what matters now

What

MATTERS NOW

Dean ShareskiTech Forum

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MINUTIA

MINUTIAEating ribs at Target Field

WHY I TEXAS

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What are you doingto intentionally build trust and social capital in your place of work?

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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







Abundance Scarcity

information







Abundance Scarcity

information attention








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Thinking Time

Thinking Spaces

“Life is Being Lived There”

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What are you doingpersonally to manage your attention?What routines and patterns could be changed to see the world differently?

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CITIZENSHIP




Civil Discourse

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“Young People Have a Remarkable Capacity

for Intensity”http://www.flickr.com/photos/delphwynd/5220226613

Gary Stager

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If civil discourse matters, what does it look like online?How are you modeling citizenship?

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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






"Why are our schools not places

of joy?"









of joy?"








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.





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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PLAY




“...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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“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

The Innovation Lab

The Innovation Lab

The Lab facilitates imagination and play

http://prezi.com/prnmbe3cdkgw/imagine-and-play/




The Innovation Lab

The Lab facilitates imagination and play

focusing on the awakening of

genius in people





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

STORYTELLING




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The greatest digital divide is between those who can read and write with media, and those who can't.Elizabeth Daly

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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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SHARING

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My Teaching Staff

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Can I find your best work online? If not why not?

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