todaysmeet.com/room/3134233/transcript" target="_blank">Here is the transcript of the backchannel</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948940670555060233.post-70277783781158969522017-12-12T11:05:00.000-05:002017-12-12T11:05:14.350-05:00#TIES17 Keynote: Jennie Magiera- Our Untold Stories<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MsMagiera" target="_blank">Jennie Magiera</a>, Chief Program Officer for <a href="https://www.edtechteam.com/" target="_blank">EdtechTeam </a>was the Tuesday Keynote at the 2017 TIES Conference. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She began by crowd-sourcing the best recipes for Tater-Tot-HotDish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Telling a story touches your emotions and touches your identity, giving a part of yourself to the audience. Teachers do this every day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She told the story of a little girl from Seoul, South Korea . Her father immigrated to New York, but she was unable to go right away. When she looked at the streets, being told they were paved in gold, she was disappointed. The next day, she learned she would be going to City Hall to get a new "American" name. The name, suggested by a neighbor was "Carol!" The clerk asked for the spelling, and her mom didn't know. The mom, with Korean pronunciation said, "Kello." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her first teacher asked her name and how she got it, and she said, Well it was kind of a mistake.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her peers bullied her because of this. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 4th grade, her teacher asked her, "What do you want to be called this year?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She responded, "Katie!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She grew up to be strong, brave and Jennie's mom.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Growing up, Jennie's mother said, listen to your teachers because...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teachers can help you be your whole self!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Danger of a Single Story- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stereotypes aren't untrue, they are just incomplete, and become the only story that is told</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Chapter 1</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Story of Student Self-Image</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last year, Jennie's school district won a grant for Dash-N-Dot robots to encourage coding in the elementary schools. She imagined all the kids running in like "Black Friday" excited!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instead, she saw a group of girls with the robots pushed aside, saying, "Ms. Magiera, we can't code, we're girls..."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This caused her to get upset, but as a district administrator she knew she needed to step back...She said, "I believe you can code, and I tripple-dog-dare you the challenge that if you can't code by the end of the week, they could do whatever they want. Here's what happened!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They had created the code by Thursday!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They said they they hadn't learned it all, but decided that that was what they wanted to do. "Did you know coding is a language and that you can use it to solve problems?" They decided to code "Dash" to be the 4th girl in the dance they were doing. In the end, they were embarrased that they felt like they couldn't do it, and created a viral video encouraging girls to code!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How do we unlock this:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Untold Story of Limitless Potential</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Single Story of Teachers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In talking about identity, Magiera's husband is a Cub fan, loves craft beer, but doesn't consider his job to define who he is.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Magiera on the otherhand wears the fact she is a teacher on her sleave. All because of Ms. Buckman in 4th grade...Ms. Buckman asked the students to help her find her pet dinosaur...Then she said, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">" Sorry, I forgot I left it at home next to the fountain of youth..Sit down, I'm Ms. Buckman, get ready for an adventure!" Everything she did was intentional to introduce students to the topics they would be learning about that year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Buckman shared "The Hobbit" with Magiera. Gandalf says to Bilbo, "I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging..." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Magiera's take, "OMG- Teachers are Wizzards!!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How do we unlock this story:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Untold Story of Wizzards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Single Story of What We Tell the World</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Magiera shared the New York Times article, "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/06/opinion/sunday/dont-let-facebook-make-you-miserable.html" target="_blank">Don't Let Facebook Make You Miserable</a>!" People spend 6 times the amount of time washing dishes then they do playing golf, but no one tweets or instagrams about washing dishes...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Circus Circus has the same number of rooms as the Belagio, but the Belagio has 6 times the number of check-ins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The National Enquirer has many more subscribers than the Atlantic, but the Atlantic has 45 times the number of article shares!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Don't compare your insides to other people's outsides!" We never see people's insides...</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How can we as people break this cycle? Compare Facebook posts to Google searches. Google is much closer to reality...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Magiera did a look at her wall and found she had many #bestlifeever posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She decided that the next time she had a struggle she would post it on Facebook. She and her husband had spent 6 years to start a family, and they were struggling. When you struggle, other people's posts make things much harder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She decided to post that they were starting IVF after 6 years of struggle. Soon she had over 288 comments and e-mails from people with similar struggles and doubts, and that she wasn't alone. Magiera talked about how freeing it was to know that she had a community behind her to walk with her on the journey. It has given her strength to try and do things that never would have happened had she not shared her struggle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How many untold stories are out there about struggles that educators face?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While teaching in Chicago, she had created several videos to support student learning in the classroom. The kids were silent listening, and she felt like a wizzard. Then one day, she thought she had synced a video on pyramid volume, when in fact she linked to Hot Tub Time Machine, and she didn't discover it for 3 minutes! <b>It's important to share the failures on our innovation journey just like the successes!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How do we unlock </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Untold Story of Our Inner Selves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Chapter 4</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How Does Technology </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Technology should <b>enhance </b>our connection <b>to each other</b>!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We need to share our untold stories with one another! Now, you can tell your story and then get an audience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can use tools to amplify your story and share it with the world!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Students said having the opportunity to amplify their voice and tell their story was the best part of learning in her classroom! Students became more open about sharing and reminded them of who they are!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We can allow students to remember that they matter everywhere, even when we aren't sitting with them in the classroom. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She closed with the story of Lyndsay, a story "<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/you-dont-really-know-us-chicago-kids-tell-news-media/" target="_blank">This isn't Chirac</a>" Students share with reporters that outsiders really don't know them and they're neighborhood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How can we use technology to shatter the single story.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She is starting a non-profit, "<a href="http://studentvoice.org/">StudentVoice.org</a>" to give students a voice. In addition, OurVoiceAcademy is allowing teachers of color to connect and share their story. She challenged us to use our phones to share our story with the world sometime today at TIES. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Magiera finished by sharing that she knew she wanted to be a teacher, and went back to see Ms. Buckman. She tracked her down and they met for lunch. She was so excited to see her and tell her that she was going to be a teacher. Before she could get that out, Ms. Buckman said, "You are going to be a teacher in Chicago Public Schools. Buckman then pulled out an envelope with letters between her and Jennie's mom that had been going on since she was in the 4th grade!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Magiera said, "I'm going to be just like you!" Buckman said, "No. I don't want you to be just like me. I want you to be you. Don't try to be your role model, be better!" Buckman then pulled out a ceramic blue bird that had been on her desk and invited her to use it as an inspiration, but everything else in the classroom needs to be 100% YOU!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Magiera challenged us to find and tell our Untold Stories and set them free!</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948940670555060233.post-47048427169445629972017-12-11T12:01:00.003-05:002017-12-11T12:01:27.527-05:00#TIES17 Monday Keynote: Ken Shelton-The Power of Voice in the Digital Age<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-22ABkpxUcmg/Wi60Xn-tltI/AAAAAAAATs4/jFZysZH2ODcp0ZpIM1rw9tjcHJoHtQjtQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/PC110419.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-22ABkpxUcmg/Wi60Xn-tltI/AAAAAAAATs4/jFZysZH2ODcp0ZpIM1rw9tjcHJoHtQjtQCK4BGAYYCw/s400/PC110419.JPG" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <a href="https://ties2017.sched.com/" target="_blank">TIES 2017 Conference</a> kicked off with <a href="http://kennethshelton.net/about" target="_blank">Ken Shelton</a>, an educator, educational consultant, new media designer. The theme of this year's conference is "What Is Your Story?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shelton spoke about the importance of "story," which is the representation of our voice. Technology gives us the opportunity to amplify our voice, both positively and negatively.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He had us share our prediction of what our story would be 3 days from now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While many see tech as making us less social, Shelton sees it amplifying our connections and stories, in ways that are exponential. The 2017 Internet minute looks like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The world online is becoming more connected, with more platforms that can amplify our voice, just like this ad...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility!</span></h3>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-Voltaire (Stan Lee)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We can use tech and this power to establish a digital footprint. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you think about the power of our voice, then it gets retweeted, shared, reposted...but with that power comes responsibility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/this-is-how-a-womans-offensive-tweet-became-the-worlds-top-s?utm_term=.tqEqyz7XbN#.noGJPw9mzB" target="_blank">Justine Sacco's story...</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When she posted, she had 200 followers. After that tweet, by the time she landed, #hasjustinelandedyet was trending for over 6 hours. She was publicly shamed, which is the same as bullying. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Shelton pointed out later in his talk that due to this incident, groups raising funds for AIDS research and support in Africa increased dramatically.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now there are sites like reputation.com and Xpire to help you control your social media. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Don't you already have control of your social media?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's really a Digital Tatoo...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shelton shared the story of Celeste Davis-Carr and Aaron, a teacher who learned that one of her students was experiencing homelessness, and the aftermath.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What if there were a Story Corps booth at every school?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-middle-school-renamed-out-with-alexander-ramsey-in-with-justice-page/428452213/" target="_blank">Justice Page School</a></b></span><br />
<img align="right" src="https://photos.app.goo.gl/v96OnQfmKjdfaiLp1" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shelton pointed to the story of students at Alexander Ramsay Middle School (In my neighborhood) that worked to change the name to Justice Page School, after they learned what Ramsay did to promote mass genocide of native peoples. Shelton visited with Justice Alan Page, who told him that football was secondary to him growing up. He realized by 9th grade that he loved words and their power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mcglonefamily?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag" target="_blank"><b>#mcglonefamily</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If students are active members of their community they will have ownership of that community.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23leydonpride&src=typd" target="_blank"><b>#Leydenpride</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Leyden School district in Illinois uses this to turn negative social media to tell a positive story.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nina-mufleh-airbnb-resume-2015-4" target="_blank"><b>Nina & Airbnb</b></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nina really wanted to work for Airbnb but struggled to get their attention. She decided to make a Website that mirrored Airbnb's site. She was of Jordanian heritage and after tweeting out the link, Queen Noor retweeted it, and it ultimately led to her being hired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.grammingforgood.com/" target="_blank"><b>Gramming for Good </b></a>is a site that matches people with local non-profits to post images that they can use. 100 Cameras allows students to take pictures to tell a story, so that the "danger of the single story" doesn't happen. This gives students agency.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shelton shared a video of a student in Utah who wanted to read, and the man who learned of it, shared the story and then was able to get several donated books the child. What was really cool is now the student is hoping for more, so that he can share with other classmates who like to read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shelton shared the story of a trip he took recently to Lebanon, where he met a young woman who had started the an organizaton to empower women. Along with three other students, they started <a href="https://www.nourinternational.org/" target="_blank">Nour International </a>and used online funding to raise over $30,000 to support education in refugee camps for students to learn english. "Don't lose a generation to a lack of education!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Think of the power of kids who do not have as much hope as they should, but understand the importance of education and are working to break the cycle of poverty and lack of hope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What are all of the platforms that we have available to amplify our voice and tell our story?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We ALL have the power to do that and to amplify one another. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why do todays students have to wait to solve the world's problems?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They should not have to wait to become "adults" to make that happen. We should be encouraging them to use the tools they have available to make it happen now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was an inspirational kick-off to the conference. Now to throw cold water on some of it with <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSeDbUftXyijSCHn2HJC3WbVq88xBO5H_1a_R8GQEIx15_RVHbtrN-fYKJEAP8DKRFPbeWwnh_sgLo1/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" target="_blank">the importance of knowing Terms of Service and Privacy Policies on the tools we use with kids!</a> </b></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948940670555060233.post-34942495180578207532017-08-01T09:09:00.002-05:002017-08-01T17:10:58.595-05:00Minnesota Personalized Learning Summit: David and Jonah Stillman GenZ Keynote<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://twitter.com/genzguru" target="_blank">David and Jonah Stillman</a> were the "Father-Son" keynote on Day 2 of the Minnesota Personalized Learning Summit. David is a generational expert, and co-author of "<i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/When-Generations-Collide-Clash-Generational/dp/0066621070" target="_blank">When Generations Colide.</a></i>" They have teamed on a new book called, <i>"<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gen-Work-Generation-Transforming-Workplace/dp/0062475444" target="_blank">Gen Z @ Work</a>."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They have developed a company <a href="http://cms.genzguru.com/app/#/" target="_blank">GenZ Guru</a>, designed to interact with those born between 1995 and 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They are concerned that educators are not focused on "GenZ" and assume that they are Millennials. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is similar to when society treated GenX'ers like Baby Boomers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">David shared a story of when he and his son were supposed to go to a meeting, and Jonah showed up via Skype, when David thought he would be there in person. Using the Genz.guru tool, they polled the audience. 51% thought David was right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In order to get to know GenZ we need to look at <b>key influences:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Parenting-</b> GenZ kids have a tight relationship with their parents, but they were raised differently than Millennials. Millennials were given participation rewards and stickers for doing well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">David played "Eye of the Tiger" before Jonah's T-ball game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">GenZ is similar to Boomers in that they are pretty competitive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Technology</b>-91% of GenZ says that tech sophisticaton impacts their desire to work at a company. However, GenZ is much more private. Millennials were very public, launching Facebook. GenZ is much more private, using Snapchat instead. In order to connect with this generation, they need to use the platform that they are using. They are knowledge horders, similar to Boomers when they neared retirement, that they felt information kept them relevant. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We need to teach kids what is private and what needs to be shared.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">New office space that is Collaborative is geared toward Millennials, but 35% of GenZ would prefer sharing socks with someone to sharing an office with someone. They also would rather avoid group work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Recession</b>-The median net worth of GenX fell by 45% during the recession. The number one concern of GenZ is the economy. Look at the entertainment industry. Millennials were given Harry Potter. GenZ was given "The Hunger Games." GenZ is in "survival mode." What do they need to survive?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">75% believe that there are multiple paths to success besides college. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">67% say their top concern is what career they want prior to going to college. Boomers thought college was where you figured it out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Capstone programs, Post Secondary Options allow for more personalized, and connected to the real world. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This helps engage GenZ students. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">61% of GenZ is willing to stay with a company for 10 years. Loyalty is back on the table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The line between the physical and digital world is blurred and in many cases the same. Pokemon Go is an example. The real and physical world overlaps. 50% of GenZ believes an online degree is the same as traditional. True digital natives. They aren't as excited about new products as GenX or Boomers, it is just expected that something like this would happen. Difference between expecting technology and accepting it. For the first time in history, the youngest generation is the authority and most skilled on tech.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Literacy-"This generation can't write well! Thinking visually in symbols is how they communicate. Emoji's </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The preferred mode of communication in the work place, 84% said face-to-face communication! Even if you are on Skype, they consider it to be face to face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">GenZ wants personalized custom options. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Between 2000 and 2010 there was a 15% increase in students developing their own majors. This will make it harder for workplaces to compare two candidates. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">57% want to customize their job description and 62% would like to customize their own career path. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Look at how Gen Z customizes their news. This means that the filter bubble world causes people to only hear their view point. Stillman argues that it is important to expose students to multiple view points in the classroom.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">FOMO: Fear of Missing Out</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">65% of Gen Z sleep with their smartphones near their bed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They want to know what is happening as soon as possible. When they can't, they get FOMO, which is now a diagnosed anxiety. Working WIFI is more important than a working bathroom!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jonah told the story of a meeting where he took notes on his phone and was told to put it away. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They argued that in the classroom, we need to negotiate access. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gen Z is also pushing the pace of career, as 75% would like to have multiple roles within one place of employment. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gen Z's attention span has been defined as 8 seconds. Companies are struggling with this. Teaching this generation the difference between a fad and a true trend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Teachers need to push the value of "ruminating on something." Valuing thinking, brainstorming, and process is important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because of FOMO, keeping kids in the loop is important. Increasing access to content and feedback is important. Having faster formative feedback is crucial. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not ALL FOMO is bad. GenZ doesn't fear failure, but they do fear not getting the opportunity to try!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the Q and A, they noted that Gen Z students like being mentored, but also like to mentor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Digital detox for an hour or two is great, but not for months.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Millennial parenting, getting screens out of the car is helping with this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.spencerauthor.com/" target="_blank">John Spencer</a>, co-author of Empower and Launch, was the Monday keynote at the Minnesota Personalized Learning Summit. John also created "Pencil Chat" many years ago, and I've been in auw of his ideas and thinking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Spencer began with a "Disclaimer" that while many keynotes will only share the highlights, he is a teacher on a journey trying to figure things out, and behind the success there has been failure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He began by a story of being nerdy and shy in 8th grade, and hiding out in the bathroom. During a History Day project, he didn't like the sound of his voice. His teacher, Mrs. Smoot said, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He presented to his class, then school, then regionally, then at the national conference, which changed his life!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every day he asks his kids, "What did you make today?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Making is magic, and makes us human.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He shared a "<a href="http://www.spencerauthor.com/how-i-create-sketch-animation-videos/" target="_blank">Sketchy video</a>" that took his son 9 hours to make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Things are changing right now. It used to be that to create with technology required lots of physical equipment to make it happen. Now much of that can happen on a phone with apps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our devices have connected power and great creative potential!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, students today still spend more time consuming rather than creating. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are outliers...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kids making a functional graphing calculator in Minecraft</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The outliers have a "Maker Mindset."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The purpose drives the maker mindset. The framework to do this is <b>design thinking.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The most powerful force to bring out the maker in every student is the teacher!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Observe a phenomenon-NASA studying Geckos to learn about adhesives</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Problem to be solved</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/michellek107?lang=en" target="_blank">Michelle Baldwin</a>-"Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is ask a question."</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Take research "off-road" (Scaffolding can sometimes be a cage that stifles student's ability)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We need a bigger definition of research (Write letters/e-mail, make phone calls, video conference) Adults are often happy answering kids questions.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alone first</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then meet as a group w/ no judgement untimed</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Outside members to add ideas</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Combine similar ideas</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Develop final idea</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Find the PARTS</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>A</b>udience- If they start with Empathy, they should know the audience</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>R</b>oles-Who will do what? (Let older groups decide on their own.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>T</b>asks (Draw out and visualize, then put on visual calendar rather than a list.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span>reate a Prototype</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometimes it's physical</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometimes it's virtual</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometimes it's Art (The Arts have been maker spaces for a long time!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometimes you make a difference! (<a href="https://www.edutopia.org/blog/what-heck-service-learning-heather-wolpert-gawron" target="_blank">Service Learning</a>) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What if you don't have the best materials?</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every road block is a chance to solve a problem!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Often the best choice in technology is a roll of duct tape!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>H</b></span>ighlight what works, fix what fails Itteration</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every failure is one step closer to success! Iteration!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The worst pixar movie you've never seen was a Zombie movie. Pixar iterated it into Bolt.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Monster's Inc iterated from another film, which 10 years later iterated into Inside Out!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nobody hates revision at the skate park, but try it in math or english!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Celebrate creative risk-taking!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They send it to an authentic audience</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because the moon landing was broadcast to a world wide audience, it inspired a generation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sharing your journey is so important. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year, the Global Day of Design was a great way to share with others!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don't have time, technology, etc.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Spencer shared <a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2014/01/ww_ii_veterans_share_stories_w.html?scrlybrkr" target="_blank">a project students in Michigan did where they created a documentary on World War II.</a> All but one student showed up on a Friday night to share the video. The soldiers and families showed up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Students at his school used design thinking to paint murals so that the walls at school wouldn't be tagged. They did 8 murals in 3 years. Then a new principal came in and the walls were painted white and others taken down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A student asked Spencer why did we do this?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Spencer said, You share your work even if it is destroyed, or isn't appreciated. "When you hide your voice, you hide the world of your creativity!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ultimately it is up to teachers to make their classrooms bastions of creativity!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This fall, our Hopdina Teaching and Technology cohort will be using Launch as a basis for our Design thinking and Maker Education course. It was great to get a cliff-notes version of the book and hear John's voice as he shared his success and failure and how he has learned from both.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carl Hooker, Digital specialist in Eames, Texas was the day 2 keynote.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carl started as a 1st grade teacher in 2001. Those students are now seniors in college, and WERE 21st Century learners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How much has changed in the last 15 years, and what will education look like, 15 years from now? He shared the image on the right, a view of education in 2000, from the 1890's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looking at technology in 2001, and how it has changed since then. The iPhone, came out in 2007, and look at how far we've come...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While communication has evolved, instruction on new modes of communication like texting, posting, tweeting, commenting, livestreaming, snapchatting, etc. has not kept up!</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are tweeting our own stories today, rather than waiting till the next day to learn news.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We need to teach how to tell real from fake news</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Textbooks-static vs. OER (Instead of giving 100's of 1000's of $ to textbook companies, why not give 100's of 1000's of $ to teachers?!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What's more important, following directions or demonstrating learning of the content? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Providing choice also improves quality</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Where does most of the content in your classroom come from? Hooker argues it should be a balance of teacher/student currated.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How do we keep the look of curiosity and wonder in our students?</span></li>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We need to be asking our kids to solve interesting problems...and we need to be ok if they get the answers wrong.<br />-Seth Godin</span></i></b></blockquote>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Is the interaction in your classroom teacher to student, student to student?</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Where does the learning happen?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Look at how the console radio was usurped by the transister radio, even though it didn't sound as good. They liked the personalized technology. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few years ago, <a href="https://hookedoninnovation.com/tag/student-fora-day/" target="_blank">Carl spent a day following a student around</a>. Students made school board members sit in one of the desks they have to sit in for a meeting. Now they are getting new desks!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brain breaks every 20 minutes is important. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"We ask our kids to stretch their thinking, we need to also stretch our own!"</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When do you learn and create best? Some were morning, some evening. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1975, if you wanted to watch a specific show, you had to watch it in real time. Today, people watch shows anytime, anywhere. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today's student schedules are still in 1975 mode, but we have lots of tools that allow students to access learning anytime, anywhere. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He shared the story of is aunt and how he was able to share </span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948940670555060233.post-60415344670716200052016-12-12T11:05:00.000-05:002016-12-12T19:47:45.453-05:00TIES 16 Keynote-Dean Shareski: Whatever Happened to Joy? And How Do We Get It Back?<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Way back in November 2007, I joined Twitter. Finally, in the spring of 2008, I realized I needed to follow people. One of the first people I followed, was an educator from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Dean Shareski.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today, I had the pleasure of hearing Dean's presentation as a keynote of TIES 2016: Whatever Happened to Joy? And How Do We Get It Back?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Joy should be integral to what we do every day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He had 3 moments in his teaching career that made him realize joy was so important...</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looking at a photo from his first year, "Why doesn't Christina ever smile?" Did she ever find her joy? It was a moment that mattered most.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He was walking through an elementary school, and kids were singing as the teacher played guitar. There is something powerful about community, coming together and doing things collectively.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Around 6-7 years ago, and lip dubs first came out. and he saw this one:</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With regards to this video: Does it address outcomes? Do it and the heck with outcomes! Shareski said, "I want to do this with kids!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you believe learning is like "Buckleys?" "It tastes awful, but it works! Is this similar to your curriculum?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He has a goal of stamping out the concept of "rigor!" People keep using the word, without really knowing what it means!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are adding a lot of stress to our student's lives, and sucking the love of learning out of them. It's happening at all levels!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shareski is concerned that when education is only seen as an economic driver, we lose something. Education should be more than that!</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Live in Constant Wonder!! </b>"Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed" Don't mess up good learning opportunities by "Googling" something and avoiding wonder... Michelle Baldwin's 4th grade classroom-"The Architects of Wonder!" Are you creating opportunity and space to ask beautiful questions?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Embracing play:</b> His wife's 2nd grade classroom gets a day to share what they want. One day last year was "toast!"</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Playfulness as an intellectual goal is approriate to learning. It's more effective, more humane, and more child-like." Seymour Pappert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Connecting play and imagination is one of the most important aspects today. Failure is free! The first webcam was set up to see if the coffee pot on the 2nd floor had coffee in it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">“They said - Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.” </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/702360.Erica_Bauermeister" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erica Bauermeister</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">, </span><span id="quote_book_link_9851860" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/14742912" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Joy for Beginners</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gary Stager_ "One of the best things you can do for your students is to be an interesting adult!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shareski shared a story about a study that asked students to remember their 1st grade teacher's name. Many remembered a teacher other than the one they really had! 20 years from now, will your students remember your name? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shareski's talk was a refreshing reminder of what is really important in our work: building positive relationships and making school a place students want to come to! I think it should qualify for MN Mental Health CEU's!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://pernillesripp.com/" target="_blank">Pernille Ripp</a>, educator and author of <i><a href="https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/empowered-schools-empowered-students/book244208" target="_blank">Empowered Schools, Empowered Students</a></i>, was the opening keynote at the <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/apps.edina.k12.mn.us/edina-learning-institute/" target="_blank">Edina Learning Institute</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Growing up in Denmark, her first english words were "yes, no, and bathroom!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Gallup poll showed that student engagement dropped from 76% in elementary school to 44% in high school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ida, one of her twins took her first steps at 11 months. Her son Oscar took much longer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your district is asking you to try something new. How lucky you are! As teachers, you have the right to fail, as long as you pick yourself up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is the biggest barrier? Teachers speak 60-75% of the time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Students should talk more than the teacher on the first day of school! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ultimately, she was able to open enroll her child in a different school, and she ended the year loving school. But what about the students that don't have that option....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ask your kids, "<b>Is this a good class for you?</b>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be prepared for an honest response, and grow from it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We can be a part of the problem, or a part of the solution, but not both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You only fail when you stop trying. Some days you will recognize that you wouldn't want to be a student in your classroom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you start on the Personalized Learning journey, think only of the first step YOU must take, don't compare yourself with others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We need to create a classroom that can help kids be successful no matter what a student's start in life is, nor what their life is like outside of the classroom! Teach the child in front of us, not the child we hoped would show up!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Michelle Cordy, a Third Grade educator from Ontario, Canada, blogger of "<a href="http://hacktheclassroom.ca/" target="_blank">Hack the Classroom</a>," was the closing keynote at <a href="https://conference.iste.org/2016/" target="_blank">ISTE 2016.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She got jumped right in, and challenged the audience to think about who we are and our place in the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is her school's last day, and she'd rather be there, but chose to come speak to us!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 2012, she got her, "Magic Schoolbus!" a grant for 1:1 iPads. She was considered a "rougue" teacher, as her classroom was the only one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She sought out ideas online and found Howard Reingold, author of Netsmart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She tweeted to him, he commented on her blog, and she was shocked. He noted:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"That's how it works, Michelle!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She wants her students to be seen and heard, in her classroom and beyond. She needed to connect with a PLN, because there was nobody in her district to help. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is what she has learned from the community</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Be a Connected Educator.</b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Coming to ISTE is like an oxygen mask. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Going home can be tough. #ISTEsadselfie</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://connectedthebook.com/" target="_blank">Christakis in Connected</a>: The shape of the network matters, we shape our networks, and our networks shape us. Carbon forms graphite as well as a diamond. It's the shape of the bond that determines its structure.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What if there are connected educators who introduce friends to other friends. When you connect your colleagues, you are better connected!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once you have 3 degrees of separation, it becomes "contagion!"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Focusing on the connections and the good work will create diamond networks!</span></li>
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<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Engage and Empower the Network </b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we engage our network and our students it empowers us</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">BreakoutEDU is a great way to do that</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Engage and Empower the kids</b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She had the kids build bridges so that spheros could get between the desks. Her kids said, "We want to build a marble run for the spheros! She said, "ok!"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When you engage and empower, kids see themselves in the curriculum.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Assigned a student to go around and ask kids what there plan was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once you take care of the "must do's" you open up space to make stuff and make stuff up!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Power Pose Time</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cordy notes that when people powerpose they are more successful</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Amy Cuddy- There is a connection between the devices we use and powerposing. Larger devicdes the better. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1st Graders thought the power pose was of male gender and closed pose female.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Mindfulness Research</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">SAM Self Assessment Manikan </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A 10 minute intervention per day can have a huge impact!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Flipping the "Eye Chart" from Top Down to Bottom Up showed a difference in the ablility of people to read lines!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Real but not true. You are what you decide you are!! She wanted to teach, and do research, so she started calling her self an "applied researcher." Now she has 10 publications to her name! Believe your dreams into reality!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Falling in and out of sync and in and out of love with our ideas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hacking the Classroom-sounds a bit adversarial..."When someone says you're "in the trenches," who are you at war with?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Move from Disruption to Stewardship!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Fundamentally all of the things eduation needs exist righ now, we just need to organize them differently!</b></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>We need to play a long game on a short track. Recommit to that place where you can make your greatest contribution! Show up at the place you can make your greatest contribution and refuse to leave!!</b></i></span><br />
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