Notes+from+1-28

Rough Notes - from Howard - please add and revise
Antonio recommends a group rubric/threshold tool to create baselines. Howard - let's put in at least 2 group work or working break times (action plan beginnings, small-group brainstorming, grouping according to their unique needs/place in implementing).

__**Denise**__ - focus on IT Leadership and Infrastructure issues
 * __Curt__ ** - focus on Ed Tech Leadership and Models
 * the ed-tech leader and tech leadership issues
 * include a rough assessment and gap analysis re: leadership/admin team
 * possible break into small groups
 * 5 pillars of good tech practices. PGPs and Essential Questions
 * time and space issues of broader school structure, eg. schedule, classroom set-up, use of space - dedicated vs. non-dedicated
 * work off of early segment to gather demographics and build from there
 * Technical needs of infrastructure change - IT specific
 * new questions and issues that have infiltrated the thinking in recent years
 * new legal ramifications, bandwidth controls, storage
 * fundamental school change has to go BEYOND determining tools. How do desires of other changes (ex. laptops, collaboration, increasing sharing, decentralizing learning, etc) impact infrastucture decisions


 * __Antonio__ - focus on Student Learning/Teaching Issues **
 * wants people to walk-away with some practical piece - ability to do "X"
 * can also do leadership issues addressed by Curt and Denise as they relate to learning
 * consider smaller clusters of groups - ability to provide some small-group mentors - "our vision for technology in our schools" - affinity groups
 * focus of putting kids in authentic roles of creating original content, paradigm shifting to the use of tools and platforms that give new power to students AND teachers as content creators
 * overlaps of space and time issues
 * role of collaboration
 * use of new tools to impact student learning. New Media Literacies (MIT) - new spin on "information literacy
 * focus on teachers - building extended teacher network, Wendy Drexler on YouTube on Connectivism "The Networked Student" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA - how student learning extends beyond the classroom to construct learning
 * the role of the network teacher.

__**Howard**__ - focus on laptop/ubiquitous access environments
 * laptop focused
 * integrated learning - "technology that is seamlessly integrated throughout the curriculum"
 * showing examples from Urban that build from what Antonio addresses above
 * Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project and collaborations with Mississippi
 * Interactive WhiteBoards as transformative in math, science and language
 * claymation in science
 * peer review process of sharing in English


 * __Jill__ ** - focus on Professional Development
 * fundamentals for helping to create desired environments as explored above
 * support for teachers to help create these tools and understanding
 * building shared vision of importance
 * fundamentals of effective Prof Dev
 * Consider a graphic of 20th century vs. 21st century criteria of professional development (linear "learn to do x" vs. multi-layered "using x and x do do y" //howard's spin//...)

Tasks
wiki super - Jill demog - survey - Curt Post Conference Follow-up - ?????? small group structure - Howard

6:30 dinner together - Curt will make reservations 8pm all