AIMS Tech Retreat
April 2009

Excerpt from:
TED Talk: Tim Brown on creativity and play

30 seconds to
draw your
neighbor

EXERCISE

LEARNING

NOVELTY

Excerpt from:
TED Talk: Ken Robinson – Do schools kill creativity?

NOVELTY
COMMUNITY

We have concluded…that the
construction of a learning
community…is the key to a
successful outcome…
RENA PALLOFF and KEITH PRATT

Example 1:

57% EAGER
YOUR PERSPECTIVE
ON COLLEAGUES’
PARTICIPATION IN P.D.

Marguerite
thinking…
seeing…
Ω
hearing…
saying…
2 minutes to
draw an
doing… empathy map

Discussion
How do we handle change?

Excerpt from:
Ben Zander Davos Talk

Example 2:

Brainstorm: Possibility
http://isenet.ning.com/group/aimstechnologyretreat

Discussion
Share one strategy for
“awakening” collaboration

AREAS IN WHICH YOU PARTICIPATE IN P.D.
91%
PRIMARY
45%
OTHER
18%
UNRELATED

WHY YOU PARTICIPATE IN P.D.
97%
KNOWLEDGE
84%
COLLEAGUES
55%
CHALLENGE

…those of us who are trying to
get colleagues to identify and
question their assumptions, or
to look at their practice through
different lenses, must do the
same…
STEPHEN BROOKFIELD

Personal Networks

me
family
dog walkers
& neighbors
colleagues
1 minute to
blogs & listservs
spiral your
Ningers communities

Social Networking In Plain English
from CommonCraft
http://isenet.ning.com

http://isenet.ning.com/group/aimstechnologyretreat

Join us!
http://isenet.ning.com
http://isenet.ning.com/group/aimstechnologyretreat

enjoyable PD

Transformative learning moves a
student from someone who takes in
information to a reflective
practitioner involved with the
creation of knowledge.
Rena Palloff & Keith Pratt

…collaborative learning and
reflective practice are necessary for
transformative learning to occur.
Rena Palloff & Keith Pratt

Continuing Conversation

a Twitter post that will encourage
your faculty to join a social network
#AIMSTech09
by hand, by Tweat, by Ning

The more
teachers
involved in the
network , the
more value the
network has for
everyone.

AIMS Tech Retreat
April 2009
Laurie Bartels