Exploring and Embracing the Power of Technology To Enhance Student Learning

William Brennan Co-Founder School Leadership 2.0

Educational Leadership in the 21st Century

Principals’ and Virtual Learning: A Catalyst to Personal and Organizational Learning

"Schools are becoming marinated on behaviorism" Simply put, reward them and they will learn. No they won't! Engage students in mindful exploration and discovery where they are encouraged to build new ideas and challenged to defend their assumptions. Then, maybe you the ingredients for learning.

Communities of Practice

(CoP’s)

Create

Social Capital

Connections

Relationships

Community Context

Organizational Performance

Improves

•  Increase Innovation. •  Spawning new ideas. •  Greater knowledge sharing. •  Decrease the learning curve. •  Increase rate of discovery. •  Increase change bandwidth.

Strong ties vs Weak Ties

Turn and Talk

Help your students become better searchers Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

Google Glasses

Social Media is….. 1)  Re-defining Community

2)  Re-defining Leadership

3)  Re-defining Knowledge Management

4)  Re-defining Organizational Boundaries

5)  Re-defining Professional Learning for Educators

The Short Story of School Leadership 2.0

•  It’s social •  It’s learning •  It’s community

SL 2.0 is the Knowledge Network for School Leaders - the premier social network connecting thousands of school leaders from around the globe. We offer a rich array of resources and present school leaders and aspiring school leaders to come together to meet present and future challenges.

Over 140 Groups

Averaging 15,000 unique visitors each month and 90,000 page views per month.

Over 460 Videos

Job postings every Sunday

The Myths of Internet Filtering 1.  Accessing YouTube is not

violating CIPA rules. 2.  Websites don’t have to be

blocked for teachers. 3.  Broad filters are not helpful.

Schools will not lose E-rate funding.

4.  Kids need to be taught how to be responsible digital citizens.

5.  Teachers should be trusted. United States Department of Education

Director of Education Technology Karen Cator

1.  How do teachers feel when they are blocked?

2.  How do students feel? And what do they do?

3.  Who is actually teaching the students

how to behave in these online spaces?

•  A personal or professional learning network (PLN) involves an individual’s topic-orientated goal, a set of practices & techniques aimed at attracting and organizing a variety of relevant content sources, selected for their value, to help the owner accomplish a professional goal or personal interest.

-David Warlick

Followed vs Follow

A Working Definition

Move beyond Google searches. Use social media to enhance knowledge exchanges by building your online Social Capital.

The big payoff is that it both exposes people to perspectives and knowledge sets that they normally would not come in contact with. 1.  It can destabilize stale ways of thinking. 2.  Prevent such stasis from setting in going forward.

KNOWLEDGE STOCKS VS KNOWLEDGE FLOWS

Expand Organizational Boundaries Through a Personal Learning Network

Popular Hash Tags #edchat #stem #cpchat #PhysicsEd #sschat #artsed #engchat #scichat #bullying #ptchat…

Managing Feeds #edchat #cpchat

Social Bookmarking 1.  Have issues with accessing your

bookmarks? 2.  Ever wonder what other people

are bookmarking?

“It’s like getting their playbook”.

IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES MATTER

•  "The real difficulty in changing any enterprise lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.”

-- John Maynard Keynes

Book Club Example on #edfocus

OUR INFORMATION LANDSCAPE HAS DRASTICALLY

CHANGED – it’s now an age of networked intelligence.

WHAT TO DO?

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earthquake.

2.  A sudden gathering of force.

Meet Fred

Bill Brennan Brennan Learning, LLC

Co-Founder of School Leadership 2.0

Twitter: @billbrennanedu

E-mail: wvbrennan@gmail.com Cell: 516-510-7504

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic depending upon the creative talent that rubs against it.”

Now. Unleash the Magicians!

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic depending upon the creative talent that rubs against it.”

Now. Unleash the Magicians!

- Bill Bernbach