Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wesley Fryer is one of the blogs that I monitor regularly. Wesley recently posted a draft of a presentation on 1:1 and School 2.0. Being in the middle of a 1:1 project myself I took the time to listen to his podcast. Everything he discussed and the visions he described are exactly what I am aiming for at my school. We are a few weeks out before our 6th graders get the laptops and my biggest concern has not been handing thirty 12 year olds a $1600 machine. Rather, staff development, or lack thereof has been my biggest concern. If our 1:1 project is going to resemble anything like what Wes discusses we are going to have to increase staff development dramatically. And if I want my school start moving toward School 2.0 the whole staff has to be trained. I think this is true for my school and all schools. I find the tech literacy skills our teachers very lacking. In general they do not know what could be, they are too burdened with how things are and in the day to day regimine. But it is not their fault. It is the fault of school leadership (me included) and the lack of resources allocated to transform our school from 1.0 to 2.0. Take a listen to Wes’ podcast. It will make you think.
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/01/podcast122-the-case-for-11-and-school-20-draft/
