PD Session Way Elementary

Way ElementaryTuesday, March 1st

9am-12pm

Leigh Graves Wolf(& Punya Mishra, in spirit)

Michigan State UniversityMaster of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) Program

National Educational Technology Plan, 2010

Today it’s all about you

sticky notes

Technology & Education

Technology & EducationWhat do teachers need to know?

Creativity

Creativityin teaching

Creativityin teaching

with technology

What do teachers need to know?

Technology

ContentPedagogy

Context

Psychology is a science, and

teaching is an art...

~ William James

Psychology is a science, and

teaching is an art...

... and sciences never generate arts

directly out of themselves. An

intermediary inventive mind makes the

application by using originality.

~ William James

Creativity

Challenges

Teaching is

constrained

knowledgeable,

accessible, wise,

funny, cerebral,

benevolent, fair,

firm, flexible,

playful, serious

… & more

Teaching is

complex

… and of course

Creativity workshops & seminars

… like this one?

Little Miss Sunshine

9 stepplan

Creativity cannot be taught...

Creativity cannot be taught...

…but it can be developed!

Let’s jump right in!

…or should I say, right out!

In small groupsShare examples of artful or creative

teaching from your own student experience

(doesn’t have to be big)2 minutes & share

What is common to these examples?

Attributes: (keeping track of examples)

What do teachers need to know about EducationalTechnology?

What is anEducationalTechnology?

There is no such thing

The problem

Most technologies are NOT designed for

education!

Users redefine technologies

Why is this important?

Only repurposing makes a technology

an educational technology..

Repurposing is a creative

& innovative act

Some examples!

Audacity, in a math classroom? Echoes from the moon http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3367

Distance to moon

Girlanda, L. (2009). Echoes from the moon. arXiv:0903.3367v1 [physics.ed-ph]. Retrieved April 1, 2008,

from http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3367v1

Explore | Create | ShareCreative play with ed tech

Sparks of Creativity, wiki

Technology

ContentPedagogy

Context

creativITy?What is

I know it when I see it!

(Justice Potter Steward 1964)

Creativity

Fresh, unusual, unique, surprising, startling,

astonishing, astounding, germinal, trendsetting, radical, revolutionary,

influential, pioneering…

Novel

Valuable, important, significant, essential,

necessary, logical, sensible, relevant, appropriate,

adequate, effective, functional, operable, useful,

user-friendly

Effective

Don Norman’s tea pots!

Organic, ordered, arranged, organized, formed, complete, elegant, graceful,

charming, attractive, refined, complex, intricate, ornate, interesting,

understandable, meaningful, clear, self-explanatory, well crafted, skillful,

well made, meticulous, careful

Whole

Thus a creative product is


NEW

NovelEffectiveWhole


Creativity is a goal orientated process of

developing solutions that are

NovelEffectiveWhole

Think back to original examples... are they NEW!

(Novel Effective Whole)

Synthesize!

5 minsReduce what we have covered so far into a short poem/limerick

creativITy?Why do we need

A new ecology

Generations

10,000 speech

750agriculture

500writing

400libraries

40universities

24printing

16accurate clocks

5telephone

4radio

3television

2computers

1internet/email

0gps, mp3, youtube, web2.0 etc.

etc.

It is not that things are changing faster, but rather that the rate of

change itself is increasing!— ray kurzweil

Can’t really keep up!

Enough to make one lose hope!!!

The answer:

We have to

RelaxRepose

Re-teach!

What is half of

?8

creativITy?How do we develop

CreativityThe research

5 stepsPreparation

interest & immersion in problems Incubation

churning below threshold of consciousness

Insight: Aha, pieces falling into place

EvaluationIs this worth pursuing?

ElaborationTranslation into final product

Sure!*

* it does help us identify some myths!

Myth 1

Creativity is NOT about having a good idea!

...the best way to have a good idea is to

have lots of ideas — Linus Pauling

Creativity is the

Myth 2

creativity is a big sudden insight available only to

people with special talents!

creativity is a big sudden insight available only to

people with special talents!

Wrong!

Creativity as variations on a theme

Creativity as variations on a theme

That let us see the world differently

Consider the Rubik cube

Consider the Rubik cube

Can you come up with some variations?

Superficial variations

Why 3 x 3 x 3?

Why n x n x n?

Why platonic solids?

Why 3-d?

Objection!(I hear you say)

This is not real creativity!

Simultaneous motion?

Double MazeScottkim.com

Creativity is nothing but...

Tweaking knobs

Tweaking knobsthe right^

Not the wrong ones!

This is Spinal Tap

Creativity is about discovering

the right knobs

Can you spot the hidden tiger?

Learning to see

(to wonder why?)Developing a childlike

sense of wonder

creativITy?Creativity &

Why?

Only repurposing makes a technology

an educational technology..

Repurposing for what purpose?

On going beyond the technology…

… to the core impulses of learning

Dewey’s Core Impulses• These fourfold areas of interest--• the interest in conversation, or communication; • in inquiry, or finding out things; • in making things, or construction;• and in artistic expression--we may say they are the natural

resources, the un-invested capital, upon the exercise of which depends the active growth of the child. . .

• What are we to do with this interest--are we to ignore it, or just excite and draw it out? Or shall we get hold of it and direct it to something ahead, something better? (p. 48)

CommunicationInquiry

ConstructionExpression

Technology for… CommunicationInquiryConstructionExpression

Communication

There is the social instinct of the children as shown in conversation, personal intercourse, and communication . . . The language instinct is the simplest form of the social expression of the child. Hence, it is a great, perhaps the greatest of all, educational resources. (p. 43)

Construction

The child’s impulse to do finds expression first in play, in movement, gesture, and make-believe, becomes more definite, and seeks outlet in shaping materials into tangible forms and permanent embodiment. (p. 44)

Inquiry

Interested in “finding things out” (p. 47)

There is no distinction between experimental science for little children and the work done in the carpenter shop. . . Children simply like to do things and watch to see what will happen. (p. 44)

Expression

Combines construction and communication

Make the construction adequate, make it full, free, and flexible, give it a social motive, something to tell, and you have a work of art. (p. 44)

Technologies need to be…

… seen in new ways. A particular software program can be used in multiple ways for multiple purposes…

Email?

Writing letters Creating documents

• Writing to participants or experts• Collaborative papers

• Signature files•Character pictures

Inquiry

Expression

Communication Construction

Repurposing is a creative

& innovative act

Technology Educational Technology

Any technology can be a learning technology


Any technology can be a learning technology

BookVideo

WebsiteVideo game

TelevisionFacebookAirplane


How?

BookVideo

WebsiteVideo game

TelevisionFacebookAirplane

CreativityTechnologies need to be

creatively re-purposed to become learning technologies

Design

Purposeful, iterative, reflective practice that seeks to bring

together Technology, Pedagogy & Content in specific contexts

Technology

ContentPedagogy

Context

Teachers need to...

Create!and....

Share!

Goal: Professional educators will be supported individually and in teams by technology that connects them to data, content, resources, expertise, and learning experiences that can empower and inspire them to provide more effective teaching for all learners.


Start small& keep playing

(re)Learn to see!

(re)Learn to see!developing a childlike sense of wonder

How can you make the familiar strange?

… or the strange familiar?

Sticky Ideas

You have to learn to C-SUCCESS

C create S simple yet, U unexpected C concrete and C credible E emotional S stories that S stick

We have done a lot of exploring over the past few hours....

How are you going toC-SUCCESS in your class?

What story will you create?

C create S simple yet, U unexpected C concrete and C credible E emotional S stories that S stick

We will catch up with you and check in periodically via the

PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORKS

we created today!

Technology

ContentPedagogy

Context

PD Session Way Elementary

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