The Big Picture in Ed Tech and… How to Make Yourself Virtually Indispensible

James Lerman Zest for Tech – July 10, 2012

This Goal for Student Outcomes?

Or These Goals for Student Outcomes?

Critical ThinkingCooperationCommunicationCreativityCharacter

Five 21st Century Skills

Critical Thinking

Five 21st Century Skills

Critical ThinkingCooperation

Five 21st Century Skills

Critical ThinkingCooperationCommunication

Five 21st Century Skills

Critical ThinkingCooperationCommunicationCreativity

Five 21st Century Skills

Critical ThinkingCooperationCommunicationCreativityCharacter

Five 21st Century Skills

Critical ThinkingCooperationCommunicationCreativityCharacter

Story #1

Martha Payne

Martha Payne

May 3 – First blog post with picture

May 21…500,o00+ blog hits

June 14…2,000,000+ blog hits

This morning in maths I got taken out of class by my head teacher and taken to her office. I was told that I could not take any more photos of my school dinners because of a headline in a newspaper today.

I only write my blog not newspapers and I am sad I am no longer allowed to take photos. I will miss sharing and rating my school dinners and I’ll miss seeing the dinners you send me too. I don’t think I will be able to finish raising enough money for a kitchen for Mary’s Meals either.

Goodbye,VEG

June 18…5 million+ blog hitsRaised over $150,000

The Big Picture

in 5 Slides

1. The 4th Era of Communication

Spoken

Word

Internetc.

1972

Writing

3-4000 BC

Printing

Press1440

2. The World Is Flat

3. Privatization of Public Education

4. Alone Together

5. Networks for Learning

A Remind

er

Five 21st Century Skills

Critical ThinkingCooperationCommunicationCreativityCharacter

Story #2

A Tale of Two Teachers

KATHLEEN MORRIS LINDA YOLLIS

From Two Countries

AUSTRALIA UNITED STATES

Who Became Long Distance Friends

Had Their Classes Work Hard Together for 4 Years

MRS. MORRIS’ CLASS MRS. YOLLIS’ CLASS

And Finally Met at a Tech Conference(2 Weeks Ago)

7 Steps to Make

Yourself Indispensi

ble

1. Be clear about the type of people you want your students to become

2. Everything revolves around relationships

3. Build Your PLN

4. Globalize Your Classroom

5. Build Knowledge – Create

6. Everything Begins with You

7. Make Time for Your Own Learning

Two Bonus Steps for Indispensability

-Learn how to work with video

-Learn how to teach online

Story #3

If you don’t put the big rocks in first, you will never be able to fit them in

Where to

Begin?

Take one step at a time…with a friend

Your Text Here

For Further Reference (1 of 2 pages) Martha PayneHer blog: http://neverseconds.blogspot.com/Her fundraising site: http://www.justgiving.com/neversecondsNews article and links to others about her: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/healthyeating/9347341/Martha-Payne-decides-to-end-her-school-dinners-blog.html

4 Eras of CommunicationTEDxASB – Scott McLoed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yA6oTU1emM&feature=player_embedded

The World Is Flat: Book by Thomas Friedman Privatization of Public EducationArticle: Why The US Is Destroying Its Education Systemhttp://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/11Article: The Biggest Problem with Traditional Schooling http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-biggest-problem-with-traditional-schooling/2012/06/12/gJQAhMqlYV_blog.html#pagebreak Alone TogetherArticle: Continuous Partial Attentionhttp://lindastone.net/qa/continuous-partial-attention/Article: “Alone Together”: An MIT Professor’s New Book Urges Us to Unplughttp://www.fastcocreate.com/1679046/alone-together-an-mit-professors-new-book-urges-us-to-unplug A Tale of Two Teachershttp://yollismorrisblogging.edublogs.org/ 

For Further Reference (2 of 2 pages)

Build PLNCreating a PLN with Web 2.0 Toolshttps://sites.google.com/site/buildingapln/How to Build a PLN – Free Technology for Teachershttp://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/08/how-to-build-pln.htmlCreating a PLN (step-by-step directions)http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/challenges-2/creating-a-pln/ Globalize Your ClassroomGlobal Collaboration Projects I’ve Joined – Linda Yollishttp://educationalblogging.wikispaces.com/Collaborative+Projects+I%27ve+JoinedConnecting with Other Classes Through Blogging – Kathleen Morrishttp://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/05/07/connecting-with-other-classes-through-blogging/Webinar on Global Collaboration and Blogging – Kathleen Morris interviewed by Linda Yollisbit.ly/globalbloggingGlobal Education Conference Network - Lucy Grayhttp://www.globaleducationconference.com/profile/elemenousiEARN – learning with the world, not just about it…http://www.iearn.org/ Build Knowledge - CreateProject Based Learning for the 21st Centuryhttp://www.bie.org/index.php/site/PBL/web_resources/#Project Based Learning – Edutopiahttp://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learningNew Learning Institutehttp://www.newlearninginstitute.org/

Image sources in order of appearanceChainhttp://zproxy.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/be-indispensable-by-building-relationships-and-trust/ Martha Payne - http://www.topnews.in/people/martha-payne First lunchhttp://neverseconds.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_archive.html Second lunchhttp://neverseconds.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_archive.html Malawi Kitchen - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18484437 Flat Worldhttp://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2011/4/17/bftp-a-letter-from-the-flat-world-library-corporation.html school for salehttp://www.fox21online.com/content/marshall-seniors-put-school-sale Alone together – Khoi Vinhhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/khoi/5540665145/in/faves-swatt/

Two TeachersKathleen Morrishttp://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/veea/2012winners/primaryteacheraward.htm Linda Yollishttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UAPGj_NRtWM/T9bAWHjJzqI/AAAAAAAAHVM/Xcr9gA6vYNo/s400/Screen+Shot+2012-06-11+at+5.57.08+PM.png Australiahttps://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en United Stateshttps://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en Long distance friendshttp://impressions.alivealwayz.com/2011/11/21/long-distance-relationship/ Yollis Classhttp://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/p/meet-bloggers.html Morris Classhttp://4kmand4kj.global2.vic.edu.au/about/about-our-students/ 

Yollis-Morrishttp://www.flickr.com/photos/71779797@N05/7469851816/in/set-72157630349539796 kids with visionhttp://www.handfulplayers.org/vision.html relationshipshttp://thehypnotherapyteam.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/relationships.jpg PLNhttp://divergentlearner.com/blog/?p=398 globalize your classroomhttp://langwitches.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/connect-globally.jpg build knowledgehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xfP53Alnbhk#! 

uncle samhttp://voleheart-skytex.blogspot.com/2012/06/gaming-laptop-or-ultrabook-you-decide.html clockhttp://endlessfalling.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/a-funeral-sermon-what-time-is-it/ big empty jarhttp://bagoverflow.wordpress.com/category/shared-topic/ jar of rockshttp://mettacenter.blogspot.com/ rock stackhttp://www.pkmeco.com/familyblog/2007/08/zen-rocks.html Footstepshttp://www.redbubble.com/people/tlowe2/works/376943-footprints-in-the-sand