Introduction

As you begin to read Leading the Technology-Powered School, you will quickly find that it is not your typical technology book. This is a leadership book. It is about finding our place as technology leaders in the school. As you read, reflect on your role and think about your learning process. Because changes in technology happen day to day, it is important that we LEARN, Un-Learn, and Re-Learn or Monitor and Repair our thinking (REFLECT). At the heart of our learning, we must keep our students first. What tools will enhance our instruction for students? Technology is a key aspect of transformational teaching/learning and can be used to restructure learning environments. Set your goals first, then consider tools (p.9). The tool must have a PURPOSE. What is one tool you want to use next year and why....what is the purpose? Think about that five year old in the introduction!

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Leading the Technology-Powered School - Focus points for HUB (We will be applying the Principal Leader pieces to ourselves as tech leaders, completing a self-assessment, reflecting on our practice, looking at Curriculum/Instruction with Technology...how to plan, Theory of Instructional Technologies, and Transformation Teaching (Learn, Un-Learn, and Re-Learn). This is an easy read and we will be focusing on a similar model on page 13 for the school year. Your first HUB meeting is September 16th.

Teaching 2030 - Focus points will be on our students...now and in the future. This is a much deeper reading and a lot of reflection on our personal practice. Discussions will revolve around:
1. Connectivism
2. Curriculum - Looking at the instruction given in the classroom....how to grow....learn/un-learn/re-learn, and transformational teaching
3. Innovation/Technology
4. Inquiry-Based Learning
5. NBPTS 5 core Propositions/Teaching Helix
6. What we need to do to prepare our students for the future.
7. JUST GREAT conversation pieces and collaboration with each other:)
**JENNIFER BARNETT (co-author) will be at our first HUB meeting on September 16th

ASSIGNMENTS/REFLECTIONS/READINGS:
1. Go to the blog and click on the 2030 link....read over info found on the website
2. Teaching 2030- Read Chapters 1 and 2
3. Leading the Technology-Powered School - Read Intro and chapter 1 (Apply what you can to yourself as a tech leader)

Two Books to Read Over the Summer

I will be reading two books over the summer.....Teaching 2030 and Leading the Technology-Powered School.

You will have to make 5-7 posts on this blog. The books are easy read.....and we will have one face-to-face meeting.

My goal is to start off the year with our normal HUB PD day but have a guest speaker/c0-author from Teaching 2030 at our meeting.

http://teachingquality.org/publications/teaching-2030-book