Presentation delivered to the Miles College Faculty prior to the start of the Fall 2012 semester. This two day conference was a blast. Great job Miles College!

1. Exploring and Embracing the Power of
Technology To Enhance Student Learning
William Brennan
Co-Founder School Leadership 2.0

2. Educational Leadership in the 21st Century

11. Principals’ and Virtual Learning: A Catalyst to Personal
and Organizational Learning

16. "Schools are becoming marinated on behaviorism" Simply put, reward them and they
will learn. No they won't! Engage students in mindful exploration and discovery where
they are encouraged to build new ideas and challenged to defend their assumptions.
Then, maybe you the ingredients for learning.

17. Organizational
Strong ties vs Performance
Weak Ties
Improves
Social • Increase Innovation.
Capital • Spawning new ideas.
• Greater knowledge sharing.
• Decrease the learning curve.
Connections • Increase rate of discovery.
• Increase change bandwidth.
Relationships
Create
Community Context
Communities
of Practice
(CoP’s)

18. Turn and Talk

19. Help your students become better searchers
Web search can be a remarkable tool for
students, and a bit of instruction in how to
search for academic sources will help your
students become critical thinkers and
independent learners.
With the materials on this site, you can help
your students become skilled searchers-
whether they're just starting out with search, or
ready for more advanced training.

22. Google Glasses

23. Social Media is…..
1) Re-defining Community
2) Re-defining Leadership
3) Re-defining Knowledge Management
4) Re-defining Organizational Boundaries
5) Re-defining Professional Learning for Educators

26. The Short Story of
School Leadership 2.0
SL 2.0 is the Knowledge Network for School Leaders - the premier social network
connecting thousands of school leaders from around the globe. We offer a rich array of
resources and present school leaders and aspiring school leaders to come together to
meet present and future challenges.
• It’s social
• It’s learning
• It’s community

27. Averaging 15,000 unique visitors each month and 90,000 page views per month.
Job postings every Sunday
Over 460 Videos
Over 140 Groups

33. The Myths of Internet Filtering
1. Accessing YouTube is not
violating CIPA rules.
2. Websites don’t have to be
blocked for teachers.
3. Broad filters are not helpful.
Schools will not lose E-rate
funding.
4. Kids need to be taught how to
be responsible digital citizens. United States Department of Education
Director of Education Technology
5. Teachers should be trusted.
Karen Cator

34. 1. How do teachers feel when they are
blocked?
2. How do students feel? And what do
they do?
3. Who is actually teaching the students
how to behave in these online
spaces?

36. A Working Definition
• A personal or professional learning network (PLN)
involves an individual s topic-orientated goal, a set of
practices & techniques aimed at attracting and organizing
a variety of relevant content sources, selected for their
value, to help the owner accomplish a professional goal or
personal interest.
-David Warlick
Followed vs Follow

39. Move beyond Google searches. Use social
media to enhance knowledge exchanges by
building your online Social Capital.

40. The big payoff is that it both exposes people to perspectives and knowledge sets
that they normally would not come in contact with.
1. It can destabilize stale ways of thinking.
KNOWLEDGE STOCKS
VS KNOWLEDGE FLOWS
2. Prevent such stasis from setting in going forward.

41. Expand Organizational Boundaries
Through a Personal Learning Network

55. Popular Hash Tags
#edchat #stem #cpchat #PhysicsEd #sschat #artsed #engchat #scichat
#bullying #ptchat…

56. Managing Feeds
#edchat #cpchat

57. Social Bookmarking
1. Have issues with accessing your
bookmarks?
2. Ever wonder what other people
are bookmarking?
“It’s like getting their playbook”.

64. IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES MATTER
• "The real difficulty in changing any
enterprise lies not in developing new
ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
-- John Maynard Keynes

69. Book Club Example on #edfocus

70. OUR INFORMATION
LANDSCAPE HAS DRASTICALLY
CHANGED – it’s now an age of
networked intelligence.
WHAT TO DO?

71. ground·swell (groundswl) n.
1. A broad deep undulation of the ocean, often caused by a distant storm or an
earthquake.
2. A sudden gathering of force.

72. Meet Fred

74. Bill Brennan
Brennan Learning, LLC
Co-Founder of School Leadership 2.0
Twitter: @billbrennanedu
E-mail: wvbrennan@gmail.com
Cell: 516-510-7504
“ An idea can turn to dust or magic depending upon
the creative talent that rubs against it.”
Now. Unleash the Magicians!

75. “ An idea can turn to dust or magic depending
upon the creative talent that rubs against it.”
Now. Unleash the Magicians!
- Bill Bernbach