Twenty First Century Influencer

2010 Teaching and Technology Conference
June 8, 2010

21st Century Influencer
Vicki Davis
Cool Cat Teacher
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com

ITEMIZED BILLBrian Tracy, Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Production and Achieve All Your Goals, p 8
For placing “x” on gauge $ 1.00
For knowing which gauge to place the “x” on $9,999.00

My Most Essential Skill
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Determining the focalpoint for myself and my organization at each moment.

Guinea Worm

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“Discover a few vitalbehaviors, change those, and problems – no matter their size – topple like a house of cards.” Kerry Patterson et al, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, p 28

The vital behaviors
that move us towards effective Twenty First Century Classrooms

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B. “A Flat Classroom™ evolves and ______ with multiple audiences …”

“Cool Cat Teacher”Vicki Davis

Research
Based
Cooperative
Learning
Differentiated
Instruction
Project Based
Learning
Best
Practice
Authentic
Assessment
Keys to a Flat Classroom

Flat Classroom
http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Camilla, GA
United States

Flat Classroom Projects
http://www.flatclassroomproject.com
Global Collaboration using Twenty First Century Tools and Literacies

Flat Classroom

Collaborative Group Wiki

Student Produced Video

Connected Learning in My School

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B. “A Flat Classroom™ evolves and connects with multiple audiences …”

Audience is Important
“Technology creates opportunities for students to do meaningful work that has value outside school, receive feedback on their work, and experience the rewards of publication or exhibition.” Peck & Dorricott, 1994http://caret.iste.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=evidence&answerID=9&words=audience

Horizon Project 2008

Teams
“Working with people across the world has challenged me.”
“The majority of my partners wanted to contribute something meaningful to the project.”
Horizon Project Studentshttp://horizonproject.wikispaces.com

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“B. A Flat Classroom™ evolves and connects with multiple audiences, peers, and cultures using both synchronous and asynchronous communications methods.”

Synchronous
Definition: at the same time
Examples:
Instant Messaging
Voice over IP (Skype)
Video Conferencing
Face to Face Interactions
Webcasts
Webinars

Asynchronous
Definition: NOT at the same time
Examples:
Blogs
Wikis
Podcasts
Virtual classroom recordings
Recorded Video

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“B. Flat Classroom™ evolves and connects with multiple audiences, peers, and cultures using both synchronous and asynchronous communications methods.”

“Institutional leaders will need to seek out ‘reverse mentors’ among (often younger) individuals who can help them understand and master edge practices.” John Seely Brown et al, The Power of Pull, Kindle loc. 495

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“In the Flat Classroom™,students are involved in the evolution of school technology integration.”

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C. To promote change you’ve got to influenceBEHAVIOR…

“We are better at coping than exerting influence.” Kerry Patterson et al, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, p 8

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Tools of influence are valueneutral!

Mirror Neurons: GiacomoRizzolatti et al., “Premotor Cortex and the Recognition of Motor Actions,” Cognitive Behavior Research, 3 (1996) 131-141.

We mirror the behaviors of those we are around.

Self Control is Contagious
University of Georgia Website, Michelle van Dellen, Physorg.com 1/14/2010 9:10 am

#1 Connectmyself to a good personallearningnetwork.
Personal Vital Behaviors

#1 Connect myself
PersonalLearningNetwork
Media Diet!
RSS Reader - www.igoogle.com
eBook Reader - Kindle
Diigohttp://groups.diigo.com/groups/educators
Listen in – http://www.edtechtalk.com
Join Twitter – http://www.twitter.com
K12 online – http://k12onlineconference.org
Networking Organizations
Flat Classrooms – http://flatclassrooms.ning.com

#1 Connectmyself to a good personallearningnetwork.

JUMP!!

“Exercise boosts brain power.” Brain Rules by John Medina

If people mirror you, what will they look like?

#2 Connect to myself through exercise, humor, and time alone.

2 kinds of people:
Transmitters
Transformers
Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Transformers
“Turn the negativity into something positive.”

“The budget cuts have become opportunistic because we are having to think outside the box.”Jody Kennedy, Teacher
White Plains Middle School New York

#3 Be atransformer by…

The Importance of Administration
2 choices:
Remove the obstacle.
Be the obstacle.

Policies, Filtration, Admin

#3 Be atransformer by removing obstacles and beware of transmitting negativity.

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You don’t have to influence everyone at once
Leverage Influence:
Formal Leaders
Opinion Leaders

You don’t have to be the admin if you can influence the admin.

You don’t have to be the teacher if you can influence the teacher.

Find or Become an Opinion Leader
Knowledgeable
Trustworthy
Generous with their time
Influencer p 154

Successful technology integration ispeople-centric.
People-Related Vital Behaviors

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#4 Harnessthe power ofvicarious learning.

Phobias we’re dealing with
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas
Kainophobia- Fear of anything new•
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking
TECHNO
phobia

How long does it take to overcome a phobia of snakes?

Influencing deep beliefs

How long does it take to overcome a phobia of snakes?
Albert Bandura, N. Aclan, J. Beyer “Cognitive Process Mediating BehavioralChange.” Cognitive Theory & Research, 1 (1977): 287-310.

3hours

Flat Classroom ConferenceDoha, Qatar 2009
Mumbai India 2010
http://flatclassroomconference.wikispaces.com

#4 Harnessthe power ofvicarious learning.

#5 Learning must become an organizational habit embedded in weekly routines.

Our PDlooks like this

It should look likethis

Embed Learning
15 minutes2-3 times a week

Kaizen =Slow, steady improvement

“You cannot step in the same river twice.” Heraclitus

#5 Learning must become an organizational habit embedded in weekly routines.

#6 Organizations examine and limit data streams. You become what you measure.

Examine Data StreamsF - alseE - videnceA - ppearingR - eal

#6 Organizations examine and limit data streams. You become what you measure.
Organizational Vital Behaviors

#7 Organizations encourage Kaizen (slow, steady improvement)

Kaizen =Slow, steady improvement

Learning Capital
Created when you pilot or implement new technology programs.
Invest in people who can and will teach others to stimulate vicarious learning (opinion leaders.)

#7 Organizations encourage Kaizen (slow, steady improvement)

#8 Successful organizations have an agile curriculum.

“Access to this participatory culture functions as a new form of the hidden curriculum, shaping which youths will succeed and which will be left behind as they enter school and the workplace.”Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture, McArthur Report
Hidden Curriculum

Curricular agility – the ability to detect hidden and known curriculum opportunities and bring into widespread use to promote effective learning.

#8 Successful organizations have an agile curriculum.

#9 Successful organizations have participatory and…

“If they help build it, they are already THERE.”
Build a participatory culture

“Flatten piloting and implementation of new technology.”

There are safeways to do what some consider dangerous.

It is NOTabout theTechnology!

It is about what the technology lets you DO!

Interoperability
“ Rather than dealing with each technology in isolation, we would do better to take an ecological approach, thinking about the interrelationships among different communication technologies, the culture communities… the activities they support.”Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture, McArthur Report

#9 Successful organizations have participatory and evolving technology ecosystems.

#10 Successful educational organizations embrace multiple modalities.

If Helen Keller were in your school, would she become Helen Keller?

#10 Successful educational organizations embrace multiple modalities.

Eat a watermelon

Not whole!

Small bites!

The power of Three!
Pick three

“Every day is a new dayto a wise man.”Dale Carnegie,How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Kindle location 449

What you can do TODAY
List your Big 3
Build your Personal Learning Network
Find the “X”

My Most Essential Skill
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Determining the focalpoint for myself and my organization at each moment.

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“Discover a few vitalbehaviors, change those, and problems – no matter their size – topple like a house of cards.” Kerry Patterson et al, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, p 28

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Thomas Carlyle
“Our job is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

www.coolcatteacher.comVicki Davis

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Twenty First Century Influencer

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