No Excuse

I will be adding my notes for the ISTE Conference - but I've been sidetracked with other things. In the meantime

You didn't get funded to go to a conference? This is not an excuse for missing PD opportunities.

Watch the keynotes from the November Learning 2010 Conference
You can watch this year's keynotes live.

From ISTE 2011
Watch John Medina's Keynote
Watch Chris Lehmann's closing keynote

or go to TED talks
Here is a sampling from the education talks

More to come...

Here Comes Learning: Will Richardson Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

Will Richardson / Sheryl Nussbaum Beach

Session Info

Will Richardson shared a video of a child trying to start a fire with a bow drill he made

What was interesting is that the child

• understands how to use the internet – gets help - asks for help
  
• doesn't show face or name, username is anonymous
• he got a lot of responses

How did he know he would get a response?
How did people find him?
Learn with and from other people

He understands connecting and community

Sheryl -spoke about telementoring

learning from the wisdom of the crowd
pre-service teachers – set up virtual learning community (she used tapped-in)

• from her own PLN – brought them in as mentors
• ENDAPT

wasn't mentorship as she thought – thought mentors would be knowledge givers, but it became a learning community – masters to masters, novices to masters, masters to novices, novices to novices

It's not about the tools – it's about the learning – but need an understanding of the tools
- how to change delivery of instruction to make use of what the tools have to offer
- greatest insight – urgency for change – kind of PD should be around managing change

what needs to change?

Will – if you are not feeling challenged as an educator you are not paying attention.
He quoted Shirkey – the ability we have right now is to form groups

We can form groups around our passions

• a tectonic shift
• use technology for collective action (e.g. Iran)

kids are using the technologies – but in reality – using in ways to socialize

• friendship
• interest based (like the bowdrill video)
• millions of potential teachers for our kids – and kids are doing this without us
• no adults teaching them how to use these technologies as contexts for learning in this world
• need to be learners in these contexts – teachers need to take time to immerse themselves in these kinds of environments

Sheryl

• help children to learn via their interests
• teachers become co-learners (and will learn as much or more than the learners)
• PD in 21^st century needs to operate from connecting and collaborating
• there are pockets of innovation – want to see better scalability
• job embedded learning works
• Teachers need to share from their expertise (out of diversity true innovation comes)
• Linda Darling Hammond – we need to be learning collaboratively and on the job
• need – no administrator left behind – they don't get pd – should be with teachers – learn together or with other administrators and superintendants
• if you want best practice in PD – a team approach that meets several times / week
• NSDC – teams
• working in community – co-created content
• The process of social learning that occurs when people who have a common interest in some subject or problem collaborate over an extended period of time to share ideas....
• communities of practice – one of top ten jobs will be community instigator or community leader
• social communities of practice – need to be designed so they evolve over time
• what develops is co-created and collaborative with multiple opportunities for member feedback and ownership
• The Scaling Framework (microsoft)
• plp (personal learning portal) delivery model

Build in Workshops Webinars Virtual Learning Community

- become professional learning teams
- secret ingredient (build it on professional learning teams)
- champion building model

powerful learning practice

seek out schools willing to invest some time in exploring the challenge of 21^st century