In the talk where these slides originated, delivered in March, 2015, at Colorado State University, I discuss some of what I think needs to be thought through when implementing technology and building schools as civic spaces.

1. let’s hack school:
Contemporary Literacies in Civic Life
2015 CSU Writing Project Speaker Series
learner agency in a time of new technologies

2. Bud Hunt
http://budhunt.com/

4. tl:dr

5. agency
playhackmake
interfaceplatform

6. school and civic life

7. The conception of education as a social process
and function has no definite meaning until we
define the kind of society we have in mind.
~John Dewey

8. what kind of society
do you have in mind?

9. what kind of school
do you have in mind?

10. We have to be able to criticize what we love, to
say what we have to say, ‘cause if you’re not
trying to make something better, then as far as I
can tell, you are just in the way.
~Ani DiFranco
“What If No One’s Watching”

11. systems and structures

14. We shape our tools, and thereafter
our tools shape us.
~Marshall McLuhan

17. digital learning collaborative

18. http://blogs.stvrain.k12.co.us/dlc

19. http://blogs.stvrain.k12.co.us/dlc

20. http://blogs.stvrain.k12.co.us/dlc

21. agency?

22. lenses for learning
make hack play

23. make /meɪk/
v 1: give certain properties to something;
2: cause to be or to become; to compose or represent;
3: perform or carry out
see also: create

24. http://webmaker.org

25. http://makered.org

26. STEM

27. STEAM

28. STREAM

29. school

30. not about the circuits

32. not about the code

33. things are made by people

34. people make things

35. hack /hak/
n 1: An improvement to a system or program;
v 1: To improve a system
see also: tinker

40. open vs. closed

41. online vs. offline

42. sharks vs. jets

43. us vs. them

44. digital vs. analog

45. vs.

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49. let’s think in analog

50. systems

51. structures

52. methods

53. values

55. platform
•environment
•constraints
•facilities

56. interface
•shared boundary where 2 parties exchange
information
•one-way
•two-way

57. interface
platform

58. play /pleɪ
n 1: a state in which action is feasible;
2: the removal of constraints;
3: movement or space for movement
see also: engage

68. agency
make hack play

69. what are the constraints
you face?

70. how might you fiddle or
create your way through or
around them?

71. how is school a platform?

72. what should school
interfaces look like?

73. how are you going to make
school better?

75. Bud Hunt
Instructional Technology Coordinator
St.VrainValley School District
@budtheteacher
budtheteacher@gmail.com
http://budtheteacher.com
let’s hack school