3. ...to entrepreneur
1300
imagineers
55 million kids
in school with
a potential
imagineer
inside
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4. mission
ownership, understanding, retention, engagement
provide simple hands-on tools to increase
academic achievement for all learners
success inclusive
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5. for the next 30min...
Understanding this movement in Edu
How iCreate is educating innovators
What are tangible next steps for us?
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6. what’s really happening in Education?
Claims Challenge
we are going to education is not
“disrupt” education a market
like we did with
consumer internet
our education our education
system is “broken” system is “strained”
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7. signs of a strained classroom
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8. how do we get here?
engagement interaction
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10. are we losing sight of the goal?
Teacher: Does iCreate work on the iPad?
Me: No, not yet, why?
Teacher: Well, we just got 10 iPads, but we don’t
have wireless in the school and we’re also
not really sure what to do with them yet.
Me:
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11. throwing technology in to “fix”
quadrupled
the amount of
technology
since 1995
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12. how can we look at technology differently?
technology used
as a vehicle to
actively engage
in the classroom
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13. how we create active classrooms
DEMO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egaiHWI9zek
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15. conversations in the classroom
it’s NOT about stop-motion...
...it’s about providing a vehicle for rich,
meaningful interactions
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16. collaboration for all learners
St. Francis School for the Deaf, Brooklyn, NY
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17. identifying the goal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vDKsC90W7M
first graders: digital book report
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18. what are next steps to adjust the “strain”
communication to us entrepreneurs
identify the goal to avoid
being overwhelmed
we’re all new at this!
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19. “you must be new at this too!”
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20. same pieces, same task, different results
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