Westminster Faculty Forum (August

“If we are going to succeed in this rapidly changing world, we face two challenges: making sense of the changes around us, and makingprogress in an increasingly unfamiliar world.” John Seely Brown

Conquering the Myths of Technology & LearningWestminster Faculty Forum August 11, 2011

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introduction

About Me

Focus onRelationships

Old School

“We need to teach kids to respect the past but to live in the future.” Marc Prensky

These thoughts drive me...

“If you dont like change, youre going to like irrelevance even less.” General Erick Shinseki From: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/nasarobonaut/5478897371/

“...as educators, our struggle is especially acute. We notonly have to “train” our kids for the twenty first century, we have to train ourselves.” - Will Richardson From: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/familymwr/5007446641/

context

The Westminster Story... Learning for life.

Our schools can barely keep up with the knowledge that isdeveloping in the world today. Even when they succeed at thislevel, what we learned in school does not help us keep up to speedwith rapidly evolving knowledge flows once we’ve graduated.- John Seely Brown

"You dont lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case." ~ Ken Kesey

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ChangesEarly Day of PC in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality

What about the ‘real’ world?

Consider these stats:•60 percent of Fortune 500 businesses are using socialmedia spaces to reach out to customers.•95 percent of colleges and universities are using socialmedia spaces to reach out to customers.•70 percent of school districts have policies that speciﬁcallyBAN social networking in schools.

David Wiley Then vs Now Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating@opencontent Closed Open

David Wiley Education vs Everyday Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating@opencontent Closed Open

What about our kids now? Remixed from: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/margolove/3139034331/

Does technology serve ourhuman purpose? ~ Sherry Turkle

the myths

From: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ vagawi/3155400274/

Do we understand the technology we have?

“Just as the telephone, automobile, andairplane reshaped our society in the first half of the twentieth century, the new digital infrastructure is beginning to reshape institutions in the twenty-first.” John Seely Brown 43

Pier 21, 1958

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-scott-over-35-hours-of-video.html

Justin Bieber

Rebecca Black

On Digital Video • “Ten years ago, not one student in a hundred, nay, one in a thousand, could have produced videos like this. It’s a whole new skill, a vital and important skill, and one utterly necessary not simply from the perspective of creating but also of comprehending videoStephen Downes communication today.

The greatest digital divide is between those who can read and write with media, and those who cant. Elizabeth Dalycc licensed flickr photo by jayRaz: http://flickr.com/photos/shnakepup/2935979173/ 51

Google Apps vs. Microsoft Ofﬁce

Blogging vs. Journals

Twitter vs. Google

Is this how wewant the Internet to be?

Students Leading the Way

Learning Reciprocated

Learning from each othercreates more opportunities

Talking to strangers online...

...then meeting them ofﬂine.

...and for those who have never lived ina world without the internet, there’s nodistinction between online and oﬄine.

Why Do Students Go to University? Content Degrees Social Life Support Services (Wiley, 2010)

Why Do Students Go to University? PLoS GCTWikipedia MCSE Google Scholar ACT OCW Content DegreesFlatworld K arXiv.org CNE CCNA Open Courses Facebook Twitter Skype Social Life Support Services MySpace Yahoo! Answers MMOGs Quora ChaCha (Wiley, 2010)

We need to rethink our learning spaces

It comes back to this... Focus on Relationships

Do you think our kidscan use this sometimes?

We have to allow our studentsto create their own content.

Identity Day

Identity Day “Your post about the Identity Fairheld at your school was exactly the type of activity I thought wouldhelp accomplish my overall goal of being proactive against bullying.

Identity Day

Watch your kids inspire

Courage

conclusion

What is best for kids?

From: http://goo.gl/RbGBD Would you want to be a student in your classroom?

Let Go Of Controlhttp://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/admitchell08/2574455073

Create a Culture of Sharing http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/

Learning Side-bySide

With all of this, what willcontinuously make schools indispensable?

Relationships

Contact MeEmail - georgecouros@gmail.com Email - gcouros@psd70.ab.ca Twitter - @gcouros Blog - georgecouros.ca

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