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Leading Schools with Digital Vision in a Bubblesheet World

Much of the world has gone digital, so must learning at school. Creativity is vital, and good leadership matters. Stagnant, accomodation-level technology integration makes technology investments in our schools a waste of money. School leaders can and should encourage teachers to use digital learning tools in transformative ways to open new doors of opportunity for students as well as parents. By focusing on creating, communicating / sharing, and collaborating, principals can help develop a shared instructional vocabularly with teachers which is focused on student engagement. Without creation, there can be no creativity. How will you let your students create? How will you give students choices? How will your students teach the curriculum? These are essential questions to ask together with teachers, as we seek to effectively (and legally) "talk with media / pictures" and leverage the constructive power of digital media tools for learning inside and outside the classroom.

These are links and referenced resources from my June 15, 2010, presentation for Northeast ISD in San Antonio, Texas. Slides from my keynote presentation are available on SlideShare.net. Also be sure to check out Honor Moorman's excellent notes / live blog post of this session. (She included several video links too!)

During our timed discussions, we're using this free, fullscreen online stopwatch.

I. Introduction

Welcome to the Future by Brad Paisley (YouTube)



II. Key Messages

World has gone digital: So must learning @ school

Reputation Management and Social Media (new PEW research on digital footprints - 26 May 2010)

Turn pair and share
We Need Digital Sandboxes



Good Leadership Matters
- must model and be instructional leader

Creativity

Don't waste tech $$$



High quality learning is differentiated

  • don't buy the scope and sequence lie (quality education means everyone on the same page on the same day everywhere)

Engage don't enthrall

  • root of enthrall: SLAVE
  • Strive to engage students with authentic learning tasks


III. Key Tools


  • Co-founder's goal: Help 60+ year old parents share text, photos, videos online easily
  • My parents' posterous blog
  • My posterous (can cross-post to other places too!)
  • You can email? You can share with Posterous
  • Send an email to post@posterous.com
Classroom Web Portals
Copyright Friendly Images


IV. Key Skills

Shared vocabulary of instructional expectations

  • Create
  • Communicate / Share
  • Collaborate

Create with Media


Ask: (the 3 Hows)

  1. How will you let your students create?
  2. How will you give students choices?
  3. How will your students teach the curriculum?

Ask for help

  1. You can't know it all: admit it!
  2. Build your PLN: personal learning network of experts
  3. Administrative exemplars:
    1. Chris Lehman, SLA
    2. Melinda Miller, Elementary principal in Missouri
    3. Miguel Guhlin, San Antonio ISD instructional technology (share more wiki)
    4. Jim Lerman


Blend PD


Engage don't enthrall


Image Webliography:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21400340@N05/2909834143/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jnxyz/797603520/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninja999/2132000773/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78415063@N00/3892476332/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kgregory/2428593181/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48089670@N00/175661429/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/84493444@N00/2462794123/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37445448@N03/3615077273/

(All Flickr Creative Commons-licensed images were found with Compfight)

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