Vision & Leadership in the 21st Century
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David
I am pleased to be here in Utah
10 Jan 2013 - 21:23:13
"Utah" is so much easier to thumb-type than Salt Lake City. I guess I could have thumbed SLC, but that would have required a shift press for each letter. But was life every simple -- really? - dfw
Jodeesundberg
This is fun
10 Jan 2013 - 21:23:43
Kevin Orton
I agree
10 Jan 2013 - 21:24:02
Ah! But why is it fun? This an important question. What makes it fun? What makes backchanneling something that we WANT to engage in? If we can answer these questions, then we're starting to see the new pedagogies of teaching. - dfw
Corbin
He's barely over 35.
10 Jan 2013 - 21:24:24
It's a matter of shift-tasking. That's what our children are so good at, easily shifting from task to task, from thought pattern to thought pattern. We sat down to read an entire article on the one magazine on the coffee table. They read through 140 character comments, many of them mentioning articles among the millions on the Internet, any of which we can click into to read. Through the conversational web, our coffee tables have become enormous. But it does take a different way of using information. - dfw
Rich
The internet service here sucks
10 Jan 2013 - 21:24:32
Yep! The bandwidth in my hotel room was great, until I started using it. Then it go throttled way back. - dfw
Susan
this is interesting. it is like sending notes the whole class can read
10 Jan 2013 - 21:24:55
..and because it's here, the who world can read it. You become responsible for what you say in the backchannel. - dfw
steve
this guy knows technology
10 Jan 2013 - 21:24:58
;-) I get the same joy from programming computers that I did playing with Legos when I was ten. It's a playground or workshop that I can tinker in. - dfw
Burdette
Rich is present and excited for Info
10 Jan 2013 - 21:25:00
Dave
Get an AT&T package
10 Jan 2013 - 21:25:07
Your friend
Aren't you afraid we'll go to Facebook?
10 Jan 2013 - 21:25:10
Hmmm! I'm afraid that you stop paying attention to me. But Facebook wouldn't cause that. It's the way you might use Facebook. A few years ago, two male teachers in the audience hijacked the Knitterchat conversation by starting to talk about the best wrestlers of the 1980s. It was really kinda funny, but it prevented other teachers from getting any real value out of Knitter. So one of the teachers opened up Facebook, Knitted out where she was on Facebook, and they continued the backchannel there. - dfw
Jodeesundberg
No Internet in this room
10 Jan 2013 - 21:25:11
I know. It popped up a few times for me, but very weak. I had a dedicated line at the podium, and had set up my own hotspot so that my iPad could talk to my laptop. - dfw
Corbin
You tell them Rich
10 Jan 2013 - 21:25:13
Kodey H
I should utilize this in my classroom.
10 Jan 2013 - 21:25:30
Knitter is a personal tool that I am experimenting with. However, a similar tool that a lot of teachers are using is Today's Meet (http://todaysmeet.com). - dfw
Keith
I finally had a Board member show up
10 Jan 2013 - 21:25:35
Leslie
I am happy to be off those dangerous roads and safe inside little America
10 Jan 2013 - 21:26:09
I'm glad I got my walk in yesterday morning. I hope that the SLC airport knows how to handle snow. ;-) - dfw
Randy
It's good to be here! So much to explore and learn!
10 Jan 2013 - 21:26:16
Always! Everyday! Life is exciting because there are always new things to learn. We, folks my age, worry, because we're accustomed to a certain amount of certainty. It was that certainty about the future upon which schooling was based. But the return, the upside of losing certainty is that we are gaining opportunity. We are going to be able to solve problems and accomplish goals that were unimaginable when I was young -- that are unimaginable today. We need to be preparing our children for the unimaginable. - dfw
Jerre
I didn't know Burdette could use a computer
10 Jan 2013 - 21:26:18
Susan
e have to make sure we have access on your phone
10 Jan 2013 - 21:26:24
Jodeesundberg
I see that Keith. Way to go!
10 Jan 2013 - 21:26:35
Corbin
I'm virtually picturing myself in Aruba
10 Jan 2013 - 21:26:40
;-) Coincidentally, I FaceTimed with my parents this morning to show them the snowy scene outside my hotel room. It's supposed to be in the 70s this weekend in North Carolina. - dfw
Keith
Are you sure he looks older
10 Jan 2013 - 21:27:01
??? - dfw
Corbin
Lets cut him in half and count the rings
10 Jan 2013 - 21:28:06
????????? - dfw
April Torgerson
Why no Internet??
10 Jan 2013 - 21:28:10
I'm glad you're asking that question. Today, it makes little sense to ask people to learn without access to today's prevailing information environment. - dfw
Corbin
Everything looks better through a fish eye lens
10 Jan 2013 - 21:28:46
Corbin
Everything looks better through a fish eye lens
10 Jan 2013 - 21:28:47
Keith
What's a telephone?
10 Jan 2013 - 21:30:26
Corbin
What is a flash drive?
10 Jan 2013 - 21:30:55
Corbin
Tell him to say it louder so our board members hear we should join the future
10 Jan 2013 - 21:32:36
Keith
Ditto
10 Jan 2013 - 21:33:17
Ditto Ditto. The past wasn't so great. Life was always complicated. If we're doing our jobs right, the future could be so SO much better. - dfw
carolyn
I wish my office looked like that
10 Jan 2013 - 21:33:40
carolyn
I wish my office looked like that
10 Jan 2013 - 21:33:55
SA
SUU 13, weber 16.
10 Jan 2013 - 21:34:16
Burdette
Too many parents the classes should be ran like when they went to school. How to get them on board. Always a small vocal %
10 Jan 2013 - 21:34:52
Involve them in the conversation. A few months ago I keynoted a school boards conference in Vermont. A superintendent did a presentation about how they invited the community (anyone) to come in and join their conversation about retooling their schools. They watched videos about the future, talked about them, talked about what it meant in terms of what their children should be learning, and when it was over, the superintendent said, "It will cost this much." No questions. He said that several people came up afterward, people who were typical critics of the school system, and said, "I didn't know you talked about things like this."a - dfw
Corbin
It be no different than what the say about me now
10 Jan 2013 - 21:35:18
Corbin
Susan wants one of those toe rings
10 Jan 2013 - 21:36:41