05.+M-+Keynote+with+Alan+November

General Session Executive Officer Peter Murphy (Murray?) exhorted us to be the courageous person who helps drive relevant technological PD in the face of budget cuts.

CLMS?CLHS are happy to provide presenters with free registration. A friend who wants to come can help you present (but each one needs to take a turn at being a lead presenter). If you become an institutional member of the league, we can get a free registration that way.

Mike Lawrence- ex. Director of CUE? Thanks to Booth 17 for subsidizing our speaker

Alan November- Student as Contributor; Digital Learning Farm

Had a student break into school to learn. They caught the kid on the last day of school; gave hime a computer on the weekend and he returned on Monday with a whole semester’s worth of work done beautifully after the weekend. This was in 1981; no software, it was programming. He was accused of cheating but was able to show that he hadn’t. 1984- you have to teach me that program! There is no need; software is coming. What’s software? Roommate said:Do not teach programming; teach tools, not programming.

A lot hasn’t changed. We still aren’t meeting the needs of our students; the world is on the brink of a huge change but schools/education is not keeping up.

Currently teaching West Point teachers in his graduate class; Information Research Class. In 1985, an act of congress gave every cadet a computer in their dorm room. Wp is an engineering school; they’re not worried about technical knowledge. General Petraues did a study to see if they’re properly preparing the cadets for the world. The motivation to teach undergraduates well is because they are all going to WORK for the organization that hired them. We are just hoping that the curriculum that we use will help without really seeing if it helps. The studey changed the original mission of West Point: Old mission was to win the war. Now the mission is to win the peace.

With the mission change, the path of technology has changed; coalition building, gather intelligence in a different way than was used to win the war.

We have the wrong mission in educaton. We need to change our mission too. N dad was a military science guy. Lookat the military first and then education will follow along as well…..in about 20 years.

The current missionsl to transfer knowledge from teacher to a student. Sadley we haven’t really changed school since 1984. If a kid tcould finsh a semester;s work on his own in one weekend. You might think that this is powerful to fundamentally change the structure of school. Nope. Same schedule and same curriculum as 25 years ago; we’ve just bolted tech on top. Who owns the learning? It shouldn’t be the teacher; but the design of the education system does that for us. We assign, correct al work. ttell dkids what to do whhow to do it and how they’re doing.

New mission- shift massive conrol from the teacher to the learnier. The problem is that we haven’t had a crisit

Unless the crisis on the outside is stronger than the pressure on thei inseide to stay the same things won’t change. The pressure is building. More and more college graduates are goimg to be coming home to live with their parents. Indian firend said tht the reall problem is that china anad india ESCH college graduates more English-proficient cthan we do.

Arpanet never imagined that the future of internet would make the gutue of work possible anywhere in the world. There is a huge crisis coming. We have to get creative; this problem is not going away.

Three skills should be taught to kids, non in iste standards.

Access the info they need at the moment they need it. Every class should be a global information center; they need to know how to outsource. They need to be able to collaborate with people around the world. It is absolute foolishmens that we have blocked the solcial networking tools. Get smartfilter or lightspeed that the school could buy to give every teacher to get through the firewall and

It is not right to have a tech manager telling teachers what they can or cannot access!

We need students who are self-directed(my idead- creat their 4year plan, not have counselors tell them)

Children need to be so excited by learning that they want to keep learning, are inspired to be lifelong learners.

Hsbc is moving their headquarters, the first british bank, to hong kong. How many other big multi-nationals are going to do the same. Cisco is moving from California to india- their headquarters, not a SUB headquarter.

Did a supe’s conference. Why do kids make the same mistake on their homework and then do the same misteake on the test. Because the brain records the mistake, you need to have INSTANT FEEDBACK.

Welcome alpha is a different kind of search engine. (MAKE the show!)

Wolframallpha You can type in any equation and see the solution set. This would allow any student to take their math and instantly see the answers at home. If they get it wrong, then they should be allowed to come up with a different equation. As kids interact with it, they can see the steps. They cold then film their work, and show the teacher their thought process. The answer doesn’t matter; too much assessment focuses on the end result. More should be formative assessment on getting to the answer. You could generate a homework assignment where the answer is always right; the teacher gets to hear what the student’s process was.

Teachers shouldn’t correct math homework the wasy that we do it anymore. The current homework model was designed in 1922! Sicne a lot of kids don’t have accesss, we need to create equity. (Showed us how to make a jing screencast)

These tools are free. Just figure out how to deliver a digital product to the teacher. Change the hw so that the kid becomes more responsible for their own learning. The no 1 staff devl problem is teching teachders how to and to want to shift control of the classroom.

Samrtboard story; walked into a classroom and the kid was showing a solution set and then asked the question. The kids were so interested in continuing it and the teacher couldn’t get back in. WIRELESS PROJECTOR!!!

Bring two students to a pd. Must do this before the end of the school year.

AVID tutorials….many students will accept the responsibility and work harder. You’re contributing to a library. Having a chld’s voice do it can have more impact athn a teacher’s voice explaining the same content. Go figure…

Need to flip classwork and hw around. The really important questions don’t need technology. Camtasia will give you free software on the web: Jing.

Single most important skill for a top executive is …..empathy. “We’re the largest bank in the world and invest billions of dollars in projects all over the world. We have to have people who can make decisions not just based on numbers but ona case by case basis according to the local scene. Americans have a hard time with that concept.”

Lots of schools around the world are teaching their children different points of view. Not us.

Site:ac.uk…will get me only academinc sites in engleand on a particular search. Shows different contenct from what we teach. If you’re a good teacher, you teach for the ‘Why?”

Archive.org goes back in the history of the web and it takes me back in the history of the web. November says we should teach the British point of view. Especially where they call us a separate turkey-eating people Site:sch.uk :American revolution” will give me 86 webpages that are online! When you can show American kids what kids in England are wriing, they are going to be reading every word. As an assessment, send an email to those classes and have a live online debate between American and UK students on the origins of the American revolution. Tape it, ulload it and post it to iTunes; they will study harder for a live authentic debate than they would for a written test. Even if it is a bust, they will have studied and they will be more liable to listen afterward to how they can show improvement.

We cannot take the American education ssystem as we know it with us; adding tech to the current system does not fix it.

a. figure out what’s homework b. can kids really add value to other children. Can we really inspoire them to create a library of knowledge? c. Every classroom a global education system

Of mice and men- site:za (south Africa) Find schools aroungd the world- different cultures have different interpretations of the symbolism, ideas etc.

Write to Bernadette- see if she can hook me up with a French hs teacher whose students would be willing to answer questions that my kids watnt to know about school/life in Europe

Is my attitude ok? You’re Californians, you’re melloew. I’m from boston. We’re tense

The way back machine: archive.org I can find what you did even if you take it off….because of the wayback machine. Because we’ve decided to just block things instead of teaching them the ethics of how to use powerful social tools ethically, we have …..responsibility.

Teach children to go back across time and examine content. You can see the chandge of mls.org…how they’ve worked to hide their white supremacist origin. Compare and contrast

The really iiportatnt wuation has nothing to do with swhat tech teachers bring to the classroom. Prediction: the tech will change in 10 year. What wont chane is information. There will be moreout there and more access to it. THAT won’t change. Need to teach kids ctitical thinking with information and global communication. Design tutorials, create information, disitn curriculum. More and more its goint to sjift to students to take charge of their learning.

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