Let's Hack School: Learner Agency in a Time of New Technologies

In the talk where these slides originated, delivered in March, 2015, at Colorado State University, I discuss some of what I think needs to be thought through when implementing technology and building schools as civic spaces.

More here:

http://budtheteacher.com/blog/2015/04/02/lets-hack-school-a-recent-talk-at-csu/

Transcript

1. let’s hack school: Contemporary Literacies in Civic Life 2015 CSU Writing Project Speaker Series learner agency in a time of new technologies
2. Bud Hunt http://budhunt.com/
4. tl:dr
5. agency play hack make interface platform
6. school and civic life
7. The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind. ~John Dewey
8. what kind of society do you have in mind?
9. what kind of school do you have in mind?
10. We have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say, ‘cause if you’re not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way. ~Ani DiFranco “What If No One’s Watching”
11. systems and structures
14. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. ~Marshall McLuhan
20. digital learning collaborative
21. http://blogs.stvrain.k12.co.us/dlc
22. http://blogs.stvrain.k12.co.us/dlc
23. http://blogs.stvrain.k12.co.us/dlc
24. agency?
25. lenses for learning make hack play
26. make /meɪk/ v 1: give certain properties to something; 2: cause to be or to become; to compose or represent; 3: perform or carry out see also: create
27. http://webmaker.org
28. http://makered.org
29. STEM
30. STEAM
31. STREAM
32. school
33. not about the circuits
35. not about the code
36. things are made by people
37. people make things
38. hack /hak/ n 1: An improvement to a system or program; v 1: To improve a system see also: tinker
43. open vs. closed
44. online vs. offline
45. sharks vs. jets
46. us vs. them
47. digital vs. analog
48. vs.
49. "Dungeness crab and shrimp cake sliders (Los Gatos Brewing Company)" by Ixfd64 - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:Dungeness_crab_and_shrimp_cake_sliders_(Los_Gatos_Brewing_Company).jpg#/media/ File:Dungeness_crab_and_shrimp_cake_sliders_(Los_Gatos_Brewing_Company).jpg
52. let’s think in analog
53. systems
54. structures
55. methods
56. values
58. platform •environment •constraints •facilities
59. interface •shared boundary where 2 parties exchange information •one-way •two-way
60. interface platform
61. play /pleɪ n 1: a state in which action is feasible; 2: the removal of constraints; 3: movement or space for movement see also: engage
71. agency make hack play
72. what are the constraints you face?
73. how might you fiddle or create your way through or around them?
74. how is school a platform?
75. what should school interfaces look like?
76. how are you going to make school better?
78. Bud Hunt Instructional Technology Coordinator St. Vrain Valley School District @budtheteacher budtheteacher@gmail.com http://budtheteacher.com let’s hack school