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What Our Kids Need – A Look at Innovation in Education on Bowen Island and Beyond
- 1. CHRIS KENNEDY Superintendent, West Vancouver School District What Our Kids Need A Look at Innovation in Education on Bowen Island and Beyond Engage, Connect, Learn Oct 17 | 2012
- 3. “A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea.” —Seth Godin
- 4. “Tribes need leadership. People want connection and growth and something new.” —Seth Godin
- 5. Why?
- 6. Credit: Scott McLeod – danngerouslyirrelevent.org Our kids have tasted the honey
- 9. INQUIRY
- 10. CREATIVITY
- 11. PROBLEM-SOLVING
- 12. INNOVATION
- 13. TEAMWORK
- 14. COLLABORATION
- 15. CROSS-CULTURAL
- 17. CONNECT
- 21. What could be
- 23. “Students today depend too much upon ink. They don’t know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.” National Association of Teachers, 1907
- 25. DO NEW THINGS YOU COULDN’T DO AT ALL
- 26. “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me ‘A faster horse.’” Henry Ford
- 27. 5 obstacles No need No money No hurry No desire No trust
- 28. People prefer things that are easy to think about
- 29. The goal
- 30. Relevant, connected, unlimited What many want for their children is the benefits of personalized learning
- 31. Create a new norm for how teachers and students learn
- 32. Can’t scale and sustain without technology
- 33. Access Direction
- 34. What does this mean? Moving to one-to-one opportunities
- 37. Technology can help overcome barriers of access and geography
- 39. For all students, on any device, from anywhere
- 44. TRENDS
- 45. • Will make it easier Teachers for students... • Will make it easier Schools for teachers... • Will make it easier Districts for schools... • Will make it easier Governments for districts... To be FLEXIBLE
- 47. NEXT CHALLENGE
- 48. Under deliver Overpromise
- 51. No going back . . . they had seen what was possible with real-world learning
- 53. Luke: I can’t believe it Yoda: That is why you fail
- 54. Where you can find me: ckennedy@sd45.bc.ca 604-202-4379 @chrkennedy Chris Kennedy cultureofyes.ca www.sd45.bc.ca
Editor's Notes
- To better prepare students for the future there will be more emphasis on key competencies like:
- . . . With the world outside of school
- We can’t wait for the decisions of others – it is go time . . . now
- All the necessary infrastructure is in place
- Do old things better
- If I'd have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me "A faster horse.” – Henry Ford
- It is access to the benefits of a digitized world that is the greater goal. For our students to thrive in this world, they need to have ACCESS and DIRECTION.
- To be clear, one-to-one computing is not the solution to any challenge – it may, though, be part of the answer to going forward.
- If we think by placing an Internet appliance in a student’s hands alone will create a more creative, innovative, or more intelligent student, we are missing the point. Like the paper and pen of the last generation, it is the “oxygen” to breathe in a digital world.
- Won’t this further divide our students (and teachers) into haves and have-nots?Given that it is unlikely any grand plan will come together to support all students and staff with technology, implementation will be incremental.
- If we believe technology is crucial for students moving forward, we need to find a way for all students to have a base level of access.
- Complex problems often have a simple solution
- Focus on a web environment / space for learning / personalization that allows a common structure that changes the norm of how we do business
- Not allow technology to solely report to the business side of the organization
- More staff (and not just students) will be bringing their own devices to workDistricts will own and store lessTension between formal and informal learning will increase; what matters most is what happens in informal settings – the true learning!Digital content will increase / devices will get cheaper
- More staff (and not just students) will be bringing their own devices to workDistricts will own and store lessTension between formal and informal learning will increase; what matters most is what happens in informal settings – the true learning!Digital content will increase / devices will get cheaper
- Moving from a space to a plan – how will we manage personalized learning in the digital space?Use the Khan Academy map of an individual plan – layered into assessment and demonstrations