technology to make us more human

Technology to Make Us

Dean ShareskiTwin Falls

September 29nd, 2012

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Technology to Make Us

Dean ShareskiTwin Falls

September 29nd, 2012

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Digital Learning ConsultantDigital Learning

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Premise

Premise✴ Describe not Prescribe


✴ ideas and research are only good useful if you own them



✴ You Make the Connections




✴ Let's start a conversation





✴ learner first, teacher second





✴ learner first, teacher second

✴ We're Grade 4's on the Playground (@ijohnpederson)

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“I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.”




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“People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of thingsthey weren't so crazy about the first time around.” ~Author Unknown




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JOY




With regards to creating a video like that do you:

With regards to creating a video like that do you:A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address some curricular outcomes but you might have to look them up later. Fingers crossed.


B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful things with students is important.



C. Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity because you're not sure where it fits with a robust curriculum but still think it's important.



C. Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity because you're not sure where it fits with a robust curriculum but still think it's important.

D. Not do it at all.

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Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn

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Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn


I’m appearing to accept an odious premise—namely, that joy must be justified as a means to the end of better academic performance. Not so:

It’s an end in itself.





Are our classrooms places of joy?

How can technology be instruments of joy?

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wonder




Be aware of wonder.

Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup:

The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Do your students come to school to wonder?

What have you seen or experienced lately that put you in awe?

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“...the pattern has been that as children grow up and become more proficient at making sense of the environment in which they live, their world seems to become more stable. Thus, as a child grows and becomes accustomed to the world, the perceived need for play.”

“As we watch the world move to a state of near-constant

change and flux, we believe that connecting play and imagination may be the single most important step in unleashing the new culture of learning.”

“...the pattern has been that as children grow up and become more proficient at making sense of the environment in which they live, their world seems to become more stable. Thus, as a child grows and becomes accustomed to the world, the perceived need for play.”

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SolversProblem

FindersProblem

“Don’t watch guys teach you. Watch guys learn. They don’t know the answer. We’re in the journey together. Now the audience are participants. And we see not only the result but the process.” Marco Torres

The app Effect

How are you making play an intentional part of your day?Of your students day?

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Story





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That's All We Are



Are you telling stories in new ways?

How are you helping students use new media to tell compelling stories?

COMMUNITY




The smartest person in the room, is the room. Dave Weinberger

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Mind Your Own Business

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What did you learn from others?

What did you contribute to the learning of others?

“At this age, they get stuck on Wikipedia being the answer to everything and they forget that people can be a really great resource.”

You can't do this on your own

My Learning Project

My Teaching Staff

...connecting educators to their greatest resource

...connecting educators to their greatest resource

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...each other



Dan Meyerhttp://blog.mrmeyer.com

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How are you fostering community in your classroom?

Are you regularly contributing to the learning of others both locally and globally? Does it even matter?

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