The document discusses strategies for making better choices about mobile device use. It recommends considering opportunity costs of all options, not just preferred ones. It also suggests running experiments by trying new approaches and ensuring failures are survivable and one knows when something hasn't worked. The document emphasizes preparing to be wrong and considering options simultaneously rather than with confirmation bias. It concludes by proposing a checklist for mobile device use that is concise and addresses different roles within a school.
8. Strategy v. Development
Purpose
Development is concerned
with how the organisation is
going to adapt and improve –
within the strategic
parameters
Strategy is concerned with defining the shape and
extent of the organisation
12. Chip & Dan Heath
Decisive
Narrow framing means you miss options
Confirmation bias leads you to gather self-serving
information
Short-term emotion often tempts you to make the
wrong one
But you are overconfident about how the future will
unfold
13. Tim Harford
Adapt
The three essential steps are: to try
new things, in the expectation that
some will fail; to make failure
survivable, because it will be common;
and to make sure you know when you
have failed…
14. Chip & Dan Heath
Decisive
1. Think of opportunity cost;
2. Consider a range of options
simultaneously;
3. Find someone who has solved your
problem;
4. Run experiments;
5. Prepare to be wrong.
19. Breakout
Checklist for mobile device use
Checklist
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Read - do
Do – confirm
‘Killer items’
Should be on one page
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Technology managers?
Senior Leaders?
Middle Leaders?
Teachers?
How can we avoid this nightmare – pocket PCs/Kindles/Palm Pilots/Old LaptopsQuality of the debate is low
Still seem to have a problem with mobile phones – top searches for schools and phones comes up with bullying and banning!
Part of the reason – we are drawn into things that look nice!
Technology amplifies what we do – Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas talk about us being tool minded
Everyone needs to understand or have access to where you are going – if not it can seem like aimless wandering
Choice architecture – mobile device use and school planning – works on both levels
Works for classroom teaching and whole school options
Boeing Model 299 in 1935 had an incredible design. It was expected to be ordered and put into service. The problem was, the competition test pilot and his crew were killed during the test. Nothing mechanical had gone wrong. The complexity required attention and as a result, the pilot had forgotten to complete a single, simple task to release the locking mechanism on the rudder controls. Need to overcome the failiability of human memory and lulling themselves into skipping steps because they don’t always matter until they do and something goes wrong and we end up
With schools being complex and filled with specialists, in terms of content (Teachers), Pedagogy (Middle & Senior Leaders) and technology (ICT team) and dealing with their own issues, how do you get them working well without producing cognitive overload?Expectation to coordinate and communicate and need room to react and adapt
Provide a great education for your students – if you are chasing the shiny and what is new,
