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Sunday Opening Keynote: Dr. John Medina [|Brain Rules] Follow on Twitter at: @

Monday Concurrent Session 1: Realease of the New NETS Standards

New ISTE Standars for Coaches, Admin and Computer teachers http://www.iste.org/standards.aspx [|NETS for Technology Coaches] [|NETS for Administrators Technology Director] [|NETS for Computer Science Educators]

Concurrent Session 2: 4 Cs and the Common Core www.p21.org

21st century themes and Core are a way to connect the dots between the 4 Cs Global awareness Civic Literacy Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy

Helath Literacy Environmental literacy

3rs and 4 Cs are indivisible A good education includes both Fusing them makes teaching and learning more relevant, engaging and rigorus

Supports 21st century standards Assessment of 21st century skills 21st century curriculum and instruction 21st century environment 21st century professional development

Are an important turning point in the standards movement Majority of states have agreed to a base common baseline 49 states working on this

p21 urges the integration of the ccss in to District practices in ways that honor fusion of 3rs and 4cs

It is imperative that ccss not be considered the floor

Lea key design considerations A focus on results rather than means An integrated model of literacy Research and media skills blended into the standard as a whole. Shared responsibility for students literacy development

What not covered Defined what all students are expected to know and be able to do, not to teach Focus on what ia most essential Intervention methods

Core subjects/ build strong content knowledge Critical thinking/ respond to the varying demands od audience t-/sk purpose and docs ling

Practices Use backward design principles to encourage inquiry based learning and enable embedded performance based assessments

Develop interdisciplinary performance tasks and or project based learning experiences

Create curricula embedded assessments

Collect and share exemplary student work that demonstrates mastery of college and career ready knowledge and skills

Provide meaningful opportunities for educators to collaboratively work

Specifically identity the knowledge and skills that are implied

Without direct emphasis and priotization by state and district leaders


 * Blend - not an either or**

Toolkit in available to member districts in July On web in August


 * Concurrent Session 3: Curriculum 21**


 * [|Curriculum 21]**

Form and function Learning based on the Gregorian calendar

Writing blog different than an essay

We need to expect high Quality

Babies born this year we be the class of 2031

10% of 21st century over

Children process information differently

5 socio technology trends Social production - wiki, wikipedia Social networks - where are we are meeting - every school where people should come to connect Semantic web Media grids Non- linear learning

We need to not be afraid of the tool - how do we integrate

Who owns the learning?

At the end of every standard should be "independently"

We need to upgrade curriculum

Needs to be a natural support

Need to respond to the kids you are teaching

One thing that she makes participants pledge: Can you all agree to learn something?

If you are going to be a teacher you need to be a public learner

Where do we start? Make one upgrade to a lesson

Newspaper - last nights news

used to think: Teaching and learning leads and technology follows What do we want kids to know and be able to do? ask that of the teachers - they are limited by what they know.
 * Do they?**

New literacies Digital Media global

Two tier Upgrade curriculum - right now (one thing you can do now) - starts to move

Create new versions of school vem (virtual education magnets)

Think liken anthropologist If you went to the school where you work if you looked at tests curriculum - what year are we preparing them for( most not preparing for 2025)

Things to ask: What do cut What do we keep What do we create

There are some things that are timely and need to keep

Every teacher needs a web portal Revision and replacement Bold moves to lead through the transit

New forms of schools: 21st century version: Schedule Student grouping Professional groupings Space

Why are we giving diplomas when they aren't ready?

We need to help them get work in a global every changing

We need to look at meetings - who is around the table - "Max" doesn't go to a grade level - the wrong people meet - meet vertically Everyone who teaches the child meets together

What are the basic elements in designing curriculum that need upgrading Content- skills - assessments

Digital literacy Active and steategric selections of web 2.0 to engage in research and development Research means search again Transitionaing and upgrading to new forms in our PD Critical analysis of all media forms by students

That was a decent first draft - quality

Global literacy Recognizing the relationship between places and people's Integration of active geography and the prefix geo Linking with other classrooms creating classroom portals World language instruction

We are using 21st century tools to navigate teaching and learning Abundant web resources for teachers and administrators: no excuses

Www.curriculum21.com

When things go slowly breathe

A good upgrade promotes Research Independence Quality

VocabGrabber.com

Upgrade 21st century assessments Verazzano Brooklyn new York

Concurrent session 4: Went to student sessions - talked to students from: (more to come tomorrow) [|Digispired Project] Science Leadership Academy [|Blue Bell Elementary] [|Centro Escolar Los Altos]

Concurrent session 5: [|Committed Sardine] Living on the future edge Literacy is not enough

How do we get over the yeah buts...

2 groups 8 traditional way vs. Project based Both groups did exactly the same on 8th grade test Next year didn't do as well 15%/70%

Ask Acquire Analyze Apply Assess

Listen - message verbalized Leverage Message - content. Outcome Medium audience - ability criteria

Fluency21.com

Tuesday Stephen Covey

Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in them selves

Leading in your life Being a leader for students

Leading your life We all will need new... Skilll set Toolset Mindset

Skill set and tool set=incremental change Mindset= quantum leaps

Be proactive Make life happen the way they want it

Focus on the things you can control

2 begin with the end in mind Live life in crescendo

Technology is meant to bless, not impress

Don't leave your career ladder realizing that you had your ladder against the wrong wall

3put first things first

The main thing is to keep your main things your main things

Empower students with effective mindsets based on principles

Principles are timeless, universal, self-evident

www.strengthsmovement.com/

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

21st century skills Emotional intelligence Essential 55 Brain research 7 correlates PLCs Rigor and relevance

7 habits

Helping hands - leaders Leadership, doing well in school and challenges

As a leader I know how to make everyone feel special and important

Session 6 Georgia has a law against cell phones in the classroom - have to get a waiver to get them in

Stop buying boat anchored pcs now! Direct resources to the future, not the past

Embrace handhelds Smart mp3 players Smart cell phones

Do you need to dictate os - no!

Do we need to be able support them - policy is that kids are responsible for supporting their own devices

Watch tablet devices that have windows 7 - start up time...

Cloud computing will help us if we move to mobile devices Trying to get rid of many servers as they can - cutting down costs Google, dropbox, iCloud

Role of tech support shifts to evaluation of the cloud computing

Rule: bring in device, but you need to use our infrastructure

Byto Update AUP Train teachers We don't support your device Private wifi vla Deal with problem individual - don't blanket it

Kids drive the technology School provided and or byot Robust wifi with byot vlan Level the technology playing field

Ischoolinitiative.com

Presentation Www.speak wisdom.com

Brent@speakwisdom.com

Www.edtech911.com

Should we worry about putting sensitive information out on the cloud? Think if it is something you don't want someone to get, don't put it in cloud yet recently Dropbox had zero security on their accounts

Session 8: empathy as a 21st Century Skill

Assessment is the weakest part of when we

Assess for global sensitivity (Copenhagen)

Yes video making - dynamic of the content

Root zone database Site:dk Have students get content from real people A

From the biggest bank in the world - empathy is what is needed

Solve problems that are messy

Educational system give information in the correct order

Is there any global connection in what you teach

Kindergarten teacher using Skyped with India

every classroom should be a global learning center

Tool to find people from around the world

Should have opportunitiy to build a global network

60 by60 ow.ly/1u9Vdp

Google in a bubble Eli pariser

Session 9 We should do what's right

The best educational ideas in the world High tech adventures

Www.stager.org/handout

21st century skills Need to build on the skills the kids come to us with

Need to raise our game

Any teacher who thinks they can be replaced by a computer should be Schools has always reflected the technology of the day

School is technology Technology matters

The most powerful idea of all is the power of powerful ideas - pappert

Common elements Remarkable capacity for intensity Project based learning Personal computing I am not surprised when kids do extraordinary things A belief that things need not be as they seem

Guided by Respect for each learner Authentic problems Real tools and materials Expanded opportunities Belief that learning is natural

Network is not the computer

Need device that is capable of making things

If you can make things with computers then you can make a lot more interesting things - papert

We try to things on the cheap at the expense of the students

Fab and fab labs Neil gershenfeld Personal fabrication or dye manufacturing Bricolage How to make almost anything

Making thing is better than being passive Making good things is even better

November is a national novel writing month

Learning is a result of an experience

Reggio Emilia

Good prompt is worth a 1000 words

Choice. Is between crap and craft

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas - Alan Key

Vendors:

[|Scantron]: Replacement of current system, options for more of a formative assessment use.

[|NetSmartz] - Updated internet safety curriculum

[|NBC Learn] - Video news clips/Primary news sources

[|Powerspeak] - World Language option

[|TAP-it] - Touch Accessible Platform for Interactive Technology - possible assistive technology solution

[|Overdrive] - online book library

[|Mobilebeacon] - Mobile access points

[|Spoon] - possible management solution

[|SimpleK12] - Personal Professional Development (renewal discount)

[|JAMF] - Apple Device Management

[|Doceri] - iPad projection

[|eWalk] - Walkthrough Software

[|ck12] - online free textbooks

[|Atomic Learning] - Online Professional Development

[|Smithsonian Institution/ePals] - Collaborative Classrooms

[|ctl] - Classmate PC

[|Student Jotter] - Student Portfolios