What to do until we all have all the support, resources and direction we wish we had

Willing to fail Objective for kids & for you

◦ Big picture◦ Small excuse

Gather resources & allies Small bites Lead by example (Brag) Ask for more

Life experience.◦ Psychiatric Aide – Geriatrics Ward◦ Purchasing for manufacturing◦ Financial Services◦ Poison Control◦ Sales, Marketing, and Data Processing (VP)◦ Industrial Computer Sales◦ And at 43 an educator

Computer Skills OJT◦ Paper tape to a teletype 1969◦ Commodore 64 -1983◦ Cobol Coding – Late 80s◦ Personal Computing◦ Client Server Networking – 1990◦ No games or breadboards at home

Teaching Experience

Social Studies 1994-1995

English 1994-1995

Long Term Sub Spring 1996 English – Freshmen, Freshmen SpEd, Poetry,

Creative Writing

Home Office – used LC III School Lab – Disk & Printer

Got the lab whenever we wanted Did a little troubleshooting, but it basically

worked Writing, and re-writing, and re-re-writing And rethinking everything I thought I knew

about teaching writing

District Technology Coordinator 1996-2003

140 PCs 70 Macs 5 servers eMail Website District Office

Staff Development Class in Field

Engineering Tutorial in Poli Sci Information

Systems Umpire Baseball &

Softball

State of NH Dep’t of Ed – Co-founder NHEON - http://www.nheon.org/

TERC – Mathematics & Science Education http://www.terc.edu/

2003 Dir Inst Tech High School◦ Teach Comp Sci◦ Ass’t Coach Softball

2005 Dir Inst Tech K-12◦ Teach Ethics

2007 & Dir Info Systems◦ Teach Ethics◦ Remember to breathe

Willing to fail Objective for kids & for you Gather resources & allies Small bites Lead by example (Brag) Ask for more

Not plan to fail◦ Have Plan B

Choose to teach something you already do pretty well◦ Don’t pick a central curricular component for your

first try Low stakes

Why is this essential? Why not next year? Tools of their time

◦ Don’t teach harness making when tractors are cheap

Have a big rationale Choose a small objective

Liberal from Latin liberalis – appropriate for free people

Quadrivium (where 4 roads meet)◦ Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy

Trivium (where 3 roads meet)◦ Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic

Arithmetic Geometry Music Astronomy

Grammar Rhetoric Logic

RhetoricInformation Technology

Logic Computer Science

GrammarInformation Literacy

Information Literacy◦ Incorporates Media Literacy◦ Use the Big 6◦ Learn from librarians

Algorithmic Thinking How tools are designed and deployed Return of what was lost in the 1950’s &

1960’s

Laptop one example of a generic tool Use technology as a tool Presentation tools Web tools Data collections

InformationTechnology

Computer Science

Information Literacy

PhilosophyLogic

Problem Solving(Tactical)

Innovation

For students & for you◦ For them, so they’ll tell the story◦ For you, so you’ll have the energy to do it

Wetware – people to help you Software/Applications/Web Tools Hardware Read grants Use district & state resources (often waiting

to be asked)

People like to be asked◦ Community◦ Corporate◦ Former students◦ Parents◦ Other staff

Exploit the free resources Go to the sessions today Don’t resolve to be an expert

Don’t start with the year long portfolio Know how and where the backups are Have Plan B

Success draws resources Don’t wait to be discovered Showcase the kids work Know your teacher’s room culture Be willing to brag Present at conferences

Offer to help write grants• Send proposals to conferences

• Read Grants

Comes from everywhere Distributed computing leads to Distributed

Learning Leads to Distributed Leadership