The Coalition of Lighthouse Schools

Dr. James Kelly – Apple Computers, Inc.

The partnership for 21st Century learning skills website is very important in light of what we have done/seen/heard here.

Highschool report “Results That Matter: 21st Century Skills and High School Reform”

I have one question for you:

What will change at your school this fall as a result of iSummit 06

iKnowledge

what i know > i know what the group knows > i increase what the group knows

iToo

Make a committment to creating an outcome from our collaboration here.

iSummit 07

BE THERE

Josh Rude – Apple Engineer
Apple Remote Desktop, Imaging & Server Utilities

System Image Utility – Apple recomended

Disk Utility
new file from folder > nav to external
save > where: desktop (or other not Volumes) format:compressed
has Restore capabilities and live copy capability

NetRestore & NetRestore Helper (Mike Bombitch)

NetRestore Helper:
create master image
takes OS from our master machine and makes a network boot
#1 problem is people don’t update their set off of newest machines
(take newest Intel and make a set, take newest PowerPC and make a set)
Name 10.4.8
ID 1048
Details – etc

it will save into folder and you can then go to Create Master Image

Server Admin Images list > name img 10.4.7 and index 1047 (good practice)

Online presentation

Bernie Dodge, PhD – San Diego State University

• Blogging
• Wikis
• Podcasting
• Google Earth

New tools for a new paradigm. Two-way web. User-created content. Web 2.0.

Technolust – the need for the very latest of whatever you currently use. (All of us here are guilty.)

Geocaching, Google Earth, GPS, etc.

• Google Earth Plug-ins – earthquakes, airline flights (arrival into LAX)
• Flickrmap – social software, tagged photos w/ lat. & long.
• Mapbuilder – a way to create your own “Google map”
• MacGPS Pro – tracks your speed, altitude, etc.

Affordances – What are these good for?

• Visualization
• Spatial Reasoning
• Linking Physical world with Cyberspace

Designs for Teaching with Geotools

• Factual – Where’s Waldo
• Inquiry – Where do cities happen? Why? Where do they build restaurants? Where do earthquakes happen? Where does a whale move?
• Concreteizing/Visualizing – take a novel and map the path of the protagonist. Design a tour.

Blogs

Numbers are quickly increasing. Around 28 mil. Check out Blogmeister . Allows teachers control and enables students to write and engage in a dialogue.

Utilize this to make history come alive by recreating historical journals.

Teacher’s using blogs as a place for professional reflection. Links point to interesting material. Commenting binds us together in a unique way.

Affordances

• Easy publishing
• Self-expression
• Personality
• Audience
• Peer feedback
• Community of learners
• Chronology
• Reflection

Designs for Teaching with Blogs

• Learning Journals
• Collaboration with distant classrooms
• Role plays, solo and multi-role

Podcasting

Reaching remote parts of the world. Not just for developed countries. Stanford on iTunes. Learn Out Loud for educational podcasts.
mr. mayo

Affordances

• Self-expression
• Collaboration
• Personality
• Sense of audience
• An actual audience
• Ubiquitous learning

Designs for Teaching with Podcasts

• Magazine-style
• Interview with an expert
• Interviews on a topic
• Re-enactment
• Soundscapes

Wikis

Wikipedia caused the explosion of wikis. This generation looks to Wikipedia like we did to Encyclopedia Brittanica.

Danger is that it opens itself up to controversy.

Blogs vs. Wikis

Uses: micropedia – take a small strand and focus on it. Collection of information becomes very comprehensive.

Collaborative writing using a wiki.

Wikispaces.com – doesn’t work with Safari
PBwiki – works w/ Safari and easy to use

Affordances

• Easy publishing
• Collaboration
• Peer feedback
• Editing/

Designs for Teaching with Wikis

• Collaborative documents
• Micropedias
• Ant farm – story with no beginning and no end
• Branching stories/Choose-your-own-adventure
• Exegisis

THIS IS ALL COOL, BUT SO WHAT…

Start at the end and work backwards. What outcome are you looking for? Start there.

Go with the grain of the medium. Choose the one that affords and supports what you are doing.

Imagine your kids in 10 years… you want to give them experiences that will prepare them for what is coming.

What they remember from what you taught them is how to make use of all the knowledge that is at their fingertips!

Bernie Dodge, PhD – San Diego State University

The temptation is to prepare our children for our present reality, but that will not work because they will live in a reality far differnt than ours.

We have the greatest control of Learning Skills, but often least focused upon.

Why is it so hard to create great lessons that tie these together?

We teach out of a 20th century mindframe. Time factor. Traditional education is very specialized and separate. Reality demands that we see things from multiple views.

QuestGarden Overview: new way to help create great WebQuests. Wanted to help teachers reduce time necessary to create them and boost their usefullness.

Bernie’s Taxonomy
Life verbs: decide design create predict analyze
Classroom verbs: know tell remember

Life verbs need to be embeded in our classroom dialect as much as possible. This will help prepare kids for their century not ours.

The iToo model

• Based on Logic Models
• Designed to remind us of what we know as teachers
• Encourages lean, coherent lessons that engage higher level thinking (slides showing the model)

i nputs – web sites, books, human experts, images, primary source documents, news articles

T hinking – Deisgn, decide, create, analyze, predict / know, tell, remember, apply, explain

o utputs – written docs, dramatic performance, creative products, multimedia, designs, models

o utcomes –

(Bottom row under each aspect of the model)
Reception scaffolds
Transformation scaffolds
Production Scaffolds

What order do we usually start with when planning a lesson? The first thing is inputs.

Samples… example for us to work with…

Link to download materials

By Julene Reed

Julene Reed is an Apple Distinguished Educator and the Director of Technology at St. George’s Independent School in Collierville, Tennessee

M emphis, Tennessee was the location this past July for the third annual conference of the Coalition of Lighthouse Schools known as iSummit. A gathering of educators from across the country took place over a four-day period that was both exciting and educating. The synergy displayed throughout the conference definitely was inspiring!

“iSummit 2005 was a huge success from beginning to end.”

iSummit is a national educational technology conference sponsored by Apple Computer, and led by Kenneth Cheeseman, Chair of the Coalition of Lighthouse Schools. The conference attendees include faculty, staff, technology specialists, and administrative personnel from independent schools that currently have (or are planning to have) a laptop initiative with Apple computers. It is a conference that offers the opportunity for progressive educators to communicate, collaborate, and learn from other professionals involved in the same types of technology initiatives that have created this new paradigm of learning for our students.

iSummit 2005 was a huge success from beginning to end. It was hosted by the St. Agnes Academy and the St. Dominic School, and the attendance was the highest it has ever been! The opening day was held at the FedEx Institute of Technology on the University of Memphis campus. John Couch, Vice President of Education for Apple Computer, was energizing and engaging as the keynote speaker. John understands today’s schools and the digital kids we are teaching. He was both inspiring and relevant as he truly knows the pulse of education, educators, and students today. It was a great beginning to the days that followed.

Throughout the conference, educators participated in technology workshops given by Apple Distinguished Educators and other experienced presenters, listened to updates on Apple technologies and their applications in education, collaborated with each other, and planned for future projects. Workshops were offered in three strands: instructional, technical, and administrative, which allowed for group discussions focused on common concerns and aspirations for the laptop programs in their respective schools.

Along with the “work,” there was also some “play.” Student projects were showcased at a Lighthouse School Night at the Apple Store. There was an evening of fun in downtown Memphis with participants dining at the famous Rendezvous barbeque restaurant and then enjoying live music on Beale Street or cheering on the Memphis Redbirds baseball team. Overall, it was a fantastic week that was of tremendous value to all who participated.

While the knowledge that was shared at the conference was exceptional, the conference was also a great opportunity to form new relationships for future professional endeavors and collaborations. The value of a conference in which all participants are currently engaged in a 1:1 initiative is huge, and it provides an extremely valuable experience for all involved!