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Slide 2: Resources Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com http://ncaect.wikispaces.com/

Slide 3: Signs of the Times…. iPods in Vending Machines

Slide 4: Are you Ready for 21st Century Teaching and Learning? It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived! And schools who aren’t redefining themselves, risk becoming irrelevant in preparing students for the future.

Slide 5: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet! Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0 Singularity

Slide 6: A Changing World Some statistics- - Over 1 billion people on the Internet http://www.internetworldstats.com/ - 70 million blogs, 2.7 million posts a day. - 80 new blog sites created every minute “None of the top 10 jobs that will exist in 2010 exist today." -- Richard Riley, (Former US Sec. of Ed.)

Slide 7: Knowledge Creation It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year. That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.

Slide 8: For students starting a four-year technical or higher education degree, this means that . . . half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

Slide 10: Trend 1 – Social and intellectual capital are the new economic values in the world economy. This new economy will be held together and advanced through the building of relationships. Unleashing and connecting the collective knowledge, ideas, and experiences of people creates and heightens value. Source: Journal of School Improvement, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2002 http://www.ncacasi.org/jsi/2002v3i1/ten_trends

Slide 11: Trend 4 – Education Will Shift from Averages to Individuals. (Standardization to Personalization) The trend toward standards and high-stakes testing will likely incite a movement toward ensuring that support is provided for individual students to reach high levels of learning. Demand will grow for personalization rather than a system often driven by prescribed high-stakes tests that produce averages, demand uniformity, and sustain a scoreboard mentality.

Slide 12: Changing Learning Landscape Trend 7 – Technology will increase the speed of communication and the pace of advancement or decline. Using participatory media educators will help today’s students shape tomorrow’s world. Teachers will become partners with students- using learning communities to open the classroom to the world. They will deal with real world problems and opportunities while gaining a global perspective.

Slide 13: Shifting From Shifting To A teaching focus A learning focus Teaching as a private Teaching as a event collaborative practice School improvement as School improvement as an option a requirement Accountability Responsibility

Slide 14: "Jobs in the new economy--the ones that won't get outsourced or automated--"put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos." – Marc Tucker Outsourcing Edc. Outsourcing Homework

Slide 15: Creativity Creativity is now as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status. If you're not prepared to be wrong then you will never come up with anything original. We don't grow into creativity we grow out of it, or rather, we get educated out of it. Ken Robinson http://www.bloglines.com/blog/andrewch?id=4

Slide 16: Time Travel Lewis Perelman, author of School's Out (1992). Perelman argues that schools are out of sync with technological change: ...the technological gap between the school environment and the "real world" is growing so wide, so fast that the classroom experience is on the way to becoming not merely unproductive but increasingly irrelevant to normal human existence (p.215). Seymour Papert (1993) In the wake of the startling growth of science and technology in our recent past, some areas of human activity have undergone megachange. Telecommunications, entertainment and transportation, as well as medicine, are among them. School is a notable example of an area that has not(p.2).

Slide 17: Born to be Wired! Understanding the Net Generation Who Are They? Some of them are among us. I-Generation

Slide 18: Rethinking Teaching and Learning 1. Multiliterate 2. Change in pedagogy 3. Change in the way classrooms are managed 4. A move from deficit based instruction to strength based learning 5. Collaboration and communication Inside and Outside the classroom 6.

Slide 19: FORMAL INFORMAL You go where the bus goes You go where you choose Jay Cross – Internet Time

Slide 20: MULTI-CHANNEL APPROACH webcam SYNCHRONOUS Community platforms VoIP Conference rooms Instant messenger Worldbridges PEER TO PEER WEBCAST email folksonomies Mailing lists PLE vlogs f2f CMS forums photoblogs blogs podcasts wikis ASYNCHRONOUS

Slide 21: Clas s ic Pro ble m S o lving Appro ac h Mo s t familie s , s c ho o ls , – Ide ntify prob le m o rg anizatio ns func tio n – C onduc t root c a us e a na lys is o n an unwritte n rule … – B ra ins torm s olutions a nd a na lyz e – De v e lop a c tion pla ns / rv e ntions inte –Le t’s fix wh a t’s wro ng a n d le t th e s tre ng th s ta ke c a re of th e m s e lve s Fo c us o n Po s s ibilitie s –Ap pre c ia te “Wh a t is ” S pe ak life life to yo ur –Im a g in e “Wh a t Mig h t B e ” s tude nts and te ac he rs … –De te rm ine “Wh a t S h ould B e ” –C re a te “Wh a t Will B e ” –Wh e n you foc us on B los s om Kids s tre ng th s , we a kn e s s e s b e c om e irre le va nt

Slide 22: Model how to develop PLNs Take risks while they watch!

Slide 23: life5 From this To This

Slide 24: http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepaper.pdf

Slide 25: Why does it work? Appreciative Inquiry is a Shift “Th e re a re only two wa ys to live yo ur life . One is a s th ou g h noth in g is a m ira c le . Th e oth e r is a s th o u g h e ve ryth ing is a m ira c le .” From learner centered to learner directed Albe rt Eins te in

Slide 26: What will be our legacy… • Bertelsmann Foundation Report: The Impact of Media and Technology in Schools – 2 Groups – Content Area: Civil War – One Group taught using Sage on the Stage methodology – One Group taught using innovative applications of technology and project- based instructional models • End of the Study, both groups given identical teacher-constructed tests of their knowledge of the Civil War. Question: Which group did better?

Slide 27: Answer… No significant test differences were found

Slide 28: However… One Year Later – Students in the traditional group could recall almost nothing about the historical content – Students in the traditional group defined history as: “the record of the facts of the past” – Students in the digital group “displayed elaborate concepts and ideas that they had extended to other areas of history” – Students in the digital group defined history as: “a process of interpreting the past from different perspectives”

Slide 29: Change is Hard

Slide 30: Real Question is this: Are we willing to change- to risk change- to meet the needs of the precious folks we serve? Can you accept that Change (with a “big” C) is sometimes a messy process and that learning new things together is going to require some tolerance for ambiguity.

Slide 31: Last Generation