Schooling for the 21st C - Un eashing Student Passion

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 half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.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. Personal learning networks Source: Situated communities of practice 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: The AP Statistics teacher, to help my students visualize their research. The class made graphs so we could better comprehend our numbers. My classes wrote the script and we started to brainstorm on the video. Right before school started, the First semester, they were graded on Minneapolis I-35 bridge their lobbying efforts, second collapsed and it really hit home semester, on community service, third for many of the locals. quarter on their participation in the We sent letters and interviewed video, and fourth quarter they will locals about the issue. It write an essay or give an oral started out as a teacher- presentation on what they will take centered project, but the from this project. students quickly took over. Currently, we are planning a Skype They decided to produce a with a class in Minneapolis to talk You Tube video to educate the about their experience last fall. public.

Slide 14: 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 Mandated Mutual accountability accountability

Slide 15: "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 Need to develop adaptive expertise

Slide 16: In a world that is constantly changing we need to find balance. Geetha Narayanan talks about the need for slow, wholesome learning. She looks at ways to bring people, technology, and learning together with a new conceptual framework. • techo-skeptics • techno-evangelists • techno-minetics

Slide 17: 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 18: Dorothy Parker The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Instill Curiosity Encourage students to explore their interests and passions. Be that teacher… Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. Leonardo da Vanci

Slide 19: 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 20: FORMAL INFORMAL You go where the bus goes You go where you choose Jay Cross – Internet Time

Slide 21: 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 22: 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 23: Spending most of your time in your area of weakness—while it will improve your skills, perhaps to a level of “average”—will NOT produce excellence This approach does NOT tap into student motivation or lead to student engagement The biggest challenge facing us as educators: how to engage the hearts and minds of the learners

Slide 24: “Individuals gain more when they build on their talents, than when they make comparable efforts to improve their areas of weakness.” --Clifton & Harter, 2003, p. 112 Engaged Learning- A positive energy invested in one’s own learning, evidenced by meaningful processing, attention to what is happening in the moment, and participation in learning activities.

Slide 25: From this To This

Slide 26: http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepaper.pdf

Slide 27: 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 28: 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 29: Answer… No significant test differences were found

Slide 30: 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 31: Change is Hard

Slide 32: 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 33: Last Generation

Slide 34: Model how to develop PLNs Take risks while they watch!