My First Time @ ISTE

Well.. I am here.  It is huge.  It is over the top.  It is insane crazy.

I don't know how I feel about it yet.

There is a lot of reference to Common Core - I am struggling with this.
I don't use Common Core and there is word in ISTE that says International.  The last time I looked Common Core is only used in the USA.  The discussions I am hearing are the relationships of the ISTE Standards with Common Core.  More generic please.  If you truly want to be seen as an international organisation with international standards then the relationships need to be generic with curriculum contents.

I empathise with my fellow educators, my US colleagues, with what they see as a daily battle of engagement - not just with students but teachers as well.  But the journeys that others take, can be learned from.  Their experiences, their encounters, their failures, their successes need to not just be heard but listened to as well.  Learn form them.

This is just after day 1.

I hope that the next few days there are different discussions, different encounters, a more global approach.  I don't know.  But I hope so!
Go global people, think it, act it, learn from it.....