1. 21 st Century Education Shane Mason www.shane-mason.com www.twitter.com/shanemason 21 Jan 2010
2. 21 st Century Education Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscinfonet/291373032/in/set-72157600082017535/ It breaks the mould. It is flexible, creative, challenging, and complex. It addresses a rapidly changing world filled with fantastic new problems as well as exciting new possibilities. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/What_is_21st_Century_Education.htm
4. This is the time between times for educators working with technology. Before mobile, ubiquitous and ‘everywhere’ computing become the visible norm, but after a time when educators could sit back and wait for the digital revolution to pass on by - John Nadler http://ulearning.edublogs.org/
13. Facebook Surpasses 175 Million Users, And Continues to Grow by 600k Users/Day February 14th, 2009 http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/02/14/facebook-surpasses-175-million-users-continuing-to-grow-by-600k-usersday/
14. 18 million new users per year 4 million tweets sent daily http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/24/twitter-eats-world-global-visitors-shoot-up-to-19-million/
15. Twitter is 40% ‘Pointless Babble’ http://www.cnbc.com/id/32446935 cnbc.com Monday, 17 Aug 2009
16. 900 000 blog posts put up every day http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/#more-1734
18. W IKIPEDI A Over 13 million articles Studies have shown that Wikipedia is more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica
19. Birth year of Ben Turpin Buster Crabbe Birth year of Abraham Bosse Pushkin in Bohemia Manuel Castells Nanking - History Polish September Campaign Invention of the Safety Razor Henry VIII and Leviticus Tudor Vladimirescu Birthname of William J. Clinton, 42nd US President Sheila Scott's birth date Titles of Scottish peers John Mitchell's birth date Biography of Josquin Desprez Biography of Seymour Cray Birth year of Roger Waters Birthday and birthyear of Joseph Stalin Kostroma Cathedral The origin of the Dolgorukov family Matthew Basarab Dispute official name change of Democratic-Republican Party History of European cuisine Ignaz Semmelweis, wrong quotation from scientific journal Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Red Army Faction Logarithmic spiral NP problems Poincaré Conjecture Real numbers Transfinite numbers Ferrers graph/diagram Carl Friedrich Gauss Loxodrome / Pedro Nunes Carnot efficiency Crookes Radiometer Leap years Lungs and swim bladders Speed of X-rays in glass Sperm storage Statcoulombs Uncertainty Principle Zymase Rotor machines in cryptography Solid vs. liquid nitroglycerin sensitivity Dogon Kwa languages Gbe languages Belarusian language Kalenjin First extant book written in an African language Matsu Island[s] Quemoy Island[s] Eastern Europe Reseau Jean Bernard Lafia Vilnius Novo Mesto Battle of Tannenberg - Grunwald - Stębark Hip-hop Fenghuang (Phoenix) Frank Zappa Qala'un Mosque The creator deity of the Gbe peoples Giacomo Casanova NSA St James's Square Arnold Palmer Language of the Congo (DRC) Largest English-language Encyclopedia Marathon
22. Jack Dorsey Co-founder of twitter Has more people following his updates on twitter than The New York Times has Subscribers (1,039.031) http://twitter.com/Jack
23. Barack Obama is the first President with his own Facebook , mySpace and Twitter pages. He also has a youTube channel. Photo: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/the_next_president_of_the_unit.html
28. This position will be responsible for helping to drive, implement and manage the Group’s social media strategy in the digital environment. Social Marketing Manager – Sydney http://laurelpapworth.com/australia-social-media-marketing-job-at-commonwealth-bank/
29. “ We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist,
31. in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.” http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/ Karl Fisch
32. Photo of Sophie with iPod Touch Name: Sophie Age: almost 2 Favourite Word: “Elmo” Graduating from High School in 2025
33. How much change we have seen in the last 10 years? What will the world look like in 5 years, 10 years or 20 years? What will the “word of the year” be in 2030? What will be the next “internet”? What problems will the world face? What problems will individuals face? http://www.flickr.com/photos/21257461@N05/2550349404
34. Creativity is as important in education as literacy - Sir Ken Robinson http://psdtuts.s3.amazonaws.com
36. IBM launches the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data. 1965 2009 microSD is a format for removable flash memory cards commonly found in mobile phones, cameras, GPS devices etc. 8 GB = 8192 MB = $35.95 This microSD card can hold 1,638.4 times the amount of data than the 5 MB Hard Drive
37. “ The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand times smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965…
38. … So what used to fit in a building, now fits in your pocket..
39. … what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years” - Ray Kurwell
40. In the technology race there is no finish line http://www.flickr.com/photos/45339532@N00/51712403
41. Technology is merely a Tool for Learning http://www.flickr.com/photos/51159953@N00/189670488
53. Papua New Guinea Nigeria Rwanda Ethiopia http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc
54. Mission Statement: To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative , joyful , self-empowered learning . http://laptop.org/en/
55. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn , share , create , and collaborate . They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future. http://laptop.org/en/
61. “ Learners, teachers and parents have access to resources, digital tools and agreed performance data anywhere, anytime.” - Kevin Rudd A Digital Education Revolution
62. “ The Australian Government is investing $2.1 billion through the Fund, to provide for new or upgraded information and communications technology (ICT) for secondary schools with students in years 9 to 12. The aim of the Fund is to achieve a 1 to 1 computer to student ratio by 31 December 2011.” http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/DigitalEducationRevolution/
63. Definition: n. one-to-one computing each student has full-time access to a fully-functioning computer, the Internet, software, and online research materials to work collaboratively anytime and anywhere. intel www.k12blueprint.com
64. Where do our 21st Century Learners indulge their Digital Lifestyle? Sleep 33% School 14% Home & Community 53% Bransford, How People Learn, 2000
75. An iPod for each pupil at Essa Academy will help school to stay in touch The oldest students at the Essa Academy in Bolton have each been issued with an iPod Touch. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/school_league_tables/article6906665.ece
76. An iPod for each pupil at Essa Academy will help school to stay in touch Next month all 900 children and their teachers will have one of the handheld computers. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/school_league_tables/article6906665.ece
77. An iPod for each pupil at Essa Academy will help school to stay in touch Traditional classrooms will be replaced by open-plan learning areas with movable furniture for maximum flexibility. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/school_league_tables/article6906665.ece
