1. Connect, Create, Transform:
Using Technology to
Enhance Professional
Learning
Scott Friedman, Principal, Nine Mile Falls Elementary
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8. If effective principals energize teachers in complex time,
what is going to energize principals?
- Michael Fullan, The New Meaning of Educational Change, 2001
9. Essential Questions
• How will I create connections that will
allow me to grow professionally?
• How will the connections I create
enrich the learning of my staff?
• Can technology really transform my
leadership?
10. Don’t use the tools of today to support your effort to do yesterday’s
job better.
Seth Godin - Brainwashed
13. Networked Teacher
Alex Couros
We grew up isolated. The future is connected.
Seth Godin - Brainwashed
14.
15. It’s no longer enough to
do powerful work if no
one sees it.
-Chris Lehman
16. If you’ve got the time, the intellect and the
access to get your hands on an idea ... then
you have the ability to reinvent yourself.
Seth Godin - Brainwashed
17. why twitter?
free
Connected
always on
Self-Directed
25. is it really ok for
administrators not to
incorporate digital
technologies into their
learning?
26. treat seriously and own personally the task of becoming
proficient with the digital tools that are transforming
everything instead of nonchalantly chuckling about how little
we as educators know about computers. - Scott McLeod
29. the 30 minute investment
Do something for half an hour a day will build your capacity
and you will gradually improve.
What will you do with your half-hour?
30.
31. Essential Questions
• How will I create connections that will
allow me to grow professionally?
• How will the connections I create
enrich the learning of my staff?
• Can technology really transform my
leadership?
32.
33. by leveraging the tools of technology leaders can become more
efficient in their practice and create conditions that support
continuous learning.
Hopefully this isn’t how you feel right now or how you will feel upon leaving A couple of details for safety
Interview the person next to you..............one person talks and the other listens...........than switch............. Share out quickly depending on group size...........
How can this be done? How can we possibly find the time?
Where do we get our energy? Where do we get our learning? Where do we turn to when we are down? Where do we turn in a time of help? How do we access knowledge on tight budgets?
Doing the same thing again and again and to expect different results is insanity. The job has changed, our work has changed, therefore our efforts need to change.
