Below please find notes from the Task Force meeting conducted on September 19, 2012:

21^st Century Task Force

September 19, 2012 

Creative and Divergent Thinkers

 

·        Kids competing globally!

·        Convent:  insight to action (application)

·        Creativity – conserve and preserve:  innate creativity

·        Create freedom to fail – part of science method.

Bring stakeholders in. Show evidence.

·        Collaborate – with business, disciplines, schools

·        Design process shift!

·        Look to business (measure leadership, etc.)

·        Learn from the lessons of business.

·        New unimagined solutions.

·        Developmental readiness.

·        Scaffold the skills to articulate the habits K-12+.

·        Courage to disrupt.

·        What are the measurements?  We will do what we measure!

·        New teacher evaluation system: How do we measure courage for example?

·        Multiple measures …

·        21^st Learning – implications for space and time (schedule)

 

Innovative Lab

This lab is at a university but certainly still applicable to us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9tK9E3OYSo&feature=email

Good Strategy's Non-Negotiables - HBR IdeaCast - Harvard Business Review

Good Strategy's Non-Negotiables - HBR IdeaCast - Harvard Business Review''

I thought this was a good podcast which reinforces ideas from "Great by Choice" and other articles I/we have read.  Companies are using the following guidelines to improve.

1.  Differentiation
2.  Core Principles
3.  Feedback leads to Professional Development

Gestured-based ed-tech

This article describes pretty well how gesture-based educational technology may come of age in the next five to ten years:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/gesture-based-tech-a-future-in-education/15514

Educators would have to advise as to whether Kinect style interactions have a place in the classroom (perhaps a separate "center"?), but it strikes me that gestures that involve the whole body carry different space requirements than a PC with a mouse or a tablet.

The Power of the Introverts

Interesting counterpoint to the constant call for more collaboration in schools.



http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts.html

Connected learning resources and infographic

Click this link to read a blog post by Scott McLeod...He included this infographic bu Connected Learning which I think is a great visual for the work we are doing.

Great by Choice

Recently got finished listening to Great by Choice by Jim Collin (http://www.amazon.com/Great-Choice-Uncertainty-Luck--Why-Despite/dp/0062120999/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330686966&sr=8-1).  I highly recommend it.

One of the concepts he details in the book is a SMaC Recipe.  Here is a link to a blog that explains it.

http://27gen.com/2011/10/22/smac-down/

Mike Murray got me thinking of it when he talked about having pillars that we stand by at Wyoming.  Should we develop a SMaC Recipe for the district and each division?