Kahealani+-+Tuesday

Session #1 8:30-9:45 Global, Creative, and Entrepreneurial: Defining High Quality Education (Keynote - Yong Zhao) @ Hall B1 SDCC


 * ISTE CEO and the top 5 things he has learned over his tenure
 * Mahalo Anita, conference organizer (retiring)


 * Image: GPS, you need to know where you are going, you set the direction, if you choose the wrong goal...self-direction
 * Right now we are lost with what is the purpose of education
 * Technology to imrprove test scores, drive data systems, teacher evaluation
 * http://zhaolearning.com, Twitter, Facebbok
 * World Class Learners (new book)
 * PISA: Every three years globally and China did so well & Sputnik moment of education, and people are trying to figure it out the top five
 * China is the envied country (Surprising Shanghai from Harvard Education Press) so disappointing for him
 * China's education system has the best and worst educations combined
 * Why aren't the model minority happy? Asians 5% of population yet 20% of ivy league.  However, they don't carry leadership positions in the workforce.  Why is their still a glass ceiling?  What about our eduction..East Asian education?
 * Why is America still here (from a historical perspective)? It has always been bad.  Look at the data.
 * A Nation at Work, Two Million Minutes (movie)
 * Who made the America the most prosperous country/economy of the world?
 * Paradox - PISA data from his new book (math vs. entepreneurial capability), PISA has a negative correlation with entrep.
 * 2003 TIMSS: American students are mathematically ignorant; confidence and enjoyment have a negative correlation with higher scores; confidence unerpinps the drive to innovate.
 * Common core for Lady Gaga? Curriculum is making a bet of what will matter in the future.  it is selective.  Common core is "college and career" ready.
 * Day of Empire, The Rise of the Creative Class (Why some areas become more prosperous than others: technology, diversity of talents (tolerance), and entrepenuerial capability (creativity). Creativity cannot be taught but it can be killed.
 * What matters? Do you allow exceptional talents to exist?
 * Gaps exist. What gaps matter? We need creativity.  Manufacturing is being replaced by machines.
 * Business, social, intra, policy entrepreneurs (someone who is unhappy & makes a change) - you don't wait to make a difference (focus more if the human element), don't reduce education into a "sausage making machine"
 * Education is about enhanced human talents - the curriculum should follow the child, personalized & strengths based. School has to be product oriented with technology.  Through designing, they learned.  Not only about project based.  It will happen beyond our walls.  Global collaborators, not competitors.
 * Test scores don't matter. Help students to maximize their potential.

Session #2 10:30-11:30 High Tech High Student Work (Spotlight - Larry Rosenstock) @ 4 SDCC
 * Also have graduate school
 * Began in 2000
 * Math integrates better with Art
 * Public exhibition (last phase), thousands of people come, 3 times a year
 * Dependent upon the study group
 * Display of student work
 * Pure lottery, no AP, field work, "this could be me"
 * Identity in adolesence
 * Protocols from project zero, 55 minutes - can't talk until the last 5 minutes; rule of thirds - about correct forward and not judging
 * Paradox therapy (cigarette machine)
 * Digital identities: don't put restrictions on kids
 * Inverted school intentionally
 * Professional development & planning: teachers meet before school starts, institutes & residencies, project zero (how much do we know about student work)
 * Graduation speeches - First time someone asked me, "What do you think?"
 * Over emphasizes students talking
 * Challenges: anxious parents with math, anxious abo ut goi ng to great schools (predictability), 7k/year,
 * HS has 400, came from a small school, school size
 * Doesn't hold back...
 * College counselors: worked for a selective college office, 1st gen
 * Adisory groups (9-12), multiple-age groups - that could be ?'s, home visits, colleges all come recruiting
 * Odessy-Socratic method (like justice class at Harvard) in addition to project-based learning
 * No tenure. Young teachers.  10-12 of 400 teachers not returning; directors (principal) meet every Monday morning with Larry, rate teachers without names on a four scale...full hiring & firing power
 * Passion, purpose & play

Session #3 12:15-1:15 Google To The Max (Spotlight -Howie DiBlasi) @ 20C SDCC


 * Ppt. available on website
 * Slide#11, file converter application
 * Session not what I was hoping for, will check out the Ppt. later...leaving...

Session #4 2:00-3:00 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2009: The Role of Technology (Panel-Sarah McPherson) @ 26A SDCC


 * Session focused on SIG action research group
 * Shared trends keynote covered in the am

Session #5 3:45-4:45 ISTE Ignite Spotlight #2 @ 6A SDCC


 * Adam Bellow- An army on Twitter, believe you can make a difference, complex questions, band together, risk involved in freedom, make connections
 * Jonathan Blank-technology, pedagogy. Curriculum of the future: digital delivery,engaging software with great instructors, gaming (levels, badging), individualization, choices, brain science, open-source frameworks, success-based education, testing when ready.
 * Jac de Haan, techwithintent.com
 * Dave Edyburn - Goldilocks and the Library, wikipedia, simple wikipedia, text compactor (you tube video) for cognitively rescaling, Vozme (text to speech)...can convert to mp3, move to Google translator
 * Johnny Hamilton - researched based instructional strategies (without technology): non-linguistic representations (drawing tools, simulations), cooperative learning (web 2.0), concept maps.  Change the map.  seven blind mice - change the lens.
 * Summer Howarth - resetting the moral compass, you can make a difference, the face of the invisible hearts club, instagram, organic, message board
 * Erin Klein - big projects need big help, message your class (remind101), educreations, class connect, class dojo (grade 2),
 * Betty Ray - Design thinking (define the challenge, interpretation, ideation, experimentation, evolution) edutopia design camp
 * Ben Smith - Be creative. Need to give up control.  Work backwards.  Creative, communicate & collaborate, innovation, etc.
 * Allison White - igniting creativity, use tech as a thinking tool. Three main areas:  authentic audience for purpose (students made their own e-books), social interaction (learn French, blog in character, gropon, voice thread, iMove commercials on web).  Bridge logic and creativity.