technology to make us more human
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Keynote shared at the Idaho Day of Discovery kickoff event. Sept. 2012.TRANSCRIPT
Technology to Make Us
Dean ShareskiPost Falls Idaho
September 22nd, 2012
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Technology to Make Us
Dean ShareskiPost Falls Idaho
September 22nd, 2012
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Digital Learning ConsultantDigital Learning
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Who Am I?
Community Builder
Husband/Father
Digital Learning ConsultantDigital Learning
Consultant
Golfer
Learner
Teacher
Sharer
Who Am I?
@shareski
shareski.ca
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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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Prescribe
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DescribePrescribe
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ATTENTION
“It isn’t that they can’t pay attention; they just choose not to.” Mark Prensky
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Abundance Scarcity
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Abundance Scarcity
information
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Abundance Scarcity
information attention
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Attention may be our most valuable resource/commodity
Attention may be our most valuable resource/commodity
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What are you doingpersonally to manage your attention?
How can we be more intentional about teaching attention?
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JOY
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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"Why are our schools not places
of joy?"
Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
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"Why are our schools not places
of joy?"
Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
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"Why are our schools not places
of joy?"
Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
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Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
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.
Does your classroom or your office have room for joy?
How can technology be instruments of joy?
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wonder
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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.
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Do your students come to school to wonder?
What have you seen or experienced lately that put you in awe?
PLAY
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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.”
“Play can be defined as the tension between the rules of the game and the freedom to act within those rules.”
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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
“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
How are you making play an intentional part of your day?Of your students day?
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Story
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Are you telling stories in new ways?
How are you helping students use new media to tell compelling stories?
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COMMUNITY
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The smartest person in the room, is the room. Dave Weinberger
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Mind Your Own Business
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Mind Your Own Business
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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?
You can't do this on your own
...connecting educators to their greatest resource
...connecting educators to their greatest resource
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...each other
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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Thanks