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Rob Darrow, Ed. D.
Palo Alto Unified School District
Blended Learning Symposium
May 8, 2015
Rob’s Wiki: http://robdarrow.wikispaces.com
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Did you tweet out or write something
with the #thankateacher hashtag?
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Palo Alto Unified New Superintendent
20% “Personal Passion Project” (Stanford
Middle School)
WASC @ Palo Alto High / Gunn
Esther Wojcicki Book: “Moonshots in
Education” About blended learning
Movie: “Mask You Live In” @ Gunn
Vision:
We support all PAUSD students as they
prepare themselves to thrive as global
citizens in a rapidly changing world.
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Our Collective
Educational Journey
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Who Remembers?
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Three Questions
1. Why did you go into education? Are you an educator because you like
doing things right or doing the right thing?
2. Are you using technology or is the
technology using you?
3. Are you managing your digital footprint
or is
your digital footprint managing you?
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Why did you go into teaching?
Who or what influenced you to do so?
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Doing things right or
doing the right
thing?
“If we teach today’s students as
we taught yesterday’s we rob
them of tomorrow.” John Dewey. ”Schools of Tomorrow”,
1915.
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Or....
“If we teach the way we were
taught or the way colleges
taught us to teach, we are
robbing ourselves of the
opportunities to teach with
the tools of
the present and future.” Rob Darrow. Paraphrase of John Dewey.
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Why I Chose Teaching
My Grandfather
My First 5 Years
5 Different Grades
(5th, Kindergarten, First, Second, Third)
Important things about teaching:
Management, Reading
Education is about Relationships
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
My “Perfect Storm”
Vice Principal Job
New computers on campus
A tech conference (Ian Jukes and David
Thornburg)
Jukes: “Do you want to be on the wave of
technology or on the beach?”
Thornburg: “In a time of drastic change it
is the learners who inherit the future. The
learned usually find themselves equipped
to live in a world that no longer exists.”
What is your “perfect storm”
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Last 10 Years of Teaching
Doing the right thing
Doctorate
Learning about online learning
Online school
Funding cut with an email
Charter school: “The students in the
Fresno area belong to all of us!”
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Are you a glass half full or half empty
kind of person?
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
This Time of the School Year
Perfect time to innovate and try
new things!
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
- Nelson Mandela
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Are you using the technology or
is the technology using you?
Technology are relationships
One example:
Online discussion boards give every
student a voice
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
The Big 5 ! Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, YouTube
How many people have a blog?
Twitter?
This is one way to “use” the
technology
Get your message out, because you
each have a story to tell
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Technology positively change relationships
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Using the Technology
Charles Babbage – 1840s
Ada Lovelace – 1840s
Difference Engine and Analytical Engine
Alan Turing – 1940s –
The Enigma Code breaker
Developed a computer to crack the code
World War II – Turned the tide of the war
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Relationships Transform
Thinking and Learning
Ada Lovelace - Charles Babbage
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Alan Turing
1940 – Breaks
Enigma Code
1952 – Arrested for
homosexual acts
with boyfriend
1954 – Takes life
2013 – Pardoned
(After online
petition garnered
37,000 signatures)
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
No one gets better by themselves –
there is always a relationship – the
right word of encouragement at the
right moment – whether in person or
online - that causes the breakthrough
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Are you managing your
digital footprint? When is the last time
you Googled your
name?
What comes up?
When is the last time
you taught your
students how to
Google their names?
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
In today’s world –
Especially with getting a job -
if you Google someone and
nothing comes up,
it raises questions...
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
My Digital Footprint
Rob’s Wiki: http://robdarrow.wikispaces.com
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
My Doctoral Research
At-Risk Students and Online Charter
Schools in California
http://robsdoc.wikispaces.com/home
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
In California
13% of the total U.S.
K-12 public school
student enrollment
20% of the U.S.
public charter
school enrollment
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
At-Risk Kids / Graduation Rates
70% of students graduate from high
school throughout the U.S.
80% of students graduate from high
school in California
If you’re African-American or Latino
male, 50%
If we are ok with that,
then don’t do anything.
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
This week in California
Because of the Common Core
assessments and analysis, it was
found...
47 schools have limited access to the
Internet
6 to 9 schools have no Internet Access
https://robdarrow.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/how-can-there-be-
school-districts-in-ca-that-cannot-access-the-internet-ccss-caedchat/
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
No Excuses!
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
No Excuses !
To not have adequate bandwidth or
access to Internet for students in your
schools
Need policies and money
If you don’t like the policies, change them
If you don’t have the money, write a grant
Build a network of believers
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
No Excuses !
For teachers to not use
technology and the Internet to
teach with
Professional learning (No
longer “professional
development”) and leadership
Bottom up … and top down
You have the power!
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
No Excuses !
To not learn on your own – as
administrators or instructors
Free professional learning all over the
place!
Share what you are doing…
Via blog
Via wiki
Via Twitter
Via Facebook
Via YouTube
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Free Professional Learning
Weekly Tweetchats
Free webinars
Free MOOCs and Online Conferences
ASCD: http://www.ascd.org/professional-
development/webinars.aspx
iNACOL:
http://www.inacol.org/events/webinars/
EdCamps / MeetUps / Hackathons
Future of Education Interviews -
http://www.futureofeducation.com/
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Free Professional Learning
Blogs / online journals
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/09/how-to-
fuel-the-innovation-engine-in-learning/
Edutopia: http://www.edutopia.org/
Faculty Focus, Higher Ed Teaching
Strategies: http://www.facultyfocus.com/
Via Email: ASCD Smart Brief, EdTech:
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/fHmbBYpbkskkoIjwfDc
XdUfCigOl
iNACOL’s Plugged In:
http://www.inacol.org/news/plugged-in/
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Free Professional Learning This Month!
Today!
Google For Education (May 8 and 9)
https://educationonair.withgoogle.com/live/2015-
may
May 16-18: 4TVirtual Conference (Free from U
of Michigan School of Ed)
http://www.4tvirtualcon.com/
K-12 Online Conference – Call for Proposals
open. (Held in October every year).
http://k12onlineconference.org/
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Professional Learning / Organizations
CUE Organization: www.cue.org
Elearning Strategies Symposium
Call for Speakers:
http://www.elearns.org/
iNACOL: www.inacol.org
Blended Teacher Network:
www.blendedteachernetwork.org
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
A Word about Stanford
Foremost educational thinkers
in the country
Do you read “Education Next”?
They discuss the “ideal” but
don’t always know the “real”
Blended Learning Symposium in
2014
Invite them in !
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Build your own
Professional Learning Network
Via your blog
Via Twitter
Via Facebook
Via colleagues
Via most any social media
With each other ! (a PLN)
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Research Shows:
Policies Important
Tech Engages Students
Professional Learning Important
But, teachers and leaders
are the MOST important!
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Go out and make it happen
Just DO it!
Do the right things!
Use the technology!
Manage your digital footprint!
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
As we consider providing more engaged learning for our students via online and blended learning …remember that…
“The only thing harder than starting something new – is
stopping something old”
- Russell Ackoff -“Redesigning Society”
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
No Excuses! Rob Darrow.. May 2015.
Keep Making a Difference!
Rob’s Wiki: http://robdarrow.wikispaces.com
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