Let's Hack School: Learner Agency in a Time of New Technologies
- 1. let’s hack school: Contemporary Literacies in Civic Life 2015 CSU Writing Project Speaker Series learner agency in a time of new technologies
- 4. tl:dr
- 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”
- 14. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. ~Marshall McLuhan
- 21. agency?
- 22. lenses for learning make hack play
- 23. 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
- 26. STEM
- 27. STEAM
- 28. STREAM
- 29. school
- 30. not about the circuits
- 32. not about the code
- 33. things are made by people
- 35. hack /hak/ n 1: An improvement to a system or program; v 1: To improve a system see also: tinker
- 40. open vs. closed
- 42. sharks vs. jets
- 43. us vs. them
- 45. vs.
- 46. "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
- 49. let’s think in analog
- 50. systems
- 51. structures
- 52. methods
- 53. values
- 56. interface •shared boundary where 2 parties exchange information •one-way •two-way
- 58. 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
- 69. what are the constraints you face?
- 70. how might you fiddle or create your way through or around them?
- 71. how is school a platform?
- 72. what should school interfaces look like?
- 73. how are you going to make school better?
- 75. Bud Hunt Instructional Technology Coordinator St.VrainValley School District @budtheteacher [email protected] http://budtheteacher.com let’s hack school