Schooling for the 21st Century: Unleashing Student Passion

Slide 2: Virtual Handout • Conference Wiki http://tuanz2007.wikispaces.com/ • all resources from this conference • it will be an evolving resource • feel free to add to it Conference blog http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/tuanz/ • please weigh in on the conversation • Comment and point to your own blog Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach snbeach@cox.net http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog /

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

Slide 4: What do you need to know, when most of recorded knowledge is a mouse-click away? In light of this…what do students still need to memorize?

Slide 5: How do we prepare our students for jobs that don’t yet exist- - using technologies that haven’t yet been invented . . . in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet?

Slide 6: What does it do to the value of information, when everyone is a producer and knowledge isn’t static anymore?

Slide 7: How do we balance safety and access in order to empower our students with such prevailing skills?

Slide 8: 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 9: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet! Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0

Slide 10: A Changing World Some statistics- - 1 billion people on the Internet - 57 million blogs, 1.7 million posts a day. -50 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 11: Remote Control for Your Life Think of the number of cell phones that are Internet capable! Imagine with me how we can leverage that accessibility in the classroom! But NOT just for email or surfing the Web– mobile learning, when it truly arrives will be a way to do things we couldn’t do before. Currently, the number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.

Slide 12: Knowledge Creation It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 1018) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year. That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.

Slide 13: 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 half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.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 14: What Do We Mean by 21st Century Learning? 16 Major Characteristics of Schools and School Systems Capable of Preparing Students for a Global -Knowledge/Information Age Source: AASA Year Long Study: Preparing Schools and School Systems for the 21st Century

Slide 15: Outsourcing Edc. Outsourcing Homework

Slide 16: 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.

Slide 17: Source: enGauge 21st Century Skills

Slide 18: Two Perspectives Tom Carroll, NCTAF Peter Vaill Antioch University http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/tom_carroll.swf http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/peter_

Slide 19: 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 20: Rethinking Teaching and Learning 1. New Literacy 2. Changing Demographic 3. Active Content Creators 4. Collaboration and Communication

Slide 21: Born to be Wired! Understanding the Net Generation

Slide 22: Who is the Net Generation? Source: Educating the Net Generation, Diana Oblinger and James Oblinger (2005)

Slide 23: Millennials… •Born in or after 1982 •Technology means MP3, PDA, Phones that do it all •Daily communication involves- cell phones, text messaging, IMing, Blogs, and Email •Academically diverse •Consumed by extra curricular activites •Thrive on group interactions •Tinkerers •Family Oriented •Ethically and racially diverse

Slide 24: Millennials Want to Learn… • With technology • With one another • Online • In their own time • In their own place • Doing things that matter

Slide 25: Digital Disconnect Millennials Schools

Slide 26: Change is Hard

Slide 27: Last Generation