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Redefining Geek: Supporting Students Learning Technology

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Colorado Convention Center, Bluebird Ballroom Lobby, Table 43

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Frederick Ballew
Computer Science Teacher
ISD #271
@BallewEdTech
@BallewEdTech
ISTE Certified Educator
Frederick Ballew is an ISTE Certified Educator and Trainer, Google for Education Certified Innovator, Trainer, Coach, the founder and leader of GEG Minnesota Metro Area, a GEG Mentor for US - Midwest, a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert from 2020-2023, a Microsoft Innovative Educator Fellow, and an Adobe Education Leader who is passionate about leveraging technology to make the daily work of educators more efficient, their teaching more engaging, and their lives more fulfilling. Frederick has been an educator in Bloomington (MN) Public Schools since 1998 where he has been a beginning band director, technology integrationist and is now a middle school computer science teacher.
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Julie Erickson
Instructional Designer
Lan Crew Colorado
@fabricandbooks
@fabricandbooks
Julie Erickson, Chief Learning Officer at Lan Crew Colorado, Inc., is a visionary leader shaping the future of education. As a Microsoft Global Training Partner, she seamlessly blends virtual and instructor-led training to enhance proficiencies and drive technology integration in K-12 education, libraries, and beyond. A Microsoft and Google certified trainer, Julie's expertise extends to project management, adult learning, and facilitating large-scale events. Her impact resonates nationally and internationally, evident in her presentations at large conferences. As an innovative educator, she has transformed learning landscapes, fostering collaboration and empowering learners. Julie's career reflects her commitment to advancing education through technology.

Session description

In the book, Redefining Geek, Cassidy Puckett researches and identifies five habits of learners who are successful at learning technology. Those habits include knowing efficiencies, using models and a willingness to try and fail. This interactive session will look at habits and how to embed the habits into your instruction.

Purpose & objective

Understanding how to build learner confidence when learning technology and what the habits of successful technology learners are provides educators with the language and tools to support learners in the process.

The session is based on the book, Redefining Geek, Bias The Five Hidden Habits of Tech-Savvy Teens. The five habits will be shared, along with making connections to how educators can incorporate them into their instruction. For example, one of the habits is knowing efficiencies -- explicitly teaching shortcuts can help learners feel more tech-savvy and therefore more confident in their technology learning abilities.

There's a digital adaptability scale to help educators and learners identify their tech-savvy strengths and weaknesses.

Participants will learn how to connect Microsoft, Google and other resources with the five habits of successful technology learners. They will also learn efficiencies in Microsoft, Google and other products and increase their own technology confidence.

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Outline

0:00-0:05 Overview of the content
0:05-0:10 Introduce the five habits
0:10-0:20 Complete the digital adaptability scale
0:20-0:45 Provide examples and how to embed the habits in instruction such as:
Willingness to try and fail - showing the version history, undo
Use of models - showing how Microsoft embeds help (especially in Excel), in their templates, making connections (how Microsoft products all have the same menus across products)
Design logic - using templates as examples of what products were designed to do
Efficiencies - showing shortcuts (Excel has a nice list provided by Microsoft), how shortcuts are embedded, exploring the features that save time (bringing in data from a website for example or text to columns)
Invite the audience to contribute ideas for implementing the five habits through an interactive platform such as Menti

0:45 -0:55 Review audience generated ideas for implementing the five habits
0:55-0:00 Wrap-up and questions

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Supporting research

Redefining Geek: Bias and the Five Hidden Habits of Tech-Savvy Teens by Cassidy Puckett https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo137270726.html
Digital Adaptability Scale, Cassidy Puckett https://cassidypuckett.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Digital-Adaptability-Scale-1.pdf
Digital Adaptability: A New Measure for Digital Inequality Research by Cassidy Puckett https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0894439320926087
Popular Excel shortcuts: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/keyboard-shortcuts-in-excel-1798d9d5-842a-42b8-9c99-9b7213f0040f
Metacognition and Technology Adoption: Exploring Influences https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042815028682

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Session specifications

Topic:
Instructional design & delivery
Grade level:
PK-12
Skill level:
Beginner
Audience:
Coaches, Library media specialists, Teachers
Attendee devices:
Devices required
Attendee device specification:
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Participant accounts, software and other materials:
Access to Microsoft or Google products.
ISTE Standards:
For Coaches:
Learning Designer
  • Collaborate with educators to develop authentic, active learning experiences that foster student agency, deepen content mastery and allow students to demonstrate their competency.
For Educators:
Facilitator
  • Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the field.
Disclosure:
The submitter of this session has been supported by a company whose product is being included in the session

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