Scott Friedman, Principal, Nine Mile Falls Elementary

Connect, Create, Transform: Using Technology to Enhance Professional

Learning

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Why are you here?

Because YOU want to LEARN each and EVERYDAY!

If effective principals energize teachers in complex time, what is going to energize principals?

- Michael Fullan, The New Meaning of Educational Change, 2001

Essential Questions

• How will I create connections that will allow me to grow professionally?

• How will the connections I create enrich the learning of my staff?

• Can technology really transform my leadership?

Don’t use the tools of today to support your effort to do yesterday’s job better.

Seth Godin - Brainwashed

CollaborationCollaboration not competition not competition is your key to is your key to successsuccess as a as a school school leader.leader.

-Ravitch-Ravitch

Connect

We grew up isolated. The future is connected.Seth Godin - Brainwashed

Networked TeacherAlex Couros

It’s no longer enough to It’s no longer enough to do powerful work if no do powerful work if no

one sees it.one sees it.

-Chris Lehman-Chris Lehman

If you’ve got the time, the intellect and the access to get your hands on an idea ... then you have the ability to reinvent yourself.

Seth Godin - Brainwashed

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ConnectedConnected

always onalways on

Self-DirectedSelf-Directed

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Innovative uses of Innovative uses of technologytechnology cannot be cannot be confinedconfined to the to the classroomclassroom. It must be . It must be demonstrated and used by leaders at

all levels.

what’s holding you back?

is it really ok for administrators not to

incorporate digital technologies into their

learning?

treat seriouslytreat seriously and and own personallyown personally the task of becoming the task of becoming proficient with the digital tools that are proficient with the digital tools that are transformingtransforming

everythingeverything instead of nonchalantly chuckling about how little instead of nonchalantly chuckling about how little we we as educatorsas educators know about computers. - Scott McLeod know about computers. - Scott McLeod

How will you......

create?

share?

involve others?

START SMALL

the the 3030 minute minute investmentinvestment

Do something for half an hour a day will build your capacity Do something for half an hour a day will build your capacity and you will gradually improve.and you will gradually improve.

What will What will you doyou do with your with your half-hourhalf-hour??

Essential Questions

• How will I create connections that will allow me to grow professionally?

• How will the connections I create enrich the learning of my staff?

• Can technology really transform my leadership?

by by leveragingleveraging the tools of the tools of technologytechnology leaders can become more leaders can become more efficient in their practice and efficient in their practice and createcreate conditions that support conditions that support

continuous continuous learning.learning.

Scott Friedman

• Twitter: @irishscott

• Skype: lhsscott

• email: sfriedman@9mile.org

• irishscott.wordpress.com

• Phone: 509-340-4010

• More Info: naesp12.wikispaces.com