Feb
20
Written by:
Dan Maas
2/20/2010
Today, the Learning 2.0 was hosted at Loveland High School. Our own Arapahoe HS and Heritage HS hosted this event last year. Scott Elias and the leaders from Thompson School District have done a great job taking this event forward for 2010. Wifi is working great and the agenda looks delicious! I will return to this blog post several times today to capture some notes.
Melinda Miller: http://weprincipal.blogspot.com
Toni Theisen: http://globalcompetency.wikispaces.com/
recommended: www.edsteps.org
John Creighton: http://colearning.wikispaces.com/2010l3
Some reflection: I thought the conference (or unconference) went well despite the snowy conditions. This meant that the organizers (thanks Scott Elias for taking on the hosting this year) had some extra sandwiches by the end of the day. The theme was very much about how to tie technology to support the instructional practices of the classroom. Nobody seemed to need convincing that technology for technology sake is a bad idea. I really enjoyed how Toni took her French classes and has turned them into Global Competency classes. Her message that learning a new language gives you the path to develop global competency but that just learning some fundamentals of language and experiencing some of the ethnic foods is not enough any more. She espoused learning with the world, not about the world... I really liked that. She made me want to take a French class, and that's a first for me [;-)
I thought John Creighton had some really good insights on how to manage a change process from building awareness, to working through the details and then implemention. And Melinda was fun to meet and inspiring as a principal because she is fearless in her pursuit of the best education she can provide for her students.
Thanks to everyone who made the journey!