Live blogged. Please excuse typos and awkward wording.
Introductions are happening now, in Concord. It’s important to note that we are only a handful of miles from the Lowes Raceway, site of the Charlotte 500. So the theme is NASCAR. An added treat was Don Kuenesic of ISTE, talking about NECC (San Antonio and Washington, just up the road from us). He also asked us to take a look at the teachers technology standards (new version).
Unfortunately, I seem not to have Internet at the moment. Although I have a strong wireless connection, but no IP number. I assume that they’ve run out of IP numbers. I keep hammering against the server, hope that I can sneak one out.
Interestingly, they have a blogger cafe here at the conference, with computers. The image to the right is the layout, with four DELLs per coffee table. They also have a SmartBoard for conversations. This is very cool!
Introductions are happening now, in Concord. It’s important to note that we are only a handful of miles from the Lowes Raceway, site of the Charlotte 500. So the theme is NASCAR. An added treat was Don Kuenesic of ISTE, talking about NECC (San Antonio and Washington, just up the road from us). He also asked us to take a look at the teachers technology standards (new version). Unfortunately, I seem not to have Internet at the moment. Although I have a strong wireless connection, but no IP number. I assume that they’ve run out of IP numbers. I keep hammering against the server, hope that I can sneak one out. Interestingly, they have a blogger cafe here at the conference, with computers. The image to the right is the layout, with four DELLs per coffee table. They also have a SmartBoard for conversations. This is very cool!
Frances Bradburn just received the the North Carolina Service Award — amazingly deserved.
Sheryl is is on, and “she’s on.” She’s talking about Web 3.0, and she says it’s here. If you don’t want to go to school, you send your avatar. How many of you have an avatar in Second Life (a good number of folks raised their hands). Then she says, “Those of you who aren’t raising your hands, your thinking, ‘My goodness, woman, I can’t get a-hold of my first life.'”
She says that students need to be learning how to produce content, not JUST consuming content. She says that the favorite digital device of our children is not the cell phone. It’s the digital camera.
She’s talking about trends, as reported by NCA Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. Shifts that she is emphasizing:
- Social and intellectual capital are the new economic values in the world economy.
- Education Will Shift from Averages to Individuals. (Standardization to Personalization)
- Technology will increase the speed of communication and the pace of advancement or decline.
She says that the biggest barrier to retooling education is our memories. We’re so entrenced in our own notions of schooling, that we can’t see beyond it (my paraphrasing).
Now Sheryl is talking about some students she’s talked with at the conference, and calls one of the students to the front. Of course, it’s Deneen Frazier Bowen playing one of her characters. I don’t think I’d have that much courage to share the stage with an actor.
Oh Oh! Form Sheryl, we have to shift from a deficit-based education system to a strength based system. Don’t aim just for what the kids don’t know. Instead leverage what they are good at.
Karyn Romels Twittered me a link to the blog post about kids and phones. Sheryl recent worked in New Zealand, but didn’t know very much about the country and their education system. She has presented a map of the personal learning network that she formed and cultivated to learn about New Zealand (left).
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Thanks for doing this David. I had to leave the ustream and go to bed so it’s great that I will have your perspective on the rest of the talk.
Thanks for the link. This is very interesting, I did not try the ustream. Thanks David.
So glad to hear that more and more people are talking about moving from deficit-based to strength-based learning. Gifted Education has been supporting this for years and so this general movement will be helpful for ALL kids! yay!
Let’s keep spreading this *new* education concept frame!
Sheryl rocks. She had the respect of the whole NZ on-line community because she had taken the time to get to know us before she touched our shores. She was talking with us – not about us.
Can’t wait to have her and Will here in September.
It’s good to here Sheryl’s on form… as always.
Just a quick question: How was the interactive whiteboard used at the blogger’s cafe?
Hey David,
thanks also for your work. We met at TRLD 2007 & 2008 and as a reult of one of your sesions I wrote the following post a year ago. http://floydbobblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/ain%e2%80%99t-nothing-but-a-wii-thang-baby%e2%80%a6/ When I read you describing Sheryl talking about avitars and Web 3.0 it reminded me of the post. In it I wrote about the Wii and my own kids as they created their Mii’s with what was then a new toy. What intrigued me was how portable the Mii’s were/are and how it might be possible that the folks at Nintendo may have something else more in mind than Mario Party 23. Since then your post as well as others have made me think about how Mii’s/ avitars could be specific gathering agents of content. Need something for a school research project? Give your Mii’s/ avitars the assigmnet to go and find a body of resources that ultimately I can sort through and do something creative with it. So much time is spent in schools with kids just finding stuff…not very useful to the school day. Send out the Mii’s…