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Telling the New Story: David Warlick’s presentation

Telling the New Story: David Warlick’s presentation

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Okay Julia here is another one this time I have Becky’s help keeping up with the notes this time. David Warlick second session: Telling the New Story. A look at redefining literacy. How do we make changes happen? We need to tell a different story it must be: Compelling, Exciting and Shatters old notions Leaders that affect change, Change begin with a story Dr. Jennifer James (cultural anthropologist) describes 3 kinds of leaders. Master – so good you can’t help…

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David Warlick’s Keynote at MassCUE

David Warlick’s Keynote at MassCUE

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Okay attempt number 2 at blogging on the go. David’s keynote at MassCUE. – Literacy and Learning in the 21st century. David Warlick begins by showing us the resources for this conference to be found at the following sites. The Landmark project, his wiki on presentations and the blog at your service He takes a survey of who blogs – about 20 hands go up Who knows what a blog is – all hands Who knows about wikis – most…

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Meeting People at MassCUE, what do you do?

Meeting People at MassCUE, what do you do?

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I just came back from lunch and a trip around the exhibit hall. And thought I’d get some thoughts down while I am waiting for the next session to begin. After meeting a bunch of people I had an interesting thought. Many of us sort of have an identity crisis. Most people here when describing what they do have trouble, they give a long list that might include any of the following… I am the computer teacher, a technology integration…

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MassCUE Keynote Deenen Fraizer Bowen

MassCUE Keynote Deenen Fraizer Bowen

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Here goes my first attempt at blogging during a presentation. A good friend is unable to attend the MassCUE conference so I am taking notes for her but thought I could share them with everyone, why not it is just a few extra clicks. Notes on the opening Keynote by Deneen Fraizer Bowen. This is a piece of performance art with a message. Deneen Fraizer Bowen arrived as Dr. Priscilla Normal, acting to replace the radical Deneen. She is a…

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MassCUE

MassCUE

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I’ll be attending the MassCUE conference this week. I am looking forward to many of the workshops and speakers. I always learn much from talking to everyone. I get some of my best ideas from the conversations at lunch. Hope to see some of you there.

Creating a vision, part 2

Creating a vision, part 2

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Continuing with my thoughts from the previous post…. There has been a radical shift in the information landscape in the past decade yet this shift is not mirrored in most schools. The shift has occurred and continues to occur in business where many feel the need to be “cutting edge”, to be competitive. But, in the bureaucracy that is education very little fundamental change has occurred. In fact schools today are not much different then schools of the past two…

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Creating a vision

Creating a vision

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In my district we are working on a new technology vision statement. We are using a wiki to help us continue our discussion and work on this project. I posted something to the wiki in response to a comment about the rather complex statement. I wanted to share and expand on that thought here. These thoughts also reflect some of the discussions in a course I am currently teaching where some our concerned we are loosing the human contact that…

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