Mindset Shifts Needed for this New World

And if you've been listening to Transformative Principal, my other podcast for any amount of time, you know, That I have strong feelings about our education system and how it leaves a lot to be desired for a lot of people. I'm not going to go into that a ton here right now. But I do want to talk about a couple of things as it relates to the apple vision pro. I will be getting mine on February 2nd. That night you can expect. A podcast for me about that. I will.

Probably do a video with it as well, so that you can get a view. Of the apple vision pro. There's a lot of other people out there who are doing this stuff, but this is really specifically focused on the learning environment. So one of the concerns that I've heard about AI. And about the vision pro. People are concerned about losing the personal connection with students. Today I did an interview on Transformative Principal and we talked

with Erin Bailey. From reading is fundamental and she brought up the issue that computers can't do, what humans can do. Now to be honest, that remains to be seen. But I do want to stress that if we lose the personal connection, we're going to be in trouble. Because if we don't have that personal connection, And we're not able to continue having that personal connection with our students. That's going to create problems. Why? Because we, as human beings are connecting beings.

And I think this is so important for us to think about. So in the show notes for this episode, there are two videos that I would like you to check out. That I think are pretty cool. Both are from ex one of them is showing the jig space app. On the apple vision pro and what that app does basically is. It allows you to look at manipulate and see. 3d items in your space right in front of you. You can resize them. You can move them around. You can look inside, break them apart. It's really amazing.

For people who don't have. Very good spatial awareness or see, can see how big things really are. Putting something at one-to-one scale could be a really powerful way. to help people really understand. How things work. At a different level. So that is one really

neat looking way, too. I learn about space. Learn about how things work. I can see a lot of really cool potential. One of the other things that I is in the show notes that I encourage you to check out is an interview I did with Matt show say on Transformative Principal. Matt Shaw. Matt Shuster with Matt shall say on Transformative Principal, he runs a company called be more colorful than make a product called. Career view XR.

And what career view XR does is it gives students an opportunity to go. Basically do a day in the life. Of a worker in some. Career that they might be interested in. Now they've already created all this content and you don't have to have a apple vision pro to use it because they're already doing it. And they've been getting some good recognition for that work. But in this interview, we talk about what that looks like and how powerful it can be for someone to really.

Experience what it's like to go do that job when there may not be anybody physically close to them. Who could really show them how to do it. So these. Augmented reality. Experiences or virtual reality experiences can be very powerful for them. And finally the third thing. That I hope you'll check out. Is X user. At johnnymotion Talks about. Doing a spatial F1. Broadcast app as the killer app for the vision pro. And his whole video's called it's only two and a half minutes.

Definitely worth looking. But he says something in there that I think is so powerful. He says it's about the mindset needed for these apps. Here he is in his own words:

Formula One is this tech-centric competition. I believe it should be the benchmark for the way we combine sports and technology. The Apple Vision Pro allows for all kinds of new experiences, but so far most of the things I've seen emphasize content in Windows, and I wanna see something that goes beyond that. Sure. Uh, I wanna put Windows

and data everywhere, but you can kind of already do this with the awesome multi-viewer app. But what if I really took advantage of both my physical viewing space and the geography of the event itself? There's something so appealing about an architectural model, but alive and in perfect sync with a reality unfolding thousands of miles away.

Another example, I was doing another interview today. And w I was talking with the. Tiffany quite yet, the. Assistant director of the Connecticut association of schools. And she was talking about how there's a new law in Connecticut. That requires play-based learning to happen in pre-K and kindergarten and allows it to happen in first through fifth grade. And one of the things we talked about is that. Teachers may have wanted this for years may have thought this was exactly what they needed.

But then when the time comes to actually do it, They don't necessarily know how to start. Play-based learning. In their classrooms, even though they may have believed that it was worthwhile for a long time. And so we have to change how we're thinking about things. When I first went to town on middle school to be a principal. The goal for the district was to become a personalized learning district. And as we started going down that path.

We saw that many of the systems and processes that we had in our school system already needed to change. To adapt to that kind of different environment. It's not easy to make those kinds of changes, but we've got to be able to think outside of the box of what we're already doing. One last thing I'll say, and I got this from a conversation with someone in a text right today, and he echoed a sentiment that. I've heard a lot that. And tell we have everybody have one of these. In my classroom.

I can't do anything with it. And. When the iPad came out, I saw that. But I got an iPad right away, started using it, started seeing how I could use it in schools. And there are a lot of things that you could still do. Even before the multi-user thing was available and the multi-user thing on an iPad, it's really not great. But there are still ways that you can use these tools. Even without there being an individual one for

every student. This person I was texting with Aaron, he said, I think this was really good. What practical thing can I implement in my classroom tomorrow? And that's the approach that I think we need to take with all of these things. And right now. The answer is nothing. The device isn't even out yet. Could it be useful, maybe who knows, but what can you do in your classroom tomorrow? That is actually practical. That's one of the mindset shifts that we need to start making.

So I look forward to hearing your comments. I got some interviews lined up already. Some people we're going to talk with about. This new world that we're living in and I'm excited for you to be here. If you haven't yet, please leave a rating and review in iTunes. Five stars only if you can't say anything. Nice. Don't say anything at all. And please share this with your friends and colleagues. And let's bring other people into this conversation. If you'd like to be part of the conversation.

You can reach out to me on pretty much all the social medias at Jethro Jones. Or go to my website, a vision for learning.com and thanks again. Appreciate you being here and we'll see you next time.