Keynote for RSCON 5, an online conference

1. Dean Shareski
RSCON
July 2014 http://www.flickr.com/photos/arichards-gallery/9215560918
Whatever Happened to
Joy

2. shareski.ca @shareski

3. shareski.ca @shareski

4. shareski.ca @shareski

5. shareski.ca @shareski

6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/arichards-gallery/9215560918
Is Joy
Even a Thing
anymore?

7. Moment # 1

8. Who’s the big kid in the suspenders?

9. Why Doesn’t Christina Ever smile?

10. Moment # 2

11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lewiselementary/8683388187

12. “People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they
weren't so crazy about the first time.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chicagogeek/3288238069

13. Moment # 3

17. With regards to creating a video like that do you:

18. With regards to creating a video like that do you:
A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address
some curricular outcomes but you might have to look
them up later. Fingers crossed.

19. With regards to creating a video like that do you:
A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address
some curricular outcomes but you might have to look
them up later. Fingers crossed.

20. With regards to creating a video like that do you:
A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address
some curricular outcomes but you might have to look
them up later. Fingers crossed.
B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful
things with students is important.

21. With regards to creating a video like that do you:
A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address
some curricular outcomes but you might have to look
them up later. Fingers crossed.
B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful
things with students is important.

22. Moment # 4

25. What do you believe
about learning?

27. And what do you mean by “student achievement?”

29. Do you Believe Learning is Like Buckley’s?

30. Do you Believe Learning is Like Buckley’s?

31. How to motivate kids to learn Math

32. How to motivate kids to learn Math

33. Language Matters

34. Every Mission Statement
on the Planet

35. “...rigorous and relevant education to all students in a
learning environment that fosters high expectations
and data.”
Every Mission Statement
on the Planet

37. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
!
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

38. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
"Why are our
schools not
places of joy?"
Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
!
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

39. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
"Why are our
schools not
places of joy?"
Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
!
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

40. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
!
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

41. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
!
I’m appearing to accept an
odious premise—namely,
that joy must be justified
as a means to the end of
better academic
performance. Not so:
It’s an end in itself.
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm

42. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572656

43. data driven
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572656
accountability
student
achievement

44. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaswenden/116786466
Why Do I Have to Learn This?

47. joy
/joi/
!
!
Noun
!

48. joy
/joi/
!
!
Noun
!
1.the emotion evoked by well-being, success,
or good fortune or by the prospect of
possessing what one desires

49. You know it when you See it

50. You know it when you See it

51. Is Joy Really the Schools Responsibility?

52. Is Joy Really the Schools Responsibility?

55. Planning and Designing For Joy

56. Wonder

57. https://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/9418288122

58. “Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the
Stryrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant
goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we
are all like that.” Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

61. “We Have Responsibility to Awe”

62. 2,296

63. 2,296

66. How often do your students get to wonder?
!
!
!
!
What if each day your students left with school with a
great question?

67. Be
Interesting

68. “one of the best
things you can do for
your students is to be
an interesting adult”
Gary Stager

71. How Do You Learn?

72. How Do You Learn?

73. ...And this is all we know so far

74. ...And this is all we know so far

75. ...And this is all we know so far

76. ...And this is all we know so far

77. ...And this is all we know so far

78. ...And this is all we know so far

79. ...And this is all we know so far

80. ...And this is all we know so far

81. ...And this is all we know so far

82. ...And this is all we know so far

83. SAGE ON
THE STAGE

84. SAGE ON
THE STAGE

86. GUIDE ON
THE SIDE

87. GUIDE ON
THE SIDE

89. MEDDLER IN THE
MIDDLE

90. The Learning Project

91. The Learning Project

97. My Teaching Staff

100. What are you learning right now?
Do your students know about this?
(Bonus points if it has nothing to do with your job)
How are your interests/passions infused into your
classroom?

101. Share It

102. “TO GETTHE FULLVALUE OF JOY
YOU MUST HAVE SOMEONETO DIVIDE IT WITH.”
MarkTwain

103. @RobCFisher

104. @RobCFisher

105. Cantiague Weekly Update @Cantiague_Lead

106. Cantiague Weekly Update @Cantiague_Lead

107. How are you spreading and sharing joyful moments in
your school/classroom?

108. Be Grateful

116. How are you showing gratitude to your
students? parents? colleagues?

117. How are you showing gratitude to your
students? parents? colleagues?
Text, tweet, message someone right now and say thank
you.

118. Just do
It

119. “ W H E N I B E C A M E A M A N I P U T A WAY C H I L D I S H
T H I N G S , I N C L U D I N G T H E F E A R O F C H I L D I S H N E S S
A N D T H E D E S I R E T O B E V E RY G R O W N U P. ”
C . S . L E W I S
http://kariemillspaugh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/adults-like-children-2.jpg

134. When’s the last time you did something in which its
primary purpose was to bring joy to you or your
students?

135. We must play.
But our merriment must be of that kind
(and it is, in fact, the merriest kind)
which exists between people who have,
from the outset,
taken each other seriously.
”C.S. Lewis
“

136. We must play.
But our merriment must be of that kind
(and it is, in fact, the merriest kind)
which exists between people who have,
from the outset,
taken each other seriously.
”C.S. Lewis
“

137. http://shareski.ca/y/joychat

138. http://shareski.ca/y/joychat

139. http://shareski.ca/y/joychat

140. http://shareski.ca/y/joychat

141. It’s an End in itselfhttp://shareski.ca/y/joychat

142. It’s an End in itselfhttp://shareski.ca/y/joychat

143. It’s an End in itself
Thank you
@shareski
shareski.ca
http://shareski.ca/y/joychat