Jay+Lahners

YOUR NAME Jay Lahners YOUR SCHOOL Underwood High School YOUR SUBJECT Physical Science

**Describe Leadership Group Summative Task:**
My leadership group was “Agenda Activist”. Our main task was to keep people on task and to collectively arrange all tasks into a learning agenda. The group was not made up of natural leaders…but instead…it was made up of people interested in the same agenda…complete the task at hand. We worked hard to keep people from being worried and trying to solve the problem of “e-physical science curriculum”. Keeping people on the discussion task was not easy. Being the “floater”, I noticed that every group we had, had worries about what was going on and how to solve the problems. These problems hadn’t even occurred yet, but everyone knows the problems are coming. The other part of being the “floater” was that everybody had different ideas of accomplishing the “e-physical curriculum”. It was great to listen to all the ideas. There were so many great ideas that it sounded like this would be accomplished in a matter of days…then the procedure to accomplish this task was discussed and everybody figured out…this is going to take time!

**Describe Response to Leadership Group's Summative Task:**
Every group seemed to have the same worries. The list of the biggest, and most, is below. Biggest worries 1) Infrastructure			1a) Unexpected down time…breakdowns 1b) Not enough server space			1c) Not enough band width 2) Difference between fact and understanding			2a) Web sites and places to watch out for (Wikipedia) 2b) This also leads to assessments 3) Inquiry and Problem based learning 3a) Assessments			3a1) reading 3a2) how to dimensional analysis?			3b) Adding links to demonstrations 4) Self directed learner – control their own learning			4a) Students making a choice on what they learn 4b) Students not wanting to learn 5) Teachers still expecting to be the center of attention or the leader in the room 5a) Teacher training			5b) Moving forward yet keeping the learner in mind

The good thing that came about because of the concerns…everybody is enthused to go beyond their worries and accomplish this task. Everybody is excited about the possible outcomes within each subject area and the possible advancement in learning for the students.

**Reflection and Documentation of your personal experience and support to the Leadership Group:**
Our group came up with a series of questions which we thought everyone had the same feelings about. 1) There should be a definite goal of where we are going and where we should be 2) People want a concrete definition of “Blended classroom” even though it is really up to each teacher 3) For schools that do not plan on going 1:1, How will this e-curriculum work except by taking class time which e-curriculum should enhance? 4) What is the overall goal of e curriculum? Hopefully not to get rid of teachers and replace with supervisors. 5) The infrastructure for each school…who pays…moddle…one on one 6) Concern of being comfortable with the technology, the technology reliability and always having a backup plan.

Some of these concerns were answered at the conference, some will be answered when we implement this, and some won’t be answered until we finish. This all is a little scary and exciting.