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Framing the Focus

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Stephen Hawking

Key Elements

•What instructional goals are we aiming to meet?•What do you think the classroom, teacher, and school should look like in 2014?•What do we need to do to create more of these kinds of instructional settings and what is holding us back?•What do you think the opening day of school in 2025 will look like?

Recently quoted in a new industry trends report…. “Companies that do not consider the inevitability of using digital documents instead of paper documents will become less relevant over time and certainly less competitive and profitable.”

The Message is Everywhere

– Super Bowl Commercials– Middle East– Japan– Nature Eagle Cam– Alabama Tornadoes

Students Can Find Information

•Anything•Anytime•Anywhere

We have moved from an information scarce learning environment to an information abundance learning environment.

10 year old

• How is he different?• BG – Before Google – How

did we ask questions? Did we ask questions?

• Learn by asking questions• Teachers sometime want

to question proof their assignments

Who moved my chalk?

• Teachers are no longer the source of information.

• Teachers are the filter.

Alabama

– First Choice – Seat Time– ACCESS Policies – Any Where, Any

Time– Support and Content

• ALEX• AVL• TiM• ARI• AMSTI

Now is the Time– Real life projects that embed deep content– Mobility 24/7 Access– Connect people together – social networks– Moodle - Continuous Learning– Digital content– Blended Learning– BIG data– Transform education from a predominately print

based educational system to a digital system. – Has to be a flip – not just more of the same

Things To Think About

• What is the one thing you want to learn?

• What is the one thing you want to share?

• What is one thing that “keeps you up at night” in terms of keeping up with the digital student to improve learning?

RDY2LEAD

• Not about the “STUFF”• Not about the “WOW”• Not about the “device”• Not about what you have already done

It is about what you are going to do as you “prepare students for tomorrow”.

One Model of Doing School Differently

•Flipped instruction, how to use technology to make the classroom more human, we should not talk about time in class but student time with the teacher -  

•    http://youtu.be/nTFEUsudhfs