for tcea7

2. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
Co-Founder & CEO
Powerful Learning Practice, LLC
http://plpnetwork.com
sheryl@plpnetwork.com
President
21st Century Collaborative, LLC
http://21stcenturycollaborative.com
Author
The Connected Educator: Learning
and Leading in a Digital Age
Follow me on Twitter
@snbeach

3. PLP’s Connected Learner Experience
is in Houston this year!
Bring a team…
Leave with an action research project

4. All of October
Free professional learning
Free for you– free for your staff
http://connectededucators.org/

5. • THE CONNECTED EDUCATOR
Housekeeping
Get close to someone
Paperless handouts
http://plpwiki.com
Back Channel Chat
https://todaysmeet.com/tcea7

6. Mantra for today’s keynote…
We are stronger together than apart.
None of us is as smart, creative, good or
interesting as all of us.

7. • THE CONNECTED EDUCATOR
Things do not change; we change.
—Henry David Thoreau
What are you doing to contextualize and
mobilize what you are learning? Try taking
collaborative notes in the back channel chat.
How will you leverage, how will you enable your
teachers, your leadership or your students to
leverage- collective intelligence?

8. The world is changing...
But schools… not so much.

9. What is ….

10. We have to change school
culture…
-- change behaviors
-- experience success
-- creates faith
-- creates hope
-- changes beliefs, values, dispositions
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To: Daddy
Subject:
Our teacher fell
asleep

11. Learner First—
Educator Second
It is a shift and requires us to
rethink who we are as an
educational leader or
professional. It requires us to
redefine ourselves.

12. Slide credit to Alec Couros

15. Or are you a
Connected Educator?

16. Letting Go of Curriculum

17. Students are Individuals
1. Children are persons and should be treated as individuals as
they are introduced to the variety and richness of the world in
which they live.
2. Children are not something to be molded and pruned. Their
value is in who they are – not who they will become. They
simply need to grow in knowledge.
3. Think of the self-directed learning a child does from birth to
three– most of it without language. As they mature they are
even more capable of being self-directed learners.
.

18. Eight strands of
technology and TSIP
• Content driven
• Memorization
• Tested
• Standards Aligned

19. But as long as I kept it
learner driven and based on
what both adults and kids
were interested in things
went fine.

20. “Content is just the context for participation.
It’s not the outcome. It’s one of our design
constraints. What we care about is kids’
engagement, the challenges they’re trying to
solve, and how complex those problems are.”
~ Katie Salen
Then it hit me… Content wasn’t the focus.
Context was… and using the technology as a
paint brush or a canvas that connected to the
child’s wonderment changed everything. I
became an insatiable learner.

21. dangeuslyirrelevant.org
Our kids have tasted the honey.
http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/02/a-taste-of-honey.html

22. 22
Free range learners
Free-range learners choose
how and what they learn. Self-
service is less expensive and
more timely than the
alternative. Informal learning
has no need for the busywork,
chrome, and bureaucracy that
accompany typical classroom
instruction.

23. Shifts focus of literacy
from individual
expression to
community
involvement.

24. • THE CONNECTED EDUCATOR
The Disconnect
“Every time I go to school, I have to
power down.” --a high school student

25. Shifts focus of literacy
from individual
expression to
community
involvement.

26. Connected Learning
The computer connects the student to the rest of the world
Learning occurs through connections with other learners
Learning is based on conversation and interaction
Stephen Downes

27. Share
Cooperate
Collaborate
Collective Action
According to Clay Shirky, there are four steps on a ladder to
mastering the connected world: sharing, cooperating,
collaborating, and collective action.
From his book- “Here Comes Everybody”

28. Connected Learner Scale
Share (Publish & Participate) –
Connect (Comment and
Cooperate) –
Remixing (building on the
ideas of others) –
Collaborate (Co-construction of
knowledge and meaning) –
Collective Action (Social Justice, Activism, Service
Learning) –

29. Connected Learning has the
potential to takes us deeper
“The interconnected, interactive
nature of social learning
exponentially amplifies the rate at
which critical content can be shared
and questions can be answered.”
From: Collaborative Learning for the Digital
Age in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Cathy Davidson,
professor at Duke
University

30. Connected sometimes trumps F2F with
deep learning…
Via Marc Andreessen’s blog, the findings of researchers as related by
Frans Johansson in The Medici Effect:

31. Diversity of thought
Allows for Greater Innovation
Frans Johansson explores one simple yet profound
insight about innovation: in the intersection of
different fields, disciplines and cultures, there’s an
abundance of extraordinary new ideas to be explored.

33. “ Do you know what who you know knows?” H. Rheingold

34. Tech is Changing the World
Photo credit: http://smeitexpo2011.blogspot.com/2010/11/era-of-technological-revolution.html

35. 2nd

36. Photo credit: http://cradlepoint.com/sites/default/files/uploads/Internet_of_Things.jpg

37. Internet of Things & Services
• The Internet of Things is a technological system,
a suite of products and services that will make
life a bit more comfortable.
• It is more than the Internet we know — it goes
beyond empowering people to communicate and
collaborate.
• The Internet of Things can connect any product
or service. And it automatically links what might
emerge as a result of this collaboration — interact
even without human intervention.

39. Recap…
1. The world is changing.
2. The context has shifted
3. We have amazing tools that enable us to
connected, collaborate and create.
4. Kids are social learners who are
interested in the world around them.
We are in the midst of seeing education transform
from a book-based, linear system with a focus on
individual achievement to an web-based, divergent
system with a focus on collaborative learning.

40. Change is hard

41. Connected learners are more
effective change agents

42. Real Question is this:
Are we willing to change- to risk change- to meet the
needs of the precious folks we serve?
Can you accept that Change (with a “big” C) is
sometimes a messy process and that learning new things
together is going to require some tolerance for ambiguity.

43. Let’s just admit it…
You are an agent of
change!
Now. Always. And now
you have the tools to
leverage your ideas.

44. An effective change
agent is someone
who isn’t afraid to
change course.

45. Last Generation