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How to make better choices about…. Mobile Devices. Nick Dennis Berkhamsted School. http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewhanson/. Purpose. http://allthingslearning.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/between-a-rock-and-a-very-hard-placept-01/. Purpose. Simon Sinek Purpose. Simon Sinek
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How to make better choices about… Mobile Devices Nick Dennis Berkhamsted School
Purpose http://allthingslearning.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/between-a-rock-and-a-very-hard-placept-01/
Simon SinekPurpose Simon Sinek The Importance of core beliefs Why How What
Strategy v. DevelopmentPurpose Your School Strategy is concerned with defining the shape and extent of the organisation
Strategy v. DevelopmentPurpose Development is concerned with how the organisation is going to adapt and improve – within the strategic parameters Strategy is concerned with defining the shape and extent of the organisation
Purpose What are the steps that will take us from “A” to “B”?
DevelopmentDecisive • You encounter a choice • You analyse your options • You make a choice • Then you live with it
Chip & Dan HeathDecisive Narrow framing means you miss options Confirmation bias leads you to gather self-serving information Short-term emotion often tempts you to make the wrong one But you are overconfident about how the future will unfold
Tim HarfordAdapt The three essential steps are: to try new things, in the expectation that some will fail; to make failure survivable, because it will be common; and to make sure you know when you have failed…
Chip & Dan HeathDecisive • Think of opportunity cost; • Consider a range of options simultaneously; • Find someone who has solved your problem; • Run experiments; • Prepare to be wrong.
Final wordUse of tech in schools If everyone is busy making everything, how can anyone perfect anything?
Dr Nick Dennis Email: ndennis@berkhamstedschool.org Twitter: @nickdennis LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/in/nickdennis Blog: http://www.nickdennis.com/blog
BreakoutChecklist for mobile device use Technology managers? Senior Leaders? Middle Leaders? Teachers? Checklist • Read - do • Do – confirm • ‘Killer items’ • Should be on one page