Keeping up with the Digital Joneses

Keeping up with the Digital Joneses

1. Disruptive Digitial Behavior~innovative and ground breaking

   • What might have worked in the past might not necessarily have the same impact today. The world has changed.
     • Disruption is the new normal!
     • Example: What happened to Blockbuster, BLackberry, Taxicabs?
       • Uber is worth 68 Billion!!!
       • By employing disruptive strategies we can create a more relative learning culture for our students
     • Disruptive Leadership made this happen
     • It is prepposterous to think we can use a century-old education model to prepare students for a world that no longer exists
       • Their environment that they learn in has changed dramatically

2. How do we meet the needs of today's changing learners?

   • Meeting stakeholders where they are in their digital space
     • Flipping the script
   • Giving up control, trusting kids, and creating the conditions where they can select the right tool for the right task to demonstrate conceptional mastery and empowering ownership of learning
     • This is the disruption we need now.
     • We want to model for the kids, teachers, staff, parents, and the community. Technology allows us to be in the race and keep up the pace.
       • Content is what we learn about, and culture is what we are learning to be.

3. Share the Disruptive Stage

   • Don't micromanage. Give credit to otherw when initiative succeed and take the blame if it fails.
   • Update everyone about daily work ocuring at school.
     • Find your people who look at technology as a lifestyle not as an "add-on" to thier lives
       • Millenials are reliant on being connected.
         • They tell stories online at the drop of a hat.
         • They share content
         • They know what they don't want as they learn.
         • They want engagement, like to think out of the box and they welcome sharing.
           • Provide this and you will earn their loyalty to the mission

4. Milleanial Parents have a pressing need to be connected to the education of their children

   • GeneGen X and Y parents are not as accepting of the ivory tower prior to the social and digital age. Todays parents want to be included!!!!!!
     • How can we do that? Facebook, Periscope, live streaming, google classroom, twitter, Remind (text messages)......
   • We need to be nurtering people into our profession that have connected digital skill sets.

5. Generation Z (Our Students under the age of 17)

   • These are people who eschew anything that isn't engaging them
     • They are connected 24/7
     • They attend schools where teachers try to prepare them for a future in the workplace that may or may not be there for them.
       • They wonder about jobs and tools to do jobs that have yet to be created.
       • Their problem solving skills make them open-minded about figuring out strategy. They do NOT fear technology.