---It’s the early days of technology but we have some powerful opportunites.
---The technology should not be as important as what students do with it. The technology is not transformative. It’s the school, the pedagogy that is transformative. Tools don’t get socially interesting until they technologically embedded.
---Where we need to be now is: How would you (as in the student) like your learning? What tools do you need to learn in the way that you need to learn?
---Getting this education thing right has nothing to do with equipment.
---Our curriculum should be global b/c that’s the kids’ world. We used to solve problems with the tools we had. Now it’s more about inventing new tools. Adults need to be helping kids invent new tools.
---Children and teenagers have a participation culture .You have to understand about participation. It’s not about public and private spaces anymore. It’s gray. There are private spaces, group spaces, published spaces, performance spaces and participation spaces, watching spaces. Make sure school is not a watching space. Try to use every space when teaching a lesson.
---Give a teacher a button and they ask you what to do with it. Give a kid a button and they don’t ask, they just use it.
---Visiting other classrooms can be done virtually with digital pics, blogs, video. It can change teaching. Take pics and videos of each other classrooms then post. Create blogs that have 20 readers all sharing classroom visits virtually. Make everyone contribute to the blog and reflect on the what’s there. Be a virtual spectator.
---YouTube really, really matters – YouTube will be the major mode going forward. Yet it's blocked in schools. What we need to be teaching children and teenagers is how to act in these virtual spaces. If the sites are blocked, teachers can't model how to act, how to respond.
Kristin