Leaders needed Coaching and collaborating for success

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Leaders needed!Coaching and collaboratingfor
success
With Kevin Honeycutt
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How do we build a future that is still unfolding?

• Argue for your limitations, and sure enough,
  they're yours! Richard Bach

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Lets imagine

• What would you do?
• Do other peoples kids deserve less?

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Just as isolated

• Western Kansas schools.
• Connecting the dots to maximize dwindling
  resources.
• Get er done!

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Why do todays kids need to use technology?

• Why do we?

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Whats waiting for students?

• Change, frequent change!
• Acknowledge that We are experiencing change on a
  massive scale there are new core skills needed by
  many, not few.

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• Jobs of the Future
• By the Year 2005, 60 of the new jobs will
  require a level of technological fluency
  currently held by only 20 of our current
  workers. The top ten jobs that will exist in the
  year 2010 do not exist today. We are preparing
  our students for jobs that dont exist, using
  technologies that havent yet been invented, to
  solve problems that we havent even considered
  yet.
• Richard Riley, U.S. Dept. of Education

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Whos watching the playground?
They are there already so we have to be too!
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The first Renaissance

• What impact did the printing press have on
  humanity?
• How did the vast increase in the availability of
  knowledge change the world then?

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The new Renaissance

• What impact will personal computers, the web and
  connectivity have on humanity?
• How will the vast increase in the availability of
  knowledge change the world now?
• Are we ready to be role models in that world?

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Change is inevitable - except from a vending
machine. Robert C. Gallagher
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How do we get reluctant teachers moving?
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Affordable distance learning

• D-link eye2eye video phone
• Marratech
• Virtual fieldtrips?
• iChat
• What could this mean for all Wichita schools?

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Technology is easier for kids! Why is it hard for
adults?

• Technology is a challenge for us but as normal as
  blue jeans to our kids.
• Definition of technology.

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Its not our fault!Our games
Their Games

• Because this generation of kids have grown up on
  more complex technologies, they are accustomed to
  multiple levels of complexitywe had pong!

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The new gold mine

• Designing websites is a blue collar job now.
• Can you mine the web?
• Google, eBay and a world of possibilities.

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Robert Ballard

• Do you think outside the box?
• Finding more than the Titanic!

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My dreams?

• The Jason project on
• a Kansas budget!
• Would you go?

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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough,
they're yours! Richard Bach
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Can we ?

• Encourage Teaching with the tools students need
  to be empowered.
• Can help teachers take chances and try new
  things?
• What are the risks?

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I wrote a check..

• My first movie was a little film about my K-6
  art students building a space station..little did
  I know!

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Self Esteem?

• Weezle was a kid who was shy and quiet..not after
  the movie!

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What the research is saying..

• Neural networks are bolstered through being
  exposed to different modalities.
• Adding audio, video, drawing, writing, prediction
  and research to the approach helps build richer
  dendritic connections.
• What does technology offer?

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Do you believe?

• Technology wont replace teachers but teachers
  who use technology will replace those who dont.
• There will always be jobs where you dont have to
  change or learn new things.
• Students must know how to learn new things
  constantly to remain employable.

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The world comes to you now!Its a great time to
be young!

• A music studio on your lap.
• Podcasting
• Hollywood comes to the laptop.

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The toolbox

• My podcasts.
• PleasantviewAcademy
• Easy as pie!
• Beulah Roundbottem
• I-70 Podcast
• What else can teachers do?

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What will we do?

• The fastest growing university
• What does this shift mean for Kansas schools?
• What can we do?
• Find your risk takers and not just the tech savvy
  ones!

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Taking the leap.

• Plan and prepare but at some point youll have to
  take a leap of faith. You cant plan for
  everything but with hard work and goals we can
  move ahead with confidence.

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The future is waiting
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Thank you!