Presentation for VAIS Technology Conference, March 2012.

1. Making Tech
Meaningful
VAIS 2012

2. Embrace...
Right now, with social networks
and other tools on the Internet, all
of these 500 million people have a
way to say what they're thinking
and have their voice be heard.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Founder of Facebook
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/zuckerberg-calls-movie-fiction-disputes-signing-contract-giving/story?id=11217015#.T3KINGJSS_axx

3. Resist...
The things we may be
unlearning, tweet by tweet --
complexity, acuity, patience,
wisdom, intimacy -- are things
that matter.
- Bill Keller
Former NYTimes Executive
Editor

4. Divided Schools

5. We tend to think less about how
to integrate new tools into our
lives than about how to simply
keep up.
- Douglas Rushkoff,
“Program or Be Programmed”

6. What do you
already do that
works?

7. Welcome to SLA!

8. Opened in 2006 in partnership
with the School District of
Philadelphia and The Franklin
Institute
Inquiry-Driven Project-Based 1:1 MacBooks
How do we
learn?
What can we create?
What does it mean to
lead?

9. Where does tech
support what we
do?

10. Learn by Doing

12. Embrace
Core Values

14. Learn from
Each Other

15. Teacher ≠
Gatekeeper

17. Classroom
Observation

18. Ethic of Care

21. Network with
the world

25. Made for
EduCon,
used by
students
too!

26. Where does tech
get in the way?

27. Collaboratio
n

28. “Tech-Free

29. Play

30. Offline Impact

31. Where does it
transform?

36. Where will it help?
Where will it get in
the way?
Where could it
transform?

37. Get out of the way.
Scienceleadership.org
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LPahomov@scienceleadership.org