School 2.0
Creating The Schools We Need
Chris Lehmann
Principal
Science Leadership Academy

Who Is This
Guy?

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

What They Say About Us
Obsolete
Broken
Wasteland
Money Pits
Failing

The Problem Is...
If we keep down our current path, they’re right.

The Great Big Question:
How can we have so many passionate,
dedicated educators in our schools and still have
so many problems?

Fix the System:
Put a good person into a bad system and the
system will win every time.

Data Driven Decisions:
Assume that you use good data -- and good
data ain’t cheap.

Our Biggest Problem:
A Lack of Vision

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

You Can’t Standardize:
Differentiated Instruction,
Differentiated Schools

What the school system needs to understand is that its
strength lies, not in the strength of the central
organization, but in the strength of the individual school,
not in making one school like another, but in making each
school a distinct unit. The need of the system is the
preservation of its units, so that each school can keep
itself alive, wide awake, responsive to its people, easily
adaptable, the best of its kind.
Angelo Patri -- A Schoolmaster of the Great City

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

We Learn Best
When It Matters To Us

Things Are Different
How Do We Deal With That?

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

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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2225299236/

Scary Thought:
What are we willing to unlearn and relearn?

So Now What?

What is your vision of
school?
What do you value?

My Two Cents:
Thoughtful
Wise
Passionate
Kind

Pedagogy Matters.
A Lot.

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

What Do You Measure?
And Does That Match With What You Value?

Understanding-Driven
and Project-Based

Traditional
Classrooms:
Recall-Based Tests
Homework
Projects
Class Participation

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

What Do We Gain?
What Do We Lose?

But what about the tech?

Technology Must Be
Like Oxygen
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

Transparency:
We Can Invite the World to Our Schools

Relevance?

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

Information Literacy and The
“Prosumer”
Find information
Analyze information
Synthesize information
Judge information
Create information
Share information
http://www.dhmo.org

Research
Collaborate
Create
Present
Network

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

What is Teacher 2.0?
How is a teacher’s life
different in this model?
What are the skills necessary
to teach in this world?
How will you find new
teachers?
How will you help older
teachers to adapt?

Big Questions:
How will you create the time
and space for your teachers
to learn?
How will you make your
faculty meetings part of a
running, constant dialogue?
How will your values inform
every thing you do?

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

Wisdom.

Keep In Touch:
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
chris@practicaltheory.org
http://www.practicaltheory.org
Twitter: chrislehmann
Skype: chrislehmann
EduCon 2.2 -- Jan. 29-31, 2010
http://educon22.wikispaces.com