Young people are readers. they read more than their older counterparts

7.5 hours of media per day, (10 hours within this 7.5 due to multi-tasking.)

Gaming surpassed the movie industry in revenue, average age of gamers is 30.

100 texts per day for girls, 50 for boys.

Culture clash between institution of learning where knowledge was scarce and

today's reality of readily available information.

She believes Tech is making kids smarter and dumber at the same time.

Interest-driven learning. Seeking out others who share a similar passion

(research genius hour or 20% project)

Intergenerational communities, learning-oriented peer learning.

"For some kids, whose interests are not well represented, the online world is an identity space they can identify with."

They can find a like-minded concentration of those with similar passion and interests.

(What about the kids who aren't passionate about anything?)

Interests, Peer Culture, and Academics are the three circles that have to overlap in order to engage students. (Achieve MacArthur)

Privilege can foster this (specialized camps) but the internet can be a great equalizer.

Khan academy reachtion "We were promised jetpacks and we got lectures."

Q and A forums are underappreciated. Power of peer networks.

Badges for connected learning. S.T.E.A.M. badge. Personalized learning

eSports is a huge movement... high school and collegiate communities.

Base of passionate interest that is shared.

Build connected maker spaces.

At the end of each unit everyone has a big making activity.

Notability 

Sketch notes - good for JS, see PDF at bottom of URL above, open in notability

Use buddy system to teach kids how to learn workflows v. demoing

Chrome Extension - ShortenMe (short urls and QR codes)

Padlet

Socrative - poll, after poll discuss, then vote

Kahoot - really fun, so he says

Flip board- iPad news aggregator 

Flip books- public books, can see/follow, what others are posting, can be collaborative

Feb 1 at Hopkins isummit

Haiku Deck - puts pics before words, web editor, 1:1 pics to text

Educreations  v Explain Everything:  EE allows you to start and stop, 

more user friendly, video/audio record on whiteboard, can add stills

SideBySide - split screen for two websites, ie highlight searches (tiananmen square: cn)

Vygotsky link: memes (sp?), student work with caption, other applications 

Use pic collage to make and share on padlet 

You Tube Capture - micro editing and music

Made better by kindred souls

Meaning making

Educational Innovation

Josh Davis

4 conditions

Educational Innovation

Josh Davis

Elena Aguilar (2011) 4 conditions necessary for instructional coaching to work

1.) School Culture - A culture where reflective practice is OK.

2.) Structures for collaboration (open time for meeting. Collab. planning time,

3.) the principle's view of coaching

4.) Professional development for coaches

Instructional Coaching (It's all about relationships. (Andy's Wisdom)

"Coaching Heavy or Light" article

How are agents of change supported in your district?

Communication/Collaboration/Coaching/"Constructivist approach"

Does change only go through Brenda? Can it only be fostered through Brenda.

2012 - 39% of teachers nationally are very satisfied.

Check out Reversal Trailers "The Sound of Music"

Diana Laufenberg (2013)

Practices of Resilient leaders

1.) Engage in personal renewal

2.) Choose your words carefully

3.) Stay optimistic

4.) quickly blunt the impact of setbacks

5.) cultivate networks before challenges hit-delegate-collective learning

6.) see patterns - and use insights for change

#eduwins - share the educational victories in your day

Andy Wisdoms - "Listen, Learn, Lead".

Gabe Zickerman - Gaming/rewards focused

SAPS - Status, Access, Power, and Stuff

Lower Taxonomy stuff from a given text and create taboo cards.

The winning side gets to sign up for speech order first.

Choose your own adventure book.

Improv in the classroom - 2nd city theatre book. Recommended tool.

6-word bios (Powtoons could work for this.)

Using todaysmeet during

Videoant - (U of M) allows commenting while the video is playing.

VideoNotes (works with google apps education)

Get out of the "Gotcha" checks and into Just In Time exercises.

Blendspace

Research Wordsift.com

Every kid should be able to be googled with positive results

Start with vision

See Dream video

Instead of talking about testing, talk about kids achieving their dreams

Bit.ly.fg-aup AUP

Kid portfolio from k through 12

Google chrome video kid growing up

Dear Sophia lee

!!!!Opened an email account for his daughter and emailed her her life... She opened it when she was 13!!!! BUCKET LIST NOW

#ptchat parents advocating for kids' digital presence

Send parents to TIES

"The Talk": "Boys, when I hire someone, do you know what I do?" See blog

Video newsletter with kids: find a few parents who will be in support.... Start with them

Create learning opportunities

@patrickmlarkin

Parent tech night: parenting in the digital age

Every school or every district should have a hashtag. All need to participate. Have sign in entryway. Encourage parents to tweet too.

Principal shared teacher letters with parents via blog

Don't use 2.0 in 1.0 way

184 days of learning

All can add to: parents, custodians, teachers, etc

Peter Reynolds story.... responding to tweet

If you use with parents and teachers what you use with students....

All hands on deck change.... Everyone who cares digs in, not bottom up or top down

Aim higher than "don't be a bully" - most kids would never do that... Give them something that they can use

Image editing examples: man with mother' mom with baby who died of leukemia

Publish publish publish

Cafeteria blog example: 9 year old from Scotland

FB page to say positive things about kids

How do we get our kids doing these things?Use these examples as jumping off points

Example of challenging kid who turned around because of opp to do good publicly

Parents need to support opps

Parents and teacher together is two times support for kids.... Untapped resource

Security cameras around world video

Lets look at the world a little differently video

Use cams as happy cams and share with parents

What will you help make viral?

Follow terms of service for all tools. Can use teach accounts.

Twitter to storify