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Understanding by Design Process
(Personally, I think this is a sub-set of change management, i.e. something that may be a barrier, etc. to be cognizant of, but not necessarily a separate area for study. -Brett) (I believe people may be shifting thier view points on what the problems/solutions should be) Jodianne ||  || What role do politics play in K-12, higher ed, and corporate learning? What role should government have in education? Federal, state and local levels. -GN Why do students not have a say in their own education?-Anne
 * **Big Ideas** || **Enduring Understanding** || **Essential Questions** || **Assessment Options** || **Activity Ideas** ||
 * Political awareness

(You need to go through the correct order of personel and God forbid somewhere along that way one person shoots down that idea.) Jodianne ||  || Finding evidence from books, newspapers, or magazines with articles that demonstrate different situations where politics has played a role in K-12, higher ed, & corporate learning. (What could we do with the research? I'm comparing this to Gary's Ned Kelly and Chicago 7 LA. Doing the research is fine, but what are we going to do/learn from it? Perhaps we could debate some landmark cases or current hot topics, such as evolution/creation science in schools, Bilingual education, Social promotion, School Funding, Technology Funding, Zero Tolorance laws.. Etc... - Greg)

Research and understand current educational initiatives- why is standardized testing the common measurement for assessing schools?-Anne || Learning is driven by the technological advances. Students can have access to technology but if the technology is not incorporated into the learning curriculum it will not be a benefit to anyone. - Karen || How can people be motivated to change?
 * Technological innovation ||  || Does technology drive advances in learning, or do learning needs drive technological advances? ||   || Try doing case studies for evaluation, then presenting our ideas to the group, followed by a discussion of the merits of each solution. This way we are forced to think on our own, but we can also learn from the group. Different perspectives always help, especially when you have had time to come up with a solution on your own first, so that you can compare them side by side.
 * Change management ||  || Why do individuals resist change?

How do you become an agent of change? Personally, professionally, leader in change. How does technology support or diminish change?-Anne ||  || This could be Case Study based as well - "How would you manage this situation...?"

Discuss changes in education, business with current leaders in education/ business models.-Anne

Discuss reasons why people stay in a particular comfort zone, and why a person stays there. - Karen || I could probably see about getting Will Richardson, Alfie Kohn or David Warlick to speak with us. This would be a great seminar with Alan November as well.-Anne || How do leaders best implement Change?
 * Philosophies of educational technology ||  ||  Does technology drive advances in learning, or do learning needs drive technological advances? ||   || I think this would be a great wiki we could all collaborate on - start by coming up with titles or topics, then filling in definitions.
 * Leadership ||  || What are the qualities of a leader? - GN

How do you become a leader in your professional environment?-Anne ||  || This would be another one where it would be great to talk with some individuals out there creating change: Alfie Kohn, Will Richardon, Alan November- especially if we could do this in small groups.-Anne || What makes a productive educational organization? -GN ||  || perhaps compile a list as a group, with short descriptions and resources for those who wish to explore the group/individual further. That would allow us to pick and choose our own avenue, while continually adding to the group list. Perhaps an educational organization wiki showcase similar to the Web2.0 page we did for Margaret in August, each of us pick an organization, research it, and present it to the rest of the group and post a summary on the wiki page. Follow a group of educational leaders on their blog or twitter- what changes do they emphasize, support and defend. What blind spots do they have for their own position-Anne || If you had the opportunity to implement change at your institution, how would you go about it, and what would you change? What is the change gap? Why does it exist? What are the barriers? Why are people opposed to change? Why have we put together this initial learning methodology? There are two essential issues we need to understand: how does change happen, and where should the change have us going?
 * Key technology individuals and groups || Understanding of organizations and groups that are actively affecting the global movement in technology utilization || How do you decide which educational leaders to follow?
 * BIG IDEA (Saturday 4/11 morning conversation - Skype transcript - Save to desktop and open:** [[file:EDC665_Planning_4_11_09.html]]**):**
 * BIG IDEA (Saturday 4/11 morning conversation - Skype transcript - Save to desktop and open:** [[file:EDC665_Planning_4_11_09.html]]**):**
 * Evaluating a single learning context (with its current vision, policies, methods of assessment, etc.) through the lenses of several prominent learning theorists, futurists, or change leaders, and seeing how their thoughts would apply, or what they might advocate. Then...
 * Seeing how successful the change initiatives were, and the reasons they worked, or failed. And finally...
 * Establishing our own understanding and vision of how change management works.
 * The role technology plays would be central to this evaluation

(I'm wondering how this is different from Action Research. (was that the idea?) If we broaden the scope to include any type of change (could change be described as simply learning a new way of doing?) could this idea be applied to our current action research? What if this idea was applied to one of our completed cycles? - Greg)  Greg- I think you're right on with this being similar to Action Research in its methodology, but what is different is the scale, as in we plan to look at things at the macro level for this, while our action research is at the micro level. -Brett

Books:

 * Wisdom of Crowds
 * Outliers
 * Blink
 * Diffusion of Innovations by Everett M. Rogers

Videos:

 * Micheal Wesch videos
 * TED Talks

Ed Tech Change Leaders:

 * Chris Dede
 * Alfie Kohn
 * Chris Lehman
 * Will Richardson
 * Alan November
 * Sylvia Martinez (founder of GenYES) not founder...that is Denis Harper...
 * David Warlick

Output from 6PM Session in etherpad:

Melissa’s Group:

Learning Outcomes: What the learners gain

What it takes to be an agent of change? Translate visions The ability to communicate Help someone achieve self-actualization Technology Management Change Management Transforming Ideas Fuel Passion Balance current realities

Understanding resistance to change Asychronous versus Synchronous learning Instructor-Lead versus Web-Based Learning Performance-based assessments (Certifications) Personal Learning Network

Goals: Why we teach Leadership- Mentoring? Building Personal/Professional Visions instituting change within your place of work Understanding how to meet and overcome resistance to change

Content: What we teach- books, audio, video, podcasts, etc The Big Switch (Nicholas Carr- he wrote Does IT Matter? For education) Outliers _A Different Kind of Teacher_ By John Taylor Gatto _Dumbing Us Down_ - John Taylot Gatto

Outliers or Tipping Point (Malccolm Gladwell) Alfie Kohn Free Podcasts available on iTunes Articles on Google Scholar TED talks- excellent idea- or attend TED would be better Harvard Business Review anthology on "Leading Through Change" From Dijlah: The book I would like to suggest for Organizational change is this: Organization Change: A Comprehensive Reader by W. Warner Burke (Editor), Dale G. Lake (Editor), Jill Waymire Paine (Editor) ISBN-13: 9780470260562

Medium: How we teach- Pedagogy, Form of collaboration, Technology Used, Final Project

Blackboard Discussions- we dont have to use this (Mel) TI group Meetings Wiki's Twitter (Mel) Google Sites SharePoint SECOND LIFE (yes SL) Elluminate

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