This document summarizes a workshop on transforming education through technology. It discusses getting teachers to transform their thinking about using tools like the web and podcasting. The workshop covered teachers' transformational journeys and learning networks. It also discussed paradigm shifts in learning models and concerns about institutional change. Contact information was provided for the workshop presenters.

1. Dr. Rob Darrow / Dr. Kelly Schwirzke
June 2012
#Iste12 * San Diego
Workshop Wiki:
http://iste12.wikispaces.com

2. Big Question:
What caused you to be sitting
in this chair in this workshop
today?

3. Yogi Berra
 "It's tough to
make predictions,
especially about
the future."
But we can think about the past…

7. Transformation –
It’s all how you look at it

8. What do you see?

9. Another Version
This famous perceptual illusion in which the brain switches between seeing a young girl and an
old woman (or "wife" and "mother in law"). This anonymous German postcard from 1888 depicts
the image in its earliest known form, For many years, the creator of this figure was thought to be
British cartoonist W. E. Hill, who published it in 1915 in Puck humor magazine, an American
magazine inspired by the British magazine Punch.

10. What do you see?

11. Where do the stairs begin?

12. Transform
Definition:
to undergo a change in
form, appearance,
nature or character

13. Education, Technology and
Teachers
 Transforming from….
 Agrarian, assembly line
mentality (left brain) to…
 Digital, hyperlinked world
(right brain)

14. Pedagogy, Technology and
Teachers
“Let me teach you
how to integrate
technology with
your students.”
It’s about transforming thinking to learn
how to use the tools to
become an online or blended learning teacher

15. Technology and Teachers
It’s about transforming thinking
to use technology, the Web,
podcasting, etc.
Difficult to force another
person to transform –
it is a personal decision

16. Transforming Thinking
Transforming Activities
of Teachers
Transforming Activities
for Students

17. What are transformational
events in education?
(accidental – it just changed)
 Paper/Pencil – Computer
 Floppy Disk – Flash Drive
 Others?

18. What are transformational
activities?
(intentional – a decision to change)
 Things that cause people
to think and do things
differently
– A book
– An interaction
– Others?
My transformation

19. My Transformational Journey
 Accidental  Intentional

21. Your Transformational Journey
and What is your PLN?
 Accidental  Intentional

22. Growing Up Digital
(Tapscott, 1998)
N-Gen Learning
 Opportunity to shift (transform)
to a new, more powerful,
and effective
learning paradigm….

23. Growing Up Digital (1998)
N-Gen Learning
Paradigm shift from...
 Linear sequential to hypermedia
 Instruction to construction/discovery
 Teacher-centered to learner-centered
 School as torture to school as fun
 Teacher as transmitter to
teacher as facilitator

24. Contrast this with
A Whole New Mind
PINK (2005) TAPSCOTT (1998)
 Design  construction/
 Story discovery
 Symphony  hypermedia
 Empathy  learner-centered
 Play  school as fun
 Meaning  teacher as facilitator

25. Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
 “’Learning isn’t about memorizing
isolated facts. It’s about connecting and
manipulating them”

26. Institutional Change

27. Concerns Based Adoption /
Self Assessment

28. CBAM: Stages of Concern
 Awareness
 Informational
 Personal
 Management
 Consequence
 Collaborative
 Refocusing

29. Big Question:
What is the first thing you will
do with this knowledge when
you return to your school or
institution?

30. Hot Topics in Online Learning
 See wiki
 See Wall Wisher
http://wallwisher.com/wall/iste12)
http://iste12.wikispaces.com

31. Final Comments/Whip Around
 One comment / question from each table

32. Contact Information
Rob Darrow, Ed.D. Kelly Schwirzke, Ed.D.
Director of Member Services Instructor, Oasis Independent Study /
Coordinator of Online Learning
iNacol
Alternative Education Programs
559-838-6151
Santa Cruz County Office of
rdarrow@inacol.org
Education
www.inacol.org
P 831-466-5655
Rob’s Wiki:
C 831-359-1778
http://robdarrow.wikispaces.com
kschwirzke@santacruz.k12.ca.us
http://iste12.wikispaces.com