future ready? stop waiting for what the tech will do

future ready?

#futureready Summit - Denver 2015

stop waiting for what the tech will do

Bud Hunthttp://budhunt.com/

Walter

name that device

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1939

tl:dr

“Despite all the cultural and technological changes in the types of texts we are able to produce and consume, and the revolutionary predictions we have made, not much has really changed in the teaching of English over the past 100 years.”

- Hicks, Hunt, Kajder & Young, 2012

tl:dr

but they usually stay that way . . .

By English: Lorenz Helmschmied, Augsburg. (Photograph by Sandstein) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

habits

agency

interfaces

culture

habits

•routines of behavior that (tend to) happen

unconsciously

•developed through repetition

•acquired over time

digital learning collaborative

agency

•the capability of an

autonomous entity to act by

itself

agency?

lenses for learning

make hack play

culture

•the shared knowledge and

values of an organization

your people can’t act on your vision if they don’t know

what it is.

interfaces

•shared boundaries where 2 parties exchange

information

•one-way

•two-way

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

~John Dewey

what kind of society do you have in mind?

what kind of schools do you have in mind?

what kind of future do you have in mind?

platform

•environment

•constraints

•facilities

what’s all this technology for?

online vs. offline

digital vs. paper

cursive vs. typed

public vs. private

new vs. old

sage vs. guide

open vs. closed

textbook vs. website

sharks vs. jets

us vs. them

digital vs. analog

vs.

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let’s think in analog

habits

agency

cultures

interfaces

what habits do you want to promote in your learners?

how are you helping your learners develop their

agency?

what are the cultures that support your vision for learners and learning?

what interfaces are you building/developing to

help with habits, agency, and culture?

how are you modeling and living within the

constraints you build for others?

“Stop waiting for the technology of tomorrow to compel you to do the work of today.”

- Hicks, Hunt, Kajder & Young, 2012

Bud Hunt IT & Tech Services ManagerClearview Library District

@budtheteacherbud@clearviewlibrary.orghttp://budtheteacher.com

future? ready.