Connected+Learner

June 10 - Staff Development Center Lab 1 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM - Principals and Directors
Objectives: 1. Discuss technology center changes: work order (new system), communications, inventory & supplies. 2. Discuss how "The World is Flat" while including how this affects our students and our role as leaders. 3. Discussion on how social networking works, how it is evolving and how we can harness tools to improve student to school relationships. 4. Hands-on and discussion on the tools we can all access for constructive change in our work environments.

You will leave with a greater knowledge of social networking resources, online collaboration tools, harnessed web-searching, and instant-communication/alert tools.

You will know more about what is expected of all our learners in technology applications and how we can work together to create a better vision for technology from the district to classroom level district-wide.

Did you know 3.0?
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Did you know 4.0?
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**Social Networking**
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1. **Build your PLN - Personal (or Passionate) Learning Network**
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How do you get started or meet people?
 * [|Twitter]
 * [|Blog]
 * [|Classroom 2.0 ning]
 * [|Project Share] - online collaborative groups

Build your connections and build your classroom online. Take the [|initial step].

[|Blog post: Why Every Principal Needs a Blog] The Principal Blog The Practical Principals Blog [|Principals Point of View] Edutopia article: "10 Big Ideas of School Leadership" [|The Principals' Partnership] [| Dr. Tim Tyson] Social Media Reading List [| Support Blogging! Directory] [|Educator's PLN]

2. **Change how you connect to your community**
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**3. Define what Learner-Centered Instruction looks like in the 21st Century**
II.9. The teacher makes appropriate and effective use of available technology as part of the instructional process. Technololgy in KISD consists of computers (desktop, laptop, netbook, mini, etc.), graphing calculators, AlphaSmarts, handheld computers, InterWrite pads, probeware, distance learning, classroom response systems, GPS, digital video and still cameras, interactive whiteboards and Internet access.**
 * Domain III - Learner-Centered Instruction


 * ===** Exceeds Expectations **=== || ===**Proficient**=== || === **Below Expectations** === || === **Unsatisfactory** === ||
 * Students routinely use a variety of available technologies for knowledge construction || Students appear to be comfortable and at ease using a variety of available technologies. || Students use technology less than half the time. || Primary use of technology is by the teacher. ||
 * = ** What do we need to get to this level? ** ||= ** What do we need to get to this level? ** ||  ||   ||
 * Students determine what technology is needed and have ready access to that technology to create meaningful products and solve complex problems. || Student use of technology routinely includes any or all of the following: student-created application products, use of multiple software programs, or any use of technology where learning is deep and complex. || Student use of technology routinely includes any or all of the following: filling in a teacher-designed template for rote information, use of only one software program, or any use of technology where learning is not applied at a higher level. || Student use of technology routinely includes any or all of the following: random Internet surfing, playing online or CD non-instructional games, or "drill-and-kill" software that is not tied to instructional goals. ||
 * = ** What do we need to get to this level? ** ||= ** What do we need to get to this level? ** ||=  ||=   ||
 * Teacher uses a variety of technologies to individualize instruction. || Teacher routinely uses technology for instruction. || Teacher uses technology for instruction at least half of the time. || Teacher uses technology for instruction less than half of the time. ||
 * = ** What do we need to get to this level? ** ||= ** What do we need to get to this level? ** ||=  ||=   ||
 * Teacher actively seeks out and requests technology professional development. || Teacher takes advantage of opportunities to attend technology professional development. || Teacher has not taken advantage of opportunities to gain or use additional/new technologies for the classroom. || Teacher has not attended technology professional development beyond the minimum district requirements. ||
 * = ** What do we need to get to this level? ** ||= ** What do we need to get to this level? ** ||=  ||=   ||
 * Teacher actively seeks out and requests technology professional development. || Teacher takes advantage of opportunities to attend technology professional development. || Teacher has not taken advantage of opportunities to gain or use additional/new technologies for the classroom. || Teacher has not attended technology professional development beyond the minimum district requirements. ||
 * = ** What do we need to get to this level? ** ||= ** What do we need to get to this level? ** ||=  ||=   ||
 * = ** What do we need to get to this level? ** ||= ** What do we need to get to this level? ** ||=  ||=   ||

4. Consider making book-studies and inviting collaboration between schools and community. Use the online collaboration tools of a wiki or interactive whitespaces to draw in opinions globally.
[|A Whole New Mind] by Daniel Pink [|Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates] Us by Daniel Pink [|Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation will Change the Way the World Learns] by Clayton M. Christensen [|Presentation Zen] by Garr Reynolds Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell [|The Power of Questions - A Guide to Teacher and Student Research] by Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky [|Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age] by Clay Shirky

Book Study Dan Pink - A Whole New Mind - another Disrupting Class book study - [|ISTE], [|another] Clay Shirky - [|TEDTalk - How Mobile and Social Technologies Can Make History]

Tools for change:
[|LinkedIn] - create and manage your online professional resume [|Project Share] - TEA online collaboration tools [|Google Alerts] - monitor the web for news you need [|Delicious] - online social bookmarking [|Diigo] - online social bookmarking and annotation Podcasts - iTunes - iTunesU: Educational Leadership, Leadership, [|TEDTalks], [|Fora.TV] Data Receiving: [|Pageflakes], [|Google Reader,][| NetVibes], [|Bloglines]