Presentation for the Classrooms for the Future Administrative Pre-Conference -- 4.27.09

1. Pedagogy Matters:
Classroom 2.0
Chris Lehmann
Principal
Science Leadership Academy

2. Why This Matters

4. My Bias:
School 2.0 is
Progressive Education
with 21st Century
Tools

5. More Bias:
Citizenry, Not Workforce

6. One Last Bias:
Public Education = Democracy

7. Project-Based Learning
Student-Centered Learning
Numeracy
21st Century Literacy
Differentiated Instruction
Edu-Speak
Direct Instruction
Authentic Assessment
Standards-Driven Instruction
Accountability
Life-Long Learning

8. We Deny Words Power
When They Are Not Embedded In Practice

9. Our Biggest Problem:
A Lack of Vision
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lnx/6257130/

10. If we teach today's students
as we taught yesterday's, we
rob them of tomorrow.
John Dewey

11. There is no silver bullet.
What do we need?
What do we value?

12. You Can’t Standardize
Differentiated Instruction,
Differentiated Schools

13. We Learn Best
When It Matters To Us

14. If you want creative workers, give them
enough time to play.
- John Cleese
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/
838786841/
Photo by Ewan McIntosh

15. The illiterate of the 21st century will
not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2225299236/

16. Scary Thought:
What are we willing to unlearn and relearn?

17. My Two Cents:
Thoughtful
Wise
Passionate
Kind

18. Caring Institutions
We Teach Kids, Not Subjects

19. Inquiry-Driven
What are the questions we
can ask together?

20. Student-Centered
It’s Not About Us.

21. Teacher-Mentored
Kids Need Adults

22. Community-Based
We can learn from many

23. Collaborative
Synthesis Works

24. Passionate
And it has to matter.

25. Integrated
The day has to make sense

26. Meta-Cognitive
We need to think
about thinking.

27. Authentic
Assessment as Real and Transparent

28. Understanding-Driven
and Project-Based

29. What should our schools
be about?
And why aren’t they that way?

30. So What Does
It Look Like?

31. Traditional
Classrooms:
Recall Based Tests
Homework
Projects
Class Participation

32. The Schools
We Need:
Understanding-
Projects
Driven
Homework
Class Participation
Tests & Quizzes

33. Common Language of
Teaching and Learning

34. Common Inputs

35. Common Process

36. Common Assessment
Tools

37. What Do We Gain?
What Do We Lose?

38. How Could Systems of
Teaching and Learning
Change?

39. But what about the tech?

40. Technology Must Be
Like Oxygen
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

41. Relevance?

42. Paraphrasing Neil
Postman:
Certain Technologies
Are Not Additive, They
Are Transformative

43. Research
Collaborate
Create
Present
Network

44. Transparency:
We Can Invite the World to Our Schools

45. What is the role of teacher
in the age of Google?

46. Wisdom.

47. Questions:
• How can we make our schools more caring?
• How can we make our schools more inquiry-driven?
• How can we make our schools more student-center?
• How can we recast the role of teacher as mentor?
• How can we involve the community in more powerful ways?
• How can we make our schools more collaborative?
• How can we give our students more chances to be authentically assessed?
• How can our schools be more truly project-oriented?
• How can we leverage the technology to achieve these goals?

48. Keep In Touch:
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
chris@practicaltheory.org
http://www.practicaltheory.org
Twitter: chrislehmann
Skype: chrislehmann