Educational Collisions How Connected Educators are Creating Positive Change Chris Wejr @chriswejr #CanFlip14cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by ZEISS Microscopy: http://flickr.com/photos/zeissmicro/8696125690/

"I come to you humbly not to tell you what to do on your journey but to share with you what I have learned on mine Wab Kinew cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by Thompson Rivers University: http://flickr.com/photos/thompsonrivers/8518479289/

Who IS this guy?

What Matters

Connect With Others

or two ideas you can use in your classroom is not nearly as good as leaving here with one or two people you can continue to learn with. CC Image from Alec Couros https://flic.kr/p/4P1Pam

Connection is why we are here. We are hardwired to connect with others -- Brene Brown cc licensed ( BY ND ) flickr photo by Andrew: http://flickr.com/photos/30235101@N06/3344044448/

http://imgur.com/2889fwW Seeking the help of others

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Dancing in the Rain with Lilee-Jean

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How social media is changing education.

[we must] resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange. CC Image from Koshy Koshy https://flic.kr/p/7B213y Robert Kegan

Is it really about devices? http://youtu.be/o4nwe7cW_og

LESS about technology. LESS about social media. MORE about relationships MORE about sharing stories ALL about people

What is a Connected Educator? cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by Dimitris Papazimouris: http://flickr.com/photos/papazimouris/2406626022/

Chance favours a connected mind Steven Johnson http://youtu.be/NugRZGDbPFU

Professional LEARNING is not an event It happens Any Time Any Place Image: http://flic.kr/p/9u9Wha

Do you know what who you know knows? Howard Rheingold cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by Michael Coghlan: http://flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/1524078672/

New School, New District, New Learning

Share Ideas

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Martin Gommel: http://flickr.com/photos/kwerfeldein/2234720298/ Instead of holding an idea in a closed fist hold it out in your open hand. Nilofer Merchant

What is ordinary to you Might be extraordinary to someone else cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by akshay moon: http://flickr.com/photos/akshaymoon/4732030995/

The best teachers focus on doing great things in their classroom and dont waste time bragging about it online. What if we all did this? CC Image from The Bs https://flic.kr/p/4DZAFK

I know I am doing it wrong please comment below so you can teach me how to do it http://youtu.be/JuFsDN8dsJU

Isolation is now a choice educators make.George Couros

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Roberta Cortese: http://flickr.com/photos/satyrika/8093129936/

Traditional view of success? CC Image from David Melchor Diaz https://flic.kr/p/nptQTU

John Seely Brown Learning from Surfers http://youtu.be/41pNX9-yNu4

Competition Redefined?

Create Positive Change

Speed of Changecc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by Joachim S. Mller: http://flickr.com/photos/joachim_s_mueller/181340272/

REAL Education Reform

Expand and Connect the Pockets cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by Esther Simpson: http://flickr.com/photos/estherase/227972493/

Great ideas are often created because someone had the other half of it for you. Neil StephensonCC Image from John Potter https://flic.kr/p/HQB4

Identity Day Blog: http://bit.ly/NrekwQ

Creating Collab Time Blog: http://bit.ly/15TkUl5

Challenge

Seek intellectual collisions cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo by TORLEY : http://flickr.com/photos/torley/2539392357/

Are we being clear on what we are saying? http://youtu.be/wPOgvzVOQig

We need to get off this flipped instruction is innovative and the change needed train and start talking deeper reform. @chriswejr November, 2011 @jossives @okmbio I appreciate how Carolyn has taken the flipped model and changed the entire class structure @chriswejr April, 2012

The Problem With Binary Thinking

Learning From Jimmy Fallon http://youtu.be/0b9rOji_PWY

Share Stories

Ideas dont get smaller when they are shared. Seth Godin cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Alexander Steinhof: http://flickr.com/photos/bagger2009/3949277456/

Human beings were born to be in a community. We were born to create and share elements of our experience of life through art and storytelling.

What are the stories being told about education? Who is telling them? cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Alejandro Giacometti: http://flickr.com/photos/janrito/2737454032/

Sharing stories changing culture

Provide a window in cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by Kol Tregaskes: http://flickr.com/photos/koltregaskes/213069641/

Connections, Relationships, and Technology http://youtu.be/-S-5EfwpFOk

When Ideas Meet and Mate Matt Ridley From: http://youtu.be/OLHh9E5ilZ4

Its Your Move

Reflect. Start change with one thing Now. cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Rita M.: http://flickr.com/photos/fotorita/2031523502/

Share. Tweet. Blog. cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Josh Harper: http://flickr.com/photos/furiousgeorge81/177926979/

Try something new. Take a risk. Do it. http://youtu.be/ZV_DKgb264E

Thank you!

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Acknowledgments: George Couros @gcouros Alec Couros @courosa Chris Kennedy @chrkennedy Cale Birk @birklearns And so many more in my PLN!