Back to Basics: What Really Matters Now
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The document is a slideshow presentation by Dean Shareski on the topic of what really matters now in education. It discusses ideas like focusing on building community, practicing mindfulness, finding joy in learning, and valuing human connections over technology. Images and quotes are provided throughout to illustrate these concepts. The presentation encourages educators to have their students teach each other, ensure learning from others, and make schools places of community and joy rather than just rigor.
Back to Basics: What Really Matters Now
- 1. Back to Basics Dean Shareski Mobile 2013 Tucson, AZ 09.18.13 What Really Matters Now
- 2. This is me
- 3. This is me
- 4. This is me
- 5. This is me
- 6. This is me
- 7. This is me
- 8. This is me
- 9. This is me
- 10. This is me
- 11. This is me
- 12. This is me
- 13. This is me
- 20. Sam's First Day of Kindergarten 1995
- 21. 2013 Sam's First Day of grad school
- 25. Its not about the technology ‘
- 26. Its not about the technology ‘
- 29. “People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.” ~Author Unknown http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossmoorhistory/3642378152
- 32. share everything
- 33. play fair
- 34. don't hit people
- 35. Put things back where you found them
- 36. clean up your own mess
- 37. wash your hands before you eat
- 38. flush
- 39. warm cookies and cold milk are good for you
- 40. live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some
- 41. take a nap every afternoon
- 42. When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together
- 43. be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup; the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that
- 44. And then remember the dick and jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all- LOOK
- 53. MindfulNess
- 54. MindfulNess
- 55. Attention may be our most valuable resource/commodity
- 56. Attention may be our most valuable resource/commodity
- 64. “At this age, they get stuck on Wikipedia being the answer to everything and they forget that people can be a really great resource.”
- 65. Research suggests over and over again that people are using mobile devices and social media to connect more with others, even face to face. The technologies of isolation and loneliness were the automobile and the television, and even though we’re starting to see a reversal of the long term rise in social isolation , there continues to be cultural insecurity around loneliness. Which is understandable, but misplacing our worries on one of the few trends that is pushing back against isolation isn’t helpful.
- 66. Research suggests over and over again that people are using mobile devices and social media to connect more with others, even face to face. The technologies of isolation and loneliness were the automobile and the television, and even though we’re starting to see a reversal of the long term rise in social isolation , there continues to be cultural insecurity around loneliness. Which is understandable, but misplacing our worries on one of the few trends that is pushing back against isolation isn’t helpful.
- 67. Research suggests over and over again that people are using mobile devices and social media to connect more with others, even face to face. The technologies of isolation and loneliness were the automobile and the television, and even though we’re starting to see a reversal of the long term rise in social isolation , there continues to be cultural insecurity around loneliness. Which is understandable, but misplacing our worries on one of the few trends that is pushing back against isolation isn’t helpful.
- 69. My goal, as a technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years.
- 70. My goal, as a technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years. “But the internet isn't an individual pursuit, it's something we do with each other. The internet is where people are.”http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathycassidy/4936218669
- 77. 2087
- 82. ...an idea problem; it’s a recognition problem. David Burkus Innovation is not...
- 88. How are you practicing MINDFULNESS?
- 89. How are you practicing MINDFULNESS? Do you LOOK for ideas and greatness in others?
- 90. How are you practicing MINDFULNESS? Do you LOOK for ideas and greatness in others? What do you SEE around you that others may have missed?
- 91. When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together
- 94. The smartest person in the room, is the room. Dave Weinberger cc licensed flickr photo by torres21: http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/484675706/
- 95. Tell that to Chris Avenir
- 96. Tell that to Chris Avenir Ryerson University sites 3 reasons for the case against him. 1.Learning should be hard. 2.There is no structure of regulation for online behavior and that makes it incompatible with academic work. 3.It is our job to protect academic integrity from any threat. i.e. Unless learning is hard and is directed by certified persons, it’s not valid.
- 97. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwentechaney/5438197592 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4309317689 Mind Your Own Business http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572656/
- 98. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwentechaney/5438197592 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4309317689 Mind Your Own Business http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572656/
- 99. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwentechaney/5438197592 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4309317689 Mind Your Own Business http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572656/
- 101. What did you learn from others? What did you contribute to the learning of others?
- 103. “Bringing smart people together is an ancient and effective technique for developing ideas. The Net also lets smart people connect and communicate... David Weinberger, Too Big To Know
- 104. David Weinberger, Too Big To Know
- 105. But the Net brings people together in new and occasionally weird configurations—a weirdness that is now being reflected in how expertise works....” David Weinberger, Too Big To Know
- 106. My Learning Project
- 107. My Learning Project
- 113. My Teaching Staff
- 117. How are building COMMUNITY?
- 118. How are building COMMUNITY? Do your students get to TEACH?
- 119. How are building COMMUNITY? Do your students get to TEACH? How do you insure they LEARN from others?
- 120. live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some
- 124. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/ Feel-Bad Education The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy by: Alfie Kohn http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
- 125. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/ "Why are our schools not places of joy?" Feel-Bad Education The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy by: Alfie Kohn http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
- 126. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/ "Why are our schools not places of joy?" Feel-Bad Education The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy by: Alfie Kohn http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
- 127. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/ "Why are our schools not places of joy?" Feel-Bad Education The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy by: Alfie Kohn http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
- 128. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/ Feel-Bad Education The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy by: Alfie Kohn http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm I’m appearing to accept an odious premise—namely, that joy must be justified as a means to the end of better academic performance. Not so: It’s an end in itself.
- 131. Hackschooling Makes Me Happy: Logan LaPlante
- 132. Hackschooling Makes Me Happy: Logan LaPlante
- 156. It's an end in itself. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketboom/4400552343 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebolasmallpox/1066368855 http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/2908834853 http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatesfoundation/6143867445 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bandytam/8172260876/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohioseagrant/9342941423
- 157. It's an end in itself. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketboom/4400552343 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebolasmallpox/1066368855 http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/2908834853 http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatesfoundation/6143867445 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bandytam/8172260876/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohioseagrant/9342941423
- 158. It's an end in itself. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocketboom/4400552343 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebolasmallpox/1066368855 http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/2908834853 http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatesfoundation/6143867445 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bandytam/8172260876/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohioseagrant/9342941423