Leadership & VISION

1. Leadership & VISION Mu State Leadership Growth June 2011 Dr. Joan Lutton

2. Leaders must have…. • The desire to keep learning, the only way to stay ahead • The intelligence and charisma to make people rally to their cause • And the most important ingredient: VISION

3. The world is changing...

4. A True Leader • A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. • She does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of her actions and the integrity of her intent. • In the end, leaders are like eagles…they don’t flock; we find them one at a time.

5. Asking the right questions • How do we know the right questions? • Who knows the answers? • How many questions to ask?

6. Change doesn’t bother me, it’s doing things differently that I have problems with.

8. What is Learning? • If it is possible to answer a question on a tech device in under a minute, we are asking the wrong questions. • Technology rewards us with the time and the means to use higher level questioning in pursuit of learning. • Why do some schools outlaw mobile devices?

9. What's different?We now have an easy connection between an individual's passion to learn and the resources to learn it.

10. Huge implications for us as learners and for our schools.

12. What does the future look like? • What do schools look like? • How do businesses look? • What skills will be needed? • How are those skills taught?

13. “'What can you do?' has been replaced with 'What can you and your network connections do?' Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his contacts.” --Jay Cross, Informal Learning

14. leadership depends on having somewhere to go how to effect a vision why should you be the one Leaders Must Have a Vision

15. So...what do we mean by learning? 

16. "Our learning institutions, for the most part, are acting as if the world has not suddenly, irrevocably, cataclysmically, epistemically changed-and changed precisely in the area of learning."--Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg"Future of Learning Institutions", 2009http://bit.ly/X52mZ (.pdf)

17. History Lesson In 1907 the National Association of Teachers reported that students had become too dependent on ink and no longer knew how to sharpen a pencil with a knife.

18. Leaders with vision • The leader must set a vision of the big picture and know how each action fits into that picture.

19. Right now, schools are: Time and place. Filtered. Teacher-directed. Predictable. Standardized. Push oriented. Content-based. Group assessed. Linear. Closed. Sept-June. Local.

20. A vision is an image without great detail, the how and why is not clearly defined. The vision provides a continuing focus. Visions create really powerful changes in our world. Vision

21. Education vs. Everyday Analog vs. Digital Tethered vs. Mobile Isolated vs. Connected Generic vs. Personal Consumption vs. Creation Closed vs. Open David Wiley, BYU

22. Learning will be (already is): Mobile. Networked. Global. Collaborative. Self-directed. Inquiry based. On demand. Transparent. Lifelong. Personalized. Pull. Unpredictable.

23. Shouldn't classrooms be? Mobile. Networked. Global. Collaborative. Self-directed. Inquiry based. On demand. Transparent. Lifelong. Personalized. Pull. Unpredictable.

24. “If you think that the future will require better schools, you’re wrong. The future of education calls for entirely different learning environments.” --Knowledge Works Foundation

25. Everything that can be inventedhas been invented. Charles Duell, US Patent Office, 1899 It is estimated that by 2009 e-books will outsell the number of printed books. (This estimate actually came true.) Number of years it took radio to secure 50 million US listeners: 40 Number of years it took television: 13 Number of years for cable TV: 13 Number of years for the World Wide Web: 4

26. What’s In Store • Blurring and Blending • Mobility Galore • Gaming • Social Networking • High-Impact Presentation/Engagement Technologies • Analytics, Diagnostics, and Evidence-Based Education • A Call to Mindfulness

27. Why Not You? • Read and Study • Keep up with current events • Be a people person • Make decisions based on the good of the organization

28. Is The Vision Great? • “Men believe that a society is disintegrating when it can no longer by pictured in familiar terms. Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on.” Thomas Arnold

29. Be the Visionary • “Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.” Alvin Toffler • Go forth and multiply

31. Leaders must have….. • The courage to make decisions and to stand behind them • The determination to follow a course of action • The balanced judgement to weigh decisions even under intense pressure • The flexibility to adapt to changing conditions

32. "The model of 21st century learning described in this plan calls for engaging and empowering learning experiences for all learners. The model asks that we focus what and how we teach to match what people need to know, how they learn, where and when they will learn, and who needs to learn. It brings state-of-the art technology into learning to enable, motivate, and inspire all students, regardless of background, languages, or disabilities, to achieve. It leverages the power of technology to provide personalized learning instead of a one-size fits-all curriculum, pace of teaching, and instructional practices."

33. "But there is no doubt that five years from now, when my children are teenagers, they will be comfortable living in public in ways that will astound and alarm their parents. I can already imagine how powerful the instinct to worry about predators and compromising photos will be. But it will be our responsibility to keep that instinct in check and to recognize that their increasingly public existence brings more promise than peril. We have to learn how to break with that most elemental of parental commandments: Don't talk to strangers. It turns out that strangers have a lot to give us that's worthwhile, and we to them."--Steven Johnson"Web Privacy: In Praise of Oversharing"Time Magazine, May 20, 2010http://bit.ly/aBbBYL

34. “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” --Eric Hoffer

35. “Kids learn on the Internet in a self-directed way, by looking around for information they are interested in, or connecting with others who can help them. This is a big departure from how they are asked to learn in most schools, where the teacher is the expert and there is a fixed set of content to master.” --Mimi Ito MacArthur Foundation

36. Taking Risks • “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood. An inconvenience is only and adventure wrongly understood.” C.K. Chesterton • “Every exit is an entry to somewhere else.” Tom Stoppard

37. "Young people's internet literacy does not yet match the headline image of the intrepid pioneer, but this is not because young people lack imagination or initiative but rather because the institutions that manage their internet access and use are constraining or unsupportive - anxious parents, uncertain teachers, busy politicians, profit-oriented content providers." --Sylvia Livingstone Author "Children and the Internet"

38. "But there is no doubt that five years from now, when my children are teenagers, they will be comfortable living in public in ways that will astound and alarm their parents. I can already imagine how powerful the instinct to worry about predators and compromising photos will be. But it will be our responsibility to keep that instinct in check and to recognize that their increasingly public existence brings more promise than peril. We have to learn how to break with that most elemental of parental commandments: Don't talk to strangers. It turns out that strangers have a lot to give us that's worthwhile, and we to them."--Steven Johnson"Web Privacy: In Praise of Oversharing"Time Magazine, May 20, 2010http://bit.ly/aBbBYL

39. Your Vision • “I have a dream..” • “Ask not what your country can..” • “I saw and said etc.. • “Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.” Agnes Allen

40. Real Leaders • “The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you never explore before, what human nature is like.” • Laurens Van der Post

41. A Call to Mindfulness E-Mail Serenity Prayer

42. "The future ain't What it used to be." Yogi Berra

43. Learning in a Networked World: For our students and for ourselves Will Richardson PLPNetwork.com Weblogg-ed.com @willrich45 on Twitter will@plpnetwork.com