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Bold Learning for Bold SchoolsMaking the Jump from Traditional to Modern Learning
Will [email protected]@willrich45
What is “Bold School” practice?
Jacob Arnott14-year old Editor in Chief
Context
“Crisis of Contexts”
Crisis of Contexts
Traditional LearningPoliticians, Parents,
Communities, Educators
Crisis of Contexts
Traditional LearningPoliticians, Parents,
Communities, Educators
Modern LearningConnected Learners
Traditional LearningPoliticians, Parents,
Communities, Educators
Modern LearningConnected Learners
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New reality
Scarcity
ABUNDANCE
Change
CHANGE
“The change we are in the middle of isn’t minor,and it isn’t optional.”
Clay Shirky
750,000 Apps2.5 Billion People
2 Trillion Webpages4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute
16,000 Tweets per second*5 Billion Internet Connected Devices
Etc...
*Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration
ABUNDANCE
...A world marked by “ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous information, ubiquitous networks, at unlimited speed, about everything, everywhere, from anywhere, on all kinds of devices that make it ridiculously easy to connect, organize, share, collect, collaborate and publish.”
Michael Wesch
Media Politics
JournalismMedicine
BooksBusinessMusic...
Which is Changing:
And the future of work
ABUNDANCE
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“Looking to the future of work, one could sum up the anticipated impacts in a single word: More. More intensity. More pressure. More change. More risk. But also, more opportunity. More engagement. More transparency. More impact.”
Yvette Cameron
And the future of “an education”
ABUNDANCE
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Abundance
Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U.
of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U. of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.
Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U. of Toronto, Princeton,
U. of Penn.
“This is the tsunami.”--Richard DeMillo, Ga. Tech
2024?
And the future of schools
ABUNDANCE
New Reality
Teachers are everywhereClassrooms are everywhere
“School” is everywhere
215,284,446 Lessons Delivered
New Question:
What do students need to learn in school at a moment
when they can learn so much without us?
New Question:
And:What is the value of school
(and classrooms and teachers) at a moment
where we don’t need school to do school?
New Question:
New Answer:
That which cannot be “Khanified.”
New Answer:
CuriosityResilience
PassionEntrepreneurial Thinking
EmpathyCreativity
CollaborationInquiry
NetworkingCommunicationCritical Thinking
(and more)
New Reality
Schools need to be “different”...not just “better.”
Content
Our Old (Traditional) Value
Our New Value
New Contexts for Learning
Our New Value
New Contexts for LearningNew Literacies
Our New Value
New Contexts for LearningNew LiteraciesNew Futures
Our New Value
Our New Value
“Entrepreneurial Learners”
“Constantly looking around you,
all the time, for new ways and new resources
to learn new things.”
John Seely Brown
BE BOLD
1. Learning Centered2. Inquiry Driven3. Authentic Work
4. Digital5. Connected
6. Literate7. Transparent8. Innovative9. Provocative
Bold Schools
1. Bold Schools are Learning and Learner Centered
Students and teachers direct their own learning and connect to their passions.
Bold Schools
2. Bold Schools are Inquiry Driven
Learning is focused around exploring answers to “big questions”
Bold Schools
“Dots in Blue Water”South Adams HS, Berne, IN
“Dots in Blue Water”
1. Authentic Problem/Question“How can we purify water for people in
Haiti?”
“Dots in Blue Water”
2. Student Directed TeamsResearch, Development, Marketing,
Community “Investment"
“Dots in Blue Water”
3. Real Product/Real AudienceTeachers and students travelled to Haiti to
install their devices.5 systems = clean water for 8,000
“Dots in Blue Water”
Notes:
-Aligned to standards-Interdisciplinary
-Student-centered-Technology-rich
-Innovative thinking
CHANGE(The World)
3. Bold Schools Support Authentic Work
Students and teachers create real work for real audiences and real purposes.
Bold Schools
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4. Bold Schools are Digital
Students and teachers have access to and fluency with technology.
Bold Schools
5. Bold Schools are Connected
Students and teachers regularly learn from and with people online.
Bold Schools
“Connected Learning”
Our New Value
“Connected learning is realized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and interest to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement.”
Mimi Ito
Networks are the new classrooms.
“What can you do has been replaced by what can you and your network connections do. Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his contacts.”
Jay Cross
6. Bold Schools are Literate(by 21st Century Standards)
Students and teachers meet NCTE guidelines for modern readers and writers.
Bold Schools
•Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
•Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
•Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes
•Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information
•Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
•Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
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Bold Schools
7. Bold Schools are Transparent
Students and teachers widely share best practices and reflections on their learning.
Bold Schools
--Stephen Downes
8. Bold Schools are Innovative
All learners are encouraged to “poke the box” and experiment with practice.
Bold Schools
9. Bold Schools are Provocative
Conversations around change extend to parents, communities, and local, state and national
governments.
Bold Schools
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Bold Schools
Which of those nine qualities are the most challenging to move toward when thinking about your school?
Bold Schools
1. Learning Centered2. Inquiry Driven3. Authentic Work
4. Digital5. Connected
6. Literate7. Transparent8. Innovative9. Provocative
Bold Schools
New Requirements
For our students.For our classrooms.
For ourselves.
Where Do We Start?
With Us.
LEARNERS FIRST
LEARNERS FIRST
Teachers Second
“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth,
while the learned find themselves beautifully
equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
Eric Hoffer
