Tuesday Morning at ISTE

Our keynote was Dr. Steven Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People & The Leader of Me.  He talked about how we need to teach students about principles, those ideas that will help them all their life, not necessarily just about content.  Although Dr. Covey wasn't present, he was virtually present online as he talked about his research and how it can applied to schools.

I also went to a session by Adam Bellows, titled The Tech Commandments: 10 Ways to Revitalize Educations with Technology. It was very poor, all he did was rant about what there is to rant about in relation to the use of technology in education.  He provided NO ways to revitalize education.  I will not attend another session by him. Unfortunately, I left early so I could spend time in the exhibition hall instead.

Then I went to a session about curation & differentiated learning and how technology helped this process, led by Katie Morrow of O'Neill, NE.  The session was very interesting and made me wonder about what the role of teacher is going to be now that the web & the ability to link to various sources of content is very easy.  The talked about the idea of curation, which is "the process of establish and developing long term repositories of digital assets for current and future reference," according to the presenters.  They presented a lot of other resources on how to curate websites, tweets, images, and other digital content.