Highlights

0:00:30  A discussion about innovation and was there innovative at ISTE?

0:01:50  What is innovation?

0:03:50  Who is driving innovation?

0:05:13  What Adrian took away from the conference.

0:06:30  The increase in tactile technology

0:07:45  What Mike took away from the conference

0:08:30  Where’s the data?

0:09:20  How do we see whole school transformation and help the teachers who aren’t attending conferences like ISTE?

0:13:10  What stem tools we saw that will help the slow adopters

0:17:10  Are we trying to turn students into gamers or gamers into students?

0:18:45  Tips for those attending ISTE for the first time

0:23:26  Why you should speak to the product managers

0:25:00  The most important thing you can do after a conference

Transcript: ISTE Recap

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Mike: All right so you’ve got Mike, Mark and you’ve got Adrian and we’re just sitting around our kitchen table in Austin, Texas. We’ve just finished the ISTE Conference in San Antonio 2017 and we thought we’d just do a bit of a debrief. We were just talking about our experience, some of the things we learnt, some of the things we’ve walked away wondering, and thought it might be good to record our conversation. So Mark you had some interesting things to say about innovation after the conference.

Mark: Yeah well we we’re actually talking with Alice Keeler at the dinner and one of the questions came up, what are you looking to get out of this conference? I’ve been to a few conferences but not one as big as ISTE. So I was really hoping that I’d find something quite innovative because my question was, what is out there that’s actually innovative these days?

You know I think there’s a lot of people doing things but then what are you actually doing that’s new and interesting and something that people haven’t heard of before. So to be honest I actually don’t know if I’ve found it. What do you guys think? Did you find something truly innovative?

Adrian: No, I didn’t find anything truly…like just jumping out that I thought I’ve never seen that before. I saw variations of nearly everything I’d seen and people are done with it, but then for me, it was looking at how you do the pedagogy the stuff that you do in the classroom what that looks like when you link your subjects together and then what you can use to enhance that.  Rather than trying to be innovative and flashy-dashy.  Because I think there’s always going to be something shiny on the lot, not necessarily add to what you’re learning is.

Mike: Well I think in that conversation we had a dinner the conversation did turn to what is innovation and I think it might be helpful to just backtrack a bit because like you’re saying Adrian flashy-dashy is innovation but maybe that’s not what innovation means to some people. So how would you define the innovation Mark?

Mark: I think whenever you’re in a classroom you’re always reflecting right. So you’re always trying to get more out of what you’re doing with the students. You’re trying to engage that student that maybe...