Short presentation I prepared for the ICT in Basic Education Forum on 17 September 2010. The event was organized by Diwa Learning Systems.

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3. future-proof your students

4. These are exciting times
to be an educator.

5. Not all classrooms
are created equal.

6. The Internet is now the world’s biggest classroom.
(And it’s always open for business.)

7. It used to be that a
book was something
you’d read...

8. ...now it’s also something that
you listen to and connect from.

9. How far away is information today?

10. 1, 2, 10
(a concept by Nick Bilton)

11. 10 ft
TV
SONY
2 ft COMPUTER B OOK
-or-
1 ft
PHONE

How far away is information from students’ eyes?

12. “
Content will eventually automatically follow you
from screen to screen, and place to place.
...[I]t won’t be one screen that replaces your
newspaper or your TV show.
”
It will be all of them.
- Nick Bilton

13. This is not the future.

14. We’re talking about the present.

15. There’s no telling what the
future has in store.

16. “
We are currently preparing
students for jobs that don't yet
exist, using technologies that
haven't been invented yet, in order
to solve problems we don't even
know are problems yet.
”
- Karl Fisch

17. Teachers still have a valuable role to play in
preparing students for their
hyperconnected futures.

18. By engaging them with the
tools available today.

19. “ Tell me and I will forget.
Show me and I may remember.
Involve me and I will understand.
”
- Chinese Proverb

20. “ Here’s something four-year-olds know: a
screen without a mouse is missing
something. Here’s something else they
know: media that’s targeted at you but
doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting
still for.” - Clay Shirky

21. Here’s something four-year-olds know: a
screen without a mouse is missing
something. Here’s something else they
know: media that’s targeted at you but
doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting
still for.

22. Here’s something four-year-olds know: a
tion!
screen without a mouse is missing
educa
something. a nd
Here’s something else they
know: media that’s targeted at you but
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doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting
still for.

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Via stock.xchng: Harry Fodor (3D glasses). Via Flickr: Marlon Hacla (various photos of Timoteo Paz Elementary
School), TheGiantVermin (“Desks”), Josh Labatique (“208.365 Light Reading”), Dhillan Chandramowli
(“Classroom”), Ollie Brown (“Mouse”), and Steve Wall (“Snow Fog”). Via Amazon.com: Kindle 3G
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