Starting+ideas

Stuck for ideas as to what //you// could contribute to ACEC Unplugged? Have a look at some starting points collaboratively sourced during an ACEC2012 Unplugged Google Hangout session. We started with **What big questions do we need to ask?** and then the creative and witty ideas kept flowing :) Inspired by the beautiful crazy fun we had - why not come along to a hangout with us before the conference (if this isn't linked when you read this then please harass Amanda or Roland for your invite or the link).


 * Why am I here and WTF is hiding behind the couch? :)
 * Why do I need to learn computational thinking and does it really add up?
 * I think, therefore AI
 * How do we create an appropriate Digital Footprint?
 * http://teachwellnow.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/how-do-you-teach-optimal-digital.html
 * How can we support teachers new to using technology in their classrooms?
 * Articulate what it means to be connected? and why would we want to be?
 * What, Why, Who, Where and When?
 * Teaching happens, what are you doing about IT?
 * Learning is living, get with IT
 * There is no such thing as a computer illiterate - not what you know but what you do with IT
 * OK, I get computing, so what?
 * Self actualization through digital macrame with cat 5 cables, …. yeah, I got nothing
 * http://tacomagic.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/thumpmat.jpg
 * it is an art form already
 * See BeeBot Run - why computational thinking can start at a young age.
 * Both adults and kids do IT, how to engage our family pet in IT. The cats like iPads … :P
 * If you can’t talk about it, point to IT
 * There is no age barrier to do IT. Teach good online behaviour
 * Zen and the balanced art of IT
 * Wearable technology, what will our next generation learning spaces look like?
 * If you think __IT happens - then ask why? Don’t say IT, DO IT
 * Teaching under a tree; leveraging a classroom without walls or doors.
 * When to walk away, when to engage and why.
 * Making sense of random connections in an increasingly networked world. - Randomness is beautiful and other life dilemmas.
 * Augmented reality; when the real world needs some bubble and fizz.
 * Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World in a school? at home? or on the bus?
 * What do we need to happen to create real change?
 * Go back to the future with analogue computing, machine code and punched cards.
 * Something with a name like IT cannot be all bad?
 * Why stop at tablets, write on the walls! (We know you do already, but …. yeah) IWB ;-)
 * Andy Warhol got it right, everyone deserves the limelight, Andy Warhol got it wrong, 15 minutes are too long.
 * If IT was the answer, WTF was the question? FTW
 * Layer teaching and learning with the “folded classroom”, the compressed classroom.
 * Get a new meme and become famous. Internet marketing for educators. Remember when memes was not in the common vernacular
 * Learning to lead by letting go.
 * If you can google it, then it’s not an authentic assessment task.
 * Itty bITty IT session.
 * Why filter your firewall, just plug into the iron curtain.
 * If Google was the answer, the question is buggered.
 * Since when was Google a dirty word? Is Bing any better?
 * Bring back the command line - when I was young you actually had to know your stuff
 * What happened to your old ….?
 * Go on, have an ALGORITHM, the best thinkers do!
 * I’m a twit and proud of it
 * Why take OneNote when you can take many or Don’t copy my notes I don’t share :P
 * Learning how to take social media for granted.
 * Why the SOCIAL is important for the learning with social media
 * How to be a digital viking. Pillaging and plundering from your colleagues.
 * ICTs, carriers of the most pervasive social diseases known to the postmodern age
 * Every cloud has an international red tape holding it back?
 * Holding up your clouds with imagination, bluetac and legal tape.
 * LOAD, RUN, PRINT - BASIC I know. (erk, having flashbacks to past bad code)
 * Office applications are not the only digital learning tools in schools
 * SYNTAX - not a new government charge for being naughty
 * Head in the clouds - the modern idiom?
 * How to make your school cloud fluffy.
 * silver lining (for providers at least)
 * It’s Dead Jim. How to recover your old digital and archive data.
 * It’s life, but not as we know it
 * cloud, substance - charting the ether
 * Every cloud should have a secure lining?
 * No cloud will be left behind.
 * No cloud should dump its load - it’s raining data!(or men)
 * computers become so much cooler once you think of the computer as the mother ship and usbs as data escape pods.
 * Can we have our head in the clouds whilst having our feet on the ground?
 * Cloud - everything and nothing (or all and nothing)
 * It is all fun and games until something gets hurt - then it is on youtube, tweeted and facebooked
 * Cloud - vapour ware or something more substantial?
 * Why you should give a Higgs Boson about the cloud/social networking.
 * if the Higgs Boson researchers are going to the cloud - then why aren’t you?
 * http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/071112-higgs-boson-cloud-computing-260827.html
 * Maslow’s Hierarchy of Computer education needs??? The pyramid diagram applied to ACE
 * What happened since 2001 - a Space Odyssey? Has anything really changed?
 * We don’t need no IT education! Is that sung to a particular song? a little wall-y