Innovative Glass

Great day spent in conferences at the Wisconsin Innovative Schools Network conference!  Lots of opportunities to spend talking with other educators about their schools and show off Glass in the meantime.  Some of the best part of the conversations was with students working at the conference as they tried Glass on and had the same "wow" factor adults have when they see the screen light up before their eyes.

Most of my pictures today were taken of me when others were wearing Glass.  The kids working were very professional, attentive and polite.  I love to see this kind of authentic learning situation.  Nice Job!

Some great questions asked and discussions had about the usefulness of Glass with the lower grades.  In the end, I've come to the conclusion that, in a learning situation, Glass very much can be used like crowd-sourcing.  We crowd-source for information and funding, why not do the same thing for education?  Imagine this:  You ask students to investigate something (let's say a field trip situation).  Instead of small groups or presentations, you have 20-30 students all collecting and funneling the data into a central location (maybe a Google+ page) or sharing with one another.  Suddenly, you've enabled the entire class to share the experiences with one another.

Plus, you can communicate with the students, they can access the internet for information, communicate with one another . . . the list can go on.  What an exciting time in education!

Anyway, I haven't decided if I'm going to brave the Gala event tonight.  It would be a great way to communicate and connect with others in education and then process that information.  Plus they have prizes.  I have 5 minutes to decide so if I post again later I probably went.