freedom to succeed - dwell in possibility
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Keynote for Lonestar Technology Integration Academy 2012 (#txtia12).TRANSCRIPT
Dwell in Possibility
Miguel GuhlinMore online at http://bit.ly/txtia12
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what has been your most powerful learning experience?
what has been your most powerful learning experience?
what has been your most powerful learning experience?
"School. . .wasn't much back then, either. The teachers didn't care. No personal warmth or contact. No encouragement," his bitter smile striking, a result of his longing for education, "meant most of us [brothers, sisters] ended up in manual labor jobs."
"I joined the military early at 18, and I've come out alright. . . ." and looking over at me, he said again with the force of experience, "Education is the one thing they can't take away from you! So study hard!, because if you don't, you'll miss the boat!"
Source: Garbed in Silver, http://goo.gl/gispV
My journey....
“As a thirteen year old, I had a profound fear of computers. I'd attended Camp Chip-A-Bit at Trinity University, and aside from enjoying playing Outpost on an Apple //+, I hated programming.”
When my father expressed his decision to buy me a computer, my mom promptly challenged him, "He's terrible in math. He's not going to grow up to be a programmer."
Learning Conversations via Electronic Bulletin Board Services (BBSs)
That Apple //e and a 300 baud modem gave me access to a community of minds...and, I spent time writing in BBS forums, exploring new software and how it could facilitate communication, essentially, learning to be social online before I turned 18.
BASIC
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Embedding images with MultiScribe WP
Balancing Checkbooks with VisiCalc SpreadsheetDownloading
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SIG-OPThe role of the
trader
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How have you allowed technology to change who you are and what you do?
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How have you allowed technology to change who you are and what you do?
Mandy Pels, Argyle ISD
Human beings are social animals. Our lives depend on other humans...Our connections to others are key to not only our survival, but also to our happiness and the success of our careers. Source: http://goo.gl/
how successful would we be in separating our teens from the devices that connect them?
to what degree do mobile devices enable us to be more human than schools have allowed us to be in the past?
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A recent survey of 25 technology directors in U.S. school districts revealed that every single one was testing or using the iPad in schools.
Within five years, they expect to have more tablets per student than computers – a total of one iPad per six students, compared to the
current 10 students per computer.
In schools, tablet has become synonymous with iPad.
Source: iPads Expected to Outnumber Computers in Schools Within 5 Years http://goo.gl/rkMqw
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“Why
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let's get
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1. dwell in possibility
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Top 5 Technologies Changing the Education Ecosystem(Bill Rust, Gartner Group, TCEA2012 Presentation to System Administrators) http://goo.gl/b75T0
1. Personally-owned devices - BYOT/BYOD2. Change in primary device form factor3. Multiple devices - Device and OS agnostic
solutions.
4. Customer intimacy on par with operational efficiency...Infrastructure folks will have to
work harder to support these new technologies.
5. Opportunities to change and refine the organization and delivery of instruction.
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Personally-owned devices - BYOT/BYOD
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-ipad-usage-2012-7
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4. Support new devices.
True BYOT will never be a solution for schools that continue to focus on standardization of hardware
and applications.
Source: Scott Meech, The Future of Ed-Tech is Bring Your Own Device
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The iPad is the consumer's
choice...and we are powerless to stop this avalanche.
--Bill Rust, Gartner Group
Don’t worry, he was skiing with a group. They rescued him.
Are you learning by yourself or in a group? http://goo.gl/l2NuQ
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what does the term
“post-digital school”(ubiquitous access to technology changing your life and work)
mean in the context of conversations you are having in your school or district?
what does the term “post-digital school mean for you?"
It marks the transition from the era where we’re excited by the shiny new digital toys that we have, and start to
become excited by the changes that these shiny
not-so-new toys are making in the way we live, in the objects we have around us.
Source: http://nextberlin.eu/2012/01/what-is-post-digital/ http://goo.gl/xspq8
post-digital school?
post-digital school?
The capability to show patients their results, radiology studies and teaching aides is invaluable in the patient-centered medical home models.
Integration of tablets with other devices (stethoscopes, imaging) and the capability to carry a multitude of textbooks and instant journal access should accelerate the revolution in medical education already occurring.”
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“I see great potential for tablets to function as teaching tools for both medical education and with patients.
post-digital school?
To allow or not to allow personal smartphones and other mobile computing devices into the healthcare setting? That's one thought becoming less of a question and more a reality check as bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives become imperative for CMIOs and IT departments.
It's no longer an option, Jason W. Zeller, director of information security and risk management at Kaiser Permanente Source: http://goo.gl/ZtVnf
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...you can't afford a 1:1 on top of everything you already do, but we are starting to learn that there are a lot of
things you can stop doing when you become a post-digital school.
(Source:http://speirs.org/blog/2012/7/20/the-2012-ade-institute.html)
School boards spend countless hours figuring out how to formulate policies limiting the use of cell phones, iPods, and Internet access in school buildings...they must stop seeing these changes as threats and instead identify the opportunities they present.
Source: Philip Schlechty’s Leading for Learning
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It is growing increasingly difficult to control creation of globally viewed content.
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"We’ve reached a point where technology is simple and boring enough
to be socially useful and interesting."--Clay Shirky
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Source: Philip Schlechty’s Leading for Learning
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Source: The Big Bang Theory, Season 5, Episode 12
Parents, teachers, and religious leaders no longer control young people's access to information and knowledge. Source: Philip Schlechty’s Leading for Learning
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Source: The Big Bang Theory, Season 5, Episode 12
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With over 67 million kids using social media (e.g. Facebook), how can we make learning possible where our children spend their time?
...in June 2011, Consumer Reports estimated that about 7.5 million people who use Facebook are younger than 13.
"For some teens and tweens, social media is the primary way they interact socially, rather than at the mall or a friend's house.Source: http://goo.gl/AnR0r
Educators must learn to take into account and exploit for positive ends the social networking available on the Internet.
Educators must not allow fear of the harm that can be done by these developments to divert attention from their efforts to invent ways to exploit the good.Source: Philip Schlechty’s Leading for Learning
"Leaders must become more comfortable talking openly about school and the complex and occasionally contentious issues they face."
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The 30 Year Rulewhen you look back 30 years from now, will the obstacles you set up against using technology in your home, your classroom, stand up to the test of time?
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How can social media use in high school prepare students for life?
Those who cannot claim computers as their own tool for exploring the world never grasp the power of technology...
They are controlled by technology as adults--just [they were]...controlled [by]
them as students.
Toward Digital Equity: Bridging the Divide in EducationEditors: Gwen Solomon, Nancy J. Allen, and Paul Resta
Leaders must become more comfortable talking openly about their school and the complex and occasionally contentious issues they face.
or, another way to put
stop playing whack-a-
how are you leveraging mobile technologies students and schools have available?
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How would your students communicate their message?
Source: Science Daily - http://goo.gl/u4r8F
“By understanding how students may be positively using these networking technologies in their daily lives and where the as yet unrecognized educational opportunities are, we can help make schools even more relevant, connected and meaningful to kids."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e912iuGqb6g
“No school rises above it’s leadership.”
Ronald Williamson's and J. Howard Johnston's book, The School Leader's Guide to Social Media.
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2. make communication possiblehttp://rsdstakeholders.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/how-about-some-transparency1.jpg
what conversations are you having in your school and community?
http://samsonblackwell.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/baby-in-stroller-pointing-finger-big.jpg
“Coffee with the Principals” is a way for parents who have children in the school district to be informed of new activities that are planned for students and provide updates on ongoing activities.
conversations over coffee
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one story of how to get there
Read the rest of the story online at http://goo.gl/gvUq2
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how do these combine?Tip #1 - You must first set a vision of what's possible in play.
Your job isn’t to strike people out, it’s to help them “put the ball in play.”
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Tip #2 - Identify needs that can be met by strategic use of staff and technologies available.
Build a star team by focusing on strengths, notweaknesses.
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Tip #3 - Acknowledge past efforts that failed to be implemented fully.
Each failure provides insight in how to
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Tip #4 - Connect with powerful stakeholders.
Everyone loves success, especially those who are paying for it.
Jessica Steinbrenner, far left, sits in the owner's box with, from left, her husband Felix Lopez, an unidentified woman, her father George Steinbrenner, principal owner of the New York Yankees, brother Hank Steinbrenner and Clyde King, former general manager during a spring training baseball game against the Univeristy of South Florida in this Feb. 29, 2008 file photo, in Tampa, Fla.
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Tip #5 - Align the plan with state and national goals.
Mutual purpose can begin with a commitment to common goals.
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Tip #6 - Run to the “resistors.”
Ask yourself what you really want for yourself, for others and the organization.
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Tip #7 - Be transparent in your communications.
Build mutual respect and mutual purpose, or you may just be wasting your time.
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3. manage your learning and share that.
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Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme.
The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community.
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#1 - EverNote - http://www.evernote.com
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Pinterest.com
#2 - Pinterest - http://pinterest.com
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Pinterest.com
#2 - Pinterest - http://pinterest.com
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Diigo.com/education
#3 - Diigo - http://diigo.com/education
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Zite
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#2 - Flipboard - http://goo.gl/aUDY2
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News360
#3 - News360 - http://goo.gl/rbQ6m
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2 other
approaches
1) Tweet your “Aha!” moments2) Blog your learning conversations.
Silence = Invisibility...don’t be invisible!
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what's ahead?
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Not this...I hope.
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when the world is changing at light-speed, only your commitment to sharing what you're learning endures...don’t be afraid to dwell in possibility.
edgy communications = vulnerable, authentic, transparent, human.