{"id":128,"date":"2012-11-08T20:30:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2014-10-16T12:55:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:55:31","slug":"ipad-summit-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/ipad-summit-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 iPad Summit Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Two days of iPads at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipadsummitusa.org\">iPad Summit<\/a>\u00a0(put on by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtechteacher.org\">EdTechTeacher<\/a>). That was awesome. And kind of exhausting (but in a good way). I&#8217;m excited to get back in the classroom with my 3rd graders and\u00a0<del>start<\/del>\u00a0keep doing some really neat stuff with them. Only more of it now.<\/p>\n<p>So, going back over my notes&#8230; Some resonating ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With all things tech, first ask &#8220;Why?&#8221;\u00a0<em>This was kind of a theme.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Our economy is based on people spending money they don&#8217;t have on things that are bad for our planet. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/drtonywagner\">Tony Wagner<\/a>)\u00a0<em>This is kind of frightening.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Teachers who made the greatest difference to kids were teachers who were outliers in their teaching environments. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/drtonywagner\">Tony Wagner<\/a>)\u00a0<em>This makes me sad.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If you cannot engage your students you have no future in being a teacher.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/drtonywagner\">Tony Wagner<\/a>).\u00a0<em>Yes!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The app\/device is a tool to think with.\u00a0<em>Yes (see my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/the-ipad-is-a-tool-its-not-the-entire-toolbox\/\">last post<\/a>).<\/em><\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t identify a problem the iPad will solve, you probably shouldn&#8217;t be using iPads. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/gregkulowiec\">Greg Kulowiec<\/a>)\u00a0<em>Yep (see bullet 1).<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Check out Henri, on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q34z5dCmC4M\">Youtube<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HenriLeChatNoir\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0<em>He&#8217;s a french cat, but so much more.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>If we get lost in the &#8220;how&#8221; we need to stop and ask &#8220;why&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/gregkulowiec\">Greg Kulowiec<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>iPads are &#8220;mistake tolerant&#8221;.\u00a0<em>This came up a lot.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/brholland\">Beth Holland<\/a>\u00a0loves arrows.\u00a0<em>And\u00a0I love this graphic. The Camera Roll is king.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ipadarrows.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ipadarrows\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ipadarrows.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Remember to ask: Why am I creating this stuff? Why am I curating (keeping) this stuff? Why do I need to create and curate this stuff? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/brholland\">Beth Holland<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>SAMR Model for technology Integration: Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition.\u00a0<em>This came up in a few presentations. It looks a lot like my graduate thesis, but with a cool acronym. Why didn&#8217;t I come up with a cool acronym?<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Let kids play with apps before you try to teach with apps.<\/li>\n<li>Learning is creation, not consumption. Knowledge is not something a learner absorbs, but something a learner creates. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/patrickmlarkin\">Patrick Larkin<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It is no longer enough to do powerful work if no one sees it.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/chrislehmann\">Chris Lehmann<\/a>)\u00a0<em>And Chris wasn&#8217;t even at the conference!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explaineverything.com\/\">Explain Everything<\/a>.\u00a0<em>I need to spend some more time with this app. Also, I got to see the features on the next update: yes please.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The iPad simplifies the technology.\u00a0<em>This came up a lot too. The iPad does so much, it prevents having to move files from one device\/format to another.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was way more than that, but I want to keep it brief.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, if anyone out there reading this is involved in the building or maintaining of conference centers, please put shelves over the urinals. Please.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The more I carry my iPad everywhere the more I appreciate shelves above urinals. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ettipad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ettipad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/noshelves?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#noshelves<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/m2MFmMHy\">pic.twitter.com\/m2MFmMHy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Schersten (@benschersten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benschersten\/status\/266298281687146496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Two days of iPads at the\u00a0iPad Summit\u00a0(put on by\u00a0EdTechTeacher). That was awesome. And kind of exhausting (but in a good way). 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