The document provides an overview of a presentation by Dean Shareski on how technology can make us more human. It introduces Dean and provides information on who he is and how to contact him. The premise of the presentation is described as focusing on describing ideas rather than prescribing them, with the goal of starting a conversation where the audience participates as learners. Examples of how technology like laptops and new media are used by students in playful, creative ways to solve problems and tell stories are provided. The importance of wonder, play, and community in learning is discussed.

1. Technology to Make Us
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintus/6085208234/
Dean Shareski
Twin Falls
September 29nd, 2012

2. Technology to Make Us
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintus/6085208234/
more human Dean Shareski
Twin Falls
September 29nd, 2012

3. Who Am I?

4. Golfer
Husband/Father
Teacher
Who Am I?
Community Builder Learner Sharer

5. @shareski
dean_shareski@discovery.com
shareski.ca

6. http://shareski.ca/y/slideshare

7. Premise

8. Premise
✴ Describe not Prescribe

9. Premise
✴ Describe not Prescribe
✴ ideas and research are only good useful if
you own them

10. Premise
✴ Describe not Prescribe
✴ ideas and research are only good useful if
you own them
✴ You Make the Connections

11. Premise
✴ Describe not Prescribe
✴ ideas and research are only good useful if
you own them
✴ You Make the Connections
✴ Let's start a conversation

12. Premise
✴ Describe not Prescribe
✴ ideas and research are only good useful if
you own them
✴ You Make the Connections
✴ Let's start a conversation
✴ learner first, teacher second

13. Premise
✴ Describe not Prescribe
✴ ideas and research are only good useful if
you own them
✴ You Make the Connections
✴ Let's start a conversation
✴ learner first, teacher second
✴ We're Grade 4's on the Playground (@ijohnpederson)

14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/storm-crypt/2889441616/

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/storm-crypt/2889441616/

19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/2612150726/

20. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four
minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off
switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47
apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing
ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had
hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our
organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and
they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/2612150726/

22. http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossmoorhistory/3642378152

23. “People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things
they weren't so crazy about the first time around.”
~Author Unknown
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossmoorhistory/3642378152

24. 5

25. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22326055@N06/4181823128/

26. JOY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22326055@N06/4181823128/

46. With regards to creating a video like that do you:

47. With regards to creating a video like that do you:
A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address
some curricular outcomes but you might have to look
them up later. Fingers crossed.

48. With regards to creating a video like that do you:
A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address
some curricular outcomes but you might have to look
them up later. Fingers crossed.
B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful
things with students is important.

49. With regards to creating a video like that do you:
A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address
some curricular outcomes but you might have to look
them up later. Fingers crossed.
B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful
things with students is important.
C. Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity
because you're not sure where it fits with a robust
curriculum but still think it's important.

50. With regards to creating a video like that do you:
A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address
some curricular outcomes but you might have to look
them up later. Fingers crossed.
B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful
things with students is important.
C. Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity
because you're not sure where it fits with a robust
curriculum but still think it's important.
D. Not do it at all.

51. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

52. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

53. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

54. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
I’m appearing to accept an
odious premise—namely,
that joy must be justified as
a means to the end of
better academic
performance. Not so:
It’s an end in itself.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

55. Are our classrooms places of joy?
How can technology be instruments of
joy?

56. http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/education/pics/4_11_one_rm_school_520.jpg

57. wonder
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/education/pics/4_11_one_rm_school_520.jpg

63. Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed
in the styrofoam cup:
The roots go down and
the plant goes up
and nobody really
knows how or why, but
we are all like that.

65. 1,765

66. 1,765

67. Do your students come to school to
wonder?
What have you seen or experienced
lately that put you in awe?

69. PLAY

70. http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842

72. “...the pattern has been that as children grow up and
become more proficient at making sense of the
environment in which they live, their world seems to
become more stable. Thus, as a child grows and
becomes accustomed to the world, the perceived need
for play.”

73. “...the pattern has been that as children grow up and
become more proficient at making sense of the
environment in which they live, their world seems to
become more stable. Thus, as a child grows and
becomes accustomed to the world, the perceived need
for play.”
“As we watch the world move to a state of near-constant
change and flux, we believe that connecting play
and imagination may be the single most important
step in unleashing the new culture of learning.”

74. http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewarchy/2391115592

75. Problem Solvers

76. Problem Finders

77. “Don’t watch guys teach you. Watch guys learn. They
don’t know the answer. We’re in the journey together.
Now the audience are participants. And we see not only
the result but the process.” Marco Torres

78. “Don’t watch guys teach you. Watch guys learn. They
don’t know the answer. We’re in the journey together.
Now the audience are participants. And we see not only
the result but the process.” Marco Torres

80. The app Effect

81. The app Effect

86. How are you making play an intentional
part of your day?
Of your students day?

87. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/254148969

88. Story
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/254148969

89. The

90. Truth

91. About

92. Stories

93. is...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9812708@N03/2666345725/

94. The

95. Truth

96. About

97. Stories

98. is...
That's All We Are
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9812708@N03/2666345725/

99. 40

108. Are you telling stories in new ways?
How are you helping students use new
media to tell compelling stories?

109. http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/education/pics/4_11_one_rm_school_520.jpg

110. COMMUNITY
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/education/pics/4_11_one_rm_school_520.jpg

112. The smartest person in the room,
is the room. Dave Weinberger
cc licensed flickr photo by torres21: http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/484675706/

113. Mind Your Own Business
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwentechaney/5438197592
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572656/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4309317689

114. Mind Your Own Business
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwentechaney/5438197592
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572656/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4309317689

115. Mind Your Own Business
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwentechaney/5438197592
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572656/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4309317689

117. What did you learn from others?
What did you contribute to the
learning of others?

120. “At this age, they get stuck on
Wikipedia being the answer to
everything and they forget that
people can be a really great
resource.”

121. You can't do this on your own

122. My Learning Project

128. My Teaching Staff

139. ...connecting educators to their greatest resource

140. ...connecting educators to their greatest resource
...each other
http://www.flickr.com/photos/khokanson/188856360

142. Dan Meyer
http://blog.mrmeyer.com

148. How are you fostering community in your
classroom?
Are you regularly contributing to the
learning of others both locally and
globally? Does it even matter?

151. Thanks
shareski.ca
@shareski
dean_shareski@disco
very.com