This is not your Father\'s Education

Slide 1: This is not your Father’s EDUCATION Dean Shareski CIPS Conference May 2008 Thank you for the opportunity to speak Dificulty with creating this presentation Goals: Describe some trends Make some connections Raise some questions

Slide 2: Trends

Slide 3: Connections

Slide 4: Questions

Slide 5: Who am I? My Name is Dean Shareski Digital Learning Consultant Prairie South School Division Travel throughout our division Hold M.Ed Golf Teach at the University of Regina Family

Slide 6: Who am I? My Name is Dean Shareski Digital Learning Consultant Prairie South School Division Travel throughout our division Hold M.Ed Golf Teach at the University of Regina Family

Slide 7: Who am I? My Name is Dean Shareski Digital Learning Consultant Prairie South School Division Travel throughout our division Hold M.Ed Golf Teach at the University of Regina Family

Slide 8: Who am I? My Name is Dean Shareski Digital Learning Consultant Prairie South School Division Travel throughout our division Hold M.Ed Golf Teach at the University of Regina Family

Slide 9: Who am I? My Name is Dean Shareski Digital Learning Consultant Prairie South School Division Travel throughout our division Hold M.Ed Golf Teach at the University of Regina Family

Slide 10: Who am I? My Name is Dean Shareski Digital Learning Consultant Prairie South School Division Travel throughout our division Hold M.Ed Golf Teach at the University of Regina Family

Slide 11: Who am I? My Name is Dean Shareski Digital Learning Consultant Prairie South School Division Travel throughout our division Hold M.Ed Golf Teach at the University of Regina Family

Slide 12: Who am I? My Name is Dean Shareski Digital Learning Consultant Prairie South School Division Travel throughout our division Hold M.Ed Golf Teach at the University of Regina Family

Slide 13: The New Face of Learning Challenging sometimes to think of technology in this way.

Slide 14: The New Face of Learning Challenging sometimes to think of technology in this way.

Slide 15: “Technology must be like Oxygen” Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible John Seely Brown

Slide 16: "Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring" Clay Shirky This is our goal and I’m sure your goal in many ways. To make it “just work” so really interesting things can occur

Slide 17: What are they? Examples What does this mean for you? These are 5 trends I’ve identified Lots of overlap Mashup of various schools of thought

Slide 18: Trend #1 No more Gatekeepers

Slide 19: This was traditionally seen as valuable. It raises this question

Slide 20: This was traditionally seen as valuable. It raises this question

Slide 21: This was traditionally seen as valuable. It raises this question

Slide 22: What do kids need to know when they graduate?

Slide 23: The Pool Guy

Slide 24: Critical and Independent Thinking Matters

Slide 25: Trend #2 Playing with Social Media

Slide 28: 2005 Where it began for me

Slide 29: First blog post

Slide 30: Steady growth of learning and network building

Slide 31: Graphical representation of my network

Slide 32: Students are able to share work with peers/parents

Slide 33: Students are able to share work with peers/parents

Slide 34: Is this significant?

Slide 35: Is this significant?

Slide 37: Robert Scoble Shel Israelson

Slide 38: This is certainly not a traditional idea...neither is this.....

Slide 39: Bob Langert

Slide 40: Transparency Trumps Gloss

Slide 41: Branding Matters Helping students develop positive online identities What happens if I google you?

Slide 42: Trend #3 Connected Classrooms

Slide 43: Challenge of Amalgamation Eliminate Geography

Slide 44: 250KM 200KM Challenge of Amalgamation Eliminate Geography

Slide 45: Professional and internally we use Polycom Videoconferencing. My department saves approx. $10,000 per year.

Slide 46: Student talking to a class in Australia

Slide 47: High School posts their work online for review but also used by other clasrooms

Slide 48: Based on Friedman’s book the World is Flat Classrooms originally from Georgia and Malaysia Actually mentioned in the last revision I was able to make a small contribution to their work

Slide 49: Even from Here Colleague in Northern Manitoba Showing his students that it doesn’t matter where you live

Slide 50: Thin Walls project

Slide 51: Geography Shouldn’t Matter

Slide 52: Trend #4 Leverage Existing Resources

Slide 53: This is what you might find in many schools

Slide 54: Craik School usurped their own policy and began using cellphones intentionally.

Slide 55: Low Cost Computing

Slide 56: Wireless in most buildings and now providing for outside devices

Slide 57: Etiquette Matters It doesn’t mean there aren’t issues but it means we have to discuss them with our students and with our employees. What is appropriate and what isn’t? Band-aid technology solutions are short term.

Slide 58: Trend # 5 Social Learning

Slide 59: When I can get a full high school education online...

Slide 60: , why come to school?

Slide 65: Twitter vs. Google Human aggregator. Best one on the market.

Slide 66: People Trump Bots

Slide 67: What do you think?

Slide 68: Photo Credits http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynetter/322112273/in/set-72057594139269787 http://flickr.com/photos/marketingfacts/95818576/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynetter/166566132/in/set-72057594139269787/ http://flickr.com/photos/gavinbell/2219847139 http://flickr.com/photos/57634636@N00/145294032/ http://flickr.com/photos/wallyg/304617094/ http://flickr.com/photos/glassbeednorth/1808183387/ http://flickr.com/photos/maebmij/123180774/ http://flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/143186839/in/photostream/ http://flickr.com/photos/15746369@N07/1695373244/

Slide 69: Dean Shareski • shareski@gmail.com • http://ideasandthoughts.org • http://cips.wikispaces.com