13. The great myth is that these “digital
natives” know more about this new
information environment than we do. But
here’s the reality: they may be experts in
entertaining themselves online, but they
know almost nothing about educating
themselves online.
Michael Wesch
Professor of Digital Ethnography
Kansas State University
18. Good curriculardesign
Worth being familiar with
Important to know
and do
Enduring
Understanding
From “Understanding by Design”,
Wiggins and McTighe
24. “It is a real focus of this embedded
curriculum, that the skills of using technol
ogy become the habits of students and te
achers - that technology is called upon wh
en needed the same way a dictionary or p
encil has been in the past.”
25. This is not something that we teach in the 3rd grade,
check it off, and go on. It’s not a skill. It’s habit. …an
d it needs to be a part of almost every conversation t
hat we have in our classrooms.
-David Warlick “2 Cents Worth”
It needs to be the way schools do business.
-Will Richardson, Learning 2.0 Conference, Shanghai
26. “It is our goal in developing an
integrated curriculum to ensure that th
e way students learn with technology
agrees with the way they live with tech
nology.”
29. The Essential Questions for a 21st Century Learner
How do I find and use information to construct
meaning and solve problems?
How do I responsibly use information and
communication to positively contribute to my world?
How do I effectively communicate?
33. Our vision of the 21st Century Learner
http://isb21.wikispaces.com
34. Images found @ Flickr Creative Commons
Thanks to the following Flickr users for use of their images under
Creative Commons found via flickr storm
•ChrisL_AK
•mobil_homme
•Patrick.T
•Chinua000
•wanderinghome
•Bouzz
•Manuel Atienzar
•Willie Chiang
•Ross McGinnes
35. Thanks to the amazing collaboration of:
• Dennis Harter
• Kim Cofino
• Jeff Utecht
• Chad Bates
• Stephen Lehmann
• Ann Straub
• Teresa Belisle
• Rob Rubis
• Ida Kelsey
Seen the video or the presentation?
Can show if lots of non-viewers.
How do we respond to change?
“You have to admire schools’ ability to resist change.” – Alan November
Have groups talk together (pair share or groups) – 2 mins
Anything to add to this list?
Teacher resistance
Resource availability
Parent understanding and buy-in
Admin buy-in
Teachers with too much on their plate.
Tech people stretched too thin – if you have them.
A curriculum that is accessible to anyone, not just techies
The saying goes “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Scope and sequence of computer use skills.
Focus on presentation, meant focus on bells and whistles of PowerPoint.
We made the “dead document”
Technology has embedded itself in our lives.
Months ago, Justin and I asked, why can’t the way we learn with technology agree with the way we live with it?
Presented in Shanghai
ISTE has since re-vamped their’s as well.
Let’s look at how we learn with technology.
When do you learn how to do something “digital”?
When do students learn? How?
Why?????
Today’s kids may be fluent with using the tools but not
don’t really understand
Audience
The power of different mediums
The power at their finger tips
How to collaborate
How communicate
How to learn in this new age - HAVE TO BE TAUGHT
They need us.
We should answer the same UBD quality standards of good curricular design.
Appropriate for this conference!
Think of the tech skills that we focused on only a few years ago – where do they fit on this?
What are the Enduring Understandings we want for our kids? Less about how to do things and more about how to think. Learn and Unlearn.
So we asked ourselves this question
Which became this question under good curricular design
And this is what we came up with.
Presented this work in Shanghai in September 2007
Shared this work on Dangerously Irrelevant blog as guest bloggers in mid-February 2008.
Positive feedback
Go to site…share some bolded quotes from Home and Info Lit and Communication
THIS IS ABOUT TEACHER ACCESSIBILITY.
Teachers can do this. They can talk about truth and safety and good communicating. They understand the importance of sharing, which becomes collaborating, which become global.
But this is an IT curriculum right?
When do those happen?
How do we measure and map it.
Assessment…details of when this happens…how it happens.
Be involved in co-planning…
Grade level team meetings.
Department meetings…what do you do? How do you do it….
SUPPORT.
Rubrics to help assess.
Will Richardson Weblogg-ed blogger and presenter on education and the Read/Write web.
From our wiki.
Just in time learning
Infused with conversation
Not a separate skill
So how to affect change at your schools?
We started with two concerned Tech Facilitators
Then presented.
Team in China has picked it up from here.
Then shared with more invested people like our 21st Cent. Learning Specialist and our curriculum office and our teacher-librarians
At stage 2 we refined.
Leadership has trust and buy-in – two different things.
The new 3 essential roles of the 21st Century Learner
Note the enduring understandings and the strands below.
In 2007, ISTE – International Society for Technology in Education – released a reworking of their standards for students
This year they released teacher standards – they are currently working on the Nets for Administrators (NETS = National Educational Technology Standards)
Similar framework to ours.
We have now adopted their wording to fit under our main headlines.
ISB now looking at this framework as bigger than tech and more about what a learner needs
Our new team ISB21 focuses on creating a curriculum and support for this model.
This came from presenting to L.T., building understanding and developing shared vision and value in these ideas
I did not work alone. Dennis has been a huge inspiration and a co-presenter on this…as much his work if not moreso.
My blog, Justin’s blog, Kim’s blog, Jeff’s blog, Rob