This is my presentation to the 7th annual Education Technology Summit in Toronto.

1. PEDAGOGY IS THE DRIVER
(ButTechnology is the Accelerator)
A Design Thinking Case Study

2. Learning Intentions
• Hear about cloud-based storage solutions
that allow multi-user devices in all our schools
• Understand how facilitating the shift away
from elementary school computer labs allowed
deeper and more meaningful use of technology
• See how the apps we focus on promote
creative representations of learning for our
students

3. Learning Un-intensions
• Stand and Deliver my message in exactly the
way we are encouraging teachers not to to
teach

4. Learning Introduction
• My role as Information Technology Coordinator
• My classroom experience(s)
• The drivers of change

5. Rocks and Hard Places
• In an ideal world…the realities of Public
Education funding, privacy legislation,
curricular change
• Change is non-negotiable, but not
insurmountable
• In fact, even tough change leads to good
things

6. Valuable Lessons
• In an ideal world…the “Perfect Storm” hits in
unknowable ways
• The positive results of: financial constraint,
FOIPPA compliance, renewed curriculum

7. No one understands the Cloud
ownCloud
NextCloud
GAFE
Office365
iCloud

8. The ADST Lens
• This applies to everything everywhere
• Applied Design Skills and Training
• Design Thinking
• Challenges and Challenges

9. credit: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/design-thinking/ Sarah Gibbons

10. Everyone is a Coder!
• Computational thinking
• Logical processing
• Creative problem solving

11. The Three Pillars of the Renewed Curriculum

12. The Core Competencies

13. Buy ALL the apps!

15. So now let’s yap about apps…
• Suite of Core Apps chosen that:
Focus on creating content
Provide learners opportunity to show learning
in an variety of ways
Work together to create deeper/multi-media
projects
Range from simple to complex

16. • Video/Video Editor (iMovie)
• Stop Motion animator
• eBook publisher (Book Creator)
• Screen cast/ “hypercard” (Explain Everything)
• Music Creation (Garage Band)
• Coding/Computational thinking (Lightbot Hour,
Swift Coding)
• Others by request: DuoLinga, Khan Academy,
YouTube…. occasional “Fraction
Munchers/ATRT

17. Underlying it all, of course, is
SAMR
Credit: Dr. Ruben R. Puentedura http://hippasus.com/blog/

18. –Twitter (and possibly Michael Fullan)
“Pedagogy is the Driver
Technology is the Accelerator”

19. Thank you! And let’s connect:
Lisa Read
District Information Technology Coordinator
SD79 Cowichan Valley Duncan BC
Work Blog: https://theuncoordinatedcoordinator.wordpress.com/
Everything Else Blog: http://readlisaread.edublogs.org/
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