1. What to do until we all have all the support, resources and direction we wish we had

2.  Willing to fail  Objective for kids & for you ◦ Big picture ◦ Small excuse  Gather resources & allies  Small bites  Lead by example (Brag)  Ask for more

3.  Life experience. ◦ Psychiatric Aide – Geriatrics Ward ◦ Purchasing for manufacturing ◦ Financial Services ◦ Poison Control ◦ Sales, Marketing, and Data Processing (VP) ◦ Industrial Computer Sales ◦ And at 43 an educator

4.  Computer Skills OJT ◦ Paper tape to a teletype 1969 ◦ Commodore 64 -1983 ◦ Cobol Coding – Late 80s ◦ Personal Computing ◦ Client Server Networking – 1990 ◦ No games or breadboards at home

5.  Teaching Experience

6.  Social Studies 1994-1995

7.  English 1994-1995

8.  Long Term Sub Spring 1996  English – Freshmen, Freshmen SpEd, Poetry, Creative Writing

9.  Home Office – used LC III  School Lab – Disk & Printer

10.  Got the lab whenever we wanted  Did a little troubleshooting, but it basically worked  Writing, and re-writing, and re-re-writing  And rethinking everything I thought I knew about teaching writing

11.  District Technology Coordinator 1996-2003

12.  140 PCs  70 Macs  5 servers  eMail  Website  District Office  Staff Development  Class in Field Engineering  Tutorial in Poli Sci  Information Systems  Umpire Baseball & Softball

13.  State of NH Dep’t of Ed – Co-founder NHEON - http://www.nheon.org/http://www.nheon.org/  TERC – Mathematics & Science Education http://www.terc.edu/ http://www.terc.edu/

14.  2003 Dir Inst Tech High School ◦ Teach Comp Sci ◦ Ass’t Coach Softball  2005 Dir Inst Tech K-12 ◦ Teach Ethics  2007 & Dir Info Systems ◦ Teach Ethics ◦ Remember to breathe

15.  Willing to fail  Objective for kids & for you  Gather resources & allies  Small bites  Lead by example (Brag)  Ask for more

16.  Not plan to fail ◦ Have Plan B  Choose to teach something you already do pretty well ◦ Don’t pick a central curricular component for your first try  Low stakes

17.  Why is this essential?  Why not next year?  Tools of their time ◦ Don’t teach harness making when tractors are cheap  Have a big rationale  Choose a small objective

18.  Liberal from Latin liberalis – appropriate for free people  Quadrivium (where 4 roads meet) ◦ Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy  Trivium (where 3 roads meet) ◦ Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic

19.  Arithmetic  Geometry  Music  Astronomy

20.  Grammar  Rhetoric  Logic

21. Rhetoric Information Technology Logic Computer Science 3 Domains of the New Trivium Grammar Information Literacy

22.  Information Literacy ◦ Incorporates Media Literacy ◦ Use the Big 6 ◦ Learn from librarians

23.  Algorithmic Thinking  How tools are designed and deployed  Return of what was lost in the 1950’s & 1960’s

24.  Laptop one example of a generic tool  Use technology as a tool  Presentation tools  Web tools  Data collections

25. 3 Domains of Tech Fluency Information Technology Computer Science Information Literacy Philosophy Logic Problem Solving (Tactical) Innovation

26.  For students & for you ◦ For them, so they’ll tell the story ◦ For you, so you’ll have the energy to do it

27.  Wetware – people to help you  Software/Applications/Web Tools  Hardware  Read grants  Use district & state resources (often waiting to be asked)

28.  People like to be asked ◦ Community ◦ Corporate ◦ Former students ◦ Parents ◦ Other staff

29.  Exploit the free resources  Go to the sessions today  Don’t resolve to be an expert

30.  Don’t start with the year long portfolio  Know how and where the backups are  Have Plan B

31.  Success draws resources  Don’t wait to be discovered  Showcase the kids work  Know your teacher’s room culture  Be willing to brag  Present at conferences

32.  Offer to help write grants Send proposals to conferences Read Grants

33.  Comes from everywhere  Distributed computing leads to Distributed Learning  Leads to Distributed Leadership