School 2.0
Progressive Pedagogy
and 21st Century Tools
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy

What Are Our Hopes For
Our Students?

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

Passionate
And it has to matter.

Integrated
The day has to make sense

Technology Infused
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

Meta-Cognitive
We need to think
about thinking.

Authentic
Assessment as Real and Transparent

Understanding-Driven
and Project-Based

We Work Best / Learn Best
When It Matters To Us

What’s The Road Map?
How Do We Get There?

Progressive Teaching
Using 21st Century Tools

Technology Overload
And How To Prevent It

What’s Good?
Is a Better Question Than What’s New?

Research
Collaborate
Create
Present
Network

A Convenient And Reasonably False Taxonomy
Research Collaborate Create Network Present
RSS Wiki Blogging Twitter uStream
Google
Del.icio.us Drupal Skype Flickr
Docs
Google Moodle Podcasting Facebook iTunes U
Wikipedia Ning Email

Tools Don’t Teach
But They Can Change The Way We Teach

What Are Your Goals
What Tools Get You There?

Common Language
Of Teaching and Learning

Common Inputs
Common Process
Common Outputs

Inquiry

Research

Collaboration

Presentation

Reflection

Understanding
By Design
by Grant Wiggins
and Jay McTighe

Common Outputs

Step One: Desired Results
If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going....

Goals
The Objectives, The Standards

Understandings
The Big Ideas -- Why Are We Teaching This?

Essential Questions
The Throughline:
What Do We Keep Coming Back To?

Skills and Content
What is all the stuff that kids will have to know or
know about to get to those big ideas?

Step Two: Assessment
How Do We Authentically Assess?

Traditional
Classrooms:
Recall-Based Tests
Homework
Projects
Class Participation

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

Step Three: Learning Plan
What’s It Look Like, Day to Day?

Some Examples

Unit Design

EduCon 2.2
January 29 - 31, 2009
Science Leadership Academy
Philadelphia, PA
http://educon22.wikispaces.com

Keep In Touch
Chris Lehmann
chris@practicaltheory.org
http://www.practicaltheory.org
http://www.scienceleadership.org
http://ubd21c.wikispaces.com
Twitter: chrislehmann