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Transforming Thinking

Transforming Thinking. Rob Darrow NYSAIS Conference November 2006. Yogi Berra. "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." . But we can think about the past…. Transformation – It’s all how you look at it. What do you see?. Another Version.

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Transforming Thinking

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  1. Transforming Thinking Rob Darrow NYSAIS Conference November 2006

  2. Yogi Berra • "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."  But we can think about the past…

  3. Transformation – It’s all how you look at it

  4. What do you see?

  5. Another Version This famous perceptual illusion in which the brain switches between seeing a young girl and an old woman (or "wife" and "mother in law"). This anonymous German postcard from 1888 depicts the image in its earliest known form, For many years, the creator of this figure was thought to be British cartoonist W. E. Hill, who published it in 1915 in Puck humor magazine, an American magazine inspired by the British magazine Punch.

  6. What do you see?

  7. Where do the stairs begin?

  8. Transform • Definition:  to undergo a change in form, appearance, nature or character

  9. Technology and Teachers • Transforming from…. • Agrarian, assembly line mentality (left brain) to… • Digital, hyperlinked world (right brain)

  10. Technology and Teachers “Let me teach you how to integrate technology with your students.” It’s about transforming thinking to use technology, the Web, podcasting, etc.

  11. Technology and Teachers It’s about transforming thinking to use technology, the Web, podcasting, etc. Difficult to force another person to transform – it is a personal decision but you can ‘salt their oats’

  12. Transforming Activities of Teachers Transforming Activities for Students Transforming Thinking

  13. What are transformational events in education?(accidental – it just changed) • Paper/Pencil – Computer • Floppy Disk – Flash Drive • Others?

  14. What are transformational activities?(intentional – a decision to change) • Things that cause people to think and do things differently • A book • An interaction • Others? My transformation

  15. Major Transformation Caused by Technology and Digital Natives

  16. Growing Up Digital (Tapscott,1998) • The Net-Generation is here (N-Gen) • Eighty-eight million offspring ages 0-20 • First to grow up surrounded by digital media • TV is controlled by adults. Kids are passive observers. • In contrast, on the Net, the users (kids) control much of their world • They do not just observe, they participate. • Web 2.0 to the max!

  17. Growing Up DigitalN-Gen Learning • Opportunity to shift (transform) to a new, more powerful, and effective learning paradigm….

  18. Growing Up Digital (1998) N-Gen Learning • Linear sequential to hypermedia • Instruction to construction/discovery • Teacher-centered to learner-centered • School as torture to school as fun • Teacher as transmitter to teacher as facilitator Paradigm shift from...

  19. Contrast this with A Whole New Mind PINK (2005) • Design • Story • Symphony • Empathy • Play • Meaning TAPSCOTT (1998) • construction/ discovery • hypermedia • learner-centered • school as fun • teacher as facilitator

  20. What are your personal transformations in tech? • Your “personal transformation” in technology??

  21. What leads to transforming teacher thinking?** Intentional Institutional Vision ** • Curriculum/Standard Changes • New Technologies • Professional Development • Other?

  22. Professional Development Levels • Personal • Peer to peer • Trainings • Conferences • Courses

  23. Professional Development Levels • “Change occurs most when the professional development occurs closest to the teacher’s classroom.” Linda Darling-Hammond Stanford University Professor of Education

  24. Successful PD features: • experiential, engaging teachers in concrete tasks of teaching, assessment, and observation • grounded in participants' questions, inquiry, and experimentation as well as profession-wide research • collaborative, involving a sharing of knowledge among educators Darling-Hammond and McLaughlin 1995

  25. Successful PD features: • connected to and derived from teachers' work with their students, subject matter and teaching methods • sustained and intensive, supported by modeling, coaching, and problem solving around specific problems of practice • connected to other aspects of school change Darling-Hammond and McLaughlin 1995

  26. PD and Transforming of Teachers Questions to Ask • Does it reduce the isolation of teachers, (or does it perpetuate the experience of working alone)? • Does it encourage teachers to assume the role of learner, (or does it reward traditional "teacher as expert" approaches to teacher/student relations)? Darling-Hammond and McLaughlin 1995

  27. PD and Transforming of Teachers Questions to Ask • Does it provide opportunities for everyone involved with schools to understand new visions of teaching and learning, (or does it focus only on teachers)? • Does it provide a rich, diverse menu of opportunities for teachers to learn, (or does it focus primarily on episodic, narrow "training" activities)? Darling-Hammond and McLaughlin 1995

  28. PD and Transforming of Teachers Questions to Ask • Does it establish an environment of professional trust and encourage problem solving, (or does it exacerbate the risks involved in serious reflection and change and thus encourage problem hiding)? Darling-Hammond and McLaughlin 1995

  29. PD and Transforming of Teachers Questions to Ask • Does it make possible the restructuring of time, space, and scale within schools, (or does it expect new forms of teaching and learning to emerge within conventional structures)? • Does it focus on learner-centered outcomes that give priority to learning "how" and "why", (or does it emphasize the memorization of facts and the acquisition of role skills)? Darling-Hammond and McLaughlin 1995

  30. Linda Darling-Hammond • “No matter how innovative or progressive the professional development activities, none will succeed in changing teaching and learning if the policies of the school, district, and state fail to support or promote the kinds of changes needed to support the achievement of higher standards.” • Can’t change if there isn’t institutional support.

  31. Jerome BrunerFour Crucial Ideas for fosteringa “Community of Learning” • Agency: taking more control of our own mental activity. • Reflection: making what you learn make sense, • Collaboration: sharing the resources of the mix of human beings involved in teaching and learning. • Culture: - the way of life and thought that we construct and negotiate and create

  32. ACCIDENTAL Do my job, others will learn Model for others and maybe they will change Internet changes INTENTIONAL Write down your ideas to share (articles, blog) about common topic of interest Organize groups/study groups/book groups to focus on one topic Accidental vs. Intentional Transformation Identify when there have been accidental and/or intentional change in your school.

  33. What do you want to transform in your school? • What can you do to make this occur?

  34. Transformational Thoughts • “There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.“

  35. Transformational Thoughts • "Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself."—Emerson

  36. Transformational Thoughts • "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."—George Bernard Shaw

  37. Transformational Thoughts • "Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."—Oprah Winfrey

  38. Richard McGinn • “One of the key qualities that any CEO (or successful person) needs is a willingness to stretch yourself and go after goals that others think are too visionary, too hard, or too ambitious to accomplish.” • Richard A. McGinn. Chairman and CEO, Lucent Technologies. 2000

  39. A Whole New Mind • Design • Story • Symphony • Empathy • Play • Meaning

  40. Contact Information • Rob Darrow • Coordinator, Library Services • Clovis Unified, Clovis, CA • robdarrow@cusd.com

  41. Comments, Questions?

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