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6 Districts That Think Different
"If you don't know
where you are
going, you will wind
up somewhere
else!"
Educational Leaders and Schools That Are Changing Education
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Dr. Howie DiBlasi
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Extensive experience
Education field, (20 years)
Business leader, (10 years)
C.I.O. (14 years)
• “Vocational Teacher of the Year” for the State of Arizona
• “Top Secondary Leaders in America”
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• "Pinnacle Award" for outstanding Professional Development
Programs
• I.S.T.E. as the “Best of the Best” for outstanding Professional
Development Programs for 2010-2011-2012
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Conference Links:
www.drhowie.com
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Twitter: hdiblasi
e-mail: [email protected]
Skype:
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www.drhowie.com
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Tools To Tackle Classroom Challenges
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Discover successful schools
and strategies across the
country: and use their best
teaching practices, training
materials, and rubrics with your
students.
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• Pearson, Blackboard, And
Education's New "Openwashing"
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What did you learn today?
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3 kinds of people
• 1. Visitors
• 2. Renters
• 3. Owners
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How has the world changed
since you graduated…?
Has education at large
made the same strides ?
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Have we changed our classrooms in the last
20-30-years?
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Starbucks
McDonalds
Your bank On-line banking-bill paying
Malls
Sports stadiums
Cameras
Pay phones
Travel agents
On-line shopping
Cars-motorcycles
Churches
Schools – classrooms ???
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Who said that….
• “I am not complacent at all john. I have gone
through experiences such as this for a very long
time. I know I am right. I make the good
argument, write the wise articles, and the
persuasive letters. And sometimes I feel as though
I am preaching to a stack of wood. People do not
easily embrace change. Convincing them to turn
in a new direction requires a patience and
persistence that tax everyone. It does not help
matters that the course we are attempting to follow
could get us all hanged”
• Ben Franklin talking to John Adams , June 7, 1776
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10 Districts That Think Different
"If you don't know
where you are
going, you will wind
up somewhere
else!"
Educational Leaders and Schools That Are Changing Education
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Credit to:
• 10 Things I’d Do Right Now as a Superintendent
• The Model Technology Program Schools
• Meet 10 superintendents who are exemplary ed-tech leaders
• Manor's New Tech High School
• Meet six of the country’s best STEM schools
• The Flipped Classroom
• Think Different: A Lesson in Education Reform and Life, from
Apple's Steve Jobs
• America's Most Amazing Schools
• Blue Valley Schools-CAPS Program
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38 Schools and Districts That “Think Different”
• Emergent Themes
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Focus on literacy
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Student engagement through digital content
Motivation and accountability
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Internet literacy
Data-driven instruction
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Student-centric classrooms
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Multimodal learning
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Project/problem-based learning
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Collaboration
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Student empowerment
Download data sheet on:
www.drhowie.com
NETS- Combine-Students and Teachers
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Creativity and Innovation
Communication/Collaboration
Critical Thinking/Problem Solving/Decision Making
Facilitate/Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
Research and Information Fluency
Digital Citizenship
Technology Operations/Concepts
Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and
Assessments
• Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
• Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
• Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
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Future Work Skills 2020
© 2011 Apollo Research Institute. All rights reserved
• 6 —big, disruptive shifts
that are likely to
reshape the
landscape for
organizations
and workers.
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1. Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to
understand
concepts across multiple disciplines. More about transdisciplinarity.
2. Virtual
collaboration: ability to work productively, drive
engagement, and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team. More
about virtual collaboration.
3. Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper meaning or
significance of what is being
expressed. More about sense-making.
4. Social intelligence: ability to connect
to
others in a deep and direct way, to sense
and stimulate reactions and desired interactions. More about social intelligence.
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5. Cross-cultural
competency: ability to operate
in different cultural settings. More about crosscultural competency
6. Novel and adaptive
thinking - Proficiency at
thinking and coming up with
solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or rulebased
Just added:
• Computational thinking- The ability to
translate vast amounts of data into abstract
concepts and to understand data-based reasoning
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Skills for success – CORE SKILLS - employers seek.
1. Communication (oral-written-presentation)
2. Critical/analytical thinking
3. Self Direction & Problem-solving
4. Think outside the box- (Creativity and innovation)
5. Collaboration & Teamwork
6. Information gathering, evaluation & synthesis
7. “Adaptability”
8. Ambition, self-awareness & an inquiring mind
9. Know more about the world-(Global citizens)
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What they don’t want…
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Poor teamwork skills
lack of leadership skills
Poor attitude / lack of work ethic / poor approach to work
Lack of interpersonal and communication skills (written,
oral, listening); Lack of drive, motivation, enthusiasm and
initiative
Arrogance / selfishness / aggression/ dominating
Lack of commitment / high absenteeism/ lack of loyalty
Inflexibility/ inability to accept direction, challenges or
change
Poor or inappropriate academic qualifications or results
Lack of emotional intelligence, self-awareness or selfconfidence
Lack of commitment / high absenteeism / lack of loyalty
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“Change Is Good
……...You Go First”
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“You can't *buy* change”
• The consequences are high-tech
classrooms delivering
meaningless, low-level
instructional experiences. “You
can't *buy* change,” argues
Sylvia Martinez of Generation YES.
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Leadership Tasks
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Build the Vision
Manage Change
Change the culture
Staff Development
Classroom Management and Tech
Support
6. Communication and input
7. Monitor and sustain the change
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Explore successful models of innovative schools.
• Difficult to develop a vision of a 21st century school
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• There are few
well-know
publicly-available models that
are captured and shared
• Few known established places that one can
visit to read about innovative schools
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2012 Tech-Savvy Superintendent Award
winners discuss the keys to their success
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C.J. Huff:
Creating new possibilities from unspeakable tragedy
• On May 22, 2011, the town of Joplin, Mo., lost six schools in an
EF5 tornado that killed 160 people and displaced half the
student body. Joplin currently has about 3,200 students living in
temporary facilities. In spite of these challenges, the district is
leading the way in using technology to transform instruction
under the guidance of Superintendent C.J. Huff
• Jerri Kemble: Today’s superintendents must be ‘willing to
take risks’
• Brad Saron: Ed tech is not about devices, but ‘how you use
them’
• William Skilling on moving from professional development
to ‘professional learning’
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2012 Tech-Savvy Superintendent Award
winners discuss the keys to their success
• Mark Evans:
The ‘three Cs’ that ed tech can help
address
• Daniel Frazier:
‘Bold leadership’ is needed for today’s
schools
• Nicholas Gledich
planning’
on the importance of ‘pausing and
• Michele Hancock:
The key to ed-tech success is
‘constantly communicating’
• Michael Hanson:
How he’s taken his district from worst
to first in ed tech
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Mark Evans
• Being a tech-savvy superintendent means
“always looking down the road,” with an eye
toward how technology can help school
districts achieve what he calls the “three Cs”:
• classroom engagement,
• cost efficiency,
• and communication.
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Daniel Frazier, superintendent of Iowa’s
Sioux Central Community School District,
• “Show bold leadership.”
• “We’re talking about fundamentally
changing the structure of the 21st-century
classroom. That’s a scary proposition that
is going to alter the perceptions of our
public as to what the classroom
[environment] should be,”
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Daniel Frazier
• Discussed how a one-to-one laptop program for
students in grades 3-12 is facilitating an
inquiry-based approach to learning in
his district.
• How he has been able to get “100-percent
commitment” to implementing technology
from his district’s staff by sending them out to
other schools to see what successful
innovations others were doing.
GREEN EGGS AND HAM By Dr. Seuss
• I am Sam , I am Sam , Sam I am
That Sam-I-am!
Than Sam-I-am!
I do not like that Sam-I-am!
Do you like green eggs and ham?
I do not like them,
Sam-I-am.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
Would you like them here or there?
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6 Districts That Think Different
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Mooresville Graded School District - Mooresville NC
Science Leadership Academy – Philadelphia
Durango School District 9-R- Durango CO
Manor New Tech High- Manor TX
Regional School District No. 6 - Litchfield CT
Blue Valley Schools – Overland Park KS
All together now……..
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Transdisciplinarity - understand concepts
Virtual collaboration - member of a virtual team
Sense-making - significance of what is being expressed
Social intelligence - connect to others in a deep and direct way
Adaptability/Adaptive Thinking - coming up with different solutions
Computational thinking - translate vast amounts of data
Self Direction
Ambition, self-awareness and an inquiring mind
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
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Cross-cultural competency
Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Technology Operations and Concepts
Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Communication (oral-written-presentation)
Research/Information Fluency-gathering, evaluation & synthesis
Critical/analytical thinking
Collaboration & Teamwork
Know more about the world-(Global citizens)
Creativity and Innovation
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Transdisciplinarity - understand concepts
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Virtual collaboration - member of a virtual team
Sense-making - significance of what is being expressed
Social intelligence - connect to others in a deep and direct way
Adaptability/Adaptive Thinking - coming up with different solutions
Computational thinking - translate vast amounts of data
Self Direction
Ambition, self-awareness and an inquiring mind
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
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What is Transdisciplinary Learning?
• Learning to know - This is the capability of making
connections, adapting to changes and knowing how to
learn. Most notably, this refers to the inquiry-based approach
to learning such as the scientific process or research and
information fluency.
• Learning to do - transdisciplinary learning is framed in the
idea of project-based learning or performance tasks that
demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge in a creative
manner.
• Learning to live together - the interconnectedness of the
world makes this aspect even more urgent for a need to be
able to collaborate on a local and global scale.
• Learning to be - the life-long journey of self-discovery must
be part of the process of learning.
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What is the best way to understand a concept?
• The best way to understand a concept is to
explain or teach it to someone else.
• “While we teach, we learn,” said the Roman
philosopher Seneca.
• Now scientists are bringing this ancient wisdom up
to date, documenting exactly why teaching is such
a fruitful way to learn — and designing innovative
ways for young people to engage in instruction.
Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2011/11/30/the-protegeeffect/#ixzz2N9meZer9
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• Mooresville Graded School District - NC
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Durango School District 9-R- Durango CO
Science Leadership Academy – Philadelphia
Manor New Tech High- Manor TX
Pflugerville High School- Pflugerville TX
Regional School District No. 6 - Litchfield CT
Blue Valley Schools – Overland Park KS
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Mooresville's Mark
Edwards named 2013
Superintendent of the
Year
• It’s about changing the
culture of instruction —
preparing students for
their future, not our
past.”
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Mooresville's Mark Edwards named
2013 Superintendent of the Year
• Mooresville’s Shining Example (It’s Not Just About
the Laptops)
• “This is not about the technology,” Mark Edwards,
superintendent of Mooresville Graded School
District, would tell the visitors later over lunch.
• “It’s not about the box.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/education/mooresville-school-district-a-laptopsuccess-story.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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Karen Cator, director of educational
technology for the United States
Department of Education. “There
are lessons to be learned from
Mooresville .”
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“Dr. Edwards! You have to see
this!” came their excited reply.
Knowing that the students had cut
their recess short, Edwards sensed
that something seismic was afoot.
And indeed, the crew was soon
clustered around a laptop
computer, eagerly perusing a
website that tracks global
earthquake activity.
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“What’s important about that,” Edwards
continues, “is that our students had access
to real-time data, so they were able to make
real-time observations. To see kids running
in from recess, back to their classroom
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• The students were inside
monitoring quakes around
the world, and had pinpointed
tremors in Southeast Asia,”
Edwards marvels. “They said
‘we think a big earthquake is
going to happen somewhere
in the area.’
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About two weeks later, the
devastating quake and tsunami
struck Japan.”
That type of learning — which is
possible now that our students
have access to powerful
technology tools — has brought
everyone to a brand new place.”
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How have classrooms changed?
• Classrooms have moved from
lecture to lattice (a framework or
structure)
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small groups with the teacher
swooping in for consultation.
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• Thomas Bertrand,
superintendent of schools in
Rochester, Ill., said he was
struck by the “culture of
collaboration among staff
and kids” in Mooresville
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• Mooresville’s laptops perform the same tasks as those
in hundreds of other districts: they correct worksheets,
assemble progress data for teachers,
• allow for compelling multimedia
lessons, and let students work at their
own pace or in groups,
• rather than all listening to one
teacher
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• Many students adapted to the overhaul
more easily than their teachers,
• some of whom resented having beloved
tools — scripted lectures, printed
textbooks and a predictable flow through
the curriculum
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• The difference, teachers and
administrators here said, is that they value
computers not for the newest content they
can deliver
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student emotions — curiosity,
boredom, embarrassment, anxiety,
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people can.
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said, student-Chase Wilson
• “I’m not a very social person, but I
have no problem typing on a
keyboard,” one of those shy ones,. “It
connected me with other students —
opened me up and helped me with
talking in public.”
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Federal Department of Education officials cite
Mooresville as a symbolic success
• District’s graduation rate was 91 percent in
2011.
• National Center for Education Statistics
estimated that 78 percent.
• State tests in reading, math and science, an
average of 88 % of students across grades
and subjects met proficiency standards
If the leaders don’t get it, it
doesn’t happen….. Scott McLeod
• If a teacher gets it, a classroom
changes. If a principal gets it, the whole
building begins to change. If a
superintendent gets it, the whole
district begins to change.
• [And, if state or federal policymakers get it, the
statewide or nationwide climate begins to change.]
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January 20, 2010
• http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/
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Question
How much (if any) of our curriculum is
centered around authentic problemsolving, teamwork and information
literacy?
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Transdisciplinarity
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Sense-making
Social intelligence
Adaptability and Adaptive Thinking
Computational thinking
Self Direction
Ambition, self-awareness & an inquiring mind
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
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Whiteboard Evaluation Project
• TEST me Scriblink - Your Online Whiteboard
http://www.scriblink.com/
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TEST me Dabbleboard
Drawings and graphic organizers-online
Share with others
Students in multiple locations can add to the
board at the same time.
• http://www.dabbleboard.com/
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6 Great Sites for Student Collaboration
• Get students collaborating
successfully and productively
with one another with these
great tools for...
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1. Debate Graph
Collaborative debate or group brainstorming-Work together to build graphs and
visual representations of complex topics and arguments, creating subject-maps
and spider graphs to clearly show different contributors’ ideas and input.
http://debategraph.org/
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2. Show Document
Enables students to have instant, shared web-meetings- documents can be
shared-useful tools to make collaboration easier, quicker and more effective,
including brainstorming with interactive whiteboards and image and video
sharing. http://www.showdocument.com/
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3. Primary Wall
Allows teachers and students to work together in real-time, adding sticky notes
to a group ‘wall’ like a pinboard. Simple, fast and user-friendly-create projects,
with group writing and drawing tools also available.
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4. Scribblar allows you to create a virtual “room” in seconds — without having to
register http://www.scribblar.com/demo
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5. Mind42 is a “mindmapping” tool that has tremendous collaborative features.
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6. Scriblink is an online whiteboard that can be used by up to five people at one
time.
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Durango 2000
Making 21st Century Classrooms Successful
• Mooresville Graded School District - NC
• Durango School District 9-R
Durango CO
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Science Leadership Academy – Philadelphia
Manor New Tech High- Manor TX
Regional School District No. 6 - Litchfield CT
Blue Valley Schools – Overland Park KS
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Durango 9-R Model
• 12 Tech Proficiencies for ALL teachers
• 12 Tech Proficiencies for ALL Administrators
• Provided 3 years to demonstrate
proficiencies
• ALL K-12 principals REQUIRED to attend
PD for administrators
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Tied to staff evaluation
ETIL Assessment becomes
part of Teacher Evaluation
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Professional Development:
21st Century Models
Face-to-face presentations
• Well-trained leaders are key to the success
• Center on academic goals
• Principals celebrate completing a "Laptops for
Leaders" course
• Professional development for Superintendent
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A.A. Program Developed
• Administrator Academy
• 2 times a month Professional
development provided to all administrative
leaders and principals
• Each administrator is tested on ETIL
Competencies
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Areas
Tasks Sheet for ET/IL Teacher
Competencies Developed
1. Software applications and management
2. Word Processing and spreadsheets
3. File management
4. E-mail
5. Troubleshooting
6. Multimedia-Digital Media
7. Data driven reporting
8. Web Literacy
9. Communication-Oral-Written-Presentation
10. Problem Solving
11. Critical Thinking
12. Global Collaboration Connections
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Problem based learning and higher
level questioning developed
• Understand “Essential Questions”
• Answer must be based on data gathered
• Develop a plan of action
• Make a decision
• Reflection
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Peer Coaching Program Developed
• 15 coacher/trainers provided
professional development in all areas
• Assigned to school based on population
of students and teacher staff
• Logs recorded on every teacher
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Staff development..is it working ?
• Integrate “Proof of Concept” into
ALL Staff Development
• Develop proficiencies certification
• Provide a “TEST OUT” Option
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ET/IL - Success
• 98 % of teachers are proficient or advanced
in ET/IL
• 99 % of teachers have developed and
taught ETIL lessons
• All K-10 teachers have accessed their
students and faculty on their ability to use
technology skills in the classroom
• Teachers have successfully integrated IVC
into their curricula
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ET/IL - Success
• ETIL Lessons placed on web to share with
all staff
• ETIL Web projects placed on web to share
with all staff
• ETIL Student assessments placed on Web
• ETIL course offerings placed on the Web
• Goals, descriptions, projects and statistics
placed on Web to share
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ET/IL - Success
• On-line courses developed for state
wide ET/IL curriculum
• Over 180 teachers in the State of
Colorado take the classes
• SchoolDude instituted to make sure the
technology works and is serviced within
24 hours
• I.T technicians assigned to each school
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Quote at staff meeting from the principal
• There is a BIG difference
..between can’t and
won’t…….when you tell me you
can’t , I will help you... BUT,when
you say you won’t…..
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Question
• How do we prepare our students to
become not only readers and writers,
but editors and collaborators as
well?
Tinkering School
• Gever Tulley teaches life
lessons through tinkering
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvHViFc0ekw
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Tinkering School
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Tell me what you heard Gever Tulley say
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Kids can be trusted
No tests
No set curriculum
Real tools
Immersed
Offer them time
Figure things out
Fooling around
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Making things
Real plans
Building
Hands on
Completed projects
Celebrate failures
Analyze
Problems become puzzles
New approach
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Kids can be trusted
No tests
No set curriculum
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Offer them time
Figure things out
Fooling around
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Making things
Real plans
Building
Hands on
Completed projects
Celebrate failures
Analyze
Problems become puzzles
New approach
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Very interesting….!!!!!
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Five things students say they
want from education
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/07/28/fivethings-students-say-they-want-from-education/
• ‘Why do I need to know this?’
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5. Interactive technology
4. Teacher mentors
3. Innovation
2. Choice
1. Real-world application and relevancy
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• Unlike in the corporate world, where businesses
spend tens of millions researching what their
consumers really want, when it comes to how
we structure and organize our kids' education,
we generally don't make the
slightest attempt to listen to,
or even care, what students
think about how they are
taught.
• Marc Prensky
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Transdisciplinarity
Virtual collaboration
• Sense-making (Critical Thinking
significance of what is being expressed )
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Social intelligence
Adaptability and Adaptive Thinking
Computational thinking
Self Direction
Ambition, self-awareness & an inquiring mind
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
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BOOKS
Critical Thinking
• Critical Thinking (The Daily Spark)
• 180 Easy-to-Use Lessons and Class
Activities! [Paperback]
• SparkNotes Editors (Author)
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BOOKS - Creativity - Critical
Thinking - Innovation
Sample from the book:
• Which of the following animals does not
belong in this list ?
• WHY?
• Polar bear, Penguin, Beluga,
Moose, Walrus, Reindeer
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Answers….
• Moose - for hair and desert
• Polar bear – 2 words
• Beluga – only one word-in the water
• No e in Walrus
• All can be found in the ArticEXCEPT Penguins. Penguins
can only be found in the
Southern Hemisphere
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Critical Thinking Exercise
Fact – Fiction or Opinion
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Determine if each statement sounds like a fact or an opinion
• My mom is the best mom on earth.
• My dad is taller than your dad.
• My telephone number is difficult to memorize.
• The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet deep
• Dogs make better pets than turtles.
• 85% of all cases of lung cancer in the U.S. are caused by smoking.
• If you flatten and stretch out a Slinky toy it will be 87 feet long.
• Slinky toys are fun.
• One out of every hundred American citizens is color blind.
• Two out of ten American citizens are boring.
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• Mooresville Graded School District - NC
• Durango School District 9-R- Durango CO
• Science Leadership Academy – Philadelphia
• Manor New Tech High- Manor TX
• Regional School District No. 6 - Litchfield CT
• Blue Valley Schools – Overland Park KS
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Principal: Chris Lehmann
• Ten Most Amazing Schools
in the US
• Apple Distinguished School
• Dell's #Inspire100
• Lindback Award for
Excellence
• White House as a
Champion of Change
• "30 Most Influential People
in EdTech"
• Outstanding Young
Educator Award.
• National School Board
Association-Chris one of
"20 to Watch"
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Mission and Vision
• "How do we
learn?“
• "What can we
create?“
• "What does it
mean to lead?"
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Science Leadership Academy – Philadelphia
http://www.scienceleadership.org/
• The Science Leadership Academy is a
partnership high school between the
School District of Philadelphia and “The
Franklin Institute”.
• SLA is an inquiry-driven,
project-
based high school focused on 21st century
learning that opened its doors on September
7, 2006.
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Curriculum
• Focus on science,
technology, mathematics
and entrepreneurship, are
emphasized in all classes.
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Project-based environment where the core
values of inquiry, research, collaboration,
presentation and reflection
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to ease that transition and allow our
students and faculty to begin forging
bonds together as a learning community –
before the “hard work” of the classroom
begins.
• Summer Institute
• Seeing Ourselves/Seeing the City
• An Expedition into 9th Grade •
• Summer Institute Dates and
Times: August 28th – August 30th
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9th Grade-- Grade-Level Theme
- Identity
• Advisory
Wednesdays @ The Franklin Institute
English 9
African-American History
1st Year Integrated Biology/Chemistry
Rotation of Technology / Art / Drama /
Engineering electives
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How are you going to use your life
to positively impact other people?
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• Diana Laufenberg-SLA Teacher
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Integrated Biology/Chemistry
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10th Grade -- Grade-Level
Theme - Systems
• Advisory
Individualized Learning Plan
English 10
World History
2nd Year Integrated Biology/Chemistry
Health
Choice of Electives such as Digital Video, Art,
Drama, Ceramics, Debate, Engineering,
Computer Science Engineering, Music
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African-American History
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11th Grade -- Grade-Level
Theme - Change
• Advisory
Individualized Learning Plan
English 11
American History
Physics
Physical Education
Choice of Electives such as Digital Video, Art,
Drama, Ceramics, Debate, Engineering,
Computer Science Engineering, Music
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Science Electives
(examples - Anatomy and Physiology,
Science and Society, Urban Ecology)
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12th Grade - Grade-Level Theme - Creation
• Advisory
Senior Capstone
English Electives (examples - Shakespeare,
Storytelling, Sexuality and Society, Reel Reading)
History Electives (examples - Globalism, Political
Economy, American Government, Political Science)
Science Electives (examples - Anatomy and
Physiology, Science and Society, Urban Ecology)
Choice of Electives include:
• Senior Art, Senior Engineering, Senior Digital
Video and other.
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Questions to Bill Gates from
Students at Science Leadership
www.thegatesnotes.com
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Download SLA's standard rubric:
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Social intelligence – What???
connect to others
in a deep and direct way,
• ability to
to sense and stimulate reactions and desired
interactions.
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http://giftedthinkers.com/social_intelligence.htm
• Why should we teach something that
students will learn through life experience?
• Shouldn't this be taught at home rather than
school?
• Is teaching SI wasting time for children who
already have high social intelligence?
• Why is empathy important?
• How does someone feel who has low social
intellligence?
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http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/raise-greatkids/socially-intelligent-child/preschoolers
Social Intelligence for PreSchoolers
• Sensitize your child to other people's experience.
• Introduce the problem-solving concept of "We can find a
solution that works for everyone."
• Supervise playdates as closely as required, but as loosely
as possible.
• Keep enforcing the “no-hitting- no-matter-what” rule.
• Be aware that preschoolers are exploring how power works.
• Bossiness is often a challenge with preschoolers
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Transdisciplinarity
Virtual collaboration
Sense-making
Social intelligence
Adaptability and Adaptive Thinking
Computational thinking
Self Direction
Ambition, self-awareness & an inquiring mind
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
Cross-cultural competency
Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Technology Operations and Concepts
Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Communication (oral-written-presentation)
Research/Information Fluency-gathering, evaluation & synthesis
Critical/analytical thinking
Collaboration & Teamwork
Know more about the world-(Global citizens)
• Creativity and Innovation
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Creativity is inventing,
experimenting, growing,
taking risks, breaking
rules, making mistakes,
and having fun.
— Mary Lou Cook
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Illustrated Six-Word Memoirs by Students from
Grade School to Grad School
•
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/09/s
ix-word-memoirs-students/
• by Maria Popova
• “The constraint
fuels rather than
limits our
creativity.”
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• As an autobiographical challenge, the
six-word limitation forces us to
pinpoint who we are and what
matters most — at least in the
moment.
• The constraint fuels rather than limits
our creativity.
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Charlotte 'Charley' Berkenbile, 8,
is in third grade at Florence Elementary
School in Keller, Texas.
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Sonia Rose Menken, 10, attends Charles
H. Bullock School in Montclair, N.J., where she is in
fifth grade.
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Shawn Budlong, 13, is in seventh grade at the
Thurgood Marshall School in Rockford, Ill.
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6 words examples
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Woke up old surprised now what
We met. We loved. He left.
I still believe in Santa Claus.
Still don't know what I'm doing.
Successful outside, empty inside. Why bother?
I should have never said goodbye
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6 words examples
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I made people forget time.
"Keep on going, it gets better."
I had nothing better to do.
Long days, short nights: working Mom.
Embrace the day...smile at someone
Saying goodbye is hard to do.
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Mooresville Graded School District
Durango School District 9-R
Science Leadership Academy
• Manor New Tech High- Manor TX
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Regional School District No. 6 - Litchfield CT
Blue Valley Schools – Overland Park KS
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• “This notion of having a degree
that is really a career-tech
degree scares me"
• Texas, Education Commissioner Michael
Williams said at a recent gathering of
business leaders.
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• 7,200 Enrollment
• 80% Free & Reduced
Lunch
• 60% Hispanic
• 28% African American
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Manor New Tech
• Built on the New
Technology Foundation
model of projectbased learning, is
strikingly different from
what is found in traditional
secondary education
classroom settings.
• Modeled after Sacramento New Tech
High School which was modeled from
the first New Technology High
School, Napa.
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• Prepare students to
excel in an
informationbased and
technologicallyadvanced
society.
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• We are committed to
leading
educational reform
and our instructional
program encourages
students to learn
through
collaboration with
peers, businesses,
and the
community.
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What is MANOR NEW TECH HIGH?
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Debunking five myths about PBL
( created by Manor students)
• Misconceptions
• 1. PBL is the same as "making something",
"hands-on learning" or "doing activity ".
• 2. PBL isn't standard-based. It focuses on "soft
skills" like critical thinking and collaboration, but
doesn't teach enough content knowledge and
academic skills.
• 3. PBL takes too much time.
• 4. PBL is only for older students...or fluent
English speakers...or those who don't have
learning disabilities.
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• Students develop problem-solving skills,
interpersonal skills, and the resiliency they
need to succeed in a rapidly-changing and
competitive world.
• Our curriculum brings together the strength of
modern technology, community partnerships,
problem solving, interdisciplinary
instruction, and global perspectives in a
student-centered, collaborative, projectbased community.
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Think Forward
• Institute designed
to train educators in
best practices for
Project Based
Learning(PBL),
Leadership, and
21st Century Skill
Applications.
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HOW ABOUT RESULTS?
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Principal Steve Zipkes makes a cameo
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu0RR5N_Rw&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
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Questions for you….
• How do you engage the “Digital Learner”
• Allow students to provide input on how they
learn?
• Ask students what could change to make their
school a better school?
• Why they can play a video game and be engaged
for hours- and appear to be bored in school
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Transdisciplinarity
Virtual collaboration
Sense-making
Social intelligence
• Adaptability and Adaptive Thinking
(Adapts and adjust to changes)
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Computational thinking
Self Direction
Ambition, self-awareness & an inquiring mind
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
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The Habitude of Adaptability: Embrace Change
Angela Maiers
• “In a global economy, workers need to
be increasingly adaptable,
versatile, and tolerant of uncertainty in
order to operate effectively and
efficiently in these changing
varied environments.”
and
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Adaptability: Education's Answer to
Tomorrow's Challenges ...
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Responding to a Volatile World:
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Teaching Adaptability and ...
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The Teacher Adaptability Quotient Scale
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Teaching Children How to Adapt
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Adaptability and Flexibility - Involves:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/adaptability.htm
• Be willing to take risks
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Adapting successfully to
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Keeping
changing situations & environments
calm in the face of difficulties
• Planning ahead- have alternative options in case things go wrong
• Thinking quickly to respond to sudden changes in circumstances
• Persisting in the face of unexpected difficulties
• Anticipating & responding positively to changing environments
new challenges at short notice.
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Taking on
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Dealing with
changing priorities/workloads
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When You Sit Down To a Scott Adams'
Adventure... Anything Can Happen!
• Accumulate points, crack a mystery
• two-word commands, some common
sense and a little ingenuity.
• Anything can happen when you play a
Scott Adams Adventure ... and it usually
does!
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Mystery Fun House (1981)
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Games – Amanita Design
http://amanita-design.net/games.html
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Samorost 2
Point and Click Game
http://amanita-design.net/samorost-2/
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Mooresville Graded School District - NC
Durango School District 9-R- Durango CO
Science Leadership Academy – Philadelphia
Manor New Tech High- Manor TX
• Regional School District No. 6 - Litchfield CT
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Blue Valley Schools – Overland Park KS
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Edward
Drapp,
Superintendent
(860) 567-7400
Regional School
District No. 6
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RSD6 Educational Technology
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Professional Development in RSD6
• RESOURCES
– Assessment and Rubrics
– Edmodo
– Google Apps
– IPad/IPod Resources
– Videoconferencing
– Web Tools
• Resources by Subject
– Language Arts
– Math Resources
– Science Resources
– Social Studies Resources
– Wellness and PE
– World Language
• RSD6 Technology
Showcase Blog
• The Edtech Challenge
• Twitter Resources
• Understanding 21st
Century Learning
– Digital Citizenship /
Internet Safety
– EDU Specialists
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RESOURCES > Videoconferencing
Skype Resources
Skype and Author
Network Skyping:
Assigned Roles
Content Providers
Center for
Interactive Learning
and Collaboration
(CILC)
Collaborations
Around the Planet
(CAPspace)
Videoconference
Program Database
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AG EDUCATION:
IT’S MORE THAN
LEARNING
WHERE
CHOCOLATE
MILK COMES
FROM
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• It provides the
opportunity for people
to understand
agriculture is not just
farming; it’s a
sustainable way of life.
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The agriculture industry
needs talented, driven
and passionate youth
willing to make a
commitment to
agriculture
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All together now……..
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Transdisciplinarity
Virtual collaboration
Sense-making
Social intelligence
Adaptability and Adaptive Thinking
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Problem Solving and Decision Making
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Self Direction
Ambition, self-awareness & an inquiring mind
Computational thinking
Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
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• “We Don’t Need Smart
Boards, We Need Smart
People” (Jerry Brodkey)
• http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/we-dont-needsmart-boards-we-need-smart-people-jerry-brodkey/
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Book Exercises:
"BRAIN STORMING"
(sample from the book)
By Marty Fligor - Published by Creative Publishing
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Practice
– THINK DIFFERENT
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• Practice 26:
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Give uses for a piece of toast
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• Practice 37:
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Give uses for a windshield wiper
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Choose Your Own Adventure series.
• Interactive, multiple-choice multiple-ending
series
• Popular series for children
• Published, with more than 255 million
copies sold in 38 languages
•
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Choose Your Own Adventure
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Write 'Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books
Through This Clever HTML5 App
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http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670294/write-choose-your-own-adventure-books-through-thisclever-html5-app
• Who hasn’t, at least for a moment, thought
a Choose Your Own Adventurebook would be
fun to write?
• It’s like making a game out of words.
• Branching narratives are a surprisingly natural
approach to make books interactive.
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Write 'Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books Through This
Clever HTML5 App
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670294/write-choose-your-own-adventure-booksthrough-this-clever-html5-app
• But they’re a logistical
nightmare.
• Multiple storylines?
Converging plots?
• How could you keep even a
simple story straight?
inkle appears to have figured it out
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Internal compositional software available to the public free
as an HTML5 web app called inklewriter
Try it here
http://writer.inkl
estudios.com/
• When you’ve reached a decision point, you just click “add
option” and enter the appropriate text.
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Where is the best model in the US ?
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Mooresville Graded School District - NC
Durango School District 9-R- Durango CO
Science Leadership Academy – Philadelphia
Manor New Tech High- Manor TX
Regional School District No. 6 - Litchfield CT
• Blue Valley Schools – Overland Park KS
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Blue Valley ( C.A.P.S.)
Center for Advanced Professional Studies
Overland Park, Kansas
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http://www.bvcaps.org/s/1403/start.aspx
• Center for Advanced Professional Studies
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Students learn professional skills
• Succeed in today's fast-paced world
• Before entering college or other postsecondary educational opportunities
• CAPS is about students solving real
problems, with real tools (used by real
professionals), being mentored by real
employers, leading to real contribution.
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CAPS - Strands, Pathways & Courses
• Bioscience Strand
• Business, Technology & Media Strand
• Engineering Strand
• Human Services Strand
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Bioscience Strand
• CAPS Bioscience Research
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Environmental Science and Animal Health
• Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering
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Engineering Strand
• Aerospace Engineering
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CAPS Innovate
• Civil Engineering and Architecture
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• Design Process for Engineers
• Digital Electronics
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Business -Technology & Media Strand
• Filmmaking
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Global Business
•
iMedia
• Interactive Design
•
Technology Solutions
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Human Services Strand
• Foundations of Medicine
•
Law
• Sports Medicine
• Teacher Education
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Learning is student driven
• Students learn the professional skills necessary to succeed
in today's fast-paced world, all before entering college or other
post-secondary educational opportunities.
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Junior and senior level students explore their
interests in a profession-based learning
approach.
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Teachers facilitate the learning process
through problem-based projects
comprised of authentic and relevant work
assignments.
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What are the early results?
• Increased student enrollment –
– 250 students in 2009
– 1,000 students in 2012
• Increased business partners and
mentors— 240 business partners,
360 active mentors
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What are the early results?
• Increased student completed projects for
real business clients—Over 170 projects
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• Key business partners investing financial
resources—
• Garmin, Bayer, Cerner, Black & Veatch,
Sprint, Cisco, IBM, American Century, H & R
Block, Freedom Bank, DLR Group, Apple,
Kauffman Foundation, Microsoft, General
Electric, Edison Foundation and Project Lead
the Way
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What are the early results?
• 82 paid college-level internships, beating
out college students
• 17 provisional patents and patents in
progress
• 5 student-led businesses, filed for LLC
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Recipient of the prestigious 2011 Edison Gold
Award for most innovative product of the year
Blue Valley
CAPS
received a
Gold
Edison
Award in
the Living,
Working
and
Learning
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2012 MILESTONES
Download PDF
• CAPS grew from 16 – 27 courses.
• BUSINESS PARTNERS
254
• MENTORS
362
• STUDENT ENROLLMENT
658
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CAPS Administration and Contact Information
Donna Deeds
Executive Director............. (913) 239-4231
Dr. Tom Trigg
Superintendent of Schools .... (913) 239-4000
Dr. Sue Dole,
Deputy Superintendent of Education Services
(913) 239-4000
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All together now……..
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Transdisciplinarity
Virtual collaboration
Sense-making
Social intelligence
Adaptability and Adaptive Thinking
Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Self Direction
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Ambition, self-awareness & an inquiring mind
Computational thinking
Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
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The Staged Self-Directed Learning Model
Gerald Grow
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Teaching Learners to be Self-Directed
http://makezine.com/
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Skills for success – CORE SKILLS - employers seek.
1. Communication (oral-written-presentation)
2. Critical/analytical thinking
3.
Self Direction & Problem-solving
4. Think outside the box- (Creativity and innovation)
5. Collaboration & Teamwork
6. Information gathering, evaluation & synthesis
7. “Adaptability”
8. Ambition, self-awareness & an inquiring mind
9. Know more about the world-(Global citizens)
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Knock to the noggin
• A man wanted to enter and exclusive club but
did not know the required passsword. He waited
by the door and listened. A club member
knocked on the door and the doorman said,
“TWELVE”. The member replied ,”SIX”. And
was in. A second member came to the door and
the doorman said, “SIX”. The member replied,
”THREE” and was let in. The man thought he
heard enough and walked up to the door. The
doorman said. “TEN” and the man replied,
“FIVE”.
• He was NOT let in..what should he have said?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/30/job-interviewquestions_n_802658.html#s217038&title=Goldman_Sachs_
• Ridiculously Hard Job
Interview Questions
• From Top Employers Like
Google, Goldman Sachs
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An apple costs 20 cents, an
orange costs 40 cents, and a
grapefruit costs 60 cents.
How much is a ______?
Pear or Pair
ANSWER: Due to the fact that this
question is read to you, you could
answer: A 'pair' of apples would
cost 40 cents, a pair of oranges
would be 80 cents, and pair of
grapefruit would cost $1.20.
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How many times a day
does a clock’s hands
overlap?
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Answer: 22 times. From WikiAnswers:
• AM
• 12:00
1:05
2:11
3:16
4:22
5:27
6:33
7:38
8:44
9:49
10:55
• PM
• 12:00
1:05
2:11
3:16
4:22
5:27
6:33
7:38
8:44
9:49
10:55
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I have 2 final questions …..
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• What needs to change about our
curriculum when our students have
the ability to reach audiences far
beyond our classroom walls?
• How do we inspire and engage the
Digital Learner?
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I need my teachers to learn !!!
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10 Districts That Think Different
"If you don't know
where you are
going, you will
wind up
somewhere else!"
Educational Leaders and Schools That Are Changing Education