 Hello everybody, glad you could make it. So as you see there, the title revolutionary thinking changed the impact of social media. Welcome to a whistle stop tour of Who Knows Where. So a couple of things at the very beginning as I start to talk as we move through the slides. Something I do with all my students in the classroom, just be present, don't lurk or turn your screen off. Hopefully the phones won't go off in the background, which is good. If I ask you to participate, by all means feel free to do that, but just be mindful of people communicating and having their opportunity to speak. And on that note, I'm just going to move on. So ladies and gents, this is an online session. It's about the way you think. So one of the first things I'm going to do, the next slide I put up, you have two minutes, ladies and gentlemen, to answer the nine questions. The slide will roll over after two minutes. So you have two minutes with which to answer these nine questions. Here we go. How we doing? Just over a minute. You have about 30 seconds left. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. That's just about swap over now because that's been two minutes. So let's just address the thing in the ring. Feel free to speak up and participate. Do they have a 4th of July in Scotland, Chloe? Yes. Of course they do. Of course they do. Exactly. So let's have a look who we've got. So some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, but how many months have 28 days? Blake? All of them. Absolutely all of them. Well done. If you had one match and then to the dark room where there was no lamp and oil heat and some kindling wood, which would you like first, Chris? The match? The match, absolutely. You're going to like the match. If the doctor gave you three pills and asked you to take one every half an hour, how long would the pills last? Laura, number two. It would last an hour because you take one, 30 minutes, take another one, another 30 minutes, take the third one. So it would last an hour. Can a farmer have 17 sheep and all but nine die? How many is the farmer left? I put eight and that's the last one I got too. Lots of people just think about nine minus 17 is eight, but actually all but nine die. So technically it's nine. But we don't see what we do with the dead ones. If we said 17, two, we could also win that one. So a man built a house with four sides, it is rectangular with all sides facing south. Along walks of bear, what colour is it? Well done, Chris. White. Awesome. It's because the only place you can build a house where all four sides face south is the North Pole. If you take two apples away from three apples, how many do you have? Two. Well done, Chris. I guess you've done this before. How many of each species did Moses take on to the ark? None because it was never well done for. Awesome stuff. And then if you drove a bus with 42 people from London and stopped at 15 to pick up seven more and drop off five passengers, then drove to pick up three more and drop off seven, then arrived in Edinburgh to drop off 16, all journey took six hours, 54 minutes. What was the name of the driver? Chloe? Jason. Chloe. You drove the bus. So if you drove the bus, it would be you, your name. Thank you very much. Chloe. Awesome. So it's one of my favourite eyesbreakers because it really does just do exactly as it says on the tin. It breaks the eyes. So here we go. What are we here for? So the story today, I'm going to challenge you to think slightly differently. Consider your roles in your life journey. So what is it you're actually doing? Where are you? Consider being revolutionary. Cover what that means in a minute. Think about the processes of change. Think about your need for connection. And how is AI going to affect you now and in the future? So some topics to think about there as we go through. So what is revolutionary thinking? So has anybody told me who that is? Feel free to contribute in the chat. Einstein, absolutely. So why is he a revolutionary thinking? Because he then got kicked out of school for daydreaming. And the fear fact that he had an imagination meant that he could imagine relativity and therefore it gave him a way to think about a concept that was so unusual to others. What about this fella? Picasso. Well done Chris. Yeah, absolutely. Now this fella, artist, everybody knows, famous artist, but most of his paintings during the cubist period, where it was all sort of very square, were mathematically accurate. So more than just an artist, one might say, also very clever in other ways. What about this chap? Lots of people were confused about this fella. Any ideas Chloe? I'm sitting there thinking, what does so-and-so look like? And what does so-and-so look like? OK, no, this is Lewis Carroll, the guy that wrote Alice in Wonderland. He also wrote one of the most obscure poems in the English language called Jabberwocky. But he taught mathematics at Cambridge. So revolutionary thinking means we start using every part of that grey noggin we have inside our school. And what about this fella? Last but not least. Anybody tell me who that is? Well done Chris. Yeah, Leonardo da Vinci. So he painted the Mona Lisa, an artist, but also an engineer in his later drawings when it was found through all his records. He'd actually got the first design of a man-powered helicopter or a flying device. So revolutionary thinking is really about being able to use all of our mental capacity. It's about thinking differently about what we do and how we interact with where we are and what we're doing. So things that are current issues within education think differently about mobile phone use. There's a current hot topic perhaps. Sometimes professionalism require the staff. There's another stove point thinking won't get us anywhere. We need to think differently about how we interact with our environment and how things move on. So I started to think about who I was. So predominantly I would call myself a knowledge seeker. And over time, as I've gone through life, I think that question for knowledge has led me to be other things. So in some parts I've been an engineer because that's what I learned to do when I left school. I joined the ministry in the Air Force as an engineer at Fixing Airplanes. People person because I love this whole interaction dynamic with people. Teacher because that's again what I've done in my business as an ethnic lecturer. And a professional person because as a teacher you're respected as a professional person to absolutely just be that person that people will go to and trust. Student. So finished my first degree in education professional development. I'm halfway through a master's in psychology. Always learning, always looking for things, kind of an obvious one. And then activist, sorry, researcher. So I'm getting ahead of myself because I'm reading my name. So researcher, so knowledge if something catches my ideas. I have this horrible habit of going down rabbit hole sometimes just trying to find out the truths of things because I like it in philosophy too. Activist as you will see from one of the slides that comes up. I started a Twitter chat called Rev Evolution to discuss those revolutionary ideas in education. I started it with a young lady called Jennifer Lindsdale. And who knows in the future I might restart it. I think because there are certainly topics around now in the education piece that people need to talk about. And then finally, but no being by no means least creator and innovator. So creative thinking about things that I can do. You can see from some of the slide backgrounds and things like that. I like to create things that are visually impactful and innovative because I like being able to embrace technology. I like being able to utilize all of my skills with the advent of technology to bring innovative teaching to a classroom. I wonder where you are on your journey, whether you consider you're in that same space. So it might be worth maybe when you get a minute spending some time to think about the roles that you've fulfilled in your life and how you want to be. So moving that on as an agent to change, Rev Evolution, born out of a conversation that took place after one of these sort of login events with an amplifier theme. My co-creator and I saw things the same way. We wanted to raise issues we thought were important in the education. At the time, we actually thought that the UK in itself missed the once in a generational opportunity to change the educational landscape for the better for good. And I still believe that we did miss that opportunity. But being a rebel or revolutionary also means it gave me a voice within the education community to talk about educational reform and radicality. It needs to change. Education has far too long been about doing something to the poor so the wealthy get the best of everything and that needs to change. We all need to be an agent to change perhaps. And I would argue on Revolution, somebody put this on Twitter and I thought it was brilliant for the life of me. I can't remember who it was. Revolution is a rebellious act, punching holes through time and space to find like-minded souls, finding friends of all different ages who question the world like you do. I think even Chloe would back me up and say, you know what, that's exactly what Twitter chats do. We reach out into the ethereal space, connect with people who are like-minded to find that we have something in common and share that expertise around the educational piece. So talking about change, is there a good time to do it? When should we do it? So this is a picture of a neuron in your brain. And that bright light shows that neuron connecting a fire in a synapse and connecting to another one. This is why learning is hard. This is why change is difficult because actually things have to change inside our head. But it's not necessarily so much of a bad thing if we're ready for it. What we have to think about is when we do it. So this is called a sigmoid curve. As you can see, there are different phases as we move around this thing. But actually what we need to be doing is we need to be looking at, whoops a daisy, my apologies, my pen has decided that it's mightier than the sword. So this is the bit where we need to change. So that the curve goes all the way up, not over the top on careers downhill. So the change needs to occur here. The change needs to happen here so that we keep going in this same direction and keep getting better. Rather than roll over the top, career downhill and go through another dip and another development slide. So when do we need to change? We need to change when things are going really, really well and be open to that to grow. So are you connected? Great question. I wonder what you think I mean by that. So Kenneth Gurgan wrote about the saturated self. What he means by that is the world is ever shrinking. And as you can see from this, if you just think about the number of things that we're all connected to these days, it's amazing that we hold in our hands a simple computer, but it allows us to connect with anybody around the world at any given point of time. And in his book, he talks about how the world shrank for him. It became less about letters and content and having some pause or some time to think. Now, because we're all connected via this interconnected world that people are driving at, we seem to have less and less time. You know, we seem to have less and less time to pause and think and maybe just think about where we're at and what we're doing. So a question to you is perhaps as an exercise move forward to think about how you too are connected. And so this is a blank slide on purpose because what I'm about to do is I'm about to draw a grid. And what I'd like you to do is perhaps think about drawing this grid for yourselves when you get an opportunity because I'm running out of time, I think. So what this is about is how you're affected by what you're connected to. So here at the top, this would be individual. I'm thinking my Android now apologise, that's awful, individual. At the bottom is your organisation. Over here we have for our consumption. And the upper part. Consumption spoke correctly. Consumption and here coming down the way we have broadcast those things. We want to shout about how we connected. And then at the other end we have engagement. What are the things that we engage with to create discussions or context or context. So, for example, if I was thinking about how I'm connected for my individual consumption, one of the first things I put is LinkedIn because I'm connected to LinkedIn. I'm also connected to Twitter, WhatsApp broadcast for work outlook. Teams, Facebook, that's another thing that people do. So, you know, how does this work for you? Some of these might actually step across. So LinkedIn might also be over here because it connects you to other things, Twitter and WhatsApp too. So how are you connected? How does this space? How do you consume your social media? What are the things that you use to shout about throughout your organisation or make your voice heard? And then how do you contextualise some of that with the things that you do? You know, one of those might down here might be share points or organisational share points. How do you think you stick these together? This was something I found really helpful and it's not until you sit and pause and take a moment to think that you actually realise just how many things you're actually connected to and how that works. That's just a very, very quick illustration, but I could recommend it might be something worth doing for you in the future. Sit with an A4 page or even if you have that many connections, maybe an A3 page, create the grid and just do some moments to think about just what it means to be connected for you and how that works. So I've now got a quiz to prove just how connected you are. So what I'm looking to do here is I'm looking to put things on the page that have two meanings. So ideally, if you have microphones, it's easier to shout out the answers and we'll get through it quite quickly rather than chat. So I'm more than happy for people to shout the answers out as you see them and we'll just work through. So for example, I'll give you the first one, the first one, Apple and Angry Birds. OK, so you're going to see more symbols like that. And what I'd like to do is find out just how connected you really are and see how many you can actually get. So feel free, please, to shout out the answer and we'll just move through them as we go so that we can cover the content in the required amount of time and I can finish it clearly. Everybody can be happy. So here we go. What's the next one? What have we got? And so there are two. Android is one. What's the other one? Disney. Disney, well done. Facebook and Domino's. Facebook and Domino's. Starbucks and, yeah. Starbucks and Google Chrome. Google Chrome, yeah. What about this one? Nike and... NASA. NASA, well done. Nike and NASA, yeah, absolutely. Well done. Twitter and Nissan. Close but no cigar. Skoda. Twitter and Skoda. What about this one? Well done. What's that? Spotify. What's that? Yeah. Yeah, what's that one? Spotify. Spotify, well done. Pepsi. Yep. And this one catches a lot of people out of Fairtrade. Put Pepsi in Fairtrade. Apple and Windows. Fairtrade. So this one? Apple and Windows. Microsoft. Apple and Microsoft. Windows. Firefox. Yeah, Firefox. And... Is that Sonic? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, VW. No. No? Mm-hmm. Looks like VW and... Oh, yeah. VW is VW. My apologies. This is VW. And... Mazda? Mazda. Well done. Now we're cooking. Lagerbyn McDonald's. Well done. Lagerbyn McDonald's. WWF and HMV. HMV. Well done. HMV. Yes, absolutely. Toblerone and Paramount. Well done. Yes, Toblerone. That's the one people missed. Toblerone and Paramount. Well done. We can see some people. HHBC. Yeah. Ghostbusters and HHBC. Not that we're going to ghost you down to count at all, but... Oh, yellow pages in the A.A.? Yellow pages is one. What's the other one? The little pages from Snapchat on the top. We've got Snapchat and yellow pages. This one. LG. MSaiders. Well done LG MSaiders. And the last one. Oh, Wikipedia. Absolutely smashed it. It just shows how connected we all are in the world. So if you're getting all of that, then that's other connections that you're making. So you can see quite well connected. So the power of social media to connect people is absolutely amazing. I would have been on my knees if it hadn't been for Twitter for me. Because joining the edgy Twitter community meant so much to me. It actually saved my bacon over lockdown. But as you can see, there's a few there. Just WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat. I've tried Snapchat, not a fan. Don't do TikTok because it links to Chinese intelligence. WhatsApp or Instagram. Instagram I tried, but really not my cup of tea. But Twitter, I've definitely found a home. So, you know, power of social media has recently been proven by many campaigns require a voice. Allows them minnows to raise the game and to stick their heads above the parapet. And it allows society to come together and to bring like-minded professionals together. So I talk about education as a piece because that's where we are to make a difference and to stand together. And I as a member of the edgy Twitter community, as Chloe will tell you with my comment about FB being the super humans of the educational community. We stand together when we talk about that kind of piece through the application of the Twitter chat. It's really, really good. So very, very quickly because we are kind of type of time. So AI, the one big thing in the room that people are scared of. So how do we use it effectively? What we do is we make the students understand the need for critical thinking skills and problem solving rather than allow them to think about, oh, I can just use it to cheat, chat, to cheat GPT or a little work, did all of that. Actually no, what we really need to do is think about how we're allowing them to engage and foster that engagement with it so they can understand the need for critical thinking skills and problem solving as an assistant rather than otherwise. My brother has a natural aversion to computers. He has this terminator fantasy that some robot is going to come turn up and kill him. Felly, mae'r sgwpeth yn ei wneud. Felly, yna, yna, yw'n gweithio, ac mae'n ddim yn ymgyrch yn ei wneud, mae'n bwysig o'r byw i'r bwysig o'r gweithio. Mae'r lleidio'n... Felly, rwy'n cael ei wneud y ffianfa i'r ffilm i roi, ond ASEMF, ASEC ASEMF, roi'r llwy, roi'r llwy o roi'r ffianfa. Mae'r llwy o'r llwy o'r ffianfa i'r llwy o'r llwy o roi, gyda i chi'n ddweud i'r parwysgol o feiddiol. So byddwch yn gallu yn reddiol o obi yn myfaf y rhyw iawn i'ch arfermwyng gyda'r rhywun.. felly fel byddai'r rhai ddweud i mewn ddoent, yn ddullus i ddinstrydd. Mae'r cyhoedd iawn i'r parwysgol yw'r societiaeth ac人ol nawr yn respiratory ailydd ar amlwgiaeth EI. Mae'n rhai ddiwn i EI, Llywodraeth arall oedd ydw i'r provider a'r amlwg exitol yn yr argyrchu mae'n rhai iawn i'r YI iawn i greu, fel y mor fras enhanced i gael gyda'i iawn, osti i ddwygen arweig. Dwi'n meddwl ychydig yn rhoi'r cyffredig er oeddu y cerdd. Dyna'r aelod ni yn chweithio bod yn eisteddfod gyda'r cyffredig cyffredig, ond rwy'n meddwl yw'r cyffredig llaw yn ei gweithio. Mae'r cerdd yn rhoi'r cyffredig eithaf fel y cerdd yn rhoi a rhaid i wedi'u comea yw eu cyffredig taeth y cyffredig gyda'u cyffredig a'u cyffredig. ... to embrace it or ignore it? I think we pass for not to embrace it ... because in my experience if you don't embrace it ... you end up falling behind or being left behind ... so unfortunately I don't think you can leave it to be ignored. Then as I've mentioned already... ..critical skills that we need to impart to students ... about its use. So that's about engaging with students about the use of them... and not but just simply being able to .. ac nid o'r ddweud yw'r cyfnod, i'w hyfforddiadau allanau i ddweud y gallu gwneud i'r ddweud. Fodd y gallu gwneud i ddweud, yna yna y cwestiynau bod ydych chi'n gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio, yn ymgyrchafol ei'r ddweud hynny, a fyddwn i'r ddweud ei'r ddweud. Mae'r gyfrifeddau yn y ddweud i'r ddweud, dwi'n dechrau, oherwydd mae'n ddweud, mae'n ddweud ei'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud, rydych chi'n gweithio fe, ond mae'n fyddai'n ffordd arall, ond mae'n meddwl y sgol yn y bwrdd. Mae'n meddwl fod y brifysgol, yn ymdweithio, yn ymdweithio'r ymdweithio ddau i gael eu pwysigol a'i'n gweithio'n meddwl yma, mae'n fyddai'n gweithio'n meddwl o'r ffordd a'r hyn ymdweithio'n meddwl a'n gweithio'n meddwl i'n meddwl o'r hyn o'r ymdweithio'n meddwl. Felly cyntaf am gwybod ddim yn meddwl i wneud â'r ymgyrchu. Dyna mynd i'r gael ddim yn ymgyrchu. Ond rwyf amwysgai gydag i ddim yn anthefnwyr, phobl yn ysgol iawn. Mae'r gyfan yn ddweud hefyd yn eich casgliad caiff erbyn o bryd. A'r manual yn ymgyrchu, mae'n fysgar i'r hoff i ddim yn maith o ddweud? Erbyn i'r hoff i ddweud? Mae'n gweithio'r awnod, sy'n dduf yn cael eu mynd i'ch unedol.raidiau chi wedi unrhyw y gwirionedd, rwyf yn ei ch expenditureio'r gweithio arnyn nhw'n gweithio'n twffwn, wedi'u gwirionedd o'r bwysig o'rolaeth yn ennerion ar gweithio'r sutimage. Mae i gyd yn ymgyrch yn yr edrych yn y sydd wedi'i'n ddiweddio arbennigau dystodwyr, gydymaen nhw el-darchanwch arnal o'r llyngrau maen nhw i'r llaw dda mid-feydd. Yma oedd o'r llaw dda yn ganlu a adroddiad yn y cyn agaf. We're no longer the oppressed as free air, might say. We are rising to realise our own futures and those of our children and theirs. So consider being revolutionary. Stand up to things that you don't think are right. Maybe through the power of that social media we can create a campaign to be heard and have a voice and make a difference. Think about the processes of change. Changing things are good when it's easy because that makes the change process much easier rather than doing the difficult thing in the hard yards when we're in the decline bit. It's not really such a great idea. The need for connection. Well, these things are only going to get more capable and we are only going to have more need of it. Linda Gratton wrote a book called The Shift. The future of work is already here. I know of a professor, a surgeon in the Royal Barth Hospital. He's a heart surgeon who does operations with Snapchat and Facebook. He's had avatars next to him who are specialists in their fields whilst he's doing operations to be able to do it. So he's had his Snapchat goggles on doing operations. The guy is absolutely amazing following lots on Twitter as well because he's just a really, really nice bloke, met him too. And then I've got you to think about, albeit very briefly, with my statements about how he's going to affect you now and in the future. That's kind of where we've gone in our whistle stop tour. For me, it's always been about the supreme out of the teacher to awaken joy and creative expression and knowledge. But as Einstein says, I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious and will remain so. Are there any questions, ladies and gentlemen? Maybe Chloe might allow a few minutes for questions if you have any because that was really him whistle stop tour. I hope you enjoyed that. Thank you, Arlene. Appreciate that. Thank you very much. I look forward to watching it in the out of fire space on YouTube again. Let's see what I went horribly wrong. Thank you all for coming.