Pedagogy Matters:
Classroom 2.0
Chris Lehmann
Principal
Science Leadership Academy

Why This Matters

My Bias:
School 2.0 is
Progressive Education
with 21st Century
Tools

More Bias:
Citizenry, Not Workforce

One Last Bias:
Public Education = Democracy

Project-Based Learning
Student-Centered Learning
Numeracy
21st Century Literacy
Differentiated Instruction
Edu-Speak
Direct Instruction
Authentic Assessment
Standards-Driven Instruction
Accountability
Life-Long Learning

We Deny Words Power
When They Are Not Embedded In Practice

Our Biggest Problem:
A Lack of Vision
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lnx/6257130/

If we teach today's students
as we taught yesterday's, we
rob them of tomorrow.
John Dewey

There is no silver bullet.
What do we need?
What do we value?

You Can’t Standardize
Differentiated Instruction,
Differentiated Schools

We Learn Best
When It Matters To Us

If you want creative workers, give them
enough time to play.
- John Cleese
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/
838786841/
Photo by Ewan McIntosh

The illiterate of the 21st century will
not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler
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Scary Thought:
What are we willing to unlearn and relearn?

My Two Cents:
Thoughtful
Wise
Passionate
Kind

Caring Institutions
We Teach Kids, Not Subjects

Inquiry-Driven
What are the questions we
can ask together?

Student-Centered
It’s Not About Us.

Teacher-Mentored
Kids Need Adults

Community-Based
We can learn from many

Collaborative
Synthesis Works

Passionate
And it has to matter.

Integrated
The day has to make sense

Meta-Cognitive
We need to think
about thinking.

Authentic
Assessment as Real and Transparent

Understanding-Driven
and Project-Based

What should our schools
be about?
And why aren’t they that way?

So What Does
It Look Like?

Traditional
Classrooms:
Recall Based Tests
Homework
Projects
Class Participation

The Schools
We Need:
Understanding-
Projects
Driven
Homework
Class Participation
Tests & Quizzes

Common Language of
Teaching and Learning

Common Inputs

Common Process

Common Assessment
Tools

What Do We Gain?
What Do We Lose?

How Could Systems of
Teaching and Learning
Change?

But what about the tech?

Technology Must Be
Like Oxygen
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

Relevance?

Paraphrasing Neil
Postman:
Certain Technologies
Are Not Additive, They
Are Transformative

Research
Collaborate
Create
Present
Network

Transparency:
We Can Invite the World to Our Schools

What is the role of teacher
in the age of Google?

Wisdom.

Questions:
• How can we make our schools more caring?
• How can we make our schools more inquiry-driven?
• How can we make our schools more student-center?
• How can we recast the role of teacher as mentor?
• How can we involve the community in more powerful ways?
• How can we make our schools more collaborative?
• How can we give our students more chances to be authentically assessed?
• How can our schools be more truly project-oriented?
• How can we leverage the technology to achieve these goals?

Keep In Touch:
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
chris@practicaltheory.org
http://www.practicaltheory.org
Twitter: chrislehmann
Skype: chrislehmann