The Future is Unwritten: 4 Points to Embrace Technology

the future is unwritten

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miguel guhlin
http://mguhlin.net

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Miguel Guhlin

http://mguhlin.net http://leadertalk.org

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what are your core values?

Hot Tip: These comments in yellow are just between you and me. I
won’t refer to them during the preso...I’m passing notes that I’d love to
share with you aloud but can’t because this is a SERIOUS
presentation.

my core values are...

For more on core values, read Jim Collins at
http://www.jimcollins.com/lab/buildingVision/


Core Value #1

Share more

Find links for everything related to this presentation online at
http://snipurl.com/ota2008


Core Value #2

Practice transparency
and openness

I use a wiki to share everything Iʼm doing--including emails--and enable
others to see that work. See it online at
http://itls.saisd.net/km


Core Value #3

Start or Join the
conversation
Get yourself a Twitter account and join the conversation. Ask questions and
wait for answers. More about how at http://snipurl.com/ota2008


Core Value #4

Share response-ability
(e.g. create conditions
that promote
authorship)


Core Value #5

Collaborate with others.


Core Value #6

Accomplish core values


am i succeeding?

Get your own ClustrMap for your site at
http://clustrmap.com ...imagine what your students
will do when they see their work is read by a worldwide audience


but, my values weren’t
always those....

In fact, a long time ago, I thought I shouldnʼt let anybody see my stuff until it
was perfect. Now, I know better...Iʼll never be perfect.


do you ever feel like this?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3728266100951844857


change is inevitable

Brian Grenier’s Bump on the Blog
Source: http://bumpontheblog.etowns.net/?p=133

change is exponential

We are moving, as Wes Fryer shares, at the
speed of creativity.

Think - Pair - Share
Your Thoughts go here:
http://mguhlin.wetpaint.com

• Question Source: Dr. Scott McLeod, Dangerously Irrelevant, http://
www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/


4 points to share today


the 4 points
1. Technology is essential.

2. Students aren’t waiting for us to join
them online.

3. Think globally, act globally

4. Engage in passion-based learning


1. technology is essential

• All videos used in this presentation are online at http://snipurl.com/ota2008


how are teachers using

technology?

Dorothy Burt, New Zealand


even some Texas
administrators get it...

Embrace Technology for
Positive Change
Session for
Administrators later this
morning...

Did you know that
Wes Fryer and I met
someone who was
actually present during
the filming of this
video? The video comes
from Mesquite, Tx.

Walkthroughs from TeacherTube.com


2. students perceive what we do
as insufficient...and are taking
action into their own hands.

• Don’t let this lecture limit your learning.
Go online and share what you’re
thinking by LIVE BLOGGING at
• http://snipurl.com/ota2008


3. think globally, act globally

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?
viewkey=2b7b5598c625fcc802c3

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.


4. engage in passion-based
learning.

• True Story: Pierre Dulaine is a ballroom dance teacher hired to teach ballroom dancing
to the most troubled students. His classic methods clash, but after he dances tango in
front of his students, who are dedicated to hip-hop, they all team up to create a new
style of dance...sound familiar?
• Source: http://tinyurl.com/2xrqm6

1. technology is essential,
inseparable from doing well


new technologies allow for
creative conversations,
collaborations, and
connections.


new literacies require a
level of ﬂuency, new ways
of conversing....
The Internet is an ever-
changing tool, molding
itself to the mind of its
users, forcing reading,
writing and
communication to be as
changeable as the
technology it is
dependent upon.


people connecting,
anytime/anywhere


Twitter: Seizing the Power
of the Network


learning and collaborating


Thanks to Diane Hammonds for providing
this image
of collaboration.

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

making
mistakes

http://www.womenofweb2.com

700 members
58 podcasts
Great interviews

learning 24/7 rather than

every once in awhile


“Technological change is
not additive; it is
ecological, which means,
it changes everything.”

--Neil Postman
Source: http://tinyurl.com/2yv7cu

what does web 2.0 mean to
our children?
Life is an iPod, press shufﬂe
and see what you get.

Is it mellow, happy, upbeat
sing along.

Every beat has its own drum
many diverse tunes,
long or short, many hidden messages.

Boom, boom, my ears pounding with the loudness
and all you have to do is listen.

A new metaphor for life?


106 million users of
MySpace.com as of
September 2006


if MySpace were a country, it would
be the 12th largest in the world
(between Mexico and the Phillipines)

• Population Statistics:
• http://www.xist.org/earth/population1.aspx


Without

technology?

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


promise of technology...

Source: http://www.ptengland.school.nz/index.php?family=1,871

be creative?

Source: http://www.drjansblog.typepad.com/

share insights into who we are
and...

what we’re interested in

Source: http://okwwii.wetpaint.com/


2. students perceive what we
do as insufficient...and are
taking action into their own
hands.


the read/write web is
a massive
playground of
information bits that
are shared, remixed
openly into a fluid
and participatory
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/
tapestry.
160/408970186_f13d9edb0b.jpg?v=0

--Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams,
Wikinomics



Visit online - http://snipurl.com/mgonepower

how does access to the
ultimate playground
impact them?

how do educators
recognize the value of
learning that occurs
outside the classroom, IN
the classroom?

57% of online teens are
are content creators

Source: http://tokotalk.podomatic.com/entry/
2006-06-04T15_45_28-07_00


I have heard it said that the
greatest desire in life is to
know and be known.

Are our kids reaching out with
a desire to be known?
--Chris Craft, NextGenLanguage Learners


1 in 5 teens online
remix content

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wOcQr-2-pE


If you know how to create
and collaborate,
you have an edge.

http://knowledge.as.edu.au/Welcome.html


Visit online - http://snipurl.com/mgonepower
“vision to excel” and
impact their lives

• how are they impacting other people’s lives?

a true story...


My daughter received this

request via KidPub....


permission granted,

then....


video production


video production-->YouTube


...being able to find knowledge, learn,
collaborate, all in unlikely places.

The skills a World of Warcraft guildmaster needs are attracting,
evaluating and recruiting new members; creating apprenticeship
programs; orchestrating group strategy; and managing
disputes...aren’t these critical job skills?
Source: http://www.mguhlin.net/archives/2007/01/entry_2717.htm


http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Make-Your-Own-Way-Posters_i838267_.htm


The Codex Series

over 2 million downloads
18+ episodes, 5 mins each

3 of the Codex Authors
• Alexander Winn - http://www.thecodexseries.com/tc/index.php?page=bios&act=AlexanderWinn
• Ryan Luther - http://www.thecodexseries.com/tc/index.php?page=bios&act=RyanLuther
• Patrick Malone-
http://www.thecodexseries.com/tc/index.php?page=bios&act=PatrickMalone


where is the business housed?
who are the employees?

http://gaming-lessons.com/


"Tom Taylor took the risk of dropping out from high school just to play
video games. The guy who is just 18 years old, was prompted to take
this step; because of the reason that emerged from his love for gaming.
After playing for six months on a full time basis the guy signed a
contract for a staggering $250,000.”

"I take risks," he told The Palm Beach Post. "In order to get paid, you
have to take risks. I think I took the biggest risk I could take, dropping
out of school to play video games, and it paid off."


meet moises

listen to an interview
http://tinyurl.com/2xodpj

• http://www.elconix.com


Moses' reason?
“I didn’t want to wait 5 years to
seize the opportunity.”

Are we seizing the day, looking at learning
and teaching in a different way?

moses is not alone

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/40784149_58fd100336.jpg?v=0


meet joseph
http://www.josephguhlin.com/blog/


He began university
studies, but then began
programming using free
and open source


Flickr.com


created by a 17-year old using free, open source
software tools

it’s not about money
(although that’s not to be
ignored)


it’s about pursuing your
passions


How can newer
technologies help us to
re-awaken in our students
a sincere passion for
learning ...?
--Janet Swenson


children can learn without us


openness and
transparency are
disruptive


disruptive
disintermediation


disruptive innovations drastically change the
course by which users connect, engage, and
relate with the world and transform society.

Source: http://k12wiki.wikispaces.com/Disruptive+Technology+in+the+Classroom


disintermediation in
business...

http://images.proflowers.com/pcsite/Disintermediation.gif


in education...

Textbook Publishers
Curriculum Experts
District Experts

Teachers

Students


21st century education

Teachers are no longer
mediators of content and
what gets shared by their
students with the world.

Students publish directly to the
Web and their teachers are lucky
if they can access it at school.

Source: http://tinyurl.com/3ypyol


how does access to the ultimate
playground impact them and what we
do with them?


if technology is irrelevant
to how you communicate
and collaborate, then your
classroom is irrelevant to
your students.


3. think globally, act globally


Harness the new collaboration or perish.
Those who fail to grasp this will find
themselves ever more isolated—cut off from
the networks that are sharing, adapting,
and updating knowledge to create value.

Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, Wikinomics


what steps should one take?

Source: http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/incremental1_4.jpg


Robert E. Quinn,
author and researcher


unconditional confidence:
you are capable of
discarding inaccurate
assumptions and
ineffective strategies in the
midst of ongoing action.


in a world of constant
change and uncertainty,
unconditional confidence is
very desirable.
--Robert E. Quinn


gain confidence


you’re never too young/old to

make a change in tradition

Source: http://tinyurl.com/2xpyf8

Computers are not the
catalyst for
change...reflecting on your
instructional practice each
day is.
• Adapted from Research notes here:
http://tinyurl.com/2xfbym


Join the thousands of
teachers and
administrators worldwide
who ARE reflecting online.


Don’t try to learn all the

new technologies...

• Source: http://tinyurl.com/32wyfu

Rather...it’s about finding the
place where technology and
pedagogy collide as it
pertains to our content areas
--Ms. Whatsit, Edublogger


Source: http://tinyurl.com/32wyfu

4. change the future--
engage in passion-based
learning


passionate
experts in their area
and
revel in creating


sharing your creativity

Creative Commons Creativity Poster
http://www.flickr.com/photos/minezone/120962030/

“...our understanding
of...knowledge is socially
constructed.”

--John Seely Brown


the future is unwritten...

experience this yourself

don’t be afraid to make mistakes

and

be transparent in your learning


recommendation:

share what you learn, how
you learn, how you lead
with others online.


recommendation:

build and participate in
your own personal learning
network


recommendation:

model and expect a
minimum of one "internet-
based collaborative
project" per school term....


collaborative projects
could be included in formal
evaluations


how to get started


rely on in-house expertise


tell digital stories
about school’s positives

http://leaderstories.wikispaces.com

set up your own school

blog and write in it
once a day

http://itls.saisd.net/blog/archives/2007/02/entry_97.htm


start your own wiki for

campus communications


Whatever you do will
be insignificant, but it
is very important that
you do it.


Start here....


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