Keynote Presentation at CUEBC on October 21 2016 at Riverside Secondary School.

1. Mission Accomplished?
The Exciting State of our Digital Connections in BC
October 21, 2016
CHRIS KENNEDY
Superintendent of
Schools,West
Vancouver School
District
Computer Using
Educators of British
Columbia Conference
Riverside Secondary,
Port Coquitlam

2. With thanks to Bill Selak: http://www.billselak.com/2012/thingsthatsuck
AWESOME OR NOT!?

3. Coding as a course?

4. The state of social media use in schools?

5. The role of CUEBC in 2021?

6. When I think about the state of technology in
BC schools, I just keep thinking of this photo.

8. What has
changed?

9. RELIABLE INTERNET
CONNECTIVITY

10. DEVICES FOR STAFF

11. BRINGYOUR OWN
DEVICE PLANS

12. PHONES

13. SOCIAL MEDIA

14. WI-FI

15. UNBLOCKING

16. FLEXIBILITY

17. ACCESS

18. ACROSS
MUCH OFTHE
PROVINCE

22. What
could be

23. DO OLDTHINGS
BETTER

24. “Students today depend too
much upon ink.They don’t know
how to use a pen knife to
sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will
never replace the pencil.”
National Association ofTeachers, 1907

26. DO NEWTHINGS
YOU COULDN’T
DO AT ALL

27. “If I’d asked my
customers what they
wanted, they would
have told me ‘A faster
horse.’” Henry Ford

28. 5 obstacles
No need
No money
No hurry
No desire
No trust

29. People prefer things that are easy to think about

30. Know what teachers want

31. Can I change?

32. Everyone benefits

33. The
goal

34. It’s not technology

35. What many want for their children is the
benefits of digital learning
Relevant, connected,
unlimited

36. Create a new
norm for how
teachers and
students learn

37. Can’t scale and sustain
without technology

38. TOOLS matter, because tools impact the way you
interact.You don’t need to use every tool, but every tool
you use you must use well – Seth Godin

39. Access
Direction

40. Moving to one-to-one opportunities
What does
this mean?

42. What about
equity?

43. Technology can help overcome
barriers of access and
geography

44. Twitter Break
Select a video that
highlights the promise of
technology. Post it toTwitter
and tag it #cuebc16

46. MOBILETECHNOLOGY CAN
CHANGE LEARNING
GOOD WRITING STILL MATTERS
USING SOCIAL MEDIA NEEDSTO
BETAUGHT
NETWORKS ARE ESSENTIAL
THE REALWORLD IS ADDICTIVE

47. So what are we
doing now

48. Google has become
our got-to place and
tool.

49. Wordpress has taken
over our websites.

50. Digital tools like
FreshGrade andTechbook
are growing in popularity

51. Coding and Robotics have
gone from nowhere to
everywhere

52. All of the digital shifts are
part of ONE story

53. ALL ABOUT CULTURE

54. “Culture Eats Strategy
for Breakfast”

55. Focus on a Few
Things

56. INNOVATION IN ACTION
Letter grade
free
assessment
Maker
movement
iPads in
elementary
music class
Reggio Emilia
inspired
programs
Bienalle arts
projects
across
schools
Passion
projects
Heart rate
monitors in
PE

57. What Does Support Look Like?CELEBRATE RISK TAKING

58. SHINE A LIGHT ON INNOVATION

59. Teachers
Schools
Districts
Governments
• Will make it easier
for students...
• Will make it easier
for teachers...
• Will make it easier
for schools...
• Will make it easier
for districts...
To be
FLEXIBLE

60. Yeah, but . . .
?How do you
scale the work

61. YOU DON’T
YOU CONNECT AND BUILD NETWORKS
Think diffusion not replication

62. Learning, not technology, is the driver

65. Personalization
We need to narrow the framework
Digital
literacy

68. Redesigned Curriculum
 Addresses the changing face of education
 Big ideas and enduring understandings
 Personalized learning
 Core competencies
• Thinking
• Communicating
• Social/Personal

70. What we
ARE NOT doing

74. SameThings for everyone

75. TRENDS

77. OverpromiseUnder deliver

78. PERSONALIZED
=
INDIVIDUALIZED
X

80. Luke: I can’t believe it
Yoda: That is why you fail

82. He says the problem with teachers is
What’s a kid going to learn
from someone who decided his best option in life
was to become a teacher?

83. He reminds the other dinner guests that it’s true
what they say about teachers:
Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.

84. . . .
I mean, you’re a teacher, Taylor.
Be honest. What do you make?

85. This is . . .

86. OUR WORLD

87. OUR LIVES

88. OUR CHILDREN

89. OUR CURRICULUM

90. OUR CHALLENGE

91. OUR WORK

92. OUR ART

93. OUR JOY

147. You want to know what I make? I make kids
wonder,

148. I make them question.

149. I make them criticize.
I make them apologize and mean it.

150. I make them write.
I make them read, read, read.

151. I make them spell definitely beautiful,
definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful
over and over and over again until they will
never misspell
either one of those words again.

152. . . .
and if someone ever tries to judge you
by what you by what you make, you give them this.

257. . . .
Here, let me break it down for you, so you
know what I say is true:

258. Teachers make a goddamn difference! Now
what about you?

259. Excerpts from poem:
What Teachers Make
by Taylor Mali
Leading in Learning

260. Where you can find me:
ckennedy@wvschools.ca
604-202-4379
@chrkennedy
Chris Kennedy
cultureofyes.ca
westvancouverschools.ca