[Applause]
about ten years ago I started to
preservation thought myself online
sweetie developed by strangers this may
not be much of a ball claim for that
ultimate over the next 15 minutes I’m
gonna try and convince you this is
something we stood in case duty so to
explain ourselves to explain I have to
go back about 15 years to when I was
asked to help start a small school off
the west coast of Canada there were six
teachers who don’t start to school but
there are six teachers I was the only
one who was remotely interested in
computers so I got to be the technology
director I also got to be the math
teacher the key teaching job a new
teacher and then this rating which is
what happens when you start a small
school this was an awesome job it went
outside to keep you know one hour each
way every day is just two hours in the
car but around the same time I’m the
same time I purchased my first iPod and
I discovered podcasts there was a couple
of podcasts that I found really helpful
there was one called save our schools
that was put out by an attempt to doctor
at the International School Bangkok and
there’s another one called virtual staff
that was created by a teacher in
Australia and these guys were net tech
movers they knew everything I needed to
know and they were giving online every
week or every two weeks and they were
conversations with other tech news
around the world
he’s not study recorded them and further
one night turns so I had found the
professional development job all I had
to do was download these podcasts to my
ipod and listen to the moment rode to
school and back and in about a year I
was able to talk quite knowledgeably
about more things to do with education
technology fast forward a couple years
to 2005 when my daughter was born
but now I’ve been listening to these
podcasts for few years and I started to
realize something I started to realize
that actually there wasn’t that much
difference between these views and
myself the biggest difference was that
they were really to put their thoughts
don’t ideas their experiences their
questions online and talk about them in
a public way was that terrified I was
quite happy to listen to them and take
the information and use it in my
day-to-day practice but the idea of sure
like they were I found flame and I fell
fighting for a couple of reasons one
because I really didn’t think I had
anything to say
and two I was afraid that somebody would
just really need prove me wrong so I
took a year off to help but captain I
tell her I had some time to my hands I
said it cool that I was
and how many lives Twitter every teen
wants something like this
everyone did when I got off my daughter
offered a job and go to a cafe and I
said oh my laptop admit myself write a
blog post and I wanted to publish their
the evenings it often took a long time
apart asleep or not be stuck in her room
waiting for her to go to sleep so I
would get on to it early and see where
people were saying on Twitter and I
retweet or comment on something that
I’ve found interesting no this was
actually terrifying experience every
time I have to press that publish button
every time I hit retweet I was a war
between them you knew there was
something going on here that this was a
skill set that I wanted to figure out
Andy who was convinced I had nothing to
say and I need to make a point here I
wasn’t tweeting about I had for
breakfast and I wasn’t writing blog
posts about my favorite TV show I was
sharing my thoughts about education
technology I was publicly expressing my
passion for something and what I was
interested in and it worked that the
gurus didn’t pay any attention to me but
it turns out there’s lots of people out
there also trying to figure out how to
reach out and connect online so I
connected with other teachers who will
also walk in and commented on each
other’s blog posts we meet we didn’t
comment on each other’s tweets and the
process I started to build a very small
Personal Learning Network
you know that PLN is now a lot bigger
includes water with really amazing
talented educators and the process of
building a feeling has been one of the
most rewarding and encouraging things I
think I’ve ever done in my professional
career so in this process has always
been a question to learn about human
life and that question is why aren’t we
doing this in schools why aren’t more
students blogging why aren’t our
classrooms on Twitter
why aren’t students connecting with
peers around the world we share common
passions and interests and one of
addressed this question a little bit of
a sideways I want to get detour for a
second and talk about another technology
like social media is also very powerful
very useful to us and also has potential
balance we’re talking about the car so
this is the first car ever told it was
huge and I was be tiny and I have this
memory card they’re driving this car
around
we need offense in neighborhoods memory
of driving this car with my dad beside
me I can barely see over the steering
wheel and this is what happened I got
the corners I could be judged the
distance around was wide over my
neighbor’s lawn spoke there is showing
the zooming away from from the sight
before anybody noticed but the thing is
is my dad didn’t get angry at me he
didn’t take away my driving privileges
he recognized this car at this point
too much technology to me so he comes
riding lessons luckily before I to take
my driving test my mother bought a
little time encounter malucia that which
is much easier to drive I was able to
adjusted our unemployment and I have
another memory of her sitting beside me
soon after I got my license I was
driving down country roads and I can
tell she was terrified because her back
was straight and nothing was returning
white on the handle of the door handle
but she was trying really hard like we
know she was terrified because she
recognized that me getting practice
driving this car was a really important
thing to do so so I’m gonna reflect on
this I think you know my parents didn’t
always know how to teach me to drive and
sometimes they were terrified to let me
drive but they recognized that this was
a valuable skill and something I had to
do and so they found the resources and
tools to help me do this so come back to
my question
why have more students not to connect
with peers around the world to share
similar interests and passions I think
the honest truth is perdón is is that US
adults teachers don’t really know any to
it
my parents didn’t teach me how to drive
it because they don’t have jobs and
their parents would talk to try the
truck but most adults and teachers can’t
really ladle into that same level of
expertise now I want to be clear I’m not
talking about expertise in using what’s
not to connect with your friends more
post to Facebook I’m talking about
leveraging the power of these tools to
connect with that all the world experts
and people with similar age that’s out
there so a lot of expertise puts us at
it also it does kind of pull to
approaching the technologists from a
position of fear you can see the
downsides I would argue there are a lot
of downsides about letting a teenager
drive a car but we still directly
recognize this is an important still and
tool that teachers need to have as a
society to come up with systems and
processes to help them do this so what
do we do we’re not the experts
luckily the an expert isn’t all that
necessary in a Sager estate or the part
about wisdom does it really what’s
needed here what we need to do it is
learning along with our students and
children and even though we may not know
about the disease of hashtags or how to
take a good selfie we still have a
lifetime’s worth of experience that’s
where it’s charity as adults we know how
to solve walls we know how to identify
by this we know how to give constructive
feedback instead of etc but if we’re not
in these spaces is we’re not using these
tools if we’re not learning how to drive
then it becomes really difficult for us
to share our expertise and our knowledge
in a way that’s relevant or useful
so it’s going to be messy
this bread it’s really vitally important
technologists social media are in our
world today that the only future I
really believe that the people who can
leverage the benefits of these
technologies and avoid the pitfalls are
gonna have significant opportunities
available to them they’re really
available otherwise so to the rest of my
time available I want to talk to about
one of those opportunities the
opportunity to connect there’s a
Canadian researcher and educator called
George Siemens and he’s actually created
a theory to describe what I’m talking
about because activism and basically
what a serious sin is that when peers
are online find an information sharing
what they find out with each other you
know the conducting community of
learners who can support you in your
learning and what I want to do now is I
want to show you a story happened last
week but I think illustrates the power
of connected learning so I want to come
back and see how you like my Jeff here I
want to the story of how I do this Jeff
so there we go
then my ICT class recently my students
have been around the company their
presentation and the last couple classes
a few of them figured out how to leave
certain shifts and the excitement in the
classroom was contagious I thought how
can I tap into this how can I use this
excitement to get to learn more ICT
skills I thought wouldn’t be creative I
can’t eat chips I used to do this in my
last school but it was a really onerous
process and expensive
some tools and took a long time I
thought well that now I have access to
ones clouds most truly Duncan’s that
euro area that we can do it in a simpler
fashion
and while I was thinking about this
remember my PLN who is a technology
coordinator in KL he posted to his blog
his ideas for how to do this I never
talked about this just happen if you
think about the same thing he had this
great idea was google talk to the photo
is to help students make Jeff’s I looked
at this night a lot of post I thought
this is really cool maybe creative to
use a little science so I why did it
want to miss is oh by the way happening
kind of in the off times during my day I
didn’t sit down at my desk to do this I
just kind of had a few minutes here and
there to have this conversation with it
and it turns out he considered using
slides but wasn’t sure it would work so
this company really excited about the
possibility of kind of you know adding
to this conversation so I sat down I
made an animation with slides and using
some of Jeff’s workflow and I sent it
back to him
so we’re not just fooling on this
information we’re publicly sharing it
with each other so we can all benefit
but really Google taken up next Gretchen
who is another member of our Pio and who
also lives in KL she was kind of falling
along because we were online in public
and she actually knew a really cool
Google tool to receive us a lot of time
with our work school we’d never heard of
it because it’s important obscure tool
it was actually created by
Gretchen’s online mentors a part of her
keel and so she she because we were like
she was able to give you this
to a conversation and so I started
googling for this and I actually came
across a blog post by another connected
educator who had come up with an amazing
workflow using Google slides stretching
his tool and a firm tool and everyone
heard about and it was by far the best
way to do this that I heard about so I
share that back so Jeff because he was
willing to print his idea out there even
though it wasn’t a fully formed idea but
he brought it out there was a benefit
from all of this thinking from different
brands and ended up with a much better
solution to what he originally tried to
do and the fraction really wrapped
things up with a beautiful hashtag
callin iterate share solutions are out
there and this is something I really
believe I really believe it when were
sharing publicly when we are creating
connections when we’re willing to get
into a dialogue online about our ideas
that we can create community and find
solutions so this is my current favorite
book it’s by another Canadian educator
Jennifer Cassidy
and one of the things I love about this
book he says she tells stories of
students she’s gone I’ve found students
who are leveraging these puppet power to
connect the leveraging the power of
social media to learn and make a
difference in the world
so I’m going to just take a minute and I
wanted to just share a couple of their
stories we do in an era is
the multiple science fair or more Tamara
and he were these science fairs and he
would be lots of other innovators and
market leaders like he was know anything
about it and you know it was like he’d
never gone so he decided to do something
about it using social media he started
this website and he started using
Twitter and other social media tools to
basically promote all these amazing kids
who learn amazing things online and this
has turned into a huge resource for
supporting and promoting STEM skills
Kenna altar is a committed
environmentalist but she’s not just
making sure there’s more recycling bins
she’s using her blog that she’s using
Twitter Jesus was in social media taking
motor ideas and get more people
interested in their ideas not only that
if you go to her watch has got a whole
page but how you can contact her to be
the keynote speaker at your event she’s
14 and then this guy herman li when he
was nine years old his mother she’s a
university professor she decided to do
an experiment the university students to
see how long it took her tweet to go
around the world and Korea was helped
her the kind of
the information so dennis 24 hours the
tweeted garner 30 countries have had
2274 of years and have had 264 comments
and by this acquaintance current was
pretty excited about the potential of
social media so he asked his mother if
he could start his own blog and
apologies to Kurama to get this long but
his first blog post was titled something
Wentworth will be your home yet a
hundred ten different comments from
different people on that blog post each
one individually went and responded to
and researched not about the country
what a cool way to learn about the world
a pretty sure cure and was more than I
do about the world this current project
with this bug is this website voltage
said kiss which is a website for kids to
give digital citizenship information the
kids rather than if I was coming from us
Alice so let’s think about these kids is
they didn’t burn any of this stuff in
school but they did all have they carry
out work with the support of them learn
to walk with them while they were trying
to figure this stuff out and I’m pretty
sure these novels all believe designed
to as I said her job is not to prepare
students for something our job is to
help students prepare themselves for
anything and I think helping students
connect and leverage the power of social
media who can be a part of doing this
sort of wrap up I think the future is
really bright for connected learners not
just for the learners but also for the
future because in a world where students
can connect share find leg lines reply
respectful you to unlike mine
outside is of each other an iterate that
innovation changed the solutions about
them
[Applause]
about ten years ago I started to
preservation thought myself online
sweetie developed by strangers this may
not be much of a ball claim for that
ultimate over the next 15 minutes I’m
gonna try and convince you this is
something we stood in case duty so to
explain ourselves to explain I have to
go back about 15 years to when I was
asked to help start a small school off
the west coast of Canada there were six
teachers who don’t start to school but
there are six teachers I was the only
one who was remotely interested in
computers so I got to be the technology
director I also got to be the math
teacher the key teaching job a new
teacher and then this rating which is
what happens when you start a small
school this was an awesome job it went
outside to keep you know one hour each
way every day is just two hours in the
car but around the same time I’m the
same time I purchased my first iPod and
I discovered podcasts there was a couple
of podcasts that I found really helpful
there was one called save our schools
that was put out by an attempt to doctor
at the International School Bangkok and
there’s another one called virtual staff
that was created by a teacher in
Australia and these guys were net tech
movers they knew everything I needed to
know and they were giving online every
week or every two weeks and they were
conversations with other tech news
around the world
he’s not study recorded them and further
one night turns so I had found the
professional development job all I had
to do was download these podcasts to my
ipod and listen to the moment rode to
school and back and in about a year I
was able to talk quite knowledgeably
about more things to do with education
technology fast forward a couple years
to 2005 when my daughter was born
but now I’ve been listening to these
podcasts for few years and I started to
realize something I started to realize
that actually there wasn’t that much
difference between these views and
myself the biggest difference was that
they were really to put their thoughts
don’t ideas their experiences their
questions online and talk about them in
a public way was that terrified I was
quite happy to listen to them and take
the information and use it in my
day-to-day practice but the idea of sure
like they were I found flame and I fell
fighting for a couple of reasons one
because I really didn’t think I had
anything to say
and two I was afraid that somebody would
just really need prove me wrong so I
took a year off to help but captain I
tell her I had some time to my hands I
said it cool that I was
and how many lives Twitter every teen
wants something like this
everyone did when I got off my daughter
offered a job and go to a cafe and I
said oh my laptop admit myself write a
blog post and I wanted to publish their
the evenings it often took a long time
apart asleep or not be stuck in her room
waiting for her to go to sleep so I
would get on to it early and see where
people were saying on Twitter and I
retweet or comment on something that
I’ve found interesting no this was
actually terrifying experience every
time I have to press that publish button
every time I hit retweet I was a war
between them you knew there was
something going on here that this was a
skill set that I wanted to figure out
Andy who was convinced I had nothing to
say and I need to make a point here I
wasn’t tweeting about I had for
breakfast and I wasn’t writing blog
posts about my favorite TV show I was
sharing my thoughts about education
technology I was publicly expressing my
passion for something and what I was
interested in and it worked that the
gurus didn’t pay any attention to me but
it turns out there’s lots of people out
there also trying to figure out how to
reach out and connect online so I
connected with other teachers who will
also walk in and commented on each
other’s blog posts we meet we didn’t
comment on each other’s tweets and the
process I started to build a very small
Personal Learning Network
you know that PLN is now a lot bigger
includes water with really amazing
talented educators and the process of
building a feeling has been one of the
most rewarding and encouraging things I
think I’ve ever done in my professional
career so in this process has always
been a question to learn about human
life and that question is why aren’t we
doing this in schools why aren’t more
students blogging why aren’t our
classrooms on Twitter
why aren’t students connecting with
peers around the world we share common
passions and interests and one of
addressed this question a little bit of
a sideways I want to get detour for a
second and talk about another technology
like social media is also very powerful
very useful to us and also has potential
balance we’re talking about the car so
this is the first car ever told it was
huge and I was be tiny and I have this
memory card they’re driving this car
around
we need offense in neighborhoods memory
of driving this car with my dad beside
me I can barely see over the steering
wheel and this is what happened I got
the corners I could be judged the
distance around was wide over my
neighbor’s lawn spoke there is showing
the zooming away from from the sight
before anybody noticed but the thing is
is my dad didn’t get angry at me he
didn’t take away my driving privileges
he recognized this car at this point
too much technology to me so he comes
riding lessons luckily before I to take
my driving test my mother bought a
little time encounter malucia that which
is much easier to drive I was able to
adjusted our unemployment and I have
another memory of her sitting beside me
soon after I got my license I was
driving down country roads and I can
tell she was terrified because her back
was straight and nothing was returning
white on the handle of the door handle
but she was trying really hard like we
know she was terrified because she
recognized that me getting practice
driving this car was a really important
thing to do so so I’m gonna reflect on
this I think you know my parents didn’t
always know how to teach me to drive and
sometimes they were terrified to let me
drive but they recognized that this was
a valuable skill and something I had to
do and so they found the resources and
tools to help me do this so come back to
my question
why have more students not to connect
with peers around the world to share
similar interests and passions I think
the honest truth is perdón is is that US
adults teachers don’t really know any to
it
my parents didn’t teach me how to drive
it because they don’t have jobs and
their parents would talk to try the
truck but most adults and teachers can’t
really ladle into that same level of
expertise now I want to be clear I’m not
talking about expertise in using what’s
not to connect with your friends more
post to Facebook I’m talking about
leveraging the power of these tools to
connect with that all the world experts
and people with similar age that’s out
there so a lot of expertise puts us at
it also it does kind of pull to
approaching the technologists from a
position of fear you can see the
downsides I would argue there are a lot
of downsides about letting a teenager
drive a car but we still directly
recognize this is an important still and
tool that teachers need to have as a
society to come up with systems and
processes to help them do this so what
do we do we’re not the experts
luckily the an expert isn’t all that
necessary in a Sager estate or the part
about wisdom does it really what’s
needed here what we need to do it is
learning along with our students and
children and even though we may not know
about the disease of hashtags or how to
take a good selfie we still have a
lifetime’s worth of experience that’s
where it’s charity as adults we know how
to solve walls we know how to identify
by this we know how to give constructive
feedback instead of etc but if we’re not
in these spaces is we’re not using these
tools if we’re not learning how to drive
then it becomes really difficult for us
to share our expertise and our knowledge
in a way that’s relevant or useful
so it’s going to be messy
this bread it’s really vitally important
technologists social media are in our
world today that the only future I
really believe that the people who can
leverage the benefits of these
technologies and avoid the pitfalls are
gonna have significant opportunities
available to them they’re really
available otherwise so to the rest of my
time available I want to talk to about
one of those opportunities the
opportunity to connect there’s a
Canadian researcher and educator called
George Siemens and he’s actually created
a theory to describe what I’m talking
about because activism and basically
what a serious sin is that when peers
are online find an information sharing
what they find out with each other you
know the conducting community of
learners who can support you in your
learning and what I want to do now is I
want to show you a story happened last
week but I think illustrates the power
of connected learning so I want to come
back and see how you like my Jeff here I
want to the story of how I do this Jeff
so there we go
then my ICT class recently my students
have been around the company their
presentation and the last couple classes
a few of them figured out how to leave
certain shifts and the excitement in the
classroom was contagious I thought how
can I tap into this how can I use this
excitement to get to learn more ICT
skills I thought wouldn’t be creative I
can’t eat chips I used to do this in my
last school but it was a really onerous
process and expensive
some tools and took a long time I
thought well that now I have access to
ones clouds most truly Duncan’s that
euro area that we can do it in a simpler
fashion
and while I was thinking about this
remember my PLN who is a technology
coordinator in KL he posted to his blog
his ideas for how to do this I never
talked about this just happen if you
think about the same thing he had this
great idea was google talk to the photo
is to help students make Jeff’s I looked
at this night a lot of post I thought
this is really cool maybe creative to
use a little science so I why did it
want to miss is oh by the way happening
kind of in the off times during my day I
didn’t sit down at my desk to do this I
just kind of had a few minutes here and
there to have this conversation with it
and it turns out he considered using
slides but wasn’t sure it would work so
this company really excited about the
possibility of kind of you know adding
to this conversation so I sat down I
made an animation with slides and using
some of Jeff’s workflow and I sent it
back to him
so we’re not just fooling on this
information we’re publicly sharing it
with each other so we can all benefit
but really Google taken up next Gretchen
who is another member of our Pio and who
also lives in KL she was kind of falling
along because we were online in public
and she actually knew a really cool
Google tool to receive us a lot of time
with our work school we’d never heard of
it because it’s important obscure tool
it was actually created by
Gretchen’s online mentors a part of her
keel and so she she because we were like
she was able to give you this
to a conversation and so I started
googling for this and I actually came
across a blog post by another connected
educator who had come up with an amazing
workflow using Google slides stretching
his tool and a firm tool and everyone
heard about and it was by far the best
way to do this that I heard about so I
share that back so Jeff because he was
willing to print his idea out there even
though it wasn’t a fully formed idea but
he brought it out there was a benefit
from all of this thinking from different
brands and ended up with a much better
solution to what he originally tried to
do and the fraction really wrapped
things up with a beautiful hashtag
callin iterate share solutions are out
there and this is something I really
believe I really believe it when were
sharing publicly when we are creating
connections when we’re willing to get
into a dialogue online about our ideas
that we can create community and find
solutions so this is my current favorite
book it’s by another Canadian educator
Jennifer Cassidy
and one of the things I love about this
book he says she tells stories of
students she’s gone I’ve found students
who are leveraging these puppet power to
connect the leveraging the power of
social media to learn and make a
difference in the world
so I’m going to just take a minute and I
wanted to just share a couple of their
stories we do in an era is
the multiple science fair or more Tamara
and he were these science fairs and he
would be lots of other innovators and
market leaders like he was know anything
about it and you know it was like he’d
never gone so he decided to do something
about it using social media he started
this website and he started using
Twitter and other social media tools to
basically promote all these amazing kids
who learn amazing things online and this
has turned into a huge resource for
supporting and promoting STEM skills
Kenna altar is a committed
environmentalist but she’s not just
making sure there’s more recycling bins
she’s using her blog that she’s using
Twitter Jesus was in social media taking
motor ideas and get more people
interested in their ideas not only that
if you go to her watch has got a whole
page but how you can contact her to be
the keynote speaker at your event she’s
14 and then this guy herman li when he
was nine years old his mother she’s a
university professor she decided to do
an experiment the university students to
see how long it took her tweet to go
around the world and Korea was helped
her the kind of
the information so dennis 24 hours the
tweeted garner 30 countries have had
2274 of years and have had 264 comments
and by this acquaintance current was
pretty excited about the potential of
social media so he asked his mother if
he could start his own blog and
apologies to Kurama to get this long but
his first blog post was titled something
Wentworth will be your home yet a
hundred ten different comments from
different people on that blog post each
one individually went and responded to
and researched not about the country
what a cool way to learn about the world
a pretty sure cure and was more than I
do about the world this current project
with this bug is this website voltage
said kiss which is a website for kids to
give digital citizenship information the
kids rather than if I was coming from us
Alice so let’s think about these kids is
they didn’t burn any of this stuff in
school but they did all have they carry
out work with the support of them learn
to walk with them while they were trying
to figure this stuff out and I’m pretty
sure these novels all believe designed
to as I said her job is not to prepare
students for something our job is to
help students prepare themselves for
anything and I think helping students
connect and leverage the power of social
media who can be a part of doing this
sort of wrap up I think the future is
really bright for connected learners not
just for the learners but also for the
future because in a world where students
can connect share find leg lines reply
respectful you to unlike mine
outside is of each other an iterate that
innovation changed the solutions about
them
[Applause]
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