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Leadership for the 21st Century: Awakening to School 2.0
Presenter: Blair Peterson Robyn

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Visionary Talked about the need for Principals to be amazing visionaries...liaising with business, attending workshops...have a vision and transfer it to others

Our personal vision needs to connect with the school's vision, mission and goals. Can a school move forward if the leader is not a visionary?

The vision needs to be about learning, then the technology is bought to support the learning. The vision should not be the technology.

The visionary needs to be a change agent. We have to keep moving. There are many change models. Choose one that fits for you, then talk about it with the team. Make sure everyone knows that this will be difficult, there will be bumps, not everyone will like it.

Create a sense of urgency to get people moving.

One idea is not to use the term 'laptop' but to talk about 'engaged learning' - supported by wireless technology.

Move away from the idea of a 'laptop programme' which makes people think the laptop is the programme.

Don't stand still because you are happy with what you have - meantime you will be left behind.

The Secrets of Change - Michael Fuller? Sense of purpose...define the purpose.

Change Agent - Principals of the Future

"the administrator has knowledge and understanding of the role of technology in promoting student learning and professional growth" Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards for School Leaders (ISLLC)

Go beyond the 'wow' - how is this improving the learning?

Hole in the wall project - India (constructivist approach)

Be a 'modeler' - don't just use technology for emails and powerpoint. Read report: Speak up 2007 for Students, Teachers, Parents & School Leaders

Use technology yourself to demonstrate your up-to-dateness and to appreciate the difficulty and time constraints e.g. creating a blog for new teachers

One school is offering a blog for parents - daily announcements, so that parents can use the RSS feed (not getting comments in yet).

Decide what you want to improve on - then decide the best technology to achieve it.

Manager We need some basic understanding of the technical side of things so that you can manager your technolgy - it might just be that you then know who you need to employ.

Where does Learning 2.0 fit? Urgent and Important? Urgent but not important? Important but not urgent? etc


 * Kim Cofino**

The travels of a T-shirt in the global economy -book

How am I preparing my students to live in the world.???


 * Anatomy **

connect yourself I must connect myself and then I can connect my class

jen wagner's ning - network

listen to podcasts

feed yourself - RSS

Will Richardson's book ?

Step by Step start with learning focus- define projectgoals- what is the purpose of this connetion?

Identiafy standards

develop enduing understandings

Start with your end goal in mind - because if I don't know where I want to go thestudents will never know. big idea

(take pictures around theschool and have the kids write math word problems)

Develop authentic assessments

global education collaborative

explicit expectations

task breakdown -all the different pieces that need to be done and who is going to do what


 * __Communication andTechnology Requirements__**

construct understandings

time zones are very important

Create a home base - usually a wiki but doesn't have to be

Mix and Match -

Protection levels-

determining assessments maybe not so formally in primary

Organize and set stages and deadlines

Design matters

You need a defined timeline


 * __Part 3__**

start small

remove barriers before you start- test, test, test

open communication

makesure things are a good fit with the curriculum and it supports learning- must meet the goals for your classroom