CAIS Best PracticesMontreal, QCApril 30 - May 1, 2009

Brad Ovenell-Carter
Island Pacific School
The ESSENCE of WEB 2.0
 is by no means anything technological.
STRAW POLL
Do you use any of the following?
Facebook
LinkedIn
Twitter
wikis
blogs
RSS
mobiles
cloud computing
social bookmarking (e.g delicious or Diigo)
collaborative software (e.g. Google Docs)
Martin Heidegger
1889 -1976
full text of The Question Concerning Technology:
http://www.wright.edu/cola/Dept/PHL/Class/P.Internet/PITexts/QCT.html

as it's a difficult text, this guide is a helpful resource:
http://www.english.hawaii.edu/criticalink/heidegger/index.html

The ESSENCE of WEB 2.0
is our RELATIONSHIP to technology.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/h/heidegge.htm

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger
The Horizon report is produced by the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international not-for-profit consortium of nearly 300 learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.http://www.nmc.org/publications/2009-horizon-k12-report
collaborative environments
online communication
mobiles
cloud computing
smart objects
personal web
<1 YR
2 - 3 YRS
4 - 5 YRS
HORIZON REPORT
this technology is popular, important and 
TRANSFORMATIVE
HEIDEGGER
JSB
John Seely Brown is the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation.  In addition, he is a Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at USC.Prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)—a position he held for nearly two decades.  While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, and nano/mems technologies.  He was a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL).  His personal research interests include the management of radical innovation, digital youth culture, digital media, and new forms of communication and learning.   John, or as he is often called—JSB— is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and of AAAS and a Trustee of the MacArthur Foundation.  He serves on numerous public boards (Amazon, Corning, and Varian Medical Systems) and private boards of directors.  He has published over 100 papers in scientific journals and was awarded the Harvard Business Review's 1991 McKinsey Award for his article, "Research that Reinvents the Corporation" and again in 2002 for his article “Your Next IT Strategy.”  In 2004 he was inducted in the Industry Hall of Fame. With Paul Duguid he co-authored the acclaimed book The Social Life of Information (HBS Press, 2000) that has been translated into 9 languages with a second addition in April 2002, and with John Hagel he co-authored the book The Only Sustainable Edge which is about new forms of collaborative innovation.  It also provides a novel framework for understanding what is really happening in off-shoring in India and China and how each are inventing powerful news ways to innovate, learn and accelerate capability building.http://www.johnseelybrown.com/bio.html
Hear an interview with JSB:
http://audio.edtechlive.com/JSB.mp3
family
community
school
family
community
Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody) writes, “Now that there is competition to traditional institutional forms for getting things done, those institutions will continue to exist, but their purchase on modern life will weaken as novel alternatives for group action arise.”
Mr. Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC.http://www.shirky.com/bio.html
SHIRKY
TO DO...
Think of the music & publishing industries
CREATE A CULTURE THAT ENCOURAGES TEACHERS TO BE INNOVATIVE
Web 2.0 resists (subverts?) institutionalization.  Consider changing your school's economic denominator to revenue/teacher. I see this as encouraging support for staff development and providing a measure for teacher evaluation. Take a strong leadership role in educating and working with parents.
TEACHERS
PARENTS
ADMINISTRATORS
PLAY WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Web 2.0 capitalizes on the long-tail. Look for ways to engage students in higher order thinking (e.g. in Bloom's taxonomy) and use them to to sell innovation. Create a social network for professional development.
Bookmarks
http://delicious.com/braddodaddo/CAIS-BP
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