11 Takeaways fr @Globalearner (Alan November's) Talk to #NYCSchoolsTech Leaders

Alan November spoke to a group of leaders from New York City. Here are the takeaways and resources I collected. 

1. Make thinking visible. It’s not as important to know “what” a student does as it is to know “why” they do it.  
• Tools to do this are PRISM http://prism.scholarslab.org and VERSO http://versoapp.com/
2. The real revolution is not technology. It is information. Don't ask what tech we need, ask are the students/staff getting the information they need when they need it. Determine if students own the learning. 
3. Stop delaying feedback. Game design and instant responsive feedback has it right.
• More at http://ayogo.com/blog/data-analytics-for-learning-game-design-is-doing-it-right/
4. Stop lecturing and consider more assessment not less with students leading the learning. Test twice.
• More at http://mazur.harvard.edu/sentFiles/Mazur_274537.pdf and http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/03/twilight-of-the-lecture
5. Beware of the curse of knowledge. An expert can't understand a beginners learning issues. The more you know, the less effective you become.
• More at https://hbr.org/2006/12/the-curse-of-knowledge 
6. Teachers sell a product to a market that doesn't want it.
• From Dan Myers Ted Talk on curriculum make over https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover
7. Don't start with content. Start with real problems.
• More at http://www.101qs.com/
8. Pilots and surgeons have a checklist. We need to determine what an educator's checklist should include.
• More at http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/
9. Assessment can be the silent killer of learning. We're so focused on giving rubrics that we're hurting kids.
• More at https://youtu.be/CBzn9RAJG6Q?t=8m55s
10. To ask good questions students need to know the types of questions to ask. 
• More at http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html
11. When we change from "solve" to "involve" we transform learning. 

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You can visit my blog on Sunday, July 17th to see his talk and also discover the lessons I learned about livestreaming a talk.