hans rosling

 tedxchange

Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news: We're winning the war against child mortality. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories.



measuring makes the diff from a political talk and making change happen

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Stacey Kramer

wow. everyone watch this. notice every word. live it. for Stacey... she's sharing it so we quit missing things.



huge huge grazie Stacey Kramer.. for sharing your priceless gift with us.

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sylvia martinez

Sylvia Martinez is President of Generation YES, evangelizing student involvement in education reform through technology integration and service learning.

Prior to joining Generation YES, Sylvia oversaw product development, design and programming for consumer software, console games, and educational games at several software publishing companies.  Sylvia started her career designing high frequency receiver systems and navigation software for GPS satellites.

She holds a Master's in Educational Technology from Pepperdine, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from UCLA.


what helps people to get to this point... philosophical...
there's a lot of status quo in pd - we need to question are practices... constant challenging is a philosophy needed

school is the most locally driven thing there is...

can't have autonomous students w/o autonomous teachers

we give power away.....
you can't have people solving your problems for you


"Assessment is worthless if it doesn't help, first and foremost, the person being assessed."

what's the bigger waste of time - the thing that takes longer and works or the thing that is easy and doesn't work
schools that are successful always question - does it work

demo and demarko
any campus - teachers 8%, students 92%

citizenship - a two way street
digital citizenship - can't be about teaching rules,,, means stepping up and taking responsibility
nancy willard - like teaching kids to swim without a swimming pool

Check out what is going on with other student technology projects, CREATE for Mississippi, The Mouse Squad, SWAT ( Students Working To Advance Technology, Urban Technology Project, the START project, (Service and Technology Academic Resource Team) That Corporation for National and Community Service, and Microsoft Partners in Learning


Steve Taffee - Castilleja School: yes. There could be threaads in ISTE and other national conferences on women in tech

http://rushkoff.com/
I heard Doug Rushkoff speak at the Celebration of Teaching and Learning in NYC on March 5, 2010 - panel discussion on the PBS documentary Digital Nation.

scratch.mit.edu
programming language for kids - graphic
scratch is like programming with legos!'
 http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Support/Scratch_Cards
are there things in tech where you are the unintentional roadblock

d Jones: Sylvia, Ohio has a new law to give credit for extra activities. What about other states?
community service credit
new hampshire - mandatory electives, mandatory choice...
love it.
kieran egan
roger shank

top of sylvia's list for change:
local control

she thinks they are out there - just not getting a lot of publicity

 how do we tell these stories so the people start hearing them...

create a series of local events that created that conversation in the community
anyone have that documented.... what steps to take
future search model
bernadine porter - certified future search leader

focus - getting people in the room
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karl fisch

Karl on huffington post.. 




What should

 




student 
know and be able to do?

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from Dean's keynote - sharing
unis through studies
organizations through reports
people through stories


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david logan

ted talk 2009: tribal leadership

At TEDxUSC, David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans naturally form -- in schools, workplaces, even the driver's license bureau. By understanding our shared tribal tendencies, we can help lead each other to become better individuals.

David Logan is a USC faculty member, best-selling author, and management consultant

great tribal leaders 

find someone from 

one tribe and 

someone from 

another tribe and 

make introductions

if you can find a way to take the tribes you are in and nudge them forward - 5 stages
stage one: life sucks
gangs & prisons (as members of society we need to deal with stage one - not just write people off) systematically pull themselves away from functional tribes    - as people see the world so  they behave
stage two: my live sucks
(how can people be so dumb and yet live) - the culture makes people dumb - standing in long lines at dmv, what kind of world-changing behavior happens
state three: i'm great
(and you're not) where most of us stay, we find these in places where really smart people show up, the greatest challenge we face in innovation, moving from stage 3 to stage 4
stage four: we're great
zappos values things like fun and creativity,, one of their mantras - be a little bit weird, when people come together for something bigger than themselves
stage five: life is great
people came together only for truth and reconciliation

declaration of independence - most is written in stage 2
martin luther king's greatest line was in stage 3
2% stage 1
25% stage 2
48% stage 3
22% stage 4
2% stage 5 - and those are the ones that change the world

leaders need to talk at all the levels - but need to not leave them there.. tribe members can only hear one level above and one level below

leaders nudge people in their tribes to the next level

moving state 3 to stage 4 is ted - find someone you don't know and someone else you don't know and introduce them. people who build word changing tribes connect like that

stage 4 to stage 5 - gallop polls
were bored so asked - what does the entire world think... how do we survey places where we don't speak other languages... 1st ever world poll

we all form tribes
what kind of an impact are the tribes that you are in making?
listen for how people actually communicate in the tribes you are in ...
will your tribes change the world.

via @Steptul
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notice DREAM connect do

we are imagining a place like this to *house an ecosystem of the mesh happening in our community.

a place for local entrepreneurs and expert tutors to spend their days with young people, facilitating their dreams.

what if loveland became the town where we didn't just react, we listened to stories..

and unleashed the incredible potential in each one of us...

what if school became the place where we didn't just react, we listened to stories...

and unleashed the incredible potential in each one of us...

what if life becomes school...

what if school becomes life....

*house - not home - home is already happening with many teachers and students in our district and across the globe. we hope to build a cohesive structure to scale that out and remove current roadblocks and time zappers, such as standardized tests, etc.

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seth godin

permission... to be you.

i love it.
imagine if every kid could hear and believe this...
if ed could be about this....
.... of course they're going to do 
something that matters.

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ivana sendecka

what a dear you are
(take a listen to her live message)

i have learned what it means to give.
i used to be busy... passing through days to be closer to a pay check.
now i'm not busy - i am in love..


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more intentional eavesdropping

and it got me here:
the more people are tempted 
to click away from your content, 
the more they want to keep 
coming back.

and i'm thinking - that's how school should be.
we should be about making kids hungry to learn more.
and we do that by letting them go.
(here comes cake again.. let me go and i will love you more.)
i love it.

so - here's where i started:
bud hunt
then i linked here

which reminded me of this (will they come back from that?)
and this (are we facilitating ways to filter) and this


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danah boyd

streams of content - limited attention:

Broadcast media structures (schools) take one critical thing for granted:

There is an assumption that everyone will tune in and give their attention to the broadcast entity. Yet that has never been true.
With the barriers to distribution collapsing, what matters is not the act of distribution, but the act of consumption. Thus,
the power 
is no longer in the hands of those 
who control the channels of distribution; 
the power is now in the hands of those 
who control the limited resource of attention.
This is precisely why Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2006 was "You."  
Your attention is precious and valuable. It's no longer about push; it's about pull.
And the "Law of Two Feet" is now culturally pervasive.

{isn't this what people are calling web 3.0}

Being in flow with information is not about being interrupted
Switching from a model of distribution to a model of attention is disruptive, but it is not inherently
democratizing.
At the most basic level, consider the role of language. People will pay attention to content that is in their own language, even if they can get access to content in any language. (global voices, zuckerman, translating tweets and wikipedia in other languages)

stimulation.

If we're not careful, we're going to develop the psychological equivalent of obesity.
We're addicted to gossip - what's the alcohol

homophily.

In an era of networked media, we need to recognize that networks are homophilous and operate accordingly. (and now zuckerman)

power.

We found that reasonable people disagreed about which accreditation method was best.

making it work:
we have yet to find the digital equivalent of alcohol.
Figuring out how to monetize sociality is a problem, and it's not one that's new to the Internet. Think about how we monetize sociality in physical spaces. The most common model involves second-order consumption of calories. Venues provide a space for social interaction to occur, and we are expected to consume to pay rent. Restaurants, bars, cafes—they all survive on this model. But we have yet to find the digital equivalent of alcohol.

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isn't  - transparency - the new currency?..
and through authentic and non agenda driven transparency -  
s h a r i n g occurs.

bring on the mesh... let's drink it up.



danah will be embedded in my mind forever for a comment i was lucky enough to hear a year or two ago - that she focuses on going where the clusters are - and figuring out why they're clustering..
i've been listening to and watching people (mostly kids) for several years now... trying to do that. trying to notice things. things that matter.
i realize this sounds utopian, but i do believe we are primed for sharing - people are craving a simpler more honest time.
and the gang who is now gradeschool through college - seems to have that as second nature. the ways they display it (in a system with so many rules sharing has no air to breathe) tend to manifest in atypical ways. but when you take the time to listen to their story... a lot of what we see and interpret incorrectly is a defense mechanism they have built up.
in fact - from my perspective - (one that is earnestly seeking out those global voices) - i'm blown away by what kids put up with today... in a relatively respectable manner.

if we could unleash this in public school. take away those suffocating rules.. ed could be the vehicle to social change.
and like - overnight even... because so many are primed... and because networking can. that fast.




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mesh

reading lisa gansky's mesh.

perhaps we are moving into an era when feeling secure and happy will be uncoupled from what we individually own.

used to be that autonomy and excess was our status
now perhaps civic behavior and community is coming aback around...

oh yay.

p. 71ish.

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story

currently, i'm seeing less and less value in blame, judgement, labels, rules, reward, ..
(and while i read that over and think.. no duh... that is where we spend most of our time and energy)
so what if we shifted our mindset (and our actions) and started believing that these are all just info. bits of info. info out of context.
so yes - notice them, use them... most of them are habit now in most of us - so they won't be hard to notice.
but let's start using them only as info, rather than defense or security or whatever...

if they're info...we should be seeking the context - right? 
the story. 
if we spend more time noticing, seeking out, being mindful of - stories - i believe we will be the change our souls are seeking.

what if - loveland became the town that no longer reacted, but listened to stories.
what if - colorado became the state that no longer reacted, but listened to stories.
what if - the us, ....the world became the place where no one simply reacted, but we listened to stories.

funny - (at least as i see it in my head just now) the time we're in isn't a simple spiral cycle .. it's not like if we wait - it will come back around. because the benefits and opportunities we face now - are the result of one large spiral from thousands of years ago... when people listened to stories.

we have come full cycle... through building a lot of cool things, learning a lot of cool facts, getting a lot of cool stuff.
so much that we're finding out - what that got us was,
... lots of cool things and facts...
and what we've left behind is
... people and stories.
(this is a generalization and extreme - i know there are many people out there that this doesn't apply to - they teach me daily- i need detox as much as anyone.)

Jesse (at dm&l meeting) spoke of how the calculator freed us up from the details of math to get to the matters of math. much the same is happening today in regard to learning.
community is indeed the curriculum.
people and stories.

in one of Seth Godin's interviews... at the end he's asked... so what's next.
and he replies...
now is next. this is next.

so let's do it.
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patrick larkin

great interview of @bhsprincipal by @shellterrell

love the nclb....

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noam kostucki

it's not how good you are but how good you want to be:


bravo @noamkos
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reggio inspired

 the garlanded classroom

The room was filled with evidence of another key element of a Reggio- inspired education: extensive displays of the children's work and descriptions of that work in the children's own words. There were butterflies made of paper and caterpillars made of wool. A little girl named Caroline had written, ''I made a ring space bracelet.''

The Reggio approach places heavy emphasis on documentation.

'In education, there is often a problem that teachers focus on what they like to teach and they are not focusing on what the children like learning,'' said Dr. Spinelli, who has been the school's director for 24 years. ''When you document their learning, you know where their thinking is.''


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the personalized high school

18% getting a degree for what is 32% of job market
32% of workforce has a ba or higher
number of reasons to redesign hs - not many are heading to college
steve: this tells me now how finland does it
8 practionars telling a bout a diff way of learning
idea was to allow innovative educators tell their story

advisor for each kid
personal learning plans
career like explorations, imagining life beyond high school
2) making learning personal
changing practices:
project based learning - go deep into something they're passionate about
ch 4: school diane likes - influence of hope and optimism on outcomes/future
piece of assessment - catherin delora - previous principal of school in ny

Moderator (Joe DiMartino): No other country awards credit based on the amount of time spent in class

linda nathan in boston  - create prof learning culture
create plc's

final chapter - jeff parkhurst - front range ... in denver - big picture school - whole met model - learning through internships

jackiegerstein: Chucagh Alaska School district also did an amazing job revamping their whole district - from scratch bringing teachers, parents, community members together to develop the system remarkable results - http://www.chugachschools.com/

50-60 big picture schools than maybe 100's others that have decided to personalize learning
but not 1000's out of about 20000 high schools
joedimartino@cssr.us

intentionally asked teachers to tell stories of how to
granger 400 students, 90% poverty, high crime rate, murder in the school
wanted to divide out the trouble makers to he divided the kids into groups of 18 - teacher met with them 4 times a week for 30 min... creating career plan, twice a year - a student led conference - student presented their career plan to parents. most hs's have fewer than 10% of parents come in
after one year - 100% of parents came in

Moderator (Denise Wolk 2): It is easy to think about what's going on with adults, but when we focus on students and their interests and needs, learning can be powerful

he said could do this 20 to 1 in any size school.
so every student can relate to one adult

it's about getting to know students
shift from direct instructor to facilitator

relationship building is cool

http://www.slideshare.net/GerryC/personal-learning-plan-template

Personal Learning Plan Template

View more presentations from GerryC.

for making advisories: http://www.alliance.brown.edu/pubs/changing_systems/power_of_advisories/
not all are charters in this book

short attention span theatre - we need to slow down - think about our kids - take the best of all these great ideas

if joe were in charge he would change to performance assessment
students do things in their interest - and present it to a critical panel
if denise were - supporting educators to make those changes

her son graduated hs with 4 certificates in welding..

end of each chapter - list of resources
For more information you can also contact me: dwolk@esrnational.org or Joe at joedimartino@cssr.us
national school of secondary principals
www.essentialschools.org
hs showcases
www.cceo.us
www.principals.org - NASSP
http://www.ascd.org/about-ascd.aspx
http://www.vlacs.org/
Moderator (Denise Wolk 2): Educators for Social Responsibility www.esrnational.org
Moderator (Denise Wolk 2): Center for Secondary School Redesign www.cssr.us

no correlation between 

success on ap and 

success in college

but correlation between 

success on ap and 

admission to college

personalized school practice

p. 50
harder than changing the structure is changing the culture
the culture should be focused on the students

finland - not tested as much as our kids more focus on depth less on coverage

and - this from ivanasendecka earlier today: http://bit.ly/a9Hphi  what say you ,Mon on @LETSREDU  ?
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tech integration grid

working on this... help if you can.. share if you like.

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dan gilbert

Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.



one of his slides:

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what if

today/this project/this year
is your last one...

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passion

where it can lead.. how to facilitate it...
crisitan
miriti
jim connecting them... can't wait to see what happens..

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