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Empowering The Educational LeaderChange
Is Good-You Go First

• Howie DiBlasi
• Emerging Technologies Evangelist
• Digital Journey
• howie_at_frontier.net
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com
• Presentation 2008

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howie_at_frontier.net
Conference LinksTools For The Classroom
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Marc Prensky

• Schools are stuck in the 20th century. Students
  have rushed into the 21st. How can schools catch
  up and provide students with a relevant
  education?

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• Most of our classrooms of today are still using
  methods that we used over 30 years ago. We need
  to move our teachers from the old tools to the
  new tools that our Digital Natives use.

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• Educators need to be genuine, authentic leaders
  that will infuse meaning in what we do as
  teachers. We all need to tell our success
  stories, assist others in helping, influence and
  inspire people around us.

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Retool instruction, or U.S. will
fail
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Many of our students use Blogs and WikisHow do
we prepare our students to become not only
readers and writers, but editors and
collaborators as well?
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What needs to change about our curriculum when
our students have the ability to reach audiences
far beyond our classroom walls?
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We are currently preparing students for jobs that
dont yet exist . . .
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Lessons in Politically Incorrect Accountability
by Dave AndersonWhat's Your Excuse, White Boy?

• How can you rationalize, trivialize, or
  marginalize the fact that you aren't successful?
  It's been a white male's world in this country
  since it began. You've made the rules, held the
  highest offices, run the major corporations, and
  controlled the country's purse strings. Compared
  to your coworker counterparts, you haven't had to
  fight prejudice, march for civil or equal rights,
  petition for the right to vote, or sue for equal
  wages in the workplace. Your color and gender
  have made you more immediately acceptable,
  preferable, and prone to promotion for centuries.
  

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If you are a mentally and physically healthy
white male and can't find success in this
country, under these most favorable conditions,
you are without a doubt the biggest loser in the
history of mankind. Whine all you like about
affirmative action, reverse discrimination, and
other injustices you see, as the balance of power
begins to slowly shift away from your domain.
While these corrupt practices are misguided and
wrong they're not to fault for your sorry state.
Your problem is that you surrendered much of the
head start granted at your conception to a
combination of smugness, laziness, arrogance,
sloppy character, absent discipline, failure to
educate yourself, and complacency-and now you've
got to suck it up, swallow your pride, and get
back to work before you become an irrelevant
pimple in the white trash wing of the has-been
hall of fame. Don't expect anyone to shed tears
for you. It's high time you put down the can of
Meisterbrau, get off your puke green sofa, pull
up your pants over your butt cheeks, bleach the
tobacco stains from your hands, brush your tooth,
and get a job!
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What does the Dept. Of Commerce have to say about
education..Where does it rank ?
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Learning To Change..Changing To Learn
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The U.S. Dept of Commerce ranked 55 industry
sectors by their level of I.T. intensiveness..
Education was ranked 55th . .DEAD LAST
Below Coal Mining
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The fact is, our young people are woefully under
prepared for the demands of todays workplace,
Ken Kay, President of the Partnership for 21st
Century
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I guess I am crazy enough to think I can change
the world and hope I have a small impact on what
we do as educators, DiBlasi said.
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Think Different.
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Think Different..Apple 1997
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Name the 17 people in the commercial.

• You have 2 min.

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If you want change ..Be The Change

• Gandhi
• Michael Angier
• Guy Kawasaki
• Will Richardson
• Angela Jackson
• Shri Ram Katha
• John W. Snider
• Howie DiBlasi

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New report urges U.S. schools to create
21st-century environments in classrooms.
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-- students are mind-numbingly bored in class.
Listen up"I'm bored 99 percent of the time."
(California)"School is really, really boring."
(Virginia)"We are so bored." (Texas)"Engage us
more." (Texas)"My teachers bore me so much I
don't pay attention." (Detroit)"Pointless. I'm
engaged in two out of my seven classes."
(Florida)
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Digital Kids-Analog Schools
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We need to provide the curriculum that will
accomplish 3 major objectives

• Use technology comprehensively to develop
  proficiency in 21st century skills. Learn how to
  prepare our students to be successful in a
  competitive world and include ways to prepare our
  student to be prepared to succeed in
  postsecondary institutions and workplaces, which
  increasingly value people who can use their
  knowledge to communicate, collaborate, analyze,
  create, innovate, and solve problems. 1
• 1. From the report,
  Maximizing the Impact, is available at
  http//www.setda.org/web/guest/maximizingimpactrep
  ort.

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• Use technology comprehensively to support
  innovative teaching and learning.
• Learn how to offer more rigorous, relevant and
  engaging opportunities for students to learn--and
  to apply their knowledge and skills in meaningful
  ways. Digital Story Telling allows the digital
  students to support new, research-based
  approaches and promising practices in teaching
  and learning.
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• Use technology comprehensively to create robust
  education support systems.
• Teachers and administrators need training, tools
  and proficiency in 21st century skills
  themselves. Student projects will allow our
  students and staff to transforms standards and
  assessments, curriculum and instruction,
  professional development, learning environments,
  and administration. 1

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Students prefer dealing with questions rather
than answers, sharing their opinions,
participating in group projects, working with
real-world issues and people, and having teachers
who talk to them as equals rather than as
inferiors.
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Kids have almost no choices at all about how they
are educated -- they are, for the most part, just
herded into classrooms and told what to do and
when to do it.
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Skills for successhttp//www.graduateopportunitie
s.com/career_advice/graduate_skills

• So what skills do employers seek in their
  graduate recruits? Although it varies
  considerably from industry to industry, and from
  job to job, there are some capabilities commonly
  valued by most graduate employers. Academic
  achievement is obviously important, but it is not
  everything. Core skills which employers seek
  include

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Skills for success

• Team work
• Adaptability
• Literacy and numeracy
• Time management and organisation
• Oral and written communication
• Creative problem-solving
• Initiative and enterprise
• Critical and analytical thinking
• Ability to apply discipline knowledge and
  concepts
• Information gathering, evaluation and synthesis
• Emotional intelligence interpersonal skills
• Balanced lifestyle and capacity to manage stress
  levels
• Community involvement
• Personal attributes such as ambition,
  self-awareness and an inquiring mind.

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What they dont want

• Poor teamwork skills
• lack of leadership skills
• Poor attitude / lack of work ethic / poor
  approach to work
• Lack of interpersonal and communication skills
  (written, oral, listening) Lack of drive,
  motivation, enthusiasm and initiative
• Arrogance / selfishness / aggression/ dominating
• Lack of commitment / high absenteeism/ lack of
  loyalty
• Inflexibility/ inability to accept direction,
  challenges or change
• Poor or inappropriate academic qualifications or
  results
• Lack of emotional intelligence, self-awareness or
  self-confidence
• Lack of commitment / high absenteeism / lack of
  loyalty

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Is this what will happen if we do NOT provide our
Digital Kids with 21st Century Skills?
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Sooooooooohow do we get there?
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How will you live your dash ?

• Poem is called "The Dash" by Linda Ellis.
• William B. DiBlasi
• 1913 - 2006

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Is your life successful or significant?

• Which is more important to you share with your
  neighbor
• Share with the group

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Is your life successful or significant?

• Do you have a heart for people?
• Do you want to change?
• Are you committed?
• Are you teachable?
• Will you stay the course?

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I know what my passion is..do you?

• Passion gives energy
• Passion releases energy
• Passion releases creativity

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Self discovery

• Who I am ?
• What is my passion?
• What are my abilities?
• What am I good at?
• What gifts do I have?
• What sets me apart from others?

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• You can be very passionate and it can set you up
  for failure

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You can be very passionate and it can set you up
for failure
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• Where were their friends to tell them

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• Lets take your passion for education and change
  our classrooms

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What Are 21st Century Learning Skills
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• 1. Deal with massive amounts of information2.
  Become self-directed3. Create global
  communications and connections4. Create
  life-long learning skills5. Collect and/or
  retrieve, organize and manage information6.
  Interpret and present information7. Evaluate the
  quality, relevance, and usefulness of
  information8. Generate accurate information
  through the use of existing resources9.
  Information and effective communications
  skills10. Thinking, problem-solving
  interpersonal skills11.Self-directional
  skills12. Use digital technology tools 13.
  Teach and learn in a 21st century context.14.
  Understand Digital Age Literacy15. Understand
  Inventive Thinking 16. Produce High Productivity
  content

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4 Steps to Leadership

• Listen
• Learn
• Lift
• Lead

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• The Ultimate Test of leadership
  
• Creating Positive Change

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Gut check..

• 12 Trouble spots for a leader

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• 1.      Has a poor understanding of people
• 2.      Lacks imagination
• 3.      Has personal problems
• 4.      Passes the buck
• 5.      Feels secure and satisfied
• 6.      Is not organized
• 7.      Flies into rages
• 8.      Will not take risk
• 9.      Is insecure and defensive
• 10. Stays inflexible
• 11. Has no team spirit
• 12. Fight change

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Change is good
You Go First
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Why do people resist Change?

•  Nudge your neighbor.

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•        The change is not self-initiated
•        Routine is disrupted
•        Change creates fear of the unknown
•        The purpose of the change is unclear
•        Change creates fear of failure
•        Rewards for change do not match the
  effort
• change requires
•        People are to satisfied with the way
  things are

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•        Change will not happen when people engage
  in
• negative thinking
•        The follower lacks respect for the leader
•        The leader is susceptible to feelings of
  personal
• criticism
•        Change may mean personal loss
•        Narrow-Mindedness thwarts acceptance of
  new
• ideas
•        Tradition resists change

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Checklist For Change YES NO

• Will this change benefit the followers?
• Is this change compatible with the purpose of the
  organization?
• Is this change specific and clear?
• Are the top 20 percent (the influencers) in favor
  of this change
• Is it possible to test this change before making
  a total commitment to it?
• Are physical, financial and human resources
  available to make this change?
• Is this change reversible?
• Is this change the next obvious step?
• Does this change have both short and long-range
  benefits?
• Is the timing right?
• Is the leadership capable of bringing about this
  change?

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Is the timing right?

• is the ultimate consideration for implementing
  change

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Creating a climate for change- How you can make
it happen

• Develop Trust With People
• Leader must make personal changes before asking
  others to change
• Understand the history of the organization
• Place influencers in leadership positions
• Check the CHANGE IN YOUR POCKET

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• Solicit the support of influencers BEFORE the
  change is made public
• Develop a meeting agenda that will assist change
• Encourage the influencers to influence others
  informally
• Show people how the change will benefit them
• Give people ownership of the change

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HOW TO OFFER OWNERSHIP OF CHANGE TO OTHERS
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• 1.        Inform people in advance
• 2.        Explain the overall objectives
• 3.        Show people how it will benefit them
• 4.        Ask them to participate in all stages
  of the change process

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• 5.    Keep communication channels open
• 6.    Be flexible and adaptable makes changes
  where appropriate
• 7.    Demonstrate your belief and commitment to
  the change
• 8.    Provide enthusiasm, assistance,
  appreciation and recognition to those
  implementing the change

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9. What de we ofter leave out ?

• Staff Development
• Professional Development
• IVC
• On-Line
• Market Place
• Workshops

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Change the classroom
My 21st Century Classroom

• Team of students
• Research team Google AltaVista Search
• Tutorial Team Jing (Create Screencasts)
• Curriculum Team Podcasts (Recordings)
• Scribes Team Google Docs (take class notes)
• Global team e-pals IVC- Skype
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• Need 5 students each day then rotate-every
  student participates in a team

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We want to make use of this new technology to
encourage diversity, we have to take the lead.
Let us make the tests that they foreign
competitors will try to catch up on. These won't
be tests where everybody's got to give the right
answer. They will be tests where people do
things, where they get results. Where knowledge
is not for giving the right answer. Knowledge is
for mobilizing for a purpose, to make something
happen, to achieve a goal. The goal might be
making a machine, it might be creating a work of
art, it might be making a theory, but it's a
personal goal that the individual believes in,
and not something that's written down in a
curriculum.-Seymour Papert (1999))
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Changing Our Classrooms.

• 1.    11 Computer Initiative
• 2. Institute Project Based Learning
• 3. Develop Problem Solving Skills
• 4.    Give Kids A Global Voice and Globalize the
  
• Curriculum
• 5.  Develop Critical Thinking Skills
• 6.    Teach Our Students to Be Self-Directed
• 7. Create Collaborate Communicate
• 8. Develop Information Processing Skills
• 9. IVC - connections
• 10. Staff development

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Lets look at some 21st Century Classrooms
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What would happen if..?
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Austin teacher turns bailout plan into a
lessonLBJ academy students asked to explain
crisis - and they do.
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• Deep into a high-spirited discussion of the 700
  billion bailout plan that President Bush approved
  Friday, economics teacher Malhaz Jibladze rushed
  to the dry-erase board and with a flourish twice
  circled the word he had written PANIC.
• For an hour, the students in Jibladze's advanced
  placement economics course at the Liberal Arts
  and Science Academy at LBJ High School were
  fearless, smart and inquisitive, gamely chipping
  off pieces of a financial problem that has
  stumped plenty of their elders. And with the
  accumulation of their concepts, recorded all over
  the board by Jibladze, came an unpleasant
  realization. What if the American economy failed,
  Jibladze asked.

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Gender Based Classrooms

• Ann Richards School For Young Women
• First in Texas and Austin School District
• State Assessment test (TAKS)
• (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills)
• Reading 6 grade 100
• Reading 7th grade 98
• Math 6th grade 99
• Math 7th grade 98
• Writing 7th grade 98

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Student Enrollment at Ann Richards School For
Young Women

• African American 18
• Hispanic 51
• White 29
• Asian 2

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Austin school district spending 1.37 million to
reform middle schools.
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Dobie Middle School is trying out all-boys and
all-girls classes
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One of the strangest things in this age of young
people's empowerment is how little input our
students have into their own education and its
future. .. Marc Prensky
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The Indispensable Quality of Leadership VISION
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4 Visions Of People

• As I close and walk off the stage..

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4 Visions Of People

• Wanderers Some people never see
  it

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4 Visions Of People

• Followers
• Some people see it but never pursue it on their
  own

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4 Visions Of People

• Achievers
• Some people see it and pursue it

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4 Visions Of People

• Leaders
• Some people see it and pursue it and help others
  see it
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Wanderers Some people never see
itFollowers Some people see it but never
pursue it on their ownAchievers Some
people see it and pursue itLeaders Some
people see it and pursue it and help others see
it Which one are you?
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If you are that Leader..

• from the book The Backdoor to Enlightenment
• Eight Steps to Living Your Dreams and Changing
  Your World

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Will you be the 10th person?

• For every nine people who denounce innovation,
  only one will encourage it.
• For every nine people who do things the way they
  have always been done, only one will ever wonder
  if there is a better way.
• For every nine people who stand in line in front
  of a locked building, only one will ever come
  around and check the back door.
• Our progress as a species rests squarely on the
  shoulders of that tenth person. The nine are
  satisfied with things they are told are valuable.
  
• Person 10 determines for himself what has value.

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Lets Change The World
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The Power Of One Changing the World of
Education One Teacher At A
Time

• Howie DiBlasi
• Emerging Technologies Evangelist
• Digital Journey
• howie_at_frontier.net
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com
• Presentation June,2008

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