A while back, I posted a link to an article written by Lolly Daskal for Inc.com. You can see the original post and the link to the article here. In the article, Lolly writes about the 13 personality traits to avoid. I wrote about many of them on my blog. You can read about them here: the privileged, the pessimist, the distracted, the loafer, and the dreamer.
Today, as I returned to work from a very relaxing and stress free week off, I decided to write about avoiding the visionless. I don't want to be visionless, instead, I want to seek to have a vision, a vision for the future that our teachers will embrace and that serves our students well.
In Lolly Daskal's article, she explains, "the visionless doesn't have a clue what he wants to achieve; he just keeps trying things and hopes something will work. It makes for a hard road to success."
Tomorrow is the start of our work in creating the vision for how we will use technology in a BYOD environment. Tomorrow a group of teachers and administrators will work together to dream a little. We will come together to discuss what the future might look like, and how technology will ultimately play a vital role.
In my last post, I wrote the questions that we will pose to the group tomorrow. Here are my thoughts:
1. What are your personal beliefs/vision for BYOD in your school in the next 5 years? What do you want to see? I want to see a school where we stop talking about how to integrate technology. I want to see it used when and if it is necessary, like students use pens or calculators today. I want to see all students have access to information, any time, and know how to make sense of it, how to question it and how to know whether or not the information is accurate or trustworthy. I want to see students broaden their reach to connect to peers in other communities. I want to see this happen without students being told that they should do this.
2. What 21st century habits/skills do we want to continue to teach regardless of how technology changes in the next 5 years? In my opinion, the most important "21st century" skills or habits that students will need to master are collaboration, critical thinking and being creative. I see these as integral parts of the BYOD implementation, specifically with Google Docs and the Google Classroom.
How would you answer these questions? What would you want to see in a BYOD school?
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