Cheryl Capozzoli, Rob Newberry and John Mikton joined David and Jeff for tonight’s podcast.

Essential Question

How can we help teachers take more risks in their teaching and learning?

Blog Posts of the Week

Jeff: Twitter in Time Mag, Google Wave

Cheryl: Tech Soup, Web 2.0 Guru

David: Edorigami Thinking Hats, Wes Fryer Take Risks, TWIT

John: Gaming video, YouTube Anthropology

Rob: Prezi Blog

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Andy Torris from Shanghai American School joined David and Jeff for tonight’s podcast.

Mark Hofer of the College of William & Mary and Michael Kelly of The Harriet Tubman Free School joined David and Jeff for tonight’s podcast.

Jonathan Becker and Jeff Nugent joined David and Jeff for tonight’s show.

Essential Question

What prevents administrators from shifting?

Some take aways from the discussion:

-There is limited number of U.S. professors (six) who work in school leadership who focus on technology and forward thinking education. Our education leadership programs are not preparing our administrators to lead schools towards School 2.0.
-There are education leadership grad school standards that don’t include much on managing change in education.
-Higher education is just so slow to change, to bring about programmatic change.
-Barriers: So many items on the plates of our administrators that it is overwhelming to ask them to set up learning communities and support learning 2.0 initiatives.
-Administrators don’t have to know all the ICL tools but need to know how to support the curriculum development that supports learning 2.0.

Blog Posts of the Week

Here is what Jon, Jeff, Jeff and David shared-

Apple Learning InterchangeSchool Tech Leadership
Practical Theory
Sentiments on Common Sense
Disrupting Class via Amazon

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John Mikton and Paul McMahon joined Jeff and David for the show.

Essential Question

How to shift when the administrators are not on board?

Some take aways from the discussion:

-You have to start with the admin before you contemplate shifting. They are the power brokers and are connected to the board and the finance. Sometimes they simply don’t understand. How to make time for conversations? It is a sales situation. IT Director on Admin team. Being part of management team helps build relationships to these power brokers.
-The IT Director needs to have an educational background to know.
-Schools hiding behind the IB and AP programs. Safe and often not questioned by many parents. Why would an administrator take a risk on Learning 2.0 instructional techniques?
-How to shift the IB and AP learning outcomes to be project assessed?
-How to retrain our communities about what is learning?
-Get shifted educators at the admin conferences to help educate the leaders.

David’s post, Paul’s and  John’s posts on this EQ.

Blog Posts of the Week

David: Schooling by Design: Mission, Action and Achievement by McTighe and Wiggins

Jeff: ID: The Quest for Meaning in the 21st Century by Susan Greenfield

Paul: Anytime Anywhere Learning

John: Walking the Talk by Carolyn Taylor

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*Essential Question for the show: What prevents administrators from shifting?
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