White Bear Lake Technology Director, Mark Garrison gave the opening keynote at the Minnesota Google Summit . Here are my live blog notes from the session. He talked about growing up in Minnesota idolizing Will Steger and Paul Schirke. His goal: Embrace change and be a beacon for life=long learning! Interesting times with some hanging on to 20th century pedagogy with others moving forward in the 21st. There is a professional acheivement gap today between these two practices. IWB's went into teacher's classrooms, but the training was around using the product instead of changing pedagogy. Great change requires vision, skills incentives , recources and an action plan to acheive lasting change. Filling the gap between these two pedagogical realities requires a bridge of these NOSTR model, via the strategic plan of the district, building and classroom. All of us are responsible for improving and honing our skills. Elliot, Minnesota is "all carrot and no stick....
Ideas and Tips on Digital Age Learning from Michael Walker. These thoughts and ideas may not represent the views of my employer.