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=2009-2010 SAI Technology Leadership Training=

**Phase 1, Day 3**

 * Notes - [|St. Paul]
 * [|Pirate Pad]

Morning
//Video:// [|Chris Lehmann speaks to the FCC] //Video:// [|You can't be my teacher]

//NETS-A / Essential Conditions//
 * [|Survey] [|(Survey results)]
 * [|We ARE the system]
 * [|Creating the new schooling paradigm: Educational technology policy priorities]
 * [|The Iowa series]
 * [|Implementation dip]

//Are your policies getting in the way of your progress?//
 * Scott’s slides ([|pptx] [|ppt])
 * [|Online predators: Overblown threat]
 * [|The facts about online sex abuse and schools]
 * Report – [|Enhancing child safety and online technologies]
 * [|CIPA facts]
 * [|Blocking the future]
 * [|We trust you with the children but not the Internet]
 * [|Format bigotry]
 * [|No Facebook for you!]
 * [|I don’t like my district’s AUP]
 * [|Fear]
 * [|The one percent doctrine]
 * [|Educating trumps blocking]
 * [|From the head of Zeus]
 * [|I’d like an idiocy filter, please]
 * [|Principal blogging not allowed]
 * [|I don’t like Internet filters]
 * [|Science Leadership Academy AUP]
 * [|What message does your AUP send home?]

//Every educator should have a listening station//
 * [|Google Reader]
 * Blogs
 * Subject-specific blogs
 * [|Great blogs for busy administrators]

//Your school organization's learning environment//
 * [|Survey]

Afternoon
//Essential questions for this afternoon// (first three are from the [|MacArthur Foundation])
 * How are we changing as a result of digital tools and media?
 * How should learning environments change?
 * How should learning institutions change?
 * What can we do with this back in my school organization?

//Technology-mediated learning//
 * 1) Video - [|James Gee on games and learning]
 * 2) Play this serious game
 * 3) [|3rd World Farmer] ([|Read about the game])
 * 4) More serious games
 * 5) [|Ayiti]
 * 6) [|Oiligarchy]
 * 7) [|Royal Society of Chemistry Games] (particularly [|Masterminding Molecules])
 * 8) [|Map countries and cities] (then [|read about research])
 * 9) [|Against All Odds]
 * 10) [|Gaming survey results]
 * 11) Serious games resources
 * 12) [|Games for Change]
 * 13) [|Serious Games Initiative]
 * 14) [|Social Impact Games]
 * 15) [|Super Smart Games]
 * 16) [|Serious Games Source]
 * 17) Check out the //Quest to Learn// School
 * 18) [|A school built around video games]
 * 19) [|Video overview]
 * 20) [|Text overview]
 * 21) [|See curriculum samples] ([|Spartan Spy], [|Invisible Pathways], [|Writers of the Digital Roundtable] (start at p. 11), etc.)
 * 22) Check out //Conspiracy Code//
 * 23) [|Read the overview]
 * 24) [|See the syllabus]
 * 25) [|Video overview]
 * 26) [|Learn more] (particularly the [|product overview])
 * 27) Students can make their own games / challenges
 * 28) [|Sploder Game Creator]
 * 29) [|Scratch]
 * 30) [|Getting Started Guide]
 * 31) [|Scratch for Educators]
 * 32) [|Download Scratch]
 * 33) [|Microsoft Kodu] (see also [|video overview])
 * 34) [|Alice]
 * 35) [|StarLogo TNG]
 * 36) [|XNA Creators Club]
 * 37) [|Lego MindStorms]
 * 38) [|Components]
 * 39) [|NXTLog]
 * 40) [|2DIY] (see also [|this script archive])
 * 41) [|Wikipedia - Video game level design]
 * 42) [|YouTube - Make own levels]
 * 43) [|Getting started with videogame development]
 * 44) Books on gaming and simulation (coming soon)
 * 45) Other resources
 * 46) [|Learn math or die trying]
 * 47) [|Preschool Teachers Can Use a Media-Rich Curriculum to Prepare Low-Income Children for School Success: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial]
 * 48) [|Moving Learning Games Forward]
 * 49) [|Doug Gentile's research on gaming]
 * 50) [|DeVry University - Game and Simulation Programming]

//Technology-mediated assessment//
 * 1) // [|The School of One] //
 * 2) [|ETS Criterion essay grading software]
 * 3) [|ETS iCritical Thinking certification] (also see [|video overview])
 * 4) [|College and Work Readiness Assessment] (CWRA)
 * 5) [|Overview]
 * 6) [|Sample report]
 * 7) [|Teaching to a test worth teaching to in college and high school]
 * 8) [|Assessing critical thinking, analytical reasoning, problem-solving, and writing in high school]
 * 9) [|Rhode Island Diploma System]
 * 10) [|Overview]
 * 11) [|Portfolio toolkit]
 * 12) [|Exhibition toolkit]
 * 13) [|A field trip for state policy leaders]
 * 14) //Ed Sector// - [|Beyond the Bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment]
 * 15) //The Kappan// - [|Assessment around the world]
 * 16) Book - [|The Flat World and Education]

//Are you moving quick enough?//
 * Things that are here or nearly here
 * [|Comprehensive], anytime/anywhere access to information ([|open] / [|free] / [|multimodal])
 * Comprehensive, anytime/anywhere access to other people
 * Technology-mediated instruction and assessment
 * [|The Internet of things]
 * Essential questions
 * How are we changing as a result of digital tools and media?
 * How should learning environments change?
 * How should learning institutions change?
 * What can we do with this back in my school organization?
 * Strategic vision x Communication = Shared purpose
 * Shared purpose x Empowered people x Appropriate organizational changes x Strategic thinking = SUCCESSFUL VISIONARY LEADERSHIP ([|Burt Nanus])

//Wrap-up//
 * [|Now what?]
 * [|Please stay in touch!]

//Homework//
 * [|Read this ASCD article]

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