Let's talk about LEARNING, not technology!

Learning How 2 Learn
By Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano

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Silvia Rosenthal
Tolisano
www.langwitches.org/blog
@LANGWITCHES
Standing on the Shoulders of

Giants

Network
We Did NOT learn the most
important

Skill
in school
illiterate will not be read;
the man who can’t

he will be
the man who has

not learned

Herbert Gerjuoy

Tomorrow’s

how to learn
The Rules Have Changed!
Our World is

Changing
fast

and is

NOT

Changing Back!
Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow
the

Change

must

how to

Rethink

Amplify

1

2

3

Challenge

Opportunity

Grow
Change
the

1
The “Leave it to Beaver”
Days are Gone...
Generation Y
Silent Generation

Generation X

Generation Alpha

Generations
CHANGE is not necessary...
survival is optional...

W. Edwards Deming
Digital

Footprint
before

Birth
Swiping
Generation
Generation
In Between
Generation

Their World
& School Life is
Different
“ We live in a
world where people can

talk backBooks
to their

“
Stephen Duncombe
Clay Shirky- Coginitive Surplus
What will our grandchildren
not

Know

?

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Encyclopedia- http://www.flickr.com/photos/m4rco_/9418892436/
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What will our
grandchildren
NOT know?
its

Readi
ng Hab
What About

Privacy?
What About

Friends?
Instant

Connectedness
Exponential

Times
If you don’t like

ange,
ch
ing to like
ou are go
y
evance
irrel
en lesski
ev se
Eric Shin
Shifts in

Culture, Affecting
Education
Conversations
Heraclitus

Change is the only Constant
Tide of Change
change
If you focus

on change, you will get

results.”

Jack Dixon

“

If you focus on results, you will
never
2
Rethink

Learning
POINT
Rethink Learning- The McArthur Foundation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0xa98cy-Rw
!

What does it

mean to be

Educ
ated
Has

Learning
Changed?
What does it mean
to be Literate?
What does it mean
to be

Digital
Literate?
Digital
Age? Part
ONE
Threat
New Means
Is it a

Or

for LeArning?
tion?
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e get i
e do w
Wher
How much will it c

ost?

we
do
re
he
W

n?
ar
le
Willingness to

Reflect
Willingness to

Amplify
We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
Pre-requisite for
an Educator to thrive
a
of a Learner

Mindset
ty
Pre-requisite for a School uni
m
to thrive
m
Co
g
Mindset Learnin
a
f
o
Infrastructure
Self-Motivated
SelfDirec
ted
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Connected Learning is much more
than Plugging in
Look at your MISSION STATEMENT
Why?
Don’t Like Technology
Difficulty with Technology
Comfortable with Traditional
Why?
Make it a PRIORITY... or Don’t...
The Grand Divide
Learning

3

Amplify
POINT
When you give your father an iPad…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvLoUNlwNBM
CONNECT
...Yourself to the World
...Your Classroom to the World
Amplify
Amplify: CONNECTIONS
Amplify: COMMUNICATION
Amplify: COLLABORATION
Amplify: CREATION
Communicate
Create

Global
Writing
Media
Citizenship

Collaborate
Critical
Thinking

Connect

Network
Information
Reading

Key

Fluencies
unconsciously
adaptive

LEARNFLOW

effortlessly
smoothly
Annotexting
Workflow & Learnflow
Amplify Your Voice
Bring in an Expert
Mystery Skype
Infographics
Digital Learning Farm
Authentic
Real World Work
Learn- Reflect-Share?
Blogfolios
They are waiting for us to catch up
"you cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind"
Can we Afford

Baby Steps

?
Relevance
Urgency
Play... Experience...
Silvia Rosenthal
Tolisano
www.langwitches.org/blog
@LANGWITCHES

Learning How To Learn: Let's talk about LEARNING, not technology!