 So like they'll join like as we speak. Yeah, so we're broadcasting live now from Tucson, Arizona And we're just waiting for a few people to join And we've got five people six So we're in Tucson, Arizona at Arizona K-12 Center's tech camp and it's a beautiful day here hot But we're in the shade so Myron duek is About to give our opening keynote and so I brought him outside here just to give us a preview and to tell us about his book Myron. Hey everybody So Tony, do you ask me questions or just talk? Yeah, we'll tell a little bit about you. So we well, I'm Myron duek I'm a what are all my hats that I wear right now. I'm currently a vice principal at all here in the United States and all over actually And I'm a dad husband Mountain biker and a bunch of other things. So it's super excited to be at the K-12 We have 125 teachers that are spending a week here at tech camp and you get to kick it off What's what's your main message for the teachers in the audience? In a nutshell my message today is let's open the portal to creativity Let's allow people to recognize it in the classroom and once recognizing it look at ways of assessing it because I find that one of the number one things that impedes teachers where they go on I own my goodness another creative venture is The the feeling they have of the inability to assess it That's why they go back to the old binder to the cookie cutter assignments that somebody passed on generation after generation And they just because they don't they feel helpless to assess these things. Yeah So that's the main message And yeah, and creativity brings a little bit of chaos. It brings a little bit of uncertainty It's it's not the way we've always done things But I'm going to try to make the case in here through a few examples that that is the direction Our world is heading in in Korea investigation all those things are going to be paramount So we got to get on board and this might be first step for some people or certainly a continuation for others Yeah, you're getting lots of hearts on Periscope people are liking what I'm saying So there are 18 people watching now and somebody Sherry says organized chaos is creativity with week three exclamation marks it is it is and you know it it's This is another message that I have for today It actually doesn't matter if you necessarily pull off the creative venture you're sending a message to your students by attempting it and That is as important a message as anything because I'm gonna show a boy in this presentation today Who's making an awful lot of money on a creative venture? He did beside school He would go to school go through the motions, etc. Then he would go home and be creative and it is unbelievable what he's pulling off and there his message to teachers will be Give kids like me a little bit of room give me the chance to to do that exploration to do that creativity piece and Like I said the medium is the message here Try something in your classroom make yourself vulnerable and your students are gonna sit back and go whoa Miss Smith is trying something here. That's actually pretty cool. It didn't go so well today, but the message is let's try something Yeah, so there's a question. Aren't you really hot in that outfit right now? Hot as in temperature It's in the shade. It's a dry heat, you know like the Miss Nomer here is and I want people to know this I think three days ago the Canadian the North American hotspot was British Columbia a little place called Where was it a Soyuz British Columbia North American hotspot, so no we are not knee-deep in snow in Canada right now it's very close to this temperature where I live and But not quite the humidity Hot no, I'm not too bad actually we're in the shade Tony pick the shade. It's kind of yeah Yeah, we stepped outside in a moment. We'll go inside so I can show them the cover of your book And sure they can they can see where you're about to take stage and I know what you guys are gonna ask I'm not periscoping this whole presentation Mostly because I don't want to hold my phone the whole time I want to take notes and I want to enjoy it But if can you tell us how they can find you online? What's your Twitter and where Twitter is at Myron Deweyck Myron Deweyck You can find me at Myron Deweyck.com. You can see a number of videos through ASCD either YouTube it YouTube grading smarter not harder you can go to my website and go click on the book and see links as well To where I talk about my kid brushing his teeth and other crazy stories and how they linked what we do in the classroom and Yeah, like I said a huge thank you to the people out there who've made grading smarter not harder an ASCD bestseller I am continually shocked at how well it's done. I just surprised they published it let alone people buying it Do you have plans for a follow-up? Yeah, I might have been working on that on the plane yesterday Writing a book is hard. It is and you try to be a dad at the same time but my family's been super gracious my prime writing time is 5 a.m. till noon on Sundays and Yeah, you try to pull it off. So yeah, yeah, they're seeing great books So some people who are tuned in have the book. Oh wonderful. You know, I tried writing it I tried writing it different than other educational books Not they got anything wrong with them But I wanted people to be able to pick this up and just hear kind of the straight goods from somebody who tried some things I want people to have a laugh a couple people have commented. It's one of the first education books. They found funny I can't present or write any other way. So Yeah, yeah, I'm like I said, it's exciting and yeah, they're they're likely to be another one But don't tell anyone. Do you talk about badges at all? There's a question in there about That's a no Ask the person what do they mean by badges? So I think they can they can stay here too, but kind of Gamifying the classroom and having classroom badges for burning achievements I myself haven't done a lot of that but but lots of games lots of competition type things that are fun I'm gonna show today and I write about it in the book Scavenger hunt that a chemistry teacher does at as a test review You know send out four kids one phone each like a camera go around the school and take a picture of every review term from our test Yeah, go try and find a picture of hypothesis, right? So these these teams go out around the school and they're taking pictures But you only get the points if nobody else has the same picture. So there's incredible competition. It's awesome I love that idea. Yeah, the kids come back laughing the teacher shows the things up on the board and it is fun the winning team gets the iced tea and and Maybe people realize on their way home that day. Yeah, I think we just did a test review, right? And that was way too much fun as something that Ben Arcuri is doing You'll find him on Twitter also Ben Arcuri. You'll see he's got all kinds of cool things He's doing in his chemistry classroom. So yeah, yeah, you know, it's just anyway I'm gonna blast people with examples today of things they can pull off creatively creatively in the classroom So if you guys are on Twitter our hashtag for tech camp is AZ K-12 and we know we're gonna have a lot of people live tweeting what Myron's about to tell us and there'll be some great links I'm gonna try to tweet in there, too So tune into the hashtag awesome now He's got a present to turn around and then say say hi and give Myron some hearts Thanks for taking time to talk so nice. Yeah, isn't that look at the heart show up Yeah, and then the more the different people are different colors and then they just kind of stream up Wow Thanks guys that that's that's awesome I and I huge appreciation here for Tony and Sarah and a bunch of other people trying to pull this thing off I'm not trying obviously pulling it off 120 by the way This is a first for me Tony took to see a hundred and twenty five people show up for a week of pro D Yeah, that allows them to Investigate I only imagine when these people go back to their classrooms They can dick and email and tweet each other going. Hey, how's that working? Yeah, I've never seen anything like this You guys are on to something brilliant. I mean I'm gonna do some Paris goes probably with Sarah And we're gonna talk about the professional development we do here for a week It's really unique and I think we're really on to something. It's our 10th year doing it Yeah, it is it is so well, so let's walk inside And I just want to open and then they can see that your your fans are waiting for you. Oh Air conditioning this feels a lot better. So it's grading smarter not harder And in case you want to know how to spell Myron's name there it is Feel free to take a screenshot. Oh You got even more fans the Twitter handle is just at and then his first and last name And if you go to my Twitter page, you'll see that I mentioned him in my last tweet All right, we'll see you guys later