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March 14, 2018 Pair-a-Dimes 20 – David Jakes
Description: This David Jakes interview was recorded at the 2018 SXSW (South by South West) EDU Conference in Austin Texas. Accompanied by Jeff Richardson, we light-heartedly touch on some of David's 'hot buttons', and we pick his brain on designing learning spaces, both with and without a budget.
Show Notes: [Listen Now *Direct link to mp3]
David Jakes - DavidJakesDesigns.com - @DJakes on Twitter
The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching Learning
- Third Teacher Flash Cards (pdf) -
One of my #SXSWEDU takeaways:
“Preparing kids for ‘jobs that don’t yet exist’ is still job prep, just described a different way. @djakes
— David Truss (@datruss) March 8, 2018
Learning independent of time, space and place.
Focus on experience, not things.
Cmolik Prize - Our application: Blog post.
Details on: Creating the time and space for self-directed, personalized, inquiry learning.
Link to: The infographic
HipHopEd Manifesto
The classroom remains a location of possibility.
How do we move from a culture of risk-taking to one of strategic risk-taking? (Where there is support, guidance and administrative permissions.)
Waukee WILC - on CannonDesign, on InVisionArch.
Minnetonka Big Idea Hunt
EDUTOPIA - Remake Your Class: Building a Collaborative Learning Environment (Video Playlist)
Sherwin Williams Dry Erase Paint
Furniture - VS (Shift+), Haworth, Steelcase.
Bodies in motion. Brains in motion. (pdf)
My introduction to David shared on 'The POD's are Coming! BLC09'.
This wasn't part of the podcast, but I love this blog post by David:
Brilliant stuff by @djakes
#5 #2 - Design is lens that fundamentally and effectively changes what you do. https://t.co/As4mPCA3go
— David Truss (@datruss) November 11, 2017
David Jakes - DavidJakesDesigns.com - @DJakes on Twitter
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October 15, 2017 Pair-a-Dimes 19 Josh Abrams
Description: I visited Josh Abrams at Meridian Academy with Mike Slinger and Evan Sharp, and I can't begin to share in a brief description how many amazing quotes came out of the conversation. So I made a poster: 2di.me/abramsquotes and the full quotes are shared on the podcast page: 2di.me/abramspodcast. All educators can all learn from this conversation.
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Josh Abrams, Meridian Academy (Mission statement).
Mike Slinger @mikeslinger7, Evan Sharp @evansharp, Alan November @globalearner, Educon Philly, My presentation on Failure at Educon.
Josh Abrams Quotes:
Traditional schools are designed to make students risk averse, and that is a crappy goal.
Failure is simply a process, it's just not a problem, and our kids become revision monsters...they don't ever hand you a paper and think that they are done. They assume that they are going get feedback from each other, and their teachers, and that there will be more.
We don't have letter or number grades, we are a high school that is credit/no credit and you have to really kill yourself to get 'no credit'. You have to not do the work and then when the teacher gives you feedback that it's not at standards yet, you have to not do it again. We don't want to build on crappy foundations, we don't want juniors that don't know the 9th grade materials so what do we do? We work towards mastery and that means redoing until you really have the understanding that you need.
Learning is actually fun and it doesn't need extrinsic rewards... I don't know about you guys, but I haven't received a grade in a very long time and it hasn't stoped me from doing anything... The whole structure of the school is that the learning is at the heart of things. And that means longer classes, it means no bells, it means a flexible schedule, it means we meet the needs of the learner, not the needs of the bureaucracy.
The BIG 3 Changes for All Schools:
Get rid of grades: They are misleading, they don't tell you anything useful. It changes the trust relationship and the nature of the conversation about learning.
Interdisciplinary Learning: Life is interdisciplinary. It's not just about problem solving, it's about problem posing. Kids questions matter. Students are always working in coherent courses, with long term projects.
Project Based Learning: The best way to develop skills is to use them in the service of something more interesting than [the skills] themselves.
Let students write the the rubric. Students will hang themselves with a crazy-hard task if you just let them, give them that chance. And they won't complain, because they did it to themselves. It wasn't a weird teacher request, it was a reasonable expectation of each other for what makes [a good project]. So then they'll have that rubric.... they are just setting the bar high for themselves, but they are also learning that that's what learners and grown ups do, they figure out ahead of time, what good work looks like.
More on Rubrics:
Don't give them the stupid grids that say good work looks like this, mediocre work looks like this... Just talk about what good work looks like. Why do we have to talk about what crappy work looks like, we are not shooting for crappy work.
My rubric is what the kid and I came up with and then Yup, Nope or Partly. And if it is Nope Or Partly you say what's missing and why. If it's Yup, you say what's good about it. So developing their own self assessment is crucial because we are not going to be with them their entire life, and if they are constantly looking to us as the experts... then there is a problem. Revision, revision, revision.
On hard work:
[Many students today] don't know what's gratifying about hard work for it's own sake, done collaboratively with other human beings. And almost everything worth doing in our world today is complicated, is collaborative, and is utterly frustrating on a regular basis...
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October 10, 2017 Pair-a-Dimes 18 – Remi Kalir
Description: Remi Kalir sits down with me after the '2017 CANeLearn Symposium BC Digital Learning Conference' and we discuss Educator Agency. The conversation enters personal spaces, and reveals how our identities influence and play upon our abilities to have agency as both educators and learners.
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Remi Kalir - Bio, Blog - REMI (X) LEARNING - Twitter @remikalir
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver - School of Education and Human Development
2017 CANeLearn Symposium BC Digital Learning Conference
Resident Provocateur at CANeLearn Symposium - Blog post by Remi
Refracted Perspectives: Closing Keynote at CANeLearn - Blog post by Remi
Remi's Tweet(s) Re: Guiding questions for breakout sessions.
Inquiry Session: Equity Digital Literacy (Breakout session moderated by Dave ~ Tweet)
iiE -Institute for Innovation in Education - (Remi - Creativity Ignitor)
Stanford D school (Design School with a focus on design thinking)
IDEO is a global design company. We create positive impact through design.
Why I Blog. Why blog with students? (A video Dave created in '09)
Kathy Sierra - (Wikipedia background on harassment reference)
Common Sense Education - Get resources for teaching in the digital age. Expert-tested. Teacher-approved.
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Tweets from the conference:
Why I Blog. Why blog with students? #CANeLearn @remikalir Everyone should have blogs! https://t.co/VqMpypPcik https://t.co/Ep3QN7noEY
— David Truss (@datruss) April 7, 2017
Educators have tremendous agency to shape equitable learning futures. Let's flip the ? and demand how tech change can be ethical #CANeLearn https://t.co/sQSPWVzjed
— Remi Kalir (@remikalir) April 6, 2017
I am the network @gapingvoid An idea just shared by @remikalir to close #CANeLearn THANK YOU online f2f colleagues pic.twitter.com/0QSV7Q6iNf
— David Truss (@datruss) April 7, 2017
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#CANeLearn @remikalir demonstrates a rare gift to curate, understand and feed back on issues and conversations that happened over 3 days
— Gabriel Linder (@gabelinder) April 7, 2017
Refracted Perspectives: Presentation slides from my closing keynote at #CANeLearn. Thx for this honor opportunity! https://t.co/CnUXYOyqRT
— Remi Kalir (@remikalir) April 8, 2017
Thanks! It was an honor and pleasure to learn alongside #CANeLearn these past few days. https://t.co/bIuXV2qWhc
— Remi Kalir (@remikalir) April 8, 2017
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October 02, 2017 Pair-a-Dimes 17 - Barbara Bray Discover your purpose.
Description: Barbara Bray shares a great life hack, using checklists to feel good as well as get things done. She broke her neck, and it inspired her to change careers and become an educator. (She went from dental flossing to mental flossing.) She also loved to dance and had a secret life as a Go Go dancer when she was a teenager still living at home.
Show Notes: [Listen Now]
Barbara Bray - @bbray27 on Twitter.
EduCon 2.9 - January 27th–29th, 2017 at The Science Leadership Academy, Barbara's presentation: Making PBL Personal, my presentation: Facilitating Successful Learning Through Failure.
Lone Wolf blog post from the Unplug'd Conference, (shared often by Donna Fry - @fryed). Listen to Episode 11 with Donna and friends on the topic of Connected Leaders.
Barbara's books (with Kathleen McClaskey - Episode 14): Make Learning Personal and How to Personalize Learning.
“Go with your strengths to find your passion so that you can discover your purpose.”

Barbara Bray's Bio:
Barbara Bray is a writer, speaker, instructional designer and creative learning strategist who enjoys connecting people and ideas around transforming education. She is co-author of Make Learning Personal andHow to Personalize Learning. She has focused on creating learner-centered environments for over 25 years and coined the term “Making Learning Personal” in 2000 because she believed that education really needs to be all about our learners and learning first.
Barbara loves to blog on her website Rethinking Learning (BarbaraBray.net) and hosts the podcast series, Conversations on Learning. She is the founder of (my-ecoach.com), a coaching platform for teachers because they are learners too and need ongoing support as they change teaching practice. She wrote the professional development column for CUE for 17 years and received the CUE Gold and Platinum disks for her contributions to educational technology for the advancement of teaching and learning.
Barbara is passionate about writing, sharing stories of transforming teaching and learning and facilitating change. She is encouraged when she sees teachers and administrators immersing themselves in challenges that stretch their minds and imagination. She loves combining the neuroscience of learning with the design-thinking process and project-based learning to create learner-centered environments. Barbara helps schools and organizations develop sustainable coaching programs, design professional learning to transform teaching practice and guide the redesign of flexible learning spaces. She enjoys working with leadership teams in guiding change so all stakeholders are committed to a shared vision around teaching and learning.
Barbara and Dave at ISTE 2016
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August 22, 2017 Pair-a-Dimes 16 – Grant Frend
Description: Join Grant Frend and I on a drive home from a Flexible Schools Network meeting. This conversation is for anyone interested in models of learning outside of the more traditional block schedule. Hear Grant share why vision, not stuff, gets funded and why he hires Swiss Army Knives and not switch blades... while we discuss flex blocks and ways to design more engaging learning environments in our schools.
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Grant Frend - @GrantFrend on Twitter
The Okanagan Desert in BC, Canada
Our schools: Thomas Haney Secondary and Inquiry Hub Secondary
The Flexible Schools Network ‘FLEXBCED’
Osoyoos Secondary School - See their schedule here (.docx).
AL Fortune Secondary, Principal Gene Doray - @innovationsnail on Twitter.
“Vision gets funded, not stuff, (unless vision is attached to the stuff).” Grant Frend
Book mentioned by Grant: 3 Box Solution by Vijay Govindarajan
Honour the past. Manage the present. Create the future. (But the past always fights back!)
Death of an Awards Ceremony by Chris Wejr - @chriswejr on Twitter
First Crop of Inquiry Hub students set to graduate (TriCity News) - Graduating student Aaron: “Through these projects I have improved my abilities to teach myself new things, find resources, manage my time, and persevere through failure. If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.”
Blog post with the image below: “Learning and Failure”
Acronym: Failure Always Invites Learning (the invitation is always there!). Note what makes failure unproductive, discussed in the podcast.
BC new curriculum and core competencies.
“We need teachers that are Swiss Army Knives, not switch blades.” Grant Friend
Creating the time and space for self-directed, personalized, inquiry learning - (Flexible models including Flex Block)
Young Entrepreneurship Leadership Launchpad (YELL)
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August 15, 2017 Pair-a-Dimes 15 – Zoe Branigan-Pipe
Description: Experiential Learning is the theme of this conversation with Zoe Branigan-Pipe. We discuss designing and creating spaces where learners want to collaborate and learn together... Spaces that invite learners to extend their learning out into the community, where true learning happens!
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Zoe-Branigan Pipe (@zbpipe on Twitter)
Zoe's blog: PIPEDREAMS - Learning on the edge
Recorded at the 2017 CANeLearn Symposium BC Digital Learning Conference.
Unplug'd Conference reflections from Zoe and Dave.
Canadian Education Association's Ken Spencer Award Winners:
2014-15 - Inquiry Hub Secondary - CEA Brochure
The 2015 CEA Ken Spencer Award goes to Inquiry Hub
2015-2016 - HWDSB Enrichment Innovation Centre - CEA Brochure
From Classroom to Cafe Bar – A Makerspace, Reggio Inspired Learning Space- If you read just one link in these show notes, read this one!
BC Curriculum Core Competencies
I mentioned a blog post called Question Everything, but the actual post I was thinking about was Challenging the Status Quo.
Zoe and Dave at Unplug'd 2011
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August 08, 2017 Pair-a-Dimes 14 – Kathleen McClaskey
Description: Let learners construct the learning... and they will wow you every time. Kathleen was coding with young learners in the 1980's, and her passion for education continues to inspire. She has a goal to impact 1,000,000 learners and I believe this is within her reach! Her expertise in how to personalize learning shines through in this conversation.
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Kathleen McClaskey: (@khmmc) Website: Make Learning Personal
Co-author: Make Learning Personal and How to Personalize Learning
Updated Personalization vs. Differentiation vs. Individualization Chart Version 3
Connections to Kathleen McClaskey Barbara Bray's 'Personalize Learning: Transforming learning for all learners' website:
Dave Truss on Inquiry (Thought Leader Interview) - April 5, 2012
Inquiry drives Learning - April 10, 2013
Kids Talk about Learning at The Inquiry Hub - December 23, 2013
My praise for: How to Personalize Learning: A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeper
How to Personalize Learning is a valuable guide for educators at all levels of knowledge around personalizing learning, PBL, and UDL. A new teacher can use it like a how-to manual to go step-by-step through the book, promoting learner voice and choice while developing engaging lessons and projects. These steps help teachers create activities in their lessons or projects that focus on both empowering learners in their learning, and strategies that focus on the end-goal of what needs to be accomplished. Most teachers can pull key components and activities out and use this book to enrich what they are already doing to meaningfully engage learners. Seasoned, 'master' teachers will benefit from the usable tables and 'Conversation Starters' which can act as cues to remind every teacher that they are learners first, that best practice is still practice, and that our practice can always be improved.
Kathleen and Dave at ISTE 2016
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August 01, 2017 Pair-a-Dimes 13 – Shelly Sanchez Terrell
Description: Shelly was interviewed at ISTE in June of 2016, the Edupassions project she announces happened in the fall of 2016. When Shelly puts her mind on a task, no matter how big the dream, she makes it happen. We have been connected for a decade now, and I am always amazed at her ability to make passions into reality. Be sure to see the show notes for links to many of the things we discuss.
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Shelly Sanchez Terrell :: Website: ShellyTerrell.com :: Blog: Teacher Reboot Camp :: Twitter: @ShellTerrell
Edchat co-founder
Shelly's Books: The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers and Learning to Go
Other books mentioned: Carol Dweck's Mindset: The New Psychology of Success and George Couros' The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity
Edspeakers - Shelly's page, and Sarah Thomas (@sarahdateechur)
Reform Symposium, and my presentation for it: Shifting Learning #RSCON4
We also talk about learning through failure, which I talk about in the conference presentation above, and expand on in my blog post Learning and Failure.
Passion into reality ~ Edupassions Conference (held in Fall 2016)
Shelly Dave meet F2F for the first time at ISTE 2016, Denver
Next week's guest on Podcasting Pair-a-Dimes: Kathleen McClaskey (@khmmc)
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July 25, 2017 Pair-a-Dimes 12 – Learning and Patience
Description: This is a podcast in two parts, both with a focus on China. In part one, I interview a middle school teacher, Jaime Elson, while on a bus going from Hangzhou to Shanghai. We discuss observations about how patience is valued and not valued in different cultures. In part two of the podcast I read Slowly by Slowly, a blog post written while I was living in Dalian China.
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The blog post, Slowly by Slowly, is worth going to visit, because the comments on the blog post are rich and insightful, (thanks to my wonderful PLN).
Another interesting post that I wrote while living in China was Bubble Wrap:
...I think schools have become a bit too bubble wrapped too. We protect the kids from impending harm, bubble wrapping their learning. However I think sometimes we harm them in our attempt to keep them safe.
Next week's guest on Podcasting Pair-a-Dimes: Shelly Sanchez Terrell (@ShellTerrell)
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July 18, 2017 Pair-a-Dimes 11 – Connected Leaders
Description: I sat down with three educational leaders in Ontario, Donna Fry, Mark Carbone and Lisa Neale to discuss OSSEMOOC - Ontario School and System Leaders Edtech MOOC. This discussion starts with the idea that 'Connected Learners Need Connected Leaders' and we discuss ways to make being connected easier for the busy educator and educational leader.
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Here are ways to connect with Donna, Mark and Lisa:
Donna Fry: Blog Learning about Learning- Twitter - @fryed
Mark Carbone: Blog - Mark's Musing Twitter - @markwcarbone
Lisa Neale: Blog - Never Stop Learning Twitter - @lisaneale
My Blog Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughts Twitter - @datruss
OSSEMOOC - Ontario School and System Leaders Edtech MOOC
Being a connected Leader and Learner entails: Connecting, Collaborating, Curating and then Creating ~Donna Fry
A Slideshare of my Spotlight Presentation at the conference: Shifting Education - Embracing the Transformation #OTRK12
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