7/26 Reflection

A small snippet of some take-aways and wonderings from this class...

I really enjoy the concept of blogging, and never really considered it as a tool for education and/or professional development until this week.
Where, in my work with staff, can I point them in a direction and allow them to create their own learning?
What would a Wiki for instructional technology resources look like at SHS?
How might staff meetings change if our admin team incorporates and models more instructional technologies?
How do I balance my desire to change the world of education with my staff's reality of an ever-increasing work load and pressures of education?

7/26 Notes

Air Server - work around for Apple TV - allows your mobile device to display on laptop or computer (which, if connected to a projector, will then be displayed for all to see)

Amazing experiment showing how young, under educated children can interact with a computer and learn at amazing rates without direction or input from a "teacher." What are the implications of this on our schools?
How many educators might find this intrusive on their "careers" and dismiss it out of fear?
"If there's stuff on Google, why would you need to stuff it into your head?"
Does he really mean we don't need teachers, or is he saying teachers must adapt to a new model where adults facilitate learning?
What would happen if similar experiments were conducted with 15 year old's, 18 year old's, 25 year old's?
Is 1:1 really the direction we should be heading? Would we miss out on learning as a social construct through dialogue, sharing, creating learning as a community?

Margaret: Why Right Brain People Will Rule the World - Theory that we are on the verge of transitioning from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
Noelle: Drive by Daniel Pink - Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose = the three things that create motivation
Eric: Prepping his presentation to staff in his new district exploring our learning this week
Rob: Personal device policy development plan
Kara: "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug - Strategies in developing an effective website
Bobby: iMovie showing his process/path/growth this week and where it may be leading him in the future...
Jody: Prezi "The Power of a Story" -
Cherie-Anne: Notability - A great tool for general note taking, but it can also be used to provide immediate and simple feedback from classroom walkthroughs
Becky A: Professional Technology Goals (SMART Notebook, Google Docs, Classroom Blog)
Becky S: Tech Plan to Support ELL Teachers (Flipped PD, ELL Blog, Data Collection for Small Districts)
Christy: Creating Innovators (Tony Wagner) - 7 Main Things (Think Critically and problem solve, collaborate, adapt <agility>, initiate, analyze, communicate, imagine <be curious>)
Amy: Video around 21st century skills and how to prepare our students
Jared: The Station - Radio station at Merlo
Lisa: My project is my process... Integration of video, sounds, editing, google docs into a single piece

Design of class is really about pointing folks in the right direction and letting us and our colleagues pave our own way and create our own learning...