Connect and Inspire: Finding the path to 21st century learning

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+ Xiangdong Li 1 month ago
Nice presentation!
+ Peter Alsbjer 7 months ago
Thanks, judy for sharing this inspirational slide with us!
+ armandobarbosa 8 months ago
This slide show is very informative. I like it. Brilliantly done!!! Thank you very much and congrats!
Mandy Barbosa - Marikina City, Philippines
+ Tony Searl 8 months ago
Thanks Judy,
I hope the high stakes testing industry is also listening to the learning reforms we need, in NSW at least.

Another valauble resource you have shared with us. Thank you.
+ Buffy Hamilton 8 months ago
Judy...I am in complete awe of your work. This slideshow is BRILLIANT---thank you for sharing and for inspiring me!
+ Judy O'Connell 8 months ago
Millions of thanks to @slideshare the team that has been working to get my embed code up again! You’re awesome for doing this.
+ MGH_Digi 8 months ago
Thanks for sharing this. It is a terrific presentation.
Marianne
+ Brian Gray 8 months ago
Thank you for sharing. Wonderful presentation!
+ guestcc0840 8 months ago
Thanks for sharing these ideas; I blogged about it here: http://learningau.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/web-20-tools-in-the-classroom/
+ guest5c74c9 8 months ago
Enjoyed the comments in the blog (which led me to this). Thanks for your energy in taking the stuff continually forward!! Somehow it almost seems more important than ever to speak clearly about the changes that have and are happening - I seems to detect a (slowly) growing conservative 'backlash' against so much of what we know is critical by people who feel the understand a little of this stuff but don’t practice in any way!!!

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what does our digital learning world encompass? It began in the 90s with the world wide web. Web 1.0, passive and non-interactive. ICT was master learning, fixed information processes.

But larger percentages of older generations are online now than in the past, and they are doing more activities online.

used wikipedia! know what a blog or wiki is! have a facebook profile!Tools like delicious, flickr, google docs, evernote, tumblr,

Kids do mashup! Now we are no longer talking about new and improved ICT (and skills to match). Students are not easily satisfied by “doing it for the teacher”

WHY

So many options!! If we have all this information to show us what 21st century learning has to consider, how then do we find the path? what do the components look like?

futurist, known for his works discussing the digital & communications revolution, provides a quote that shows what powers my changing professional role and modes of engagement.

Offered a new freedom to communicate and provided a growing usefulness in ‘searching’ for information that could be pumped directly into assessments and essays The old internet was based on drill and skill - now it’s a communication channel, and teachers need to learn how to participate in the learning conversation.

Learning is a multimodal conversation - the issues we debate relate to the everyday artifacts as vital as that telephone but represent much more in terms of connections and ‘who we are’. Northern Beaches Christian School - 3D explorations. “student’s secret room”

what turns you on? what drives your professional practices? what will drive 21C in your school. not about technology integration any more - its about digital citizenship and digital identity and managers of information and knowledge.

It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after speech, thousands more before the printing press was invented, and a few hundred more for the telegraph to arrive. Today, new ways of relating are constantly created and a new communication medium emerges every time someone creates a web application—

Nothing good will come of these technologies if we do not first confront the crisis of significance and bring relevance back into education. In some ways these technologies act as magnifiers. If we fail to address the crisis of significance, the technologies will only magnify the problem by allowing students to tune out more easily and completely.

Unfortunately, many teachers only see the disruptive possibilities of these technologies when they find students Facebooking, texting, IMing, or shopping during class. Though many blame the technology, these activities are just new ways for students to tune out, part of the much bigger problem

Demonstrate the digital connection shifts in the space of four years!!

There is a new concept of both privacy and community. \"In many ways this brings us back to a pre-modern, little village dynamic,\" he said. \"That idea that you are surrounded by people that know what you are up to and care to stay in touch with you, even if those people are now spread across the planet.\"

Wikipedia has taught us yet another lesson, that a networked information environment allows people to work together in new ways to create information that can rival (and even surpass) the content of experts by almost any measure. Students: blogs, wikis, social networks, instant messaging is social in nature. Because of this, social media reflects not just information, but the values, ideologies, beliefs, ways of behaving and a range of digital-identities.

This culture of discussion and participation is now available on any website with the emerging “second layer” of the web through applications like Diigo which allow you to add notes and tags to any website - as we note and tag these sites, we are also collectively organizing them, so that the notion that this new media environment is too big and disorganized for anybody to find anything worthwhile & relevant is simply not the case. hyper-personalized digital network -information can find us.

We have had our why's, how's, and what's upside-down, - as infinite information shifts us away from a narrow focus on information, we begin to recognize the importance of the form of learning over the content of learning. It isn't that content is not important; it is simply that it must not take precedence over form.

Crisis puts a new face on social networking and the flow of shared information and media.

The bushfires in Victoria also tested the usefulness and relevance of the social media. As the bushfires multiplied to destroy towns, homes and lives, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, MySpace and other social networking sites reacted. SMH February 11, 2009 - 12:00AM

The adoption of new media taps our students hunger for technology integration. Their passion for collaborative, creative deep learning with Web 2.0 will emerge and adapt as their academic, technology and social activities intermingle. We want our students to be involved in co- construction of their knowledge development. A a mediating tool that makes visible the organization of the social, collaborative, academic aspects of what, where and how they learn.

Unlike any other time in history, our ability to connect with others to collaborate and share information will determine the nature and quality of our learning and our interaction with new knowledge. Who I connect with, when I connect, and how I connect will determine how I learn and what use I make of the information that I am working with. We now have a information ecology that is an open, self-managed, fostered, and conducive to knowledge flow between content and connections.

Our capacity to 'connect' will strengthen or weaken depending on our social network awareness and our capacity to use newmedia to harness and organize information. Educators who understand this know that to be good mentors in the 21st century learning landscape is to use the power of personal learning networks and Web 2.0 tools to empower information seeking and knowledge creation. BE 21C

If we have all this information to show us what 21st century learning has to consider, how then do we find the path?

charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression. Generate a list of technologies, trends, challenges, and issues that knowledgeable people in technology industries, higher education, and museums are thinking about.

The Horizon Project and the annual Horizon Reports are providing us with the information we need to stay informed and in touch with the waves of change. The newer Horizon K12 reports highlight the importance of these changes in understanding our teaching environment in schools. It is no longer feasible for anyone to be fully conversant with every Internet technology.

Since 2004: The Horizon Project and the annual Horizon Reports are providing us with the information we need to stay informed and in touch with the waves of change. The newer Horizon K12 reports highlight the importance of these changes in understanding our teaching environment in schools.

this is why we bother - because in a 21c environment we have the capacity to inspire out students - just as we always have done.

Repackage 21C learning - new media immersive learning environments

Our kids are different - so what changes are we going to make?

The teaching that we do needs to encompass up-to-date 21st century digital literacy frameworks; be marked by collaboration and participation; promote good behaviours in personal identity and digital citizenship online; and be absorbed with pedagogical change and innovation inspired by Web 2.0. Re-engineer classrroms and school libraries - wherever learning takes place in whatever new spaces and places these are available.

Now we have the era of online connections where seeking meaning incorporates a capacity for awareness, connection, and recombination in formal and informal spaces. Learning now is more than working in subject disciplines as an object of schooling. Unlike any other time in history, our ability to connect with others to collaborate and share information will determine the nature and quality of our learning and our interaction with new knowledge.

Kansas State University - turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over ten languages, feature in international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide.

If 'knowing' is to be connected, then in order to better understand learning we need to better understand how and why those connections form. Educators who understand this know that to be good mentors in the 21st century learning landscape is to use the power of personal learning networks and new media.

21st century classrooms can be recognized by their \"pedagogy of participation\". Learning comes before the software tools and the learning environment is more influential than the hardware used. Students are actively engaged in using technology as a tool rather than passively receiving information from technology. Students use technology to collaborate with others rather than working individually at all times. They build understanding rather than simply receive information. Students use technology tools to solve problems meaningful to them rather than working on artificial assignments. Students use technology tools to set goals, monitor progress and evaluate their learning reflectively. Students and teachers can harness the capabilities of Web 2.0 to access the power of worldwide communities at any time, in any place, for inspiration, ideas, mentoring - drawing on the knowledge of peers, friends, professional colleagues and external experts as needed. Our ability to not only read information, but to create, discuss, share and collaborate using simple online tools has transformed the way people connect, organize and share information at almost no cost.

Rethinking our learning frameworks is central to improving digital literacy and ensuring that schooling meets the demands of 21C learning. Along with the information revolution, we have the social revolution of new media which has created new relationships and new forms of discourse. Because of this reading and writing will never be the same. Teaching is changing too.

choose your tools

choose your digital pedagogy. Andrew Churches - DIGITAL TAXONOMY

I don’t think you can do it any other way, whether its’ blogging, wiki, podcasting, voicethreads, google docs, etc the point is to NOT do ‘tools’ but to rethink interactive pedagogy and understand why.

last year we began to dabble, then we joined the PLP project to spearhead change driven by new media vs interactive technology integration. We experimented. Wiimote. We tested ideas out ‘on the fly’ integrated into the curriculum. We communicated, online, we collaborated online. We determined what we wanted to try in 2009. Teachers are encouraged to experiment.

For example, if we are teaching collaboration, the tool must allow students to collaborate in their educational setting. What works in an elementary school in Kansas, may not work in a school in Adelaide.

Powerful Learning Practice - events, Ning, local journey, and the enthusiasm of the cohort journey

tools are: delicious, flickr, google docs, blogs, wiki, (and google chat) Key project is Year 7 Ning + glogster experimentation at every opportunity -

Who I connect with, when I connect, and how I connect will determine how I learn and what use I make of the information that I am working with. We now have a information ecology that is an open, self-managed, fostered, and conducive to knowledge flow between content and connections. Where will you start?

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Connect and Inspire: Finding the path to 21st century learning - Presentation Transcript

CONNECT AND INSPIRE FINDING THE PATH TO 21C LEARNING Judy O’Connell St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill judyoconnell.com
CONNECT AND INSPIRE big changes have happened before!
Over half of the adult internet population is between 18 and 44 years old. - Pew Report - Generations online 2009 28/1//2009
Approximately 70% of the digital universe is created by individuals The Diverse and exploding Digital Universe ‐ IDC
YouTube, a company that didn’t exist just a few years ago, hosts 100 million video streams a day The Diverse and exploding Digital Universe ‐ IDC
Students have the ability to search, work or publish at will in text, audio and video, or any combination of these.
The personal digital Web 2.0 environment of our students is global in scope and nature, and always available 8
the learning environment we create for them should reflect this 9
FINDING THE PATH TO 21C LEARNING
“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
“Right from the outset – the internet had a completely different use for students.”. - Dean Groom, Head of Learning Design, MQ University
http://www.scil.nsw.edu.au/
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everything we do has changed 15
media has changed 16
crisis of significance 17
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009 Google launched Latitude, a location-tracking service that uses GPS hardware found in smart phones to pinpoint your position on a map and share that information with friends. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Oq-9enE-k
everything is a matter of degree http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/josefstuefer/114063651/
we need to start redesigning our learning environments to address, leverage, and harness the new media environment
working with new media 22
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Krums talking on MSNBC http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/us‐airways‐crash‐rescue‐picture‐citizen‐jouralism‐twitter‐at‐work 24
updates from the Country Fire Authority kept people informed without clogging official channels
the paradigm flip 26
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6HQl9F2
share, co-operate, collaborate
get efficient
http://www.scribd.com/doc/11781346/A-Week-in-the-Life-of-a-New-Media-Teacher-Librarian
Identify what is needed to think in future tense, and work with new media passion
http://www.nmc.org/horizon
2009 Horizon Report * Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less o Mobiles o Cloud Computing * Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years o Geo-Everything o The Personal Web * Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years o Semantic-Aware Applications o Smart Objects
Horizon AU + Horizon K12 http://horizon.nmc.org/k12/Main_Page
“People say, situations where a lazy student turns into a self- motivated learner, only happens in movies and dreams, if so then I guess I’m living a dream.” ....student comment 36
21C learning http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/transkamp/54371294/
SHIFT YOUR HEADSPACE • global connections and collaborations • rigor, critical thinking skills, curiosity and creativity • digital citizenship
SHIFT YOUR HEADSPACE • immerse yourself in a participatory culture • think across disciplines, spaces, functions and knowledge connections
how do we get new media tools into our classrooms?
We now have a information ecology that is an open, self-managed, fostered, and conducive to knowledge flow between content and connections. http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/cdm/54246114/
\"This new media environment can be enormously disruptive to our current teaching methods and philosophies. Students need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.\" http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/knowledgable-knowledge-able - Michael Wesch, 2009
http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/missrogue/116434226/
Students 2.0 talking about blogging \"The fact that teachers consistently remain where students don’t is painfully obvious. It’s natural that students move on and stop caring extrinsically about their grade in English or how to integrate blogging with their classroom. They’re able to blog and find their own life teachers for themselves\". http://students2oh.org/
framing the new learning paradigm http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/cdm/51747860/in/set-1002108
Powerful Learning Practice http://plp-master.wikispaces.com/E-3+Curriculum
adopt new media tools
choose your core toolkit http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/12187843@N07/2395247153
http://newtoolsworkshop.wikispaces.com/
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
educational origami “We the teachers are the immigrants and our students are the natives, brought up in a world where there has always been computers and the internet, where information is always instant and varied. Our teaching and their learning must reflect this”. http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/
craft your local journey
we took a realistic approach to change
its not about the technology PD it’s the pedagogical new media passion that matters
adopt and adapt new media tools work with your own cultural capital, and leadership differences
Teamed to create a comprehensive, systemic one-year professional development program that engages educators from participating schools in transformational conversations about 21st Century Learning. http://internationalplp.wikispaces.com/
core tool kit key project experimentation 58
cre ati ng a flexi ble min d  http://www.flickr.com/photos/48615294@N00/2422651765
Students 2.0 talking about Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Students \" Tools come and go... it’s the mindset and attitudes that stay.” 60 http://students2oh.org/
some examples JoeysSports on Joeys edublogs campus simplybooks.org digital citizenship project on 61
Thank You http://heyjude.wordpress.com