4. Are you Ready for 21st Century Teaching and Learning? It
isnt just coming it has arrived! And schools who arent redefining
themselves, risk becoming irrelevant in preparing students for the
future.
5. You Aint Seen Nothing Yet! Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0
Singularity
6.
Some statistics- - Over 1 billion people on the Internet
http://www.internetworldstats.com/
70 million blogs, 2.7 million posts
a day.
80 new blog sites created every minute
None of the top 10 jobs that will exist in 2010 exist today."
-- Richard Riley , (Former US Sec. of Ed.)
A Changing World
7. It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes of unique new information
will be generated worldwide this year. Thats estimated to be more
than in the previous 5,000 years. Knowledge Creation
8. For students starting a four-year technical or higher
education degree, this means that . . . half of what they learn in
their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of
study.
9.
10. Trend 1 Social and intellectual capital are the new
economic values in the world economy. This new economy will be held
together and advanced through the building of relationships.
Unleashing and connecting the collective knowledge, ideas, and
experiences of people creates and heightens value. Source : Journal
of School Improvement, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2002
http://www.ncacasi.org/jsi/2002v3i1/ten_trends Personal learning
networks Situated communities of practice
11. Trend 4 Education Will Shift from Averages to Individuals.
(Standardization to Personalization) The trend toward standards and
high-stakes testing will likely incite a movement toward ensuring
that support is provided for individual students to reach high
levels of learning. Demand will grow for personalization rather
than a system often driven by prescribed high-stakes tests that
produce averages, demand uniformity, and sustain a scoreboard
mentality .
12. Changing Learning Landscape Trend 7 Technology will
increase the speed of communication and the pace of advancement or
decline. Using participatory media educators will help todays
students shape tomorrows world. Teachers will become partners with
students- using learning communities to open the classroom to the
world. They will deal with real world problems and opportunities
while gaining a global perspective.
13. Right before school started, the Minneapolis I-35 bridge
collapsed and it really hit home for many of the locals. We sent
letters and interviewed locals about the issue. It started out as a
teacher-centered project, but the students quickly took over. They
decided to produce a You Tube video to educate the public. The AP
Statistics teacher, to help my students visualize their research.
The class made graphs so we could better comprehend our numbers. My
classes wrote the script and we started to brainstorm on the video.
First semester, they were graded on their lobbying efforts, second
semester, on community service, third quarter on their
participation in the video, and fourth quarter they will write an
essay or give an oral presentation on what they will take from this
project. Currently, we are planning a Skype with a class in
Minneapolis to talk about their experience last fall.
14. Mutual accountability Mandated accountability School
improvement as a requirement School improvement as an option
Teaching as a collaborative practice Teaching as a private event A
learning focus A teaching focus Shifting To Shifting From
15. Outsourcing Edc . Outsourcing Homework "Jobs in the new
economy--the ones that won't get outsourced or automated--"put an
enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns
where other people see only chaos." Marc Tucker Need to develop
adaptive expertise
16. In a world that is constantly changing we need to find
balance.
Geetha Narayanan talks about the need for slow, wholesome
learning. She looks at ways to bring people, technology, and
learning together with a new conceptual framework.
techo-skeptics
techno-evangelists
techno-minetics
17. Creativity Creativity is now as important in education as
literacy and we should treat it with the same status. If you're not
prepared to be wrong then you will never come up with anything
original. We don't grow into creativity we grow out of it, or
rather, we get educated out of it. Ken Robinson http://
www.bloglines.com/blog/andrewch?id =4
18. Instill Curiosity Encourage students to explore their
interests and passions. Be that teacher Study without desire spoils
the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. Leonardo da
Vanci Dorothy Parker The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no
cure for curiosity.
19. Rethinking Teaching and Learning
Multiliterate
Change in pedagogy
Change in the way classrooms are managed
A move from deficit based instruction to strength based
learning
Collaboration and communication Inside and Outside the
classroom
20. FORMAL INFORMAL You go where the bus goes You go where you
choose Jay Cross Internet Time
23. Spending most of your time in your area of weaknesswhile it
will improve your skills, perhaps to a level of averagewill NOT
produce excellence This approach does NOT tap into student
motivation or lead to student engagement The biggest challenge
facing us as educators: how to engage the hearts and minds of the
learners
24. Individuals gain more when they build on their talents,
than when they make comparable efforts to improve their areas of
weakness. --Clifton & Harter, 2003, p. 112 Engaged Learning- A
positive energy invested in ones own learning, evidenced by
meaningful processing , attention to what is happening in the
moment, and participation in learning activities .
Bertelsmann Foundation Report: The Impact of Media and
Technology in Schools
2 Groups
Content Area: Civil War
One Group taught using Sage on the Stage methodology
One Group taught using innovative applications of technology
and project-based instructional models
End of the Study, both groups given identical
teacher-constructed tests of their knowledge of the Civil War.
Question: Which group did better?
29. Answer
No significant test differences were found
30. However One Year Later
Students in the traditional group could recall almost nothing
about the historical content
Students in the traditional group defined history as: the
record of the facts of the past
Students in the digital group displayed elaborate concepts and
ideas that they had extended to other areas of history
Students in the digital group defined history as:
a process of interpreting the past from different
perspectives
31. Change is Hard
32. Real Question is this: Are we willing to change- to risk
change- to meet the needs of the precious folks we serve? Can you
accept that Change (with a big C) is sometimes a messy process and
that learning new things together is going to require some
tolerance for ambiguity.
33. Last Generation
34. Model how to develop PLNs Take risks while they watch!
