7th 21st Century Learning Conference in Hong Kong

1. What I learned in Hong Kong
Take-Aways From the 7th
21st
Century Learning Conference
Ruth Valle

2. Judy Willis
• Build cognitive flexibility-Cognitive
Flexibility and Control is the ability to
change what you are thinking about, how you are
thinking about it and even what you think about
it – in other words, the ability to change your
mind. Cognitive flexibility is required in multiple
ways throughout the school day.
• Being able to multitask is not a bad thing
• Lower the barriers not the bar

3. Michael Boll
• Go entrepreneurial: a start-up approach to bring
change or a new program to your organization
• What is your new idea?
• Why? (What’s your story?)
• Mission statement
• MVP- minimal viable product (donut)
• List assumptions
• Pick your team
• Always work to reduce friction (learn from
resistance)

4. Michael Boll
• Everything is marketing
• Develop the “about me” section
• Get people to spread your story
• Find early adopters
• Publicize the adopters

5. Brenda Petersen- National History
Day
• Nhd.org

6. Bryant McIntyre
• http://intlbob.com
• International Battle of the Books

7. Ruben Puentedura
• SAMR Model
• An Introduction to SAMR

8. Hamish Clark- The future is now
• http://www.hamishclark.com
• Born to learn

9. Kevin Duncan
• Big Time Presentations
• Time- 3-5 minutes, then build up to 8 minutes
• Set high expectations
• Goals
• Develop a rubric
• Planning and research
• Outine
• Practice/feedback
• Videotape the speeches for review

10. Kevin Duncan
• Allow to use the front of a 3x5 index card
• Dress up for the speech
• Provide for a venue that’s classy
• Branding- in the videotapes, have identical
beginnings and endings
• Practice answering questions about the speeches

11. Angela McFarlane
• If you expect to be able to use technology in the
classroom then provide hardwired connections
rather than unreliable WIFI- no serious business
would depend on WIFI

12. Cris Turple
• Chrome Extensions
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeb8VN
quOmD_PKQaKwN32fZAiS3e41fiUt9qhwbjnjE/
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13. What I learned in Hong Kong
• http://wikitravel.org/en/Hong_Kong

14. What else I learned in Hong Kong
• Families really only have one or at the most two
children
• They drive on the left side of the road
• They don’t believe in “ladies first”
• They won’t open the door for you
• The food is horrible- really
• Starbucks is everywhere
• They play Christmas music and decorate
buildings

15. What else I learned in Hong Kong
• All signs are in Mandarin Chinese and English
• After a while you learn to decipher the signs
• It’s very clean- n0 trash anywhere
• Restrooms, called toilets, are everywhere
• People don’t walk on one side in each direction-
anything goes
• Most men and women wear black
• They bow by slightly inclining their necks

16. What else I learned in Hong Kong
• Asian parents are very involved in their child’s
education- they are constantly at school
• There are lots of American teachers in Asian
countries on 3-5 year assignments
• Some of the international teachers, esp. the ones
from Germany refuse to use technology and believe
that they should teach the way they have been
teaching for 200 years- why change what works?
• The international teachers are not too concerned
about their retirement- job
advancement/satisfaction is their goal

17. 7th
21st
Century Learning Conference
Hong Kong
• Some Pictures
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