Creating Virtual Learning Spaces: From Vision to Reality David Jakes and Ryan Bretag

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What do you think? Students: 1.0? 2.0?

Do we have a gap to negotiate?

Everyone has an idea…

NET-S, T, and A Partnership for 21 st Century Skills Horizon Report School 2.0 KnowledgeWorks 2020 Forecast ACOT-Today CoSN NSTA NSF NCTE MIT New Media

What does it mean to be well-educated in the 21 st Century?

How does this influence teaching and learning?

What are the questions we need to ask?

What are the core components to a multi-dimensional learning space?

Why is a multi-dimensional learning space essential to education in the 21 st Century?

Who are the critical stakeholders that need to be involved?

Where are the resources to not only create but to sustain this initiative?

When is (will) your organization ready?

How do you begin this movement in your school?

Pull out 5 of these. Make an elevator speech.

Live it. Breathe it. Model it.

How do we rethink what takes place in classroom as it pertains to making learning permeable, transparent, and independent of time, space and place…?

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