This page contains resources from the KySTE 2012 Spring Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. These materials are made available under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution-share alike license, which means that you are both allowed and encouraged to use them! Please contact the CASTLE directors (Drs. Justin Bathon, Scott McLeod, John Nash, and Jayson Richardson) if you have any other questions about these resources.
March 7, 2012
The law is not the enemy: How the law encourages responsible innovation (Bathon & McLeod)
Setting strategy and evaluation to boost 21st century learning skills (Nash)
- Webpage for the workshop session with links to notes and templates
- Learn more about Nash’s related work on design thinking in education by visiting the dLab
March 8, 2012
Keynote (McLeod)
- Backchannel (Twitter, TodaysMeet)
- Scott’s slides
- Less us, more them
- Let the kids touch the computer
- For example, instead of Khan Academy or The Faculties, think Student Math Movies or TechBurst
- For example, instead of teacher-created wikis, think student-created wikis
- For example, instead of teacher translations, think student translations
- Other ways to make this happen
- Overcoming barriers and challenges (Groups 1–8, Groups 9–16)
Other resources
Thinking / group facilitation tools
- SCAMPER
- Book: The innovator’s toolkit
- Book: Gamestorming
- Book: Thinkertoys
Leadership resources
- Scott’s landing page for parents and educators [USE THIS WITH EDUCATORS, BOARDS, AND PARENTS]
- Implementation dip
- Diffusion of innovation
- Gartner’s hype cycle
- Bolman & Deal frameworks
- Resistance to change
- Agreement and trust
- Can schools change?
- Leadership Day (2007 — 2011)
- Change Week wrap-up
- IBM’s Change Toolkit
- Book: Influencer
- Book: The knowing-doing gap
- Book: Execution
- Book: The future of management (read my review)
Technology integration resources
- Technology and learning spectrum
- TPACK (see also handout)
- Technology integration matrix
- Learning activity types: wiki and mind map
- Web 2.0 that works
- Teacher needs in anticipation of the instructional use of technology
- Technology, coaching, and community
- Educational technology bill of rights for students
Problem– / Inquiry– / Challenge-based learning resources
- Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
- Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
- Buck Institute for Education (videos; student testimony and teacher restructuring; technology and PBL)
- College and Work Readiness Assessment (example report)
- Whitfield Career Academy (example projects)
- Discovery and Unlimited (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- Big Picture Learning (podcasts and videos; student testimony and personalization)
- EdVisions (videos; traditional v. self-directed students)
- Envision Schools (PBL in action and success story)
- Expeditionary Learning (stories)
- New Tech Network (videos; solar oven)
- Independent Curriculum Group
- Band of Educators
- CASTLE’s list of exemplary 21st century schools
Standards and reports you should know about
- NCTE 21st century literacy standards
- ISTE essential conditions (see also rubric)
- National Educational Technology Standards (NETS): Administrators, Teachers, and Students
- NAIS Guide for Becoming a School of the Future: PDF or HTML interactive
RSS resources (build your internal capacity as learners)
Presentation resources
CASTLE resources
- CASTLE
- Education Recoded (CASTLE directors)
- Dangerously Irrelevant (McLeod)
- EdJurist (Bathon)
- Mind Dump (McLeod)
- Video: Iowa, Did You Know?
- Recommended reading (including Scott’s new book!)
- Recommended viewing
- Other resources
