Keynote Delivered at SF CUE Bridge to Innovation Summit. The focus is on Innovating instruction to be more fun and effective.

1. An Invitation
to Innovate
Bridge 2 Tech Innovation Summit SFCUE 2016
Sam Patterson Ed.D.

2. hello!
I am
Sam Patterson
Teacher of students.
You can find me at @SamPatue

3. Every time we change our plans, we have an opportunity
to improve the pedagogy as well as the outcomes.
This is the golden moment of change.
be brave

4. Why our students deserve fun in the classroom
1.
The F word

5. Fun is good for learning
If we can laugh and dance together we can learn together

7. GoNoodle
RollerCoaster Video

8. Refuse to Make False Choices
Fun and Learning
Creative and Academic
MakerSpace and
English Class
What they want and
What they need
A “Yes and” approach to
integration

9. Fun and Learning
Seriously, this false choice can cost
you your job.
#burnout

10. Do not…keep children to their studies
by compulsion but by play.
Plato
Greek philosopher
427–347 BC

11. I had to get a degree to learn:
When students say they are having fun, they are
providing evidence of genuine engagement.

12. On the Job Training
I was taught to manage my classroom
I learned to engage my students

13. Creative and Academic
“ Do you teach real writing or the fluff stuff? ”
Creative self expression can be used for ruthlessly academic means.

14. MakerSpace and English Class
From Puppets to Programming-
Have kids do stuff and write about it.
Looking for inspiration? Check Instructables.com

15. Have kids do stuff and write about it.
How to

16. What they want
and What they need
Deconstructing Toys
#alwaysteachingwriting

21. Cardboard Arcade

22. Cardboard Arcade
● Transforming Elementary Science
● NGSS -Forces
● Hands on
● Inspired the Teachers with Caines Arcade
● Research

23. ““We only think when confronted
with a problem.”
― John Dewey

24. If your room is
loud with
learning, give
the kids
earplugs
#ProTip

25. And be ready to share them
2.
Know your goals

26. Creative
Self
Expression
and why it matters

31. Logical Tech Extensions
Write a skit
Complete a matching activity
Create a video
Make it big and put it on the floor

35. The
lucky
ones get
to pick
all the
tape up

36. And use what you have
3.
Start where you are

37. Project Caesar, my First PBL

38. ““Give the pupils something to do,
not something to learn; and the
doing is of such a nature as to
demand thinking; learning
naturally results.”
― John Dewey

39. What Actually got “made”

40. Iterate the lesson in whichever
direction seems natural

41. Learning Outcomes
More Shakespeare out loud in class
Critical engagement of the play
Group Problem Solving
Fun
Sewing Skills
Puppet Skills

43. Puppet Building and
Storytelling Elective

44. 6th Grade Humanities

46. Edutopia Staff

47. ISTE2015
Workshop

48. It was never about the puppets

49. We change
Self perceptions
by designing
experiences

51. Learning with
Robots

54. Learning is
Social

55. Communication
Problem
Solving
Perseverance,
and Physics

56. “

59. Don't let your plans shut them down
4.
Teach Them to Learn

60. Introduce them
to a tool like you
would a book

61. Challenge
them to
discover
their own
understanding

62. Give
them
time

63. Minecraft
School Map

67. ““We always live at the time we live and not at
some other time, and only by extracting at
each present time the full meaning of each
present experience are we prepared for doing
the same thing in the future.”
― John Dewey, Experience and Education
Mindfulness circa 1938

69. Where will
you start?

70. Join Sam every week
on
The Tech Educator
Podcast
On twitter @SamPatue
2nd Session in person

71. Credits
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