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 * Session Notes**

60 sites in 60 minutes

__Empathy: the new fluency__ (note this session was extremely disorganized thus resulting in few notes) Www.rootzonedatabase.com. Gives all two letter country codes Type site: (country code) to limit results to specific country codes, allowing one to sure the internet in different countries.

"We need more 'messy problems' in school."

One must be able to understand that are different points of view, even if they are wrong. Curriculum should be globalized.

"Every classroom should be a global communication center."- Alan November

__Creativity Fluency__ Lee Crockett-presenter

We are focused on short term goals. It's a loop scores, goal, check back. Long term goals need to be future focused.

What do students need to be successful beyond school? Problem solving Creativity Think analytically Collaborate (physical and virtual) Communicate Ethics, action and accountability -these things aren't happening!

Interest must precede learning Relevance is the number one thing. If it isn't relevant learning won't happen Creating is at w the top of Bloom's. Start there

Relevance+ creating+ real world = 21st century learning

21st learning is about their learning not our teaching

The fluencies remain when the content fades. Fluencies is the level of proficiency, at an unconscience level, rather than a skill.

Anything that is routine cognitive work can be outsourced. Creative class jobs are the future

5 E's for creativity Establish the group, roles and responsibilities, norms, group contract Envision Engineer: build a workable plan Execute Examine

Books titles: The digital diet Living on the future edge

__Media Fluency__ Consists of both media input and output

Must be able to: Listen to what's being said, how. Must be able to separate the medium from the message; be able to verbalize, verify, Must look at the medium: form (the art teacher is the key to this), flow, alignment between medium, message and target audience Leverage Message content and outcome Medium: the audience and your ability, and is there any preexisting criteria

Www.fluency21.com -click on "commit me"

__Dr. David Covey__ Making an Impact

"Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they have no choice to see it in themselves."-Dr. Covey

To be effective you need a stag skill set, too, set, and mindset Skill set ad tool set= incremental change Mindsets= quantum leaps

Habits 1. Be proactive not reactive 2. Begin with the end in mind- "Live life in crescendo.". "Technology is meant to bless not impress." 3. Put first things first

What we can do: 1. Work on the mind sets not the skill sets. 2. Help students see their worth and potential "seeing students as only test scores is the worst form of identity theft."- Dr. Covey

"We only get one chance to influence students for a world that none of us can predict. What are we going to do with that?"

__Solution Fluency by Lee Crockett__ "Traditional literacy is no longer enough"- Lee Crockett 6 Ds of solution fluency 1. Define 2. Discover 3. Dream- unlimited visioning 4. Design- gap analysis, the process of how we get from where we are to where we need to be 5. Deliver- move beyond produce, now we need to produce and publish- that publish doesn't mean writing a final draft 6. Debrief This all becomes a cyclical thing. Students take ownership and want to make things better

__"We need more PD"-Myths of Technology Intergration__ "Research shows teachers need more PD" is a myth. We need a classroom where teachers are learning at the same time as the kids- Seymour Papert Teach students how to provide the technology support. They make up 92% of the people/stakeholders in any school. Authentic problems (areas) for student support: Tech support Professional development support Student technology literacy "Students should be agents of change, not objects of change."-GenYES "If you take out the teacher as the center of learning and knowledge, you can do some interesting things."-GenYES GenYES is a nonprofit with programming for using tech support- might be a good model for SLP. Teachers need to stay for tech classes, not using it as an extra prep. Look for the win-win: If a student can do it, a teacher shouldn't Allies and advocates Authentic problems and responsibility Why do this? It's about citizenship. Citizenship is a verb. It's what students and teachers DO that counts. Technology Ecology: Waste nothing (talent, energy, passion) Multiple purposes and uses Raise the bar "Grow your own" www.GenYES.org

__The "yeah, but..."s against change__ Presenter: Will Richardson and Rob @https://docs.google.com/a/mypanthers.org/present/view?id=dg832hc9_1p4q6ksg5 A "yeah, but" is a victory, showing others are turning the corner and thinking about change. To change the yeah,buts we need both a rational and emotional response. Schools struggle with the emotional. The emotional side of people need to know who and what you are using, that it's going to be ok, it's safe. Top ten reasons for the "yeah,but..." 1. Time Education on learning often misses the emotional part. Books: "Switch" by chip heath "Change or die"

__ESL: making connections to community, family and school__ Video record a tour of the school and then have students narrate in native language. Also post as a podcast for parents.

__Go Digital__ Set up a "sandbox blog" as a place to play around with stuff before posting to real blog. Www.vocaroo.com. Online digital voice recorder that is really easy to embed.

__Keynote: Chris Lehmann__ Presenter- Chris Lehmann, president of the science and learning academy "They need each of us to see the brilliance inside each of them." Agency = head, heart, hands and voice We must help kids develop their heart and hands. Kids should and can do things that matter. They should need the learning now instead of "someday." Schools should be built around the ethic of care. Care about and for. "My school is not my network, it's my family." Kids can be paralyzed by the right answer. They must know that failure is learning. "What if school wasn't preparation for real life, but was real life?" We are not creating 21st century workers but citizens. I do not teach math, reading, ELL, I teach kids.