- "This is something"
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Biases
- Easier than we make it -- just progressive education with 21st century tools
- Job is not to create the 21st century workforce -- it's to create the 21st century citizen
- Education is the cornerstone of the American democratic experiement
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Dangerous Times
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stop thinking that
- Schools need to be just like busines
- Child's success can be boiled down to one test score
- All we need to do is create the perfect assessment metric
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How do we have so many passional dedicated educators, and yet so many problems in our schools?
- Union Teacher has become the demon of conservatives
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The system is broken
- You put a good person in a bad system, the system always wins
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It's weird that
- When our students can do more than ever before
- we are measuring their learning in the oldest way possible
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Data Drive Decision Making
- Good data is expensive
- Poor data will lead to poor decisions
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We have somehow lost our own language
- No one can hold us as accountable
- As we are holding ourselves responsible
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What are we measuring?
- Education?
- Training?
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Our biggest problem
- Not the law
- Not the tests
- It's a lack of vision
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It's a lack of humility
- We don't know education
- Our task is enormous
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We're way to a-historical
- Shouldn't we all know that the science curriculum is in alphabetical order?
- Quote from Angelo Patri -- A School Master of the Great City
- "What's good?" is better than "What's new?"
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Why do we talk about differentiated instruction but not differentiate schools
- Interesting Paradox
- Differentiated instruction
- Pacing Guides
- If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play -- John Cleese
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Technology
- Kids have it & they use it well
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Abuse?
- Yes!
- But no more than in schools that ban it.
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Toffler quote about Literacy
- Sliderule
- Were there math teachers who resisted giving them up?
- Lehmann resisted giving up the teaching of HTML
- What are our sacred cows?
- If we teach today's student as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow -- John Dewy
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There is no one silver bullet
- No one thing is going to save education
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Vision
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SLA
- Inquiry
- Research
- Collaboration
- Presentation
- Reflection
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Gates Foundation
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Rigor
- (undefined)
- Relevance
- Relationships
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Coalition of Essential Schools
- Ted Sciser & Debbie Meyers
- Learning to use one's mind well
- Less is More, Depth over Coverage
- Goas apply to all students
- Personalization
- Student-as-worker, teacher-as-coach
- Demonstration of mastery
- A tone of decency and trust
- Commitment to the entire school
- Resources dedicated to teaching and learning
- Democracy and equity
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High Tech High
- Personalization
- Adult World Connection
- Common Intellectual Mission
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Christian Long's Learning Manifesto
- "Playing Small Does Not Serve the World."
- What would socrates do?
- Nobody cares if you walked up hill both ways barefoot in the snow
- Got Passion? If not, i'll tell you what to care about.
- My memory is only as big as my heart. Otherwise, I'll stick with Google
- Look it Up or Die.
- Collaboration ain't about holding hands. it's about going cool places fast.
- This will go down on your permanent record.
- It ain't about the technology, It's about being inside the story.
- Nobody knows the answer. Get comfy with the questions.
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SLA
- Thoughtful
- Wise
- Passionate
- Kind
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If you say it, you should be able to point to the systems that do it...
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SLA
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Teach kids, not subjects
- Don't teach English -- I teach kids English!
- Words are all we've got
- Advisors
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Inquiry-driven
- Most important things are the questions we ask
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School is student-centered
- Advisor
- Student senior teachers
- Teacher-mentored
- Community-based
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Collaborative
- My ideas are better because the interact with yours
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Passionate
- It has to matter
- What if high school wasn't preperation of real life, what if it was real life
- Integrated
- Meta-Cognitive
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Authentic
- assessment should be authentic and transparent
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Projects
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There is a difference between
- Project-based learning
- Doing projects along the way to the test
- The work of the child is the most important work that is done -- not the test
- If you give a project and you got back thirty of the same thing, then it wasn't a project it was a recipe
- We have to give up the idea that we can measure everything that our students learn
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Technology
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Ubiquitous
- 1:1
- Transparent
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You don't talk about the laptops
- Unless it's broken
- Invited not banned
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When the printing press was invented...
- You didn't have a Europe plus books
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You had a whole new Europe!
- Technology shouldn't be added
- It should be transformative
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Used to...
- Research
- Collaborate
- Create
- Present
- Network
- Evaluate
- Don't over classify the tools
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Transparent
- Should be publishing their work
- Not just their finished best work
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What is the role of the teacher in the age of Google?
- We teach Wisdom