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This document discusses the need for "Bold Schools" that embrace modern learning practices in response to a changing world with increasing abundance of information and connectivity. It argues that traditional schools focus too much on content while Bold Schools prioritize developing skills like curiosity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking. Bold Schools are learner-centered, inquiry-driven, involve authentic work, leverage digital tools and connections, develop new literacies, are transparent, innovative and provocative. The most challenging aspects for schools to adopt are being learner-centered, transparent and innovative. Teachers and schools must start the transition by focusing on learners first and changing themselves.
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- 1. Bold Learning forBold Schools Making the Jump from Traditional to Modern Learning Will Richardson will@willrichardson.com willrichardson.com @willrich45
- 2. What is “BoldSchool” practice?
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- 10. Traditional Learning Politicians, Parents, Communities, Educators Crisis of Contexts
- 11. Traditional Learning Politicians, Parents, Communities, Educators Crisis of Contexts Modern Learning Connected Learners
- 12. Traditional Learning Politicians, Parents, Communities, Educators ≠ Modern Learning Connected Learners
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- 18. “The change weare in the middle of isn’t minor, and it isn’t optional.” Clay Shirky
- 19. ABUNDANCE 750,000 Apps 2.5 Billion People 2 Trillion Webpages 4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute 16,000 Tweets per second* 5 Billion Internet Connected Devices Etc... *Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration
- 21. ...A world markedby “ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous information, ubiquitous networks, at unlimited speed, about everything, everywhere, from anywhere, on all kinds of devices that make it ridiculously easy to connect, organize, share, collect, collaborate and publish.” Michael Wesch
- 22. Which is Changing: Media Politics Journalism Medicine Books Business Music...
- 23. ABUNDANCE And thefuture of work
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- 30. “Looking to thefuture of work, one could sum up the anticipated impacts in a single word: More. More intensity. More pressure. More change. More risk. But also, more opportunity. More engagement. More transparency. More impact.” Yvette Cameron
- 31. ABUNDANCE And the futureof “an education”
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- 45. Cal Tech, GeorgiaTech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U. of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.
- 46. Cal Tech, GeorgiaTech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U. of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn. “This is the tsunami.” --Richard DeMillo, Ga. Tech
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- 51. ABUNDANCE And thefuture of schools
- 52. New Reality Teachersare everywhere Classrooms are everywhere “School” is everywhere
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- 64. New Question: What dostudents need to learn in school at a moment when they can learn so much without us?
- 65. New Question: And: What is the value of school (and classrooms and teachers) at a moment where we don’t need school to do school?
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- 67. New Answer: That whichcannot be “Khanified.”
- 68. New Answer: Curiosity Resilience Passion Entrepreneurial Thinking Empathy Creativity Collaboration Inquiry Networking Communication Critical Thinking (and more)
- 69. New Reality Schools needto be “different”... not just “better.”
- 74. Our Old (Traditional)Value Content
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- 76. Our New Value NewContexts for Learning
- 77. Our New Value NewContexts for Learning New Literacies
- 78. Our New Value NewContexts for Learning New Literacies New Futures
- 79. Our New Value “EntrepreneurialLearners”
- 80. “Constantly looking aroundyou, all the time, for new ways and new resources to learn new things.” John Seely Brown
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- 82. Bold Schools 1. LearningCentered 2. Inquiry Driven 3. Authentic Work 4. Digital 5. Connected 6. Literate 7. Transparent 8. Innovative 9. Provocative
- 83. Bold Schools 1. Bold Schools are Learning and Learner Centered Students and teachers direct their own learning and connect to their passions.
- 84. Bold Schools 2. Bold Schools are Inquiry Driven Learning is focused around exploring answers to “big questions”
- 85. “Dots in BlueWater” South Adams HS, Berne, IN
- 86. “Dots in BlueWater” 1. Authentic Problem/Question “How can we purify water for people in Haiti?”
- 87. “Dots in BlueWater” 2. Student Directed Teams Research, Development, Marketing, Community “Investment"
- 88. “Dots in BlueWater” 3. Real Product/Real Audience Teachers and students travelled to Haiti to install their devices. 5 systems = clean water for 8,000
- 89. “Dots in BlueWater” Notes: -Aligned to standards -Interdisciplinary -Student-centered -Technology-rich -Innovative thinking
- 90. CHANGE (TheWorld)
- 91. Bold Schools 3. BoldSchools Support Authentic Work Students and teachers create real work for real audiences and real purposes.
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- 94. Bold Schools 4. BoldSchools are Digital Students and teachers have access to and fluency with technology.
- 95. Bold Schools 5. BoldSchools are Connected Students and teachers regularly learn from and with people online.
- 96. Our New Value “ConnectedLearning”
- 97. “Connected learning isrealized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and interest to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement.” Mimi Ito
- 99. Networks are thenew classrooms.
- 101. “What can youdo has been replaced by what can you and your network connections do. Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his contacts.” Jay Cross
- 102. Bold Schools 6.Bold Schools are Literate (by 21st Century Standards) Students and teachers meet NCTE guidelines for modern readers and writers.
- 103. Bold Schools • Developproficiency with the tools of technology • Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally • Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes • Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information • Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts • Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments bit.ly/nctelit
- 105. Bold Schools 7.Bold Schools are Transparent Students and teachers widely share best practices and reflections on their learning.
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- 112. Bold Schools 8. BoldSchools are Innovative All learners are encouraged to “poke the box” and experiment with practice.
- 113. Bold Schools 9. Bold Schools are Provocative Conversations around change extend to parents, communities, and local, state and national governments.
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- 115. Bold Schools Which ofthose nine qualities are the most challenging to move toward when thinking about your school?
- 116. Bold Schools 1. LearningCentered 2. Inquiry Driven 3. Authentic Work 4. Digital 5. Connected 6. Literate 7. Transparent 8. Innovative 9. Provocative
- 117. New Requirements Forour students. For our classrooms. For ourselves.
- 118. Where Do WeStart? With Us.
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- 120. LEARNERS FIRST Teachers Second
- 121. “In times ofchange, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoffer
- 123. will@willrichardson.com @willrich45 willrichardson.com
Editor's Notes
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