NCETC in Greensboro.

I’m sitting here watching Jim Moulton’s keynote.  I’m also reading Jeff Whipple’s twittering of Zhao’s keynote in New Hampshire (where I was yesterday) — and still preparing for my three presentations and one workshop today.  …and I can’t multitask.

Here are some quotes from Moulton’s one lines.

• We are teaching Screenagers.
• For Kindergarten, the most important technology is the rug.
• Talk to your children.  Speech Therapy is a growth industry in America. (applause)
• We all have to know our multiplication tables (why do we have to say that? — I was almost applause for that line)

---

A = What one knows
B = What one does with what one knows
C = Who knows and cares what one knows and what one has done.
(A x B)^c

---

• The world is going to be different at the other end of the depression.  America’s preeminence is over. (I suspect there is a lot of truth to this, especially the first part.)
• Job interviewer is troubled by the lack of intellectual curiosity.
• Perseverance trumps ability.

Yong Zhao – do the perceived “achievement gaps” between USA / Canada and rest of world really matter? Zhao – purpose of education is definitely NOT test scores…other data is more important… zhao – schools have been moving too far away from education, schools should be faith-based orgs…education is different from instruction zhao – technology allows us to extend our world from local-physical to global-virtual…what new skills will we need? zhao is showing two maps, sizes of countries based on pop and wealth…what differences…how will globalization change these… zhao – now places map of education…now a royalty fees map…US is huge…we are knowledge economy zhao – now a map of toy exports…china is huge…they hav e a making stuff economy zhao – showing parts sourcing for Mini Cooper…if parts can move, so can people…yao ming and herbert hoover – global trade of talents… zhao – “death of distance” ebay…a “global garage sale”…transformed garage sale…more access to people who want to buy your trash… zhao – phenomena – some strange talents can be of value to others…web allows more opportunity to connect zhao – creativity is not a skill, it’s a mindset, it’s innate and can be killed… zhao – spirit of US (and canadian) education…belief in individual talents…YOU are responsible for success…adults have to respect kids zhao – talking Dan Pink AWNM …GM says “we are not in transportation industry, we are in art industry” Yong Zhao – do the perceived “achievement gaps” between USA / Canada and rest of world really matter?

Quotes from Yong Zhao’s keynote address at the NHCMTC conference in Manchester, New Hampshire — twittered by Jeff Whipple

I’ll add in here that I am becoming increasingly convinced that we need to much more frequently restructure our conference sessions as unconference in nature.  I’m finding that I am presenting in rooms with people who need to hear what I have to say and show.  But there are as many who know it already, and know many more things that I don’t know.  We can serve  everyone.

There are a lot of people attending ed tech conferences who don’t need to.  We need to tap into that capacity.

Powered by ScribeFire.