Closing Keynote for the Palm Beach County District Technology Conference

1. Dean Shareski
http://ideasandthoughts.org
@shareski
What’s Your UnFair
Advantage?

2. My prize

4. @shareski
dean_shareski@discovery.com
shareski.ca

5. August 2011

6. http://shareski.ca/y/abq1

8. Who’s the big kid in the suspenders?

10. Why Doesn’t
Christina Ever
Smile?

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

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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 because it’s a waste of time.

18. joyful image
https://www.flickr.com/photos/plugusin/16694030660

19. joy
/joi/
Noun

20. joy
/joi/
Noun
1.the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by
the prospect of possessing what one desires
2.the expression or exhibition of such emotion

21. You know it when
you See it

23. “Joyful Learning was life”
“Playfulness as an intellectual
goal is appropriate to learning.
It’s more effective, more
humane, more childlike.”
Seymour Papert

25. “...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.”

26. “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.”
“...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.”

28. “Failure is free, high-quality research, offering
direct evidence of what works and what
doesn’t.
Cheap failure, valuable as it is on its own, is
also a key part of a more complex advantage:
the exploration of multiple possibilities.”
Clay Shirky

29. "If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent
would ever get done."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

36. “It’s got a leg,
like me!”

42. “one of the best things you
can do for your students is
to be an interesting adult”
Gary Stager

51. What is your “unfair”
advantage?

57. “That time I
got
outpants"

59. Miss C Miss B Miss A
A new perspective on the effects of first grade teachers on children’s
subsequent adult status.
Pedersen, E., Faucher, T.A., & Eaton, W.W. (1978).
Harvard Educational Review, 48(1) 1–31.

60. Miss C Miss B Miss A
I. Q. Scores at 6th Grade

61. Miss C Miss B Miss A
I. Q. Scores at 6th Grade

62. Miss C Miss B Miss A
I. Q. Scores at 6th Grade

63. Miss C Miss B Miss A
I. Q. Scores at 6th Grade

64. Miss C Miss B Miss A
I. Q. Scores at 6th Grade

65. Miss C Miss B Miss A
I. Q. Scores at 6th Grade

66. Miss C Miss B Miss A
I. Q. Scores at 6th Grade

68. Education
Salary Occupation
Appearance Family Status
Housing

69. AdultScore
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Miss C Miss B Miss A
Education
Salary Occupation
Appearance Family Status
Housing

70. AdultScore
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Miss C Miss B Miss A
Education
Salary Occupation
Appearance Family Status
Housing

71. AdultScore
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Miss C Miss B Miss A
Education
Salary Occupation
Appearance Family Status
Housing

72. AdultScore
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Miss C Miss B Miss A
Education
Salary Occupation
Appearance Family Status
Housing

73. What was your teacher’s name?

74. Rememberedtheirteacher’sname
0
21
42
63
84
105
Other Teachers Miss A
What was your teacher’s name?

75. Rememberedtheirteacher’sname
0
21
42
63
84
105
Other Teachers Miss A

76. Rememberedtheirteacher’sname
0
21
42
63
84
105
Other Teachers Miss A

78. “never lost her temper”
“showed affection”
“believed in us”
“spend extra hours with them”
“high expectations”

79. Do you Remember Your
First Grade Teacher’s Name?

80. Will They
Remember My
Name?

84. “Joy is the serious business of heaven”
C.S. Lewis

86. Thank you
@shareski
shareski.ca