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Keynote Presentation for Tech & Learning Tech Forum in Austin, TX, November 4, 2011.

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What

MATTERS NOW

Dean ShareskiTech Forum

Austin, TXNov. 4, 2011http://www.flickr.com/photos/sukanto_debnath/2354615165

Photo by Darren Draper

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MINUTIA

MINUTIAEating ribs at Target Field

WHY I TEXAS

What are you doingto intentionally build trust and social capital in your place of work?

ATTENTION

http://www.flickr.com/photos/markhillary/370268513

“It isn’t that they can’t pay attention; they just choose not to.” Mark Prensky

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68187942@N00/3287986172/

Abundance Scarcity

information

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22539747@N06/3447814831/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68187942@N00/3287986172/

Abundance Scarcity

information attention

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22539747@N06/3447814831/

1,3961,396

Thinking Time

Thinking Spaces

“Life is Being Lived There”

What are you doingpersonally to manage your attention?What routines and patterns could be changed to see the world differently?

CITIZENSHIP

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Civil Discourse

Civil Discourse

Civil Discourse

Civil Discourse

http://www.flickr.com/photos/commissariat/21591176

“Young People Have a Remarkable Capacity

for Intensity”http://www.flickr.com/photos/delphwynd/5220226613

Gary Stager

If civil discourse matters, what does it look like online?How are you modeling citizenship?

JOY

http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn

http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

"Why are our schools not places

of joy?"

Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn

http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

"Why are our schools not places

of joy?"

Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn

http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

"Why are our schools not places

of joy?"

Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn

http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn

http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

I’m appearing to accept an odious premise—namely, that joy must be justified as a means to the end of better academic performance. Not so:

It’s an end in itself.

With regards to creating a video like that do you:

With regards to creating a video like that do you:A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address some curricular outcomes but you might have to look them up later. Fingers crossed.

With regards to creating a video like that do you:A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address some curricular outcomes but you might have to look them up later. Fingers crossed.

B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful things with students is important.

With regards to creating a video like that do you:A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address some curricular outcomes but you might have to look them up later. Fingers crossed.

B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful things with students is important.

C. Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity because you're not sure where it fits with a robust curriculum but still think it's important.

With regards to creating a video like that do you:A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address some curricular outcomes but you might have to look them up later. Fingers crossed.

B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful things with students is important.

C. Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity because you're not sure where it fits with a robust curriculum but still think it's important.

D. Not do it at all.

“...the pattern has been that as children grow up and become more proficient at making sense of the environment in which they live, their world seems to become more stable. Thus, as a child grows and becomes accustomed to the world, the perceived need for play.”

“As we watch the world move to a state of near-constant

change and flux, we believe that connecting play and imagination may be the single most important step in unleashing the new culture of learning.”

“...the pattern has been that as children grow up and become more proficient at making sense of the environment in which they live, their world seems to become more stable. Thus, as a child grows and becomes accustomed to the world, the perceived need for play.”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikegras/5653879644http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikegras/5653303315

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikegras/5653879644http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikegras/5653303315

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikegras/5653879644http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikegras/5653303315

“Play can be defined as the tension between the rules of the game and the freedom to act within those rules.”

SolversProblem

FindersProblem

The Innovation Lab

How are you making play an intentional part of your day? Of your students day?

STORYTELLING

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/254148969

55cc licensed flickr photo by jayRaz: http://flickr.com/photos/shnakepup/2935979173/

The greatest digital divide is between those who can read and write with media, and those who can't.Elizabeth Daly

Are you telling stories in new ways? How are you helping students use new media to tell compelling stories?

My Teaching Staff

My Teaching Staff

Can I find your best work online? If not why not?

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