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8/27/13 — Harnessing the Perfect Storm – Trail, BC

Personal Notes:»

I have been an educator for 37 years, and the one thing that I wouldn’t have imagined when I started teaching history was how much the industry would change – how much history we would be making. It’s a complicated issue, but if we factor it all down, there are three things that have happened, converging conditions that are forcing us, for the first time in decades, to rethink education and even what it means to be educated.

We are:

  • Preparing a new generation of learner
  • Within a new information environment
  • For a future we can not clearly describe.

My presentations will make this case, but also dig more deeply into two of them, the new information landscape and this new generation of learner. Specifically, we’ll look at what three brand new qualities of today’s information environment do to what it means to be literate. We’ll also look at some of the qualities of our children’s outside-the-classroom learning experiences, and what they might look like in our classrooms.

Online Handouts

Some education hashtags:

  • #EdChat – This hashtag is for tweets relating to an exciting collaborative conversation forum for educators via Twitter. Edchat discussions happen Tuesdays on Twitter.
  • #ECETech(Chat) – Tweets for early childhood educators who are interested in learning more about technology integration.
  • #EdTech – This hashtag is used by professionals across the field of education to share new tech tools.
  • #iPadEd & #EdApps – These hashtags are for educators who are interested in learning about how to use iPads in the classroom, as well as useful apps.
  • #1:1chat – discussions about 1:1 or one to the world initiatives.
  • #mlearning – News and discussion about mobile learning.
  • #ipaded – Conversations about iPads in education.
  • #1:1 – about one to one and/or one to the world initiatives.

8/23/13 — Starting a Great Adventure, Van Texas

Personal Notes:»

First, congratulations on the great adventure you are setting out on. We live in a world that is as different from the one that I went to school for as my world was different from that of my great great grandfather. Things have changed that much, and much of that change has happened with what we read and write,

The vary nature of information has changed, in what it looks like, what we look at to view it, how we find it, where we go to find it, what we can do with it and how we communicate it. All of these shifts have resulted in an information landscape that is networked, digital and abundant, and each of these qualities effects what it means to be literate.

You and your students will be working in a new environment and inventing a new kind of education, one that ignores barriers and empowers accomplishment.

Online Handouts

  • Cracking the Code of the ‘Native’ Learning Experience – http://goo.gl/agyqQ
  • Backchannel Transcript — [link]

Some education hashtags:

  • #EdChat – This hashtag is for tweets relating to an exciting collaborative conversation forum for educators via Twitter. Edchat discussions happen Tuesdays on Twitter.
  • #ECETech(Chat) – Tweets for early childhood educators who are interested in learning more about technology integration.
  • #EdTech – This hashtag is used by professionals across the field of education to share new tech tools.
  • #iPadEd & #EdApps – These hashtags are for educators who are interested in learning about how to use iPads in the classroom, as well as useful apps.
  • #1:1chat – discussions about 1:1 or one to the world initiatives.
  • #mlearning – News and discussion about mobile learning.
  • #ipaded – Conversations about iPads in education.
  • #1:1 – about one to one and/or one to the world initiatives.

8/8/13 — New School Year Kickoff – Boyden-Hull Schools, Iowa, August 16, 2013

Personal Notes:»

I am thrilled to be with you today. Regardless of all of the politics that threaten our work, our children and their future, I maintain that there still has never been a more exciting time to be a teacher.

  • That we are preparing our children for a future that we can not clearly describes makes us all learners, not just teachers.
  • That our children are creating and living a culture that is based almost entirely on learning means that they are coming into our classroom wired to learn.
  • That we are living and working in an entirely new information landscape offers previously unimaginable learning experiences for our children.

I will be delivering four presentations to you today, giving you time to discuss each. First will be a context-building presentation, itemizing three reasons why the education that I got in the ’50s and ’60s is irrelevant and even detrimental to today’s children and their future. The second will look at what it means to be literate in this new information landscape and the third will address the learning skills and habits that our children enter our classrooms out of. Finally, we will look at how teachers are learning, cultivating personal learning networks that cause them to come into their classrooms with something brand new every single day.

Online Handouts

Here are some administrator blogs whom I recommend:

7/10/13 — Cultivating your Personal Learning Network – July 10, 2013

Personal Notes:»


When I entered the classroom as a history teacher, the personal computer did not exist. I had no reason to believe that education would, or should change in any substantial way over the next 30 years. Nearly forty years later, there is one fundamental necessity that I believe is central to all of our efforts in preparing our children for their future.

We must all become skilled, resourceful and habitual learners.

Online Handouts

  • Cultivating Your Personal Learning Network — handouts
  • Backchannel Transcript — [link]

Here are some administrator blogs whom I recommend:

6/12/13 — Harnessing the Perfect Storm with NSBA Federation of Trainers Conference – June 27, 2013

Personal Notes:»

At least part of the reason for me presence is to help you answer several important questions regarding your work with school board members. Here are the probable questions:

  • How will work in general be different in five or ten years because of the advent of various technologies?
  • How might the work of those we serve be different?
  • What are the implications of this for our work? (ie how will our work be different?)
  • What can/should we do to be prepared?

To help, I want to suggest to you three converging conditions, a perfect storm of trends that are forcing use to rethink education and even what it means to be educated. They are that we are, for the first time in history..

  • Preparing a new generation of learners
  • Within a new information environment
  • For a future that we can not cearly describe.

Each of these has profound implications in terms of what and how our children learn. The “what” and “how” of learning is directly impacted by decisions made by school board members.

Online Handouts

6/12/13 — Imagining the Future of Learning – June 12, 2013

Personal Notes:»

Imagining the Future of LearningRegardless of where we are or where we work, in the realm of formal education, there is a story that we need to understand – one that helps us to define our purpose and our roles in accomplishing our goals. It’s be an easy story to tell, one that has become culturally integrated into our common understanding. However, in the past 30 years or so the conditions that define that story have changed. It’s a complex issue that stems from an increasingly complex world. Unfortunately, when story become too complicated, we tend to rush back to old and trusted stories, “Just teach my kids the basics.” “What ever happened to the three Rs?”

This my keynote presentation is designed to take this new and admittedly complicated story, and reduce it down to a three-bullet list – an elevator pitch for why the education that served me in the 1950s and ’60s, is not suitable for today’s children. Write them down. They are not only irrefutable, but they also may point to some avenue for retooling our classrooms.

My pavillion topic is much more concrete, in a way that keynote speeches are not supposed to be. It’s about a practice that I think is possibly/problably the coolest thing happening on the Net, and something that education has, until just recently, virtually ignored. It’s infograhpics and data visualization. I’ll be showing you some pretty striking examples and also cluing you into some ways that you can create or help your students to create stories from numbers.

Online Handouts

4/26/13 — Learning to Teach the Future conference WyTECC – April 26, 2013

Personal Notes:»
My humble contributions to this conference will be mostly about literacy. In fact, my opening keynote will be entirely about literacy and my urging that when considering the use of technology, that we think of literacy first.

But I am talking about a much expanded sense of what literacy is. Reading and writing, and arithmetic are still basic skills. But today, they are far from enough. When information has become increasingly networked, digital and abundant, then the nature of information changes – and so too should our notions of what it means to be literate.

My first breakout session will be about finding information. When I was in school, we learned to use an index, table of contents, and the Dewey Decimal system. Today, we Google it. New skills for finding information, and those skills are as basic as being able to read it.

My second breakout takes a slightly different twist. Fundamentally, it is about how teachers are using these new literacy skills to do their jobs. It’s about utilizing today’s prevailing information landscape to engage in daily, casual, self-directly and in-time professional development.

Online Handouts

4/18/13 — Lateral Entry Educators in Guilford County – April 18, 2013

Personal Notes:»

Grayling Convention Center
It is a honor to be asked to speak to you, a group of educators, who didn’t start out to be educators. I know that in other countries, Canada for instance, prospective teachers must start out with a four-year degree in some program of interest — even elementary teachers. Then they attend a fifth year to learn to be a teacher. In a sense this is what you have done, developed expertise in some area and then chosen to become a teacher.

I want to talk about how the process of teaching, and more importantly, learning is changing in our classrooms. This change is happening, in no small part, because of the increasing importance of learning outside the classroom in the world of work, service and play. ..and more to the point of my talk, how that learning takes place.

I want to suggest, that part of the key to appropriate classroom pedagogue, today, in a time of opportunity, is in the learning pedagogies that our students and many of you practice outside the classroom. Marc Prinsky described, in a foundational paper he wrote in 2001, how our children are now “digital natives” while there parents and many of their teachers are “digital immigrants.”

I think that we need to crack the code of their “native” information/learning experiences.

Online Handouts

3/7/13 — NCTIES Annual Conference – March 7, 2013

Personal Notes:»

Online Handouts

2/28/13 — 21st Century Learning Skills, Senior Speaker Series, Campbell University – February 28, 2013

Personal Notes:»
Fountain on the Campus of Campbell University
Fountain on the Campus of Campbell University
I am honored and thrilled to be with you talking about 21st century learning. The irony is not wasted on me, that you’ve asked an educator of 37 years to talk to you about the modernization of education. But in a way, I am the perfect speaker for this event, because I have witnessed and been a part of the most exciting 30 years of the profession, and a redefinition of what it means to be educated. Being educated today is not so much what you know as it is what you are able to learn. According to a recent document from the Department of Education, the average adult in America today will hold at 11 jobs between the ages of 18 and 46. (“Number of jobs,” 2012) They won’t go back to the classroom to gain the skills they need to get those jobs, and neither will you go back to the classroom to adapt your skills to the changing school environment.

You will be teaching in classrooms where every student has access to Google at any moment, and they will write blogs and books, develop useful software, contribute to community and national discussions, and will, on occasion be more skilled at something than you are. Get use to it.

There is very little that I can say in an hour that will prepare you for this time of rapid change. I will, however, talk about learning in an increasingly networked, digital and information-abundant world, because schooling, during our career, will have very little to do with teaching.

One of the best pieces of information that I can share with you is a list of other professional educators to follow through their blogs and Twitter postings:

Bloggers to follow:

Tweeple to Follow:

Online Handouts

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2012). Number of jobs held, labor market activity, and earnings growth among the youngest baby boomers: Results from a longitudinal survey (USDL-12-1489). Retrieved from Bureau of Labor Statistics website: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/nlsoy.pdf

2/25/13 — Prepare to Learn – Learn to Prepare, Council for Educational Facilities Planners International

Personal Notes:»

VEFPWe educate children. That involves family, community, content, pedagogies, and environment, The Third Teacher. We are, for the first time in decades (and in some ways, in centuries) starting to rethink education — and what it means to be educated in a time of rapid change. It is a complex issue, but I believe that there are three fundamental and profound reasons for this.

It is a perfect storm of converging conditions that are new, universal, undeniable. I hope that you enjoy and learn something from my presentation.

Online Handouts

2/18/13 — Magnolia ISD Learning 2 Learn Conference

Personal Notes:»

Magnolia West High School
Magnolia West High School
It is an honor to be with you today to talk about, well, “Learning 2 Learn.” One thing that I have come to realize in the 37 years I’ve been an educator, is that teaching and learning are quite nearly synonymous. From being a textbook-based history teacher to what I do now, there’s been a whole hill of learning. And that learning has changed dramatically. When first learning (teaching myself) to program computers, I bought books. Now I search the Internet. I carry all my instructions with me.

This sense of learning, what I like to call our Learning Lifestyle, requires this type of access to a world of information — as close as our pockets. That is what is so important about your move to networked learning environments. Regardless of whether its about BYOD, or its a school laptop program, what it’s about is networked learning – and this necessitates new learning skills, or another way of saying it is an expanded sense of what it is to be literate. Today literacy is the skills involved in using information to learning what you need to know, to do what you need to do.

Here is a link to the article about creating an RSS feed for Twitter searches:

Anyway, here are some links to handout pages where you can access lists of links, documents, bibliographies, etc.

1/24/13 — Virginia STEM Summit – Longwood University

Personal Notes:»
STEM Summit during the Eric Rhoades Presentations
So my question is, “Can we teach STEM?” I would suggest that scientists can’t be made. They’re nurtured. I recently read an article suggesting that toddlers think and solve problems like scientists. We seem to teach that out of them.

I suggest, that to find the pedagogies that will nurturer scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians, that we look to the learning experiences that our children practice, their ‘native’ information experiences, and identify elements of that experiences and learn how they might become part of our formal learning environments and experiences.

1/10/13 — UT SBA • Salt Lake City, Utah

Personal Notes:»
Freedom Chair, constructed by a local superintendent for Utah citizens serving in the Middle East
The theme for you conference is Vision and Leadership for the 21st Century.  It is one of the most important functions of our education institution that we are still, with more than a tenth of the century behind us that we are still talking about 21st century vision.  Education must be a force for insuring that the heritage and values of our society(s) remain a continuing part of our children’s lives and their futures.

Still, it is the future that we are preparing them for, not our yesterdays.  We must learn to tell a new story about teaching and learning in the 21st century, a story based on three fundamental qualities of our times.  These qualities, these converging conditions, will be the foundation of my talk.

12/6/12 — Expert Summit • Fort Worth, Texas

Personal Notes:»
Christmas TreeI have to admit that I was a little skeptical about this event, when first approached about it by Patrick. But when I read through your vision document, I knew that this project and it’s driving document was something that I wanted to be a part of – and that it comes from Texas might surprise some people. Not Me!

I will be talking about a number of topics during the day, but they will all be wrapped around a three legged stool that I hope may hold your weight. It is a three bullet list of converging conditions that are forcing us to rethink education for the first time in decades – and even what it means to be educated. It is a perfect storm that is providing us with some pointers on where to go with regard to pedagogy and even the nature of literacy.

Today, we are…

  • Preparing a new generation of learners
  • Within a new information environment
  • For a future that we can not clearly describe.

Here are some links to online resources related to the topics I will be exposing you to during the day.

So sorry for the delay on getting the rest of these links up

 

11/28/12 — Riverside Users Conference • Seattle, Washington

Personal Notes:»

This conference will be ostensibly about data and using data to inform effective instruction in your classrooms. I want to take a slightly (and dramatically) different perspective, stepping away from the nuances of using data and examining exactly why we’re (educators) doing what we are doing – and especially why we need to be doing it differently.

Mt. Rainier, taken with in iPhone and edited with Snapseed App

There are three reasons, a perfect storm of convering conditions that are forcing us to retying education and even what it means to be educated. I’ll be making a case for these conditions, but in brief, we are…

  • Preparing a New Generation of Learners
  • Within a New information Environment
  • For a Future that We Cannot Clearly Describe

From the perspective of this conference, the pointy end of this storm is the new information environment. The very nature of information has changed during my career as an educator. It’s changed in what it looks like, what we look at to view it, how we find it, where we go to find it, what we can do with it and how we communicate it. It’s also changed in the vast quantity of data that is produced every day, about 20 Libraries of Congress worth.

Making that data tell its story is a huge part of what this conference is about and at least part of what I’ll be talking about.

  • Harnessing the Perfect Storm – handouts
  • Backchannel transcript is here

11/15/12 — 67th Annual IASB Convention

Personal Notes:»
Uptown 45
I will be exploring a number of topics with conference attendees, but they fall under an umbrella structure that will be one of my presentations. It is a Perfect Storm of converging conditions that are forcing us, for the first time in decades, to rethink education and even what it means to be educated. The conditions are, that we are…

  • Preparing a new generation of learners
  • Within a new information environment
  • For a future that we can not clearly describe.

Each of these conditions has profound implications as to what and how our children learn.

  • Harnessing the New Information Landscape – handouts
  • Rebooting the Basics (keynote) – handouts
  • Harnessing the Perfect Storm – handouts
  • Backchannel transcript is here

11/6/12 — Riverside Users Conference, Long Beach California

Personal Notes:»

In the message of the closing keynote address at the Education Leadership Conference in KL, Malaysia, Australian educator, Greg Whitby urged us to write and tell a new narrative for education. It’s a message I have long urged, because we must shatter the old teacher-directed, seat-time and test-score measured story of the industrial age. I believe that the story must be short, simple, and something you can recite in an elevator.

This is my task today, to tell that story, as a perfect storm of converging conditions. There are three conditions that are brand new, and each points to a new way of accomplishing education. It focuses more on the work, literacies, and habits of learning, and the environments and experiences that facilitate them.

  • Harnessing the Perfect Storm – handouts
  • Backchannel transcript is here

11/1/12 – 11/4/12 — EARCOS Leadership Conference, Kuala Lumpur

Personal Notes:»

Hindu Temple in Kuala Lumpur, taken with iPhone and HDR Pro App

It seems that as I engage in conversations about the challenges of retooling education for this time of rapid change, I increasingly find, that the first and best idea that pops in my mind is our definition of teaching.  We have to be fair, that in retooling (restructuring, reform, you pick the verb) school, we are asking teachers to redefine what it is to be a teacher.  Teacher as authority and dispenser of knowledge no long applies and is actually detrimental to the appropriate schooling of today’s children.

The 21st century teacher must be a master learners.  It’s a point I will make again and again during the conference.  But we will explore this idea in much greater depth during my pre-conference workshop, Promoting & Supporting a Learning Culture inYour School.  I’ll confess here that being a master learner today means paying attention to all the conversations around you, and my plan is for us to learn from each other.

During the rest of my visit in KL, I will share a briefer version of teacher as master learner, by storytelling and demonstration of how professional educators are cultivating their own Personal Learning Networks.  We’ll also explore data, as a literacy skills, by making numbers tell their stories with images, the pedagogies of our students outside the classroom information experiences, and we’ll talk about a new story of education, that responds to three converging conditions that are forcing us to rethink education and even what it means to be educated.

  • Promoting & Supporting a Learning Culture inYour School – handouts
  • in-Time, On-Going, and Self-Directed Professional Development: Cultivating your Personal Learning Networks - handouts
  • Cracking the Code of the Digital Information Experience - handouts
  • DataVis: Fusing Data, Math, and Art – Handouts
  • Telling the New Story – handouts
  • Backchannel transcript is here

10/25/12 – 10/26/12 — 2012 VSBA/VSA Annual Conference, Lake Morey, Vermont

Personal Notes:»

We are educating children in perhaps one of the most challenging times in recent decades, or perhaps even centuries.  I would add that I consider the past 35 years of my education career to have been the most exciting time to be an educator.  One can no longer say that you can get a teaching degree and then teach one year, 30 times.

I will talk about my efforts to factor down, the complexities that are forcing these changes, into a three-bullet list, and perfect storm of converging conditions that are undeniable and that have profound implications to teaching, learning and schooling.

Briefly, we are,

  • Preparing a new generation of learners
  • Within a new information environment
  • For a future we can not clearly describe

I will also share some ideas and techniques that professional educators are using to engaging in the daily, casual and self-directly professional developing that is so essential for this profession in this time.  We’ll look at how you can cultivate your personal learning network.

Handouts:

  • Our Students • Our Worlds (keynote) – handouts
  • Data Visualization – handouts
  • In-Time, Ongoing, Self-Directed Professional Development – Personal Learning Networks – handouts
  • Backchannel transcript is here

10/20/12 — Connecting Leaders 2012, Vancouver British Columbia

Personal Notes:»

I suspect that one of the challenges faced by school leaders, determined to retool their schools for 21st century learning, is making the case. So many of your (and our) community members feel that the education they received 20, 30, or 50 years ago was successful, and they see little reason to include computers and the Internet in the formula.

My keynote is designed to help you make they case. It’s simple. It’s a three bullet list. It’s a story you can tell during a typical elevator ride. It is three converging conditions that are forcing us to re-think education for the first time in decades.

You can find the online handouts at the following links.

  • Harnessing the Perfect Storm (keynote) – handouts
  • Cracking the Code of the Digital Information Experience – handouts
  • Backchannel transcript is here

 

10/19/12 — Manitoba School Library Association (and others), Embracing the Edge Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Personal Notes:»

It appears that this is going to be one of those conferences that is serving a wide range of professionals, specifically librarians and tech folks. Its a wholly appropriate mix and I will, as I so often do, attempt to deliver my message by not talking about what I am promoting. Its simply too easy to say, integrate technology, and far more interesting to say, “Stop integrating technology!”

I am delivering three messages at the Embrace the Edge conference:

  1. Redefine literacy
  2. Re-discover pedagogy
  3. Use contemporary literacy for professional learning

You can find the online handouts at the following links.

  • Rebooting the Basics (keynote) – handouts
  • Cracking the Code of the Digital Information Experience (Keynote Address) – handouts
  • The Art & Technique of Personal Learning Networks – handouts
  • Backchannel transcript is here

 

10/18/12 — ASEC Fall Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Personal Notes:»
Essay Winner Reading Her Work

It feels a bit odd for me to be speaking to educator here who are in the business of literacy, and I’m not talking about literacy. Actually, I’ll be speaking to librarians and technology educators tomorrow about literacy. Here, I’m talking about pedagogy, though I will likely not use that word.

We’re struggling today to prepare a new generation of learners, within a new information environment, for a future we can not clearly describe. Each of the new and converging conditions has profound implications in terms of what and how our children learn.

I would like to suggest that one of the places we look to discover new ways of teaching and learning is to our children’s outside-the-classroom information/learning experiences. Information is what gives their experience meaning, and learning is what drives them forward.

  • Cracking the Code of the Digital Information Experience (Keynote Address) – handouts
  • Backchannel transcript is here

 

10/11/12 & 10/12/12 — ACTEM 25th Annual Conference – Augusta, Maine

Personal Notes:»

Perhaps more than any other state, the teachers of Maine have come close to understand how to pedagogically use contemporary information technologies for teaching and learning. But I suspect that there is still much to learn, and that much of that may well be embedded in how our children use information technologies that are native to their information experience. I want to try to describe four qualities of that native information/learning experience and suggest how they might be hacked for the classroom.

  • Making Numbers tell their Story: Data Visualization & Infographics — handouts
  • Harnessing the Perfect Storm — handouts
  • Cracking the Code of the Native Information Experience (Keynote Address) – handouts
  • Cultivating Your Personal Learning Network — handouts
  • Backchannel Transcript

 

 

10/4/12 & 10/5/12 — Be Engaged – Elk Island Schools, Alberta

Personal Notes:»

Taken by Aaron Tuckwood

 

Ill spend two days with the community and educators with the Elk Island School District and talking about several subjects. But they all break down to three converging conditions that are changing education and even what it means to be educated.

My talk with parents on Thursday night is about these three conditions, a three-bullet elevator pitch that is titled, “Harnessing the Perfect Storm.” We are, today, preparing a new generation of learners, within a new information environment, for a future we cannot clearly describe. Each of these conditions has profound implications in terms of what and how our children learn.

On Friday, Ill deliver a keynote address about the kids, Cracking the Code of the Digital Information Experience. I will suggest that we pay attention to how our children using information and look for clues as to how we might craft better learning experiences from their perspectives. I will also deliver a presentation about a different way of looking at literacy and one on how teachers are using this new notion of literacy to engage in personal professional development.

Here are links to the handout pages for each of these sessions.

  • Harnessing the Perfect Storm — handouts
  • Cracking the Code of the Native Information Experience – handouts
  • Redefining Literacy — handouts
  • Cultivating Your Personal Learning Network — handouts
  • Backchannel Transcript

 

 

 

9/28/12 — Maui Technology Slam 2012 – Pukalani

Personal Notes:»

We are all here, together, because we care about children, teaching and learning. But we are also here today, because we are working in a time of rapid change, when the very nature of information is shifting, seemingly beneath our feet. How do we do our jobs in this uncertain environment, especially when our children seem to be “natives”* to this time.

Perhaps one way is to look to the kids. How do they work this new information landscape. How do they learn there? What are the qualities of their outside-the-classroom information experiences, and how might we use those qualities to hack our classrooms into villages that seem more like home to our children.

My presentation is about these qualities, unique (and not so unique) pedagogies that are an integral and even defining part of their culture –– and almost assuredly the culture they will take with them into adulthood.

  • Cracking the Code of the Native Information Experience – handouts
  • Backchannel Transcript

 

 

 

9/24/12 — Meeting the Challenge of Education Reform – Indianapolis, Indiana

Personal Notes:»

Education reform as several meanings represented by distinct camps of advocates. But we are all here to serve the very same children and their future.

Regardless of where you go for your answers, from retooling your classrooms or systemic reform, there are three conditions that are converging, brand new qualities to the context of our work that are forcing us, for the first time in decades, the rethink education. ..and even rethink what it means to be educated.

We are, today

  1. Preparing a new generation of learners
  2. Within a new information environment
  3. For a future we can no longer clearly describe.”

Here are links to the online handouts for my presentation and also the backchannel transcript, if we should decide to use it.

 

 

 

8/9/12 — Moving K-12 Forward – Souix Falls, South Dakota

Personal Notes:»

I am very pleased to be with you at your annual conference, and am especially pleased with the theme of your conference, Moving K-12 Forward. In many ways, I feel that weve been going backwards for a number of years.

My task will be to set a stage for your efforts, to build some context for the conversation about teaching and learning in South Dakota. I will talk first, during the keynote address, about our students and the world we are preparing them for. Its a perfect storm of converging conditions that are forcing us to rethink teaching and learning, and even what it means to be educated.

Here are some links to the session pages for the keynote and for a session Ill do about what is happening to our notions of being literate.

 

07/23-27/12 — Discovery Educator Network Summer Institute – Bozeman, Montana

Personal Notes:»

You will be learning a great deal about contemporary information and communication technologies (ICT) and the education enterprise – and youll be learning it from some of the best people in the industry. I hope that my keynote will provide some context for the really neat and useful tools and techniques youll be learning in Bozeman, a context that applies it all to what were about, teaching and learning.

I want to accomplish this be taking a close look at, and dissect the nature of our childrens native learning experiences, because information and learning define their their unique culture. You see, if we can crack the code of that experience, then, perhaps, we can use it to hack their formal learning experiences.

Here are links to my online handouts and to the backchannel for my keynote.

 

 

 

06/23-27/12 — International Society for Technology and Education – San Diego

Personal Notes:»

There are certain that there are video games and social networking tools that can be used in the classroom. But turning our schools, classrooms and libraries into video arcades is not the answer (IMHO). The answer is figuring out what it is about these experiences that makes them so successful and compelling, and integrating those elements into our classroom learning experiences – hacking that experience.

Im doing two major presentations at ISTE this year, and a panel on Apps, more for fun. The sessions and links are:

 

 

06/13/12 — Every Teacher Every Learner – Atlanta Georgia

Personal Notes:»

There are three converging conditions that are changing our thinking about education… and even what it means to be educated. They are that we are

  1. Preparing a new generation of learners
  2. Within a new information environment
  3. For a future we can not clearly describe

Each of these conditions has profound implications in terms of what and how we teach our children, and we will be addressing each of them today, answering several questions:

  • What do children need to learn today to be ready for an unpredictable future?
  • What does it mean to be literate in todays prevailing information landscape?
  • What are the pedagogies that inspire learning for this generation of students?

You can find the online handouts for this presentation here and here, and the transcript for the backchannel will be here.

 

 

06/11/12 — Virtual Keynote for Reynoldsburg City Schools – Ohio

Personal Notes:»

It is a distinct culture that our children live and, in no small part, cultivated. At the core of that culture is not technology, but information, and information environment that is radically different from the one that I grew up in.

I suggest that if we can learn about the defining qualities of their native information experience, we might be able to hack our classroom learning activities to utilize some of those qualities.

Their information experience,

    • Is Responsive
    • Provokes Conversation
    • Inspires Personal Investment
    • Is Guided by Safely Made Mistakes
      • Preparing a new generation of learners
      • Within a new information landscape
      • For a future that we can not clearly describe

You can find the online handouts for this presentation here and the transcript for the Knitter Chat here.

 

05/07/12 — CEFPI, Positive Spaces, Positive Results – Durham, NC

Personal Notes:»

Much can be said about 21st century skills, learning, and learning spaces. There are many good, complex and interesting reasons why the “What,” “How” and “Where” of education are being re-imagined and re-thought. Yet convincing those who want to remain in the comfort zone of teaching children how to be taught in contained and controlled spaces remains a hard sale.

This presentation seeks to simplify the story, making it a three bullet list that can be cited during a typical elevator ride. there are three reasons why, a conversion of three irrefutable conditions, a perfect storm that is forcing us, for the first time in decades, to rethink it all. We are, today,

Here are a couple of links to documents and repositories related to this presentation.

 

 

04/27/12 — Technology Leadership Institutes Tech Expo, New York

Personal Notes:»

You will learn a lot about technology and education during this event. There will be tools introduced to you that simply did not exist last year. It is the nature of our world – and of the teaching profession. But what is constant?

Its often stated, “That technology is only a tool.” ..and this is correct. The constant is the pedagogy – the learning experience. However, the teaching methods that I was taught in education school are as irrelevant today as chalk tablets were when I started teaching History.

I want to convince you that much of the experience of our “Digital Natives,” operates within a web of pedagogies. Video games are almost entirely about pedagogy. If we can understand some of the qualities of that experience. Then we may be able to hack our current practices to integrates some of those qualities – harnessing the learning skills that many of them have so highly refined.

Here are links to the online handouts:

The backchannel chat will be available here.

04/22/12 — NSBA Annual Conference, Boston Mass.

Notes:»

So what is this all about. Why are we retooling our classroom, redefining teaching, and re-imagining classrooms. Its a complicated issue and continues to be a hard sell in many communities. But the fact of the matter is that there are three reasons why education must change and why our notions of what it means to be educated must change

Its a three-bullet list. It can be recited in an elevator. It is a perfect storm of three converging conditions that make business as usual in education irrelevant and even dangerous. We are:

  • Preparing a new generation of learner
  • Within a new information environment
  • For a future we can not clearly describe.

Your online handouts can be found here, and you will be able to read the backchannel chat here.

 

 

04/18/ — Strong Libraries, Tx TLA Conference, Houston, TX

Notes:»

This presentation is The Post Gutenberg Library, and it implies a new kind of library that reflect what I often call “the new shape of information.” You see, information is become increasingly (and almost exclusively) networked, digital and abundant (overwhelming.) It is change in,

  • What it looks like,
  • What we look at to view it,
  • How we find it,
  • Where we go to find it,
  • What we can do with it, and
  • How we communicate it.

This is not one of my typical presentations, but the handouts page that most aligns is probably “Harnessing the Perfect Storm.” The handouts are available here:

The bottom line is that we are preparing,

  • A new generation of learner,
  • Within a new information environment,
  • For a future we can not clearly describe.

Each of these converging conditions as profound implications to what and how our children learn.

 

 

03/07/12-03/09/12 — NCTIES Conference, Raleigh, NC

Notes:»

It is wonderful to be here at such a fine conference in my own home town. There will be much more content here, but for now, the handouts links follow:

We had a wonderful time, I thought, exploring some infographics and data visualizations and also playing around with creating infographics with common household objects.

Today we will explore elements of self-directed, in-time, ongoing, casual professional development, cultivating your personal learning network.

 

We will also be exploring, in an even less casual way, the challenges, advantages, and implications of using tablets in the classroom. Here is a link to the backchannel chat for this unconference session.

 

2/28-29/12 — PD Development Meeting — Stretching Online Learning in Austin Texas (Feb 28-29)

Notes:»

I guess that the bottom line of my talks today is that for a number of reasons, teaching, learning and education have changed. We are preparing a new generation of learners, within a new information environment, for a future we can now longer describe. Each of these new characteristics of our experience changes some aspect of how we teach, what we teach, and why.

There are three basic questions that are posed in this workshop. Im going to list them here, and then, after my day with the Math people, I will insert some of the best answers that I heard.

    1. What do children need to be learning to be ready for an unpredictable future?
The best thing we can be teaching our children (and adult learners) is how to teach themselves. One way of lifting the ceiling on learning is to say, “Go out and learn this and then come back and share!”
    1. What are the pedagogies of this new species of learner?

Millennials respond to the pedagogies of their native information experience, one that is

  • Responsive
  • provokes conversation
  • is fueled by questions
  • refines identity
  • inspires personal investment
  • and is guided by safely-made mistakes
    1. How do we turn this new information landscape from a distraction into a tool?
Use it to turn the learning environment inside-out. Make sure that what learners do with what they are learning is shared with an authentic and appreciative audience. Also, make sure that learners (and teachers) are practices contemporary literacies (learning-literacies) within the context of networked, digital, and abundant information.

There are three basic topics that we will be exploring today. Here are links to the online handouts for each.

The backchannel trasnscript will be available here.

2/10/12 – Focus Day – Surrey, BC

Notes:»

To say that we live in interesting times, can only be seen as an understatement — and this is especially true among educators. We are navigating a perfect storm of converging conditions that are rocking our boat. Many ignore these storms — and I fear for their remaining afloat. Surrey is certainly one of the ships that is trying not only to navigate, but to plot courses for the success of its children.

The winds of the storm may help. We are, today, preparing a new generation of students, within a new information environment, for a future that we can not clearly describe. I will begin with a more formal presentation that paints this pictures, illustrating and describing these converging conditions. Materials on this presentation can be found here:

 

 

 

Then we will look at storm number one, a new generation of learners. We have long seen their lust for technology in video games, social networkinportunity there. Perhaps we might learn that what is true and unique about their experience is that it is driven by pedagogy. We look at the qualities of that experience, the pedagogies, and then explore what they may look like as formal learning experiences. Materials are available here:

 

 

 

The second storm is about information, which is the core of our stuggles as educators. Information is what we want our students to learn and how to work and communicate that information. But the nature of information has changed. It is increasingly networked, digital and abundant. How do these brand new qualities of our information landscape change what it means to be literate?. Materials on this more interactive session can be found here:

 

 

 

So how do we prepare our children for a future we can not clearly describe. We promote in them a Learning Lifestyle. We make sure that they have the skills and the habits to continue learning, continue to be curious and continue to be open to opportunities for life, work, and play. This starts with us, the educators. We should practice public learning in front of our students every day, and that requires that we become gardeners of learning networks. Materials on cultivating a learning garden can be found here:

 

 

 

 

2/7/12 & 2/8/12 – Oklahoma Encyclopmedia Conference – Oklahoma City

Notes:»

We have witnessed phenomenal advances in technology over the past 30 years. However, the factor that affects teaching and learning even more than technology is information. The nature of information has changed in,• What it looks like• What we look at to view it• How we find it• Where we go to find it• What we can do with it• How we communicate it

Understanding how to use technology is important. But perhaps what is even more important is redefining what it means to be literate in this networked, digital, and abundant information landscape. My keynote will seek to expand our notions of the 3Rs in the digital age.

Here are links to the online handouts for this presentation and a transcript for any backchannel conversation that occurred.

 

 

 

2/6/12 – The Kansas Association of Independent and Religious Schools – Topeka

Notes:»

We are preparing a new generation of learners, within a new information landscape, for a future that we can not clearly describe. These are three converging conditions that are forcing us to rethink education for the first time in decades — and even our notions of what it means to be educated. One thing is for sure, that it is not the education that worked for me in the 1950s and 60s.

I want to suggest that at least part of the solution is in the outside-the-classroom experiences of many of our students, what I call the Native* information experience. If we can come to understand the qualities of that experience, and recognize them as pedagogies — if we can crack the code of that experience, then we might be able to hack that code into meaningful formal learning experiences.

Here are links to the online handouts for this presentation and a transcript for any backchannel conversation that occurred.

 

 

2/5/12 – Digital National School Boards Association Leadership Conference – Washington, DC

Notes:»

We are living through a convergence of three conditions that are causing us to rethink education in a way that we havent in decades. The short of it is that we are preparing a new generation of learners, within a new information environment, for a future that we can not clearly describe. Each of these new conditions has profound implications for education and even what it means to be educated.

Here are links to the online handouts for this presentation and a transcript for any backchannel conversation that occurred.


I thank you for giving me an opportunity to enjoy a short personal vacation, driving the Selkirk Loop and seeing so much of your magnificent Province. During the drive I experimented with a fisheye lens for my iPhone. Here’s an example. I was quite pleased with the outcome, own no small credit to the wondrous landscape.
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Very nice to be in East Texas, though my uncle, who lives near Nacogdoches, says that Van is not really East Texas. But you have at least one Creole restaurant in the area, which, I’m hoping, will offer seafood etoufee.
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It’s an honor to be here with you today, and to be back in Iowa. At least with this trip, I was able to drive a bit across the real Iowa and to take some pictures. It’s the next day now and I had a great tour yesterday of Sioux county, guided by Steve Grond. Not sure yet about the photos. Have to get home to put them on the computer and see.
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It’s a privaledge to be working with Guilford County folks again – and it is always a pleasure to work without having to siphon my life through regional jets out of RDU.
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This is my seventh day in Texas, having spend the last many days at the International Society of Technology in Education annual conference. One more week, and I’m told I’d qualify for cowboy boots. What do you think?
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Yum!It’s a pleasure to be with you today in Kentucky. I’ve not traveled for a few weeks, so I’m glad to be flexing my business muscles, and sharing my version/vision of teaching and learning in the age of opportunity.
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What a magnificent state and what a shame that I won’t be able to hang around longer. I am tempted, however, to say no more venues that require a flights to get there. Would much rather have flown to Salt Lake City and driven the rest of the way :-)
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What a beautiful venue for this event. If I didn’t have my daughter’s dog at home to take care of, I’d love to have stayed over for a night.
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What a thrill to speak at and attend the NCTIES conference. It was great to see old friends, though fewer of them seem to be around. It’s making me feel oh! so! old.
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It’s a pleasure to be here and to be a part of this speaker series.
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It is a pleasure to be in downtown Richmond and an additional treat to be wined and dined at The Jefferson, las night.

Perhaps the best thing about my work with this conference, so far, is being asked to serve as a judge for your facilities competition. I always learn so much when I have the opportunity to do something I’ve never done before. I know what pervious concrete is now ;-)

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It’s wonderful to be back in south Texas. At the moment of this writing, it is snowing outside my Raleigh, North Carolina window, so I know it’ll be different.
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What an amazing opportunity for you and for me, to see such fantastic presenters with enlightening ideas (and toys).

I was especially impressed with Samatha’s presentation, though I confess that I didn’t understand a lot about celloidosomes. But she would be a nature-born teachers.

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It is a great pleasure to be back in Salt Lake City. This is also my first gig of the new year and I’m not sure what an omen this snow storm might be. I’m excited about it anyway.

I did get a wonderful walk in this morning and took some pictures of you most photographic city. See on photo I took and posted on Instagram.

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Home Grown PeppersIt’s a great pleasure to be back in Texas and especially in Forth Worth. My family has recently become connoisseurs of hot sauces and are planning to grow a variety of peppers in our garden next year. On my last travel through Dallas, I picked up some hot sauces based on Naga Jolopia and Trinodad Scorpion. I’m looking for one based from Habanero peppers.
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It’s great to be back in Seattle (or at least the airport) and to be with data folks who are using the Riverside software.  I learned so much at the last conference and look forward to spending another day with the folks here.  I certainly hope that they have some more of that killer chocolate cake. (see right)

I’m not sure why, but it seems that every time I fly into SEATAC, I happen to look out the window as we are passing Mt. Rainier.  Perhaps it’s because it takes such a long time.  Anyway, I grabbed a shot of the view with my iPhone yesterday and did a little quick editing with my current favorite app, Snapseed.  Enjoy.

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It is a pleasure to be back in Des Moine and to a place where I do not have to worry so much about Jet Lag. I suspect that there is still no snow on the ground, though there probably no guarantee of that. I will likely add a photo or two here depending on my mood.
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It is, indeed, a pleasure to be back in the states, not to mention a civilized time zone. At this writing, I certainly hope that I got a good nights sleep.

It has been an interesting couple of weeks, finished off by nearly a week in Kuala Lumpur with school heads from international schools throughout East Asia. The conversations a similar to those I witness everywhere. Let focus on the verb, learning.

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It was this time last year that we received the news that flooding would cancel the 2012 ELC.  You can imagine my disappointment, as I am not so accustomed to visiting such exotic places as you.  Coincidentally, I just finished keynoting a conference for BC school leaders in Vancouver, a conference that was canceled last year for other reasons.  For me, it was worth the wait. I always learn in the proximity of smart people.  The become a part of my own greater brain.  I would direct you to their backchannel chat for some enlightening conversation.

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I am extremely happy to be here with you, and hoping, at this writing, that the leaves will still be on their trees, but in their brilliant fall colors.  Maples are especially bright in my part of the country. I was a bit disappointed in the colors in Maine a couple of weeks ago, but they said that fall was still on its way.

Perhaps I add a picture here of what I find.

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It is a pleasure to be back in Vancouver and talking with school leaders. I feel like this has been my Canadian tour, already delivering two presentations in Winnipeg. Alas, I didn’t get to see Neil Young’s childhood home.

It was a late flight in to Vancouver last night, but, thankfully, not quite as cold as in Winnipeg, as I waited for the shuttle to the airport. I took this picture that I found to be very interesting, with the lighting and lack of lighting.

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By this time, Ive been in Winnipeg for a few days, and I hope that Ive had a chance to find the childhood home of Neil Young. As an aspiring singer song-writer of the early 70s, Young and CSNY were personal heroes.

Im also very happy that some of my Canadian friends will be in attendance, and will also be sharing their vast knowledge and experience. Im speaking of Darren Kurpatwa (@dkurpatwa) and and Glassbeed game master, Clarence Fisher (@glassbeed). Im hoping that I will be able to attend their sessions.

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It’s an honor to be back in Manitoba and especially in Winnipeg. Unfortunately, it seems that every time I visit this city, it’s raining and cold, though I’m not sure we’d call this cold.

Still, working with educators in the mid-west, whether in the U.S. or Canada, is always a treat.

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Its a pleasure and more than that, its an honor to be invited back to ACTEMs conference –– its 25th conference and 10th anniversary of your states game-changing 1:1 initiative. You know that the whole world is watching and too TOO few of us are following.

I would have to say that one of the many high points of this conference was the Geek of the Week. It was a sharing of apps, software, and hacks.

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It is a pleasure to be back in the Edmonton area. Its a long way from my home in North Carolina, but we have an important connection. Specifically, its the night that our Hurricanes defeated the Edmonton Oilers for the cup. Truthfully, I dont pay much attention to hockey, and neither do most North Carolinians. But we do have a lot of folks moving in from New York and Michigan, so there is a home there for hockey.

 

 

I had a wonder day with you and some fantastic conversations. I believe that the message that teachers at Elk Island could deliver to teachers in my country is that teacher should be adventurous.

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Kula Botanical BardenIt is an honor and a pleasure to be with you on Maui today. I sure did have a wonderful and adventurous day yesterday, driving to the top of Haleakala and along the Kahelili Highway. My backbone still trembles.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5
ESOIt is an honor to be spending the day with superintendents and school board members from the Hoosier State and in this very fine revitalized downtown.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5
ESOHere is a link to the Europeon Southern Observatory contest for voting the object that the Very Large Telescope will be aimed at on October 4. Of course, I am of the Sputnik age, where we were all going to become scientists, with black rimmed glasses. I loved astronomy and actually got extra credit once for building a rocket, which was good since I didnt do well on tests. Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5

I cant tell you what a thrill it is to be part of this even, and especially having a chance to visit Montana, the 50th state that I have not visited and the 49th state that Ive worked in.

Of course, this doesnt even include the thrill of seeing a herd of bison, elk, mule deer, great western chipmunks and all that naturally boiling water.

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Perhaps the most fun Im having at ISTE12 is the Photo Safari on Sunday — my first. Heres a link to my photos and here are all of the photos taken on the safari.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5
It is a pleasure to be with you today, especially at the end of the school year. Some of what Ill be talking about today represents some skills (literacy skills) that you might wish to master during your weeks off from the classroom…Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5
So very sorry for the technical problems that interupted the presentation. You were most patient, and, as I said, Im not sorry for audiences to see me struggle. Its part of learning.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5
Perhaps one of the best things I can say about this day is no need to go to the airport and no need to move into a hotel room. It is a thrill to work in my own state and only a few miles up the road.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5
It is a magnificent treat and honor to be with you at the Edith Macy Conference Center. Much of the honor comes from the company Ill keep among the presenters, and especially my old friend Annette Lamb and a fairly new friend, Adam Bellow. The other speakers you will be seeing are among the “Rock Stars” of the edtech world, Wesley Fryer, Chris Lehmann, to mention only two. (More to come)Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5

I want to congratulate the school districts that are being recognized today for their accomplishments in modernizing their schools. You may have noticed that I did not mention technology in that sentence. Tech is simply the pencil and paper of our time. These are districts who are bringing their schools into the present.

It is a pleasure to be here with you today, though I certainly wish that I felt a little better.

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I feel almost like Im coming out of retirement, Ive been rooted in my own home for so long. Routine is good, spending mornings working to create an iBook version of one of my self-published books, and afternoons working on a new help tool for my web site, Citation Machine.

Im mostly begrudging the next two weeks of conferences, but partly looking forward to the excitement. Of of teaching, sharing and learning. Unfortunately, I am not a general part of this conference, so I wont be able to attend any part of it, but the next two conferences, next week with be intense (NSBA & a regional conference in New York).

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It is a thrill to be at the NCTIES conference, formerly NCAECT and now encompassing the entirety of North Carolinas ed tech gathering, sharing, exploring, and inventing of contemporary education in this state. Wow thats a lot.

But yesterday I got to attend my first photo safari with Ken Shelton, todays keynote speaker. It was great fun. Here is a link to the photos I tool.

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Its a pleasure to be here on this foggy Texas day. Didnt expect that. I am most pleased to be seeing old friends here, with whom Ive worked before.

One of the thoughts that kept coming to mind yesterday was how it felt to me, in the earliest days of my involvement with ed tech, when if you wanted the computer (Radio Shack TRS-80) to do something for you, you had to figure out a way to program it to do that. I felt that this was, in a sense, where you are, in a brand new application of computer and the Internet, and you want it to do something for you, to produce some engaging learning experience. You have to figure out how to make that happen. Its not so simply as to go out and select a piece of software. Its extremely exciting.

More notes to come.

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I certainly enjoyed my day with you in Surrey, and I look forward to coming back to Vancouver sometime in the next few monts for the principals and vice principals conference. Ive already started commenting on the backchannel, which you can access here…

I think that one of the high points for me was when Heidi Hass Gable tweeted “Myth – that virtual is always superficial and face to face is always meaningful.” I think that its the immigrant in us, if I might further abuse that analogy. We grew up using the virtual (TV) for entertainment, Beverly Hillbillies and Gilligans Island. It cant possibly be meaningful.

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I had a fabulous time at your Encyclomedia conference. It is such a treat to be able to spend more than a couple of hours at a conference, as I am often only able to fly in, do my keynote, and then fly back out again — on to another event.

I was impressed with what I saw, the response to my ideas, and especially with the conversations I had with attendees and where they helped me to take my ideas. I learn by talking to you.

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It is an honor to be with you today. We all have a tremendous responsibility in preparing our children for their future. Bob Wise, says that only 4 out of 10 of our high school 9th graders are going to graduate with the skills for that future. Its a humbling, especially as we are losing between 40% and 50% of our teachers by year five. This is a tremendously expensive loss.

I want to add another one here. I recently wrote a blog article where I claimed that our job is not merely to prepare our children for their future. It is to prepare them to “own” their future.

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