2009+NECC+Notes

**20th Century hot spot: Chewing gum- how many hours were spent regarding discipline/discussions on this topic?? 21st Century chewing gum?? Cell phones
 * Retool, Relearn or Relocate! **

A 6th grader explained that school is like an airplane ride:** - you go through security to get in -you must turn everything off -you sit where they tell you to sit -you eat what/when they tell you (unless you sneak something in) -you go to the bathroom only when they tell you that you can -you leave when they tell you to

"My job as a presenter is not to educate you but to irritate you." He holds up a rubber band as a metaphor for his desire to stretch our thinking. When Ian lets go, it will snap back to the way it was. It has a paradigm, a place it likes to be. How do you get a rubber band to stretch and stay stretched? We may all sit here during this conference session, nod and say "uh-huh, right on Ian"...but then we will go back to our classrooms, shut the door, and do things exactly the way we always have. When the going gets tough, the tough get traditional. So what are we do to?
 * Lee Crockett, Teaching the Digital Generation: Understanding Digital Kids**

One of the Carnegie Foundation's original board members is reputed to have said, "It's easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum." That board member was Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton, who would later move on to the easier challenges of leading the nation during World War I and creating the League of Nations. I would add that it's far too easy to proclaim that you've changed a curriculum when all you've done is a few nips and tucks.

Business- 10 years later- everything has changed Schools- 40 years later- little has changed

__**Implications for our Students:**__ Text + image - 3 days later kids will recall 65% of the information presented. With text only, they recall only 10% 3 days later

Designing engaging reading materials - digital natives only read upper and left side of screen. This is the way video games are designed. They pay the most attention to the colors blood red/pink, followed by green, then burnt orange. Kids ignore black text on a white background (way digital immigrants are "programmed" to read)

87% of students are not auditory or text-based learners - they think graphically, because they grew up in a digital landscape. They are visual/kinesthetic learners and are wired for multi-media. 85% of test questions focus on vocabulary and rote memorization. By the age of 21 digital natives will have played more than 10,000 hours of video games, watched more than 20,000 hours television, viewed more than 500,00 commercials, and received a quarter million emails.

It's hard for us (digital immigrants) to comprehend how much change has really taken place- these kids look the same as we did growing up.

The digital native perspective: "Why would I memorize the states and capitals when I could instantly get them off Google" Digital immigrant perspective: "Why can that same student recite thousands of lyrics when they can't memorize 50 states and capitals?" They're bored, they're tuning us out. Crockett cited that there are very few cases of ADD/ADHD anywhere in the world other than the U.S. and Canada. Students are bored, under whelmed. **We are failing kids.

Who here has the learning problem??? Bottom line: We as educators have to change. What is one action you will do TODAY to generate change?**


 * DFL- ** Digital as First Language

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Current leadership models are ineffective for disruptive innovations [] Link to presentation: []
 * Scott McLeod, Effective Leadership in an Era of Disruptive Innovation**

Points to ponder: 1) Good organizations with good people will disappear if they don't understand the 'natural laws' of disruptive innovtion --You can NOT retro-fit something new into the current system!! 2) It is very difficult for existing successful organizations to ecome dominant players in the new market 3) It is much easier to create a new organization (or buy one) than it is to turn an existing organization around 4) Its difficult to analyze the unknowable 5) First-mover advantage is important when it comes to disruptive innovations (iPod vs Zune)

As leaders: 1) K-12 Ed is facing a disruptive innovation...Personlized Learning 2) The existing educational model is not a given (and today's kids aren't accepting it) 3) All of this is going to sneak up on most of us in 2019, Christensen predicts that over 1/2 of all HS courses will be online 4) To survive, school organizations must change

What can we do (what SHOULD we do) 1) Don't wait until its good enough...make it great 2) Start with **underserved** groups 3) Use different metrics of success (don't use bubble sheets to measure creativity) 4) Compete directly with the existing organization (don't starve the new innovation for resources)

PBS Frontline; Second Life, Technology Saves a school: []