Cindy Kendall Ingham Intermediate School District Mason, MI

Introduce yourself My name is ( name ) and I teach ( what, where ). I am like a ( object ) because (use your imagination ).

My name is ( name ) and I teach ( what, where ). I am like a ( object ) because (use your imagination ).

Are we preparing teens for this world? Sell to and buy from the world Work for international companies Work with and perhaps manage employees from other cultures and countries Collaborate with people all over the world in joint ventures Compete globally Serve locally The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs … By the age of 38.

Sell to and buy from the world

Work for international companies

Work with and perhaps manage employees from other cultures and countries

Collaborate with people all over the world in joint ventures

Compete globally

Serve locally

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs … By the age of 38.

For what kind of world is schooling preparing students?

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . . Using technologies that haven’t been invented . . . In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet. - David Warlick

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .

Using technologies that haven’t been invented . . .

In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

- David Warlick

In what world are our children living?

Quote – choice - history In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it. -Peter Drucker Retrieved 11/15/08 from http://www.heartquotes.net/Technology.html

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will

be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that

the most important event historians will see is not

technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an

unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first

time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of

people have choices. For the first time, they will have to

manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared

for it.

-Peter Drucker

Retrieved 11/15/08 from http://www.heartquotes.net/Technology.html

In what world are our children living?

Literacy “ Literacy has always been about using the most powerful cultural tools available to make and communicate meaning. At the present, those tools happen to be multimedia tools that use video, graphics, sound, and traditional text in a hypermedia format. If we or our students don't know how to critically use these tools to their fullest meaning-constructive potential, then we—and they—are illiterate.” -Jeff Wilhelm

“ Literacy has always been about using the most powerful cultural tools available to make and communicate meaning. At the present, those tools happen to be multimedia tools that use video, graphics, sound, and traditional text in a hypermedia format. If we or our students don't know how to critically use these tools to their fullest meaning-constructive potential, then we—and they—are illiterate.”

-Jeff Wilhelm

Creating new content is a key to understanding. Everybody creates. So find opportunities to create with content!

And the theorists and research support creating meaningful content… Seymour Papert – Constructivism George Siemens – Connectivism Ivan Illich – Deschooling Lev Vygotsky – Zone of Proximal Development Rand Spiro – Cognitive Flexibility

Seymour Papert – Constructivism

George Siemens – Connectivism

Ivan Illich – Deschooling

Lev Vygotsky – Zone of Proximal Development

Rand Spiro – Cognitive Flexibility

Today we are going to explore ways to