1. The document discusses how abundance of information, tools, and connectivity due to technology is changing education and what schools need to do to adapt. 2. Some of the "new realities" highlighted include content and teachers being everywhere, data being ubiquitous, and networks becoming the new classrooms. 3. The document calls for schools to be "bold" by becoming more learning-centered, inquiry-driven, using authentic and digital work, being better connected and transparent.

1. From “Old School” to “Bold School”
An Exploration in Change
Will Richardson
will@willrichardson.com
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@willrich45

2. GOALS
Push Your Thinking
Push Your Practice
Push Your Action

3. “It was the best of times, it was
the worst of times, it was the age
of wisdom, it was the
age of foolishness...”
Charles Dickens

4. CHANGE

5. “The change we are in
the middle of isn’t minor
and it isn’t optional.”
Clay Shirky

6. Scarcity

7. Scarcity
ABUNDANCE

8. ABUNDANCE OF...
Information
Tools
Opinions
People
Data
Resources
Media
More...

9. ABUNDANCE OF...
(Kids’ Version)
Games
Videos
Networks
Texts
Hangouts
All Sorts of Other Interesting Stuff
They Don’t Have Access to In School

10. ...WHICH IS CHANGING
Media
Politics
Journalism
Medicine
Books
Business
Music...

11. ...WHICH IS CHANGING
...Education

12. ...A world marked by “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

13. ...WHICH IS CHANGING
Examples

17. ABUNDANCE
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18. ABUNDANCE
Will Change Us.
Is Changing Us.

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27. NEW REALITIES
1. Content and Knowledge are Everywhere

33. NEW REALITIES
1. Content and Knowledge are Everywhere
2. Teachers are Everywhere

38. NEW REALITIES
1. Content and Knowledge are Everywhere
2. Teachers are Everywhere
3. Data is Everywhere

41. NEW REALITIES
1. Content and Knowledge are Everywhere
2. Teachers are Everywhere
3. Data is Everywhere
4. Networks are the New Classrooms

42. NEW REALITIES
Individuals
(Apprenticeships)

43. NEW REALITIES
Individuals
(Apprenticeships)
Groups
(Classrooms)

44. NEW REALITIES
Individuals
(Apprenticeships)
Groups
(Classrooms)
Networks
(VLEs)

49. “Networked Individualism”

50. NEW REALITIES
1. Content and Knowledge are Everywhere
2. Teachers are Everywhere
3. Data is Everywhere
4. Networks are the New Classrooms
5. Learning is On Demand

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55. CHANGE

56. KEY QUESTIONS
What is the primary value of school when
these “New Realities” exist?

57. KEY QUESTIONS
What is the primary value of school when
these “New Realities” exist?
-or-

58. KEY QUESTIONS
What is the primary value of school when
these “New Realities” exist?
-or-
What happens when we no longer
need school to do school?*

59. KEY QUESTIONS
What is the primary value of school when
these “New Realities” exist?
-or-
What happens when we no longer
need school to do school?*
* (As it is currently defined)

60. BE BOLD

61. NINE QUALITIES
1. Learning Centered
2. Inquiry Driven
3. Authentic Work
4. Digital
5. Connected
6. Literate
7. Transparent
8. Innovative
9. Provocative

62. NINE QUALITIES
1. Bold Schools are Learning
and Learner Centered

63. NINE QUALITIES
2. Bold Schools are Inquiry Driven

64. NINE QUALITIES
3. Bold Schools Support Authentic Work

65. NINE QUALITIES
4. Bold Schools are Digital

66. NINE QUALITIES
5. Bold Schools are Connected

67. NINE QUALITIES
6. Bold Schools are Literate
(by 21st Century Standards)

68. NINE QUALITIES
7. Bold Schools are Transparent

69. NINE QUALITIES
8. Bold Schools are Innovative

70. NINE QUALITIES
9. Bold Schools are Provocative

71. BOLD CHANGE
Five Part Process

72. BOLD CHANGE
1. Understand: The contexts for change

74. BOLD CHANGE
1. Understand: The contexts for change
2. Feel: Anger, grief, fear, excitement

77. “Today, instead of teaching them information, I was
teaching them how to learn. And yet, I’m not sure
what my new role in this is. I’m not sure how to
connect to my students and their learning process
while doing this. I’m not sure how to laugh and
enjoy them. And I was not expecting the profound
sense of loss and the pain accompanying it.”

78. BOLD CHANGE
1. Understand: The contexts for change
2. Feel: Anger, grief, excitement
3. Reflect: Examine your own learning practice

79. ARE YOU LITERATE?
• Develop proficiency 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
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80. BOLD CHANGE
1. Understand: The contexts for change
2. Feel: Anger, grief, excitement
3. Reflect: Examine your own learning practice
4. Act: Innovate, Change, Connect, ReLearn

83. BOLD CHANGE
1. Understand: The contexts for change
2. Feel: Anger, grief, excitement
3. Reflect: Examine your own learning practice
4. Act: Innovate, Change, Connect
5. Provoke: Engage others, Advocate

86. WHAT IF?
Pick one of the three topics to discuss. Answer:
What would be bold about that?
What would be challenging about that?
What are the odds of it happening?

90. 2020?

94. “We need to move beyond the idea
that an education is something that
is provided for us, and toward the
idea that an education is something
that we create for ourselves.”
Stephen Downes

95. MY REQUEST
Don’t teach my child (your subject here).

96. MY REQUEST
Don’t teach my child (your subject here).
Teach my child how to learn (your subject here).

97. “In times of change, learners
inherit the Earth, while the learned
find themselves beautifully
equipped to deal with a world that
no longer exists.”
Eric Hoffer

98. THE END
Thanks!
will@willrichardson.com
@willrich45
willrichardson.com