Embracing Technology for Positive Change

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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Where can you find session materials
and more?

http://bit.ly/embracetech

http://bit.ly/embracetech

Source: Newsweek, July 26, 2010

Thanks to Doug Johnson, Blue Skunk Blog - http://bit.ly/92U9dM

Can we fix our schools?

“We’re up against
forces that are not the
fault of any one...but
feed the habits that
prevent us from
being who we want
to be....”
--Barack Obama


What habits hold you back?


Old Habits We Feed

• Top-down purchases of expensive
integrated learning systems
• Implementing technology programs
–without initial stakeholder support
–sustained campus level support
• Expecting technology to raise test scores
• Lack of vision.
• Lack of trust


seen the reports?


Outsource Teaching...to Singapore

Source:http://tinyurl.com/2m385v


if technology is irrelevant
to how you communicate
and collaborate, then your
organization is irrelevant
to 21st Century Learners.


Big Picture


changing national
standards


how do we use technology
in schools now?


Central Office Purchases:
Integrated Learning Systems

• In a review of 100 studies of
ILSes, Henry Jay Becker
found that they “provided little
evidence of ILS impact on
student achievement.

• With a traditional instructional
use of computers, the
emphasis is placed on having
students use technology for
the reinforcement and
remediation of skills.

Source: http://tinyurl.com/2ﬂkjo
Source: http://tinyurl.com/2xfbym
Image Source: http://tinyurl.com/2e4xxv


We Expect Technology
to Raise Test Scores

(by 10%...fairy dust)

How can technology make

learning more real?
• The resulting
inauthenticity of
classroom activity
makes it difficult for
children to see how
school learning applies
to their lives
(Perchman, 1992).


Our children have the untapped capacity to

make the world a better place today.

How can we use technology to collapse
the distance between children in our
classrooms and meaningful contributions
that they can make?

Dr. Tim Tyson


change isn’t coming,
it is here now.
build your BRAIN


B = Brilliant http://bit.ly/b4DKYn

R = Resources
A = At
I = Instant
N = Notice
Source: Dan Rezac

Professional Learning Network (PLN)

Learning CAN be Stressful

Blonde Antelope Video - http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=7tY8Lj0PD10

Yet, keep in mind that brain research says...
Stress negatively impacts memory.

Does learning with others lessen
stress?

Follow the conversation - http://www.plurk.com/p/6pg9fd

Learning with Others Lessens Stress
Blog

Wiki Collaboration
Twitter


“Having a Professional Learning Network in advance makes the Difference at
a Conference or Learning Event.”
http://www.mguhlin.org/2010/07/to-pln-or-not.html


Leaders seeking change must abandon the
fantasy that human organizations function as
hierarchies--and recognize the reality of
networks.
Source: Of Hubs , Bridges, and Networks (Douglas B. Reeves), page 32, Educational Leadership
(May, 2006)


Learning

Source: George Siemens,
http://tinyurl.com/2dtxof

The process of drawing and writing in
a series stimulates children to make
connections between letters, words
and visual symbols. It sparks their
interest in acquiring the skills to
communicate their ideas through
images and words.
( Source: http://bit.ly/bSWRpV )

People remember best when they organize and
relate new material in subjective ways.
Source: Acts of Teaching

Getting Digitally Organized


Approach #1 - Delicious.com


Approach #2 - Blogger.com


Approach #3 - Google Reader


Image
Professional Galleries for
Learning Classrooms,

Courses for Departments
GT/CPE

Discussion
Online Forums
Literature Grading
Circles
Find out More:
http://moodlemayhem.org


the Moodle rush

Moodle Courses

...and lots more....

the Moodle rush

Online Literature Circles

A glossary is a Moodle
module that allows you--or
your students--to create a
collection of useful,
searchable vocabulary
items.


Special thanks to Pam Cranford, White Oak ISD

Seize your Virtual Space!

Seize your Virtual Space!

Design an Engaging Inner Space!

See more online at http://www.woisd.net/view/
Login: woteacher Password: woteacher

Design an Engaging Inner Space!

Voicethread link

See more online at http://www.woisd.net/view/
Login: woteacher Password: woteacher

Make Your Space Interactive!


Source: George Siemens, http://tinyurl.com/2dtxof


“Your ability to act on your imagination
is going to be so decisive in driving your future and
the standard of living of your country.

So the organization that empowers, nurtures, enables
imagination among its students and citizens, that’s
who’s going to be the winner.”

—adapted from thomas l. friedman, New York Times
columnist

Facilitator: Miguel Guhlin Image Acknowledgements -
http://itls.saisd.net http://sn.im/learningchangequotes

Many school systems 'are still
responding to 21st-century parents

with 20th-century approaches.'
Source: http://bit.ly/x3pOe

Source: The Washington Post, http://bit.ly/iDdiv

Parents are discovering that they can make

more powerful learning opportunities
available to their children in the home than
they can in schools.

. . .schools are going to be marginalized as
learning environments if they do not change
dramatically.

Source: Carroll, T. G. (2000). If we didn't have the schools we have today,
would we create the schools we have today? Contemporary Issues in Technology
and Teacher Education [Online serial], 1 (1). Available: http://www.citejournal.org/
vol1/iss1/currentissues/general/article1.htm


To Create is Normal


Without
technology?

If yes, how do we
extend creative
learning beyond
the classroom?


http://bit.ly/cL65Ma

"Creativity is not something that occurs only in
the brains of outstanding individuals.
It is a normal aspect of human brain function.
(Restak, 1984).

Image: 'Child Tending Broken Baby Seedling'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40645538@N00/3370498053

Students are impacted by everything in their environment.
Give them a steady diet of worksheets, which deaden all stimuli
and challenge, put them in a daily threatening situation, and the
brain's Reticular Activating system (RAS) works overtime to alert
the brain to danger and works to avoid that danger at all costs in
order to survive.
(Source: ACTS of TEACHING)

let’s talk about change


Can someone overseas do it

cheaper?

Can a computer do it faster?

Is what I’m offering in demand in
an age of abundance?

- Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind


While we teach whatever we teach at school, the kids go
home and learn the skills they need to survive and prosper
in an interconnected global economy.
--Clarence Fisher


do we need to re-frame our
mission and goal statements
in light of the present
changes?


A learning landscape that

is increasingly digital...

opportunities to learn are
available to us that we
can't give our students.
• Notes from Dr. Knezek at:
http://www.mguhlin.net/archives/2007/09/entry_3637.htm


shouldn’t we try?


Our children are digital...

...creators


...communicators


...collaborators


Schooling by Design

Grant Wiggins and Jay
McTighe

1. Begin with an essential question related to real-world
issues or problems (needing consideration across many

topics).

2. Ask students to brainstorm and do preliminary research
related to the question or issue. Introduce the content as a
potentially helpful resource for solving the problems. Lecture
and drill only as needed to equip students to address the
challenge.

3. Frame the unit around a culminating assessment task
requiring transfer. Use quizzes only to provide
supplementary evidence related to discrete knowledge and
skill. Then design the lessons backward from what students
will need in order to do well at the task.

4. Frame additional units around other essential questions.


Solution for Administrators

“replicating the conditions
of successful change”
Fullan, M. (1998). Breaking the bonds of dependency. Educational Leadership, 55(7),
6-11.


leadership is about
replicating those
conditions


so…what are the
conditions of
successful change that
you can replicate?


I don’t know.


how do you facilitate
conversations?


http://intouch.saisd.net/campus/whittier

take advantage of course
management systems like Moodle

and learning management
systems...

• take learning online


facilitate learning
conversations

Source:http://snipurl.com/saisdplstats

• face to face...

and online!

• tap into and collaborate with a global community of
teachers and learners

create conditions that promote
authorship

http://movingforward.wikispaces.com

http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com


build professional learning
communities...

http://saisdtilt.pbworks.com

• Technology Integration Lead Teachers (TILT)
Program

establish partnerships

• Partner with organizations (like PBS) to develop SCORM compliant
modules for use in a learning management system and Moodle

recognize everyone can
publish at will....

http://bit.ly/diivvh


recognize everyone can publish at will
and create platforms for sharing....


how do you start?


Source: http://www.jimcollins.com/lab/hedgehog/p3.html

collect data and analyze
centered around core
values

Source: http://www.exploringthefuture.com/pr01.htm

consider the implications

assess technology...

Face the brutal facts...


Achieve Level 5 of LOTI
Technology extends learning BEYOND the classroom....


"We sometimes feel that what
we are doing is just a drop in

the ocean. But the ocean would
be less because of that missing
drop."

Quoted by Darren Kuropatwa,
Canadian Educator

Culture change starts with
personal change. We become

agents by first altering our own
maps.

The process returns us to the
power of one and the
requirement of aligning and
empowering oneself before
successfully changing the
organization.
--Robert E. Quinn, Deep Change

once you know what to do, follow Jan Van

Dam’s advice...

unleash the power within
every facet of an
organization to make
[change] happen.


There is a
process....


1. Create
a sense
of
urgency.


2. Pull together a
guiding team.


3. Develop
change vision
and straegy.


4. Communicate for
understanding and
buy-in.

5. Empower others to act.

6. Produce short-term
wins.
(or, as Wiggins and McTighe share,
long-term goals that are manifest in short-
term work)


http://www.beatbob.com/images/dont-quit.jpg

7. Don’t let up.

http://www.brainbasedbusiness.com/uploads/ﬁre%20CEO-thumb.gif

8. Create a new culture.

Research says....


1. Actively Participate

• Participate in District’s Technology Committee
as Chair Person
• Engage in active discussions with your district
educational technology team
• Use team-friendly technologies like wikis with
your staff
• Expect principals to take the lead in ensuring
teachers include technology goals in their
professional development plans

2. Encourage Reflection on
Instructional Practice.

• Expect administrators and teachers to
keep Moodles/blogs/wikis, not web
pages, up to date with content.
• Reflect what you’re doing, what works
and what hasn’t.


3. Model Technology as Tool to
Global Skills and Strategies

• use technology as a tool for
communication,
• collaboration,
• creation of information, as well as
• accessing, analyzing and organizing
information.


and...


Create

experiences
that
engage
intellectually
and
emotionally


The role of technology in our
classrooms

is to
support the new teaching
paradigm--

support students teaching
themselves
(with teacher guidance)....
Source: Marc Prensky, The Role of Technology
Copy of the article available on LOTE2009 Conference site

http://skypeauthor.wetpaint.com

How are you using available tools to engage your students?


what does it mean to “equip
them to contribute to the

community?”

Source: http://snipurl.com/
sierraleonehero
This movie was made by a group of Grade 4 students in Bradford, Ontario, Canada. It
is about a former child soldier, Sidibay, from Sierra Leone.

Thanks to Diane Hammonds for providing
this image
of collaboration.

Source: http://iss07.yesican-science.ca/

• Ysleta ISD’s Award-Winning “TechRap” video available at
TeacherTube.com


5 Steps to
Digitizing
the
Writing
Workshop


Some people hesitate to take action because they are
waiting to become "good enough" to make a
difference. In fact, we never will have all the answers.

It is impossiple to be correct all of the time. So take a
new attitude this year and join the discussion!

http://team8bluesavestheworld.wikispaces.com/
Thanks to Robin Ellis
http://connectedtalk.wordpress.com/


Make contact...

Miguel Guhlin

• Email: mguhlin@ gmail.com
• Skype/Plurk/Twitter: mguhlin
• Edublog: http:// mguhlin.org


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