School 2.0 session at NECC, Timothy Magner
June 26, 2007
Magner, Timothy: ‘School 2.0: Technology and the Future of School’ in Murphy 2/3 at 11:00 on Tuesday.
Begin notes, MY IDEAS ARE IN ALL CAPS. JEFF UTECHT AND DAVID JAKES LIVEBLOGGING AS WELL, CHECK THEIR BLOGS FOR BETTER NOTES THAN MINE! 
We’re not in Kansas anymore.
The cell phone is a fundamentally different communication device. It’s a shift from being location based to being person-based.
Roughly 65% of the US owns cell phones.
Millions of Japanese use cell phones as a wallet. 35% of US cell phone users send and receive text messages.
The average American home has 26 different devices for communication.
The Internet is helping in decision making.
We are now connected in more ways to more people to more information than ever before.
Our home broadband penetration is reaching 50%.
The Internet is allowing kids to act as agents of social change.
40% of 12-14 have access to cell phones.
75% of 15-17 year-olds.
Kids prefer self-directed.
US youth lag much of the world in the use of mobile devices to connect to the Internet. ARE OUR KIDS REALLY AS CONNECTED AS WE THINK? TO SOURCES OF INFORMATION?
US students are pretty low on the rankings of use of certain new technologies.
CONNECTION BOTCHED, MISSED A BIT MESSING WITH IT
Anyone can author, publish, broadcast.
HE IS TALKING SUPER FAST SO I AM MISSING A LOT
THERE IS A NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ICON ON EACH SLIDE, NOT SURE WHY.
Kids need context to make meaning. A good learning model requires a personal touch.
WORTH NOTING THAT HE WENT TO HARVARD, NOTED FOR THEIR CONSTRUCTIVIST LEANING.
Creating new models using technology functions well, using technology with old models does not work well.
I JUST FIGURED OUT WHO HE IS. HE’S THE HEAD OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. THAT EXPLAINS THE NCLB ICON.
HE’S SAYING SOME GOOD STUFF, TOUGH TO KEEP UP. I AM SURPRISED HE REPRESENTS THE GOVERNMENT.
We don’t view our schools as a system, our different areas are silo’ed.
This is why we’re going back again to the school boards justifying funding.
We must link the “back room” to the class room.
We need integrated student data with everyday operations. Unless you can move data across systems the data you’re using becomes impossible to rely on.
We’re not after data, we’re after information.
BOY THIS MACBOOK PRO GETS HOT ON THE LAP. OUCH!
If we can understand who every child is we can target technological resources (because of their flexibility) towards them to meet them where they are.
He spoke with the presidential scholars (kid) and they spoke about the balance of technology resources and not using them. There is a time for each.
Principal support is critical.
There must be a clear rationale and not just because it was bought or you got it free.
The website for all this is www.school2-0.org
I AM LOST. I DRIFTED AND HE’S KEEPING THE PACE FAST, LOSING ME.
I GIVE UP, WAVING THE WHITE FLAG. HE’S DONE.
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June 27th, 2007 at 7:16 am
The NCLB logo is there because, after all, Tim is part of a very political administration which, in the end, must always push the party line.
Having expended my cynicism
I will say that Tim is a pretty good guy and really is trying to do the right thing with regard to expanding and improving the use of technology in the classroom.
Thanks for the live blog. I missed the session.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
You did well! You got a lot of it. But, the fact that you gave up and felt lost is interesting. One reason why college professors are trying to ban laptops from the classroom is that they claim that the laptops turn the kids into very poor stenographers. The students were trying to write it all down without having done any processing of the data first.
I tried the same thing, and had much worse results as I must be a slower typist than you are.
But, it did make me think about just giving kids laptops in class without any instruction on how to take actual notes. You WERE tying to transcribe the whole thing for us, I’ll bet. I know *I* was when I tried it. I failed miserably.
So, I learned an important lesson. If we want the students to use the computer to take notes, we’d better teach them HOW. And having them try to write it all down isn’t going to work.
It was great to meet you in Atlanta.