This document discusses how disruptive technology can enhance learning. It notes that professional development is critical for teachers and that technology increases student engagement. While there is limited research on the impact of technology on test scores, it can have a tremendous impact on school culture. The document advocates moving away from standardized, batch instruction toward a more customized and modular approach using software to deliver learning. It also cautions against relying too heavily on data to solve complex problems in education.

1. Ready, Set, Disrupt
Joe Bires
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2. Today’s Big Questions
1. What do we know about learning and
technology?
2. How can we use disruptive technology to
enhance learning?

3. “Don’t be an instigator, don’t
interrupt, don’t be
disruptive, don’t talk
back, don’t rock the boat; now
get out there and lead”
--@LeeJCarey

4. From David Letterman’s Top Ten List
– # 6 – “Bring a flash camera. Take pictures every
few minutes, using a very bright flash. If anyone
complains, say that you didn't see any sign saying
you couldn't bring cameras.”

9. “If you do not manage
culture, it manages you, and
you may not even be aware of
the extent to which this is
happening.”
---Robert Mintz

10. Research on Tech. in Schools
• Professional Development is critical.
• Students can care for their device.
• Increases student engagement, enthusiasm
and motivation.
• Tremendous impact on school culture.
• Limited research on the impact of technology
on test scores.

11. VS.

13. “technology is any process
by which the inputs and
outputs are modified.”

14. “describes a process by which a product or
service takes root initially in simple
applications at the bottom of a market and
then relentlessly moves ‘up
market’, eventually displacing established
competitors.”

15. “We organize our schools around obedience.
Tests, comportment, the very structure of the
day is about training young people to follow
instructions…. And the rationale for this
appears to be that at some point, obedience
transforms into self-control…. Self-control is
without a doubt one of the building blocks of
success…But help me understand why
obedience is the way to get there? Compliant
sergeants rarely become great generals.
--Seth Godin

17. “Standardization clashes with the need
for customization in learning. To
introduce customization, schools need
to move away from the monolithic
instruction of batches of students
toward a modular, student-centric
approach using software as an
important delivery vehicle.”

18. “Because learning will no longer be as
variable, we can compare students not by
what percentage of the material they have
mastered, but by comparing how far they
have moved through a body of material.”

19. “we have a bias to think we can solve
complicated problems just by collecting more
and more data.”
– Clayton Christensen @claychristensen

20. Cultures vs. Policies of Innovation

21. What does this look like?

23. If you want to LEAD….
Then you need to
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