Glastonbury Keynote from 8/30/11

1. Glastonbury Public Schools
Fourth Generation
Strategic Planning
Three Truths &
Three Questions
Jonathan P. Costa
August 29, 2011
© JPC Sr. 2011

2. © JPC Sr. 2007
Last Time, I Spoke of the
Future

3. Now YOU Can Predict the
Future
The future of learning and work is…

4. Truth Number One
There is no escape…
The future of
work and
learning
processes/
resources are
digital.
© JPC Sr. 2011

5. Remember in
2007?
© JPC Sr. 2011

6. Just Four Years
Later…
© JPC Sr. 2011

7. Think About Exponential
Growth
 Since 1994 the number of web sites
has grown from 5,000 to 250,000,000
(50,000 % increase)
 Distinct content pages now number
in the trillions…
 Every day, Google handles about
6,200,000,000 page views and
processes 20 petabytes of data.
 275,000 words are typed every
minute onto blogger
 And then there is the newest internet
monster Facebook...
© EC/JC 2011

8. Facebook as the New
Internet
oIn October 2007, FB had a mere
20 million US users.
oToday (as of 1/4/11) it has over
146 million US based users.
oThat accounts for 70% of all US
based internet users.
© EC/JC 2011

9. The World is One
Network
 My youngest son is in Brazil
on a Rotary Exchange.
 Three weeks before Rotary
told him where he was going,
he had “Facebooked” and
Skyped with his host brother
and family.
 In our parent orientation, it
was suggested that Carl
refrain from communicating
with us for two months.
© JPC Sr. 2011

10. In Less Than A
Generation…
From isolation to
communication as the
norm.
From going out of your
way to communicate to
going out of your way not
to.
Skype, text, Google voice,
etc.
© JPC Sr. 2011

11. Information Sharing
Network
1. Google
2. Facebook
3. YouTube
4. Yahoo!
5. Windows Live
(Microsoft search)
6. Baidu.com
(A Chinese language search engine)
7. Blogger.com
8. Wikipedia
9. QQ.COM
(A Chinese language IM program)
10. Twitter
© EC/JC 2011

12. Nobody Waits for Print
 Like any other
commodity, as facts have
become ubiquitous, their
value in the knowledge
economy has declined.
 It is the expectation that
you will have what you
need or that you can get
it at anytime from
anywhere.
© JPC Sr. 2011

13. From Passive to
Empowered
 The cell phone has reached 90% of the
market faster than any other device in
the last 50 years.
 Nearly half (47%) of US teens say their
social life would end without their cell
phone, and nearly six in 10 (57%) credit
their mobile device with improving
their life.
 After having his wisdom teeth out in
August, my youngest son had to be
warned by the nurse that he may not
remember what he was texting because
of the impact of the anesthesia.
© EC/JC 2011

14. From Turn the Page to Hit The
Button
 In the second quarter of 2010,
Amazon sold 180 Kindle
Edition Books for every 100
hard-covers sold.
 In the fourth quarter, Kindle
editions outsold paperbacks as
well.
 Amazon has been selling
books for 16 years and Kindle
books for 3 years.
© EC/JC 2011

15. The King Is Dead, LLTK
More content hours
were uploaded to
YouTube in 2010…
…than have been
broadcast by the
three major networks
in their entire
history.
http://www.youtube.com/create
© EC/JC 2010

16. Remember, They Are Wired
Differently
By Age 21…
1. 20,000 hours of video games
2. 250,000 emails/text
messages (BTW - my son sent
4,450 texts in July of 2011)
3. 10,000 hours on the phone
4. 10,000 hours watching TV
5. 250,000 commercial
messages.
InfoSavvy Group, June 2010
Jukes, McCain, McDonald
© JPC Sr. 2011

17. Seeing the World
Differently
© JPC Sr. 2008
“Go to Your Room!”
Digital Immigrants Digital Natives
Sad & alone in my room. Glad & connected to the world.

18. Still Not Sure?
It really is no longer a prediction…
- Restated Truth One –
CURRENT
work and learning
processes/
resources are
already primarily
digital.
© EC/JC 2011

19. Truth Number Two
You Can’t Learn Without Access
Adequate
preparation
for a higher order
thinking digital
environment
requires one-one
access by staff and
students.© JPC Sr. 2011

20. It Just Makes
Sense
One cannot prepare students
to master skills and be
information literate,
independent, higher-order
thinkers if they are not
consistently doing
meaningful work with the
tools that will help define
their success.
© EC/JC 2011

21. 2011 NEASC
Standards
A rating of DEFICIENT is appropriate if any of the following exist:
1. A lack of challenging and measurable 21st century learning
expectations for all students which address academic, social, and
civic competencies, and a lack of school-wide analytic rubrics
that identify targeted high levels of achievement for all 21st
century learning expectations
2. The school does not have a formal process, based on school-wide
rubrics, to assess whole-school and individual student progress in
achieving the school’s 21st century learning expectations
3. Insufficient opportunities for all students to practice and achieve
each of the 21st century learning expectations
4. Instructional practices on the whole are not consistent with the
school’s core values, beliefs, and 21st century learning
expectations
© EC/JC 2011

22. SMARTER BALANCE
 Connecticut has
committed to a new
generation of assessments
based on the Common
Core State Standards.
 Starting in 2015, there
will be portions that must
be done online.
 Why would we ever assess
writing on paper anyway?
© JPC Sr. 2011

23. Truth Number Three
Further Print Investment is a Waste
Continued investment in a
print-based infrastructure
and the lack of strategic
transitional planning for
a complete move to
digital are ultimately
counterproductive - both
educationally and fiscally.
© JPC Sr. 2011

24. Moore’s Law
Unabated
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25. The Google
Effect
 Do you think most people can even
conceive of a company who’s
primary business strategy is to
provide all of their primary
consumer services for free?
 How does one compete with free?
 Think of this as the Google
decade…
 Driving the cost of software down…

26. The Cloud &
BrowserThe emergence of the
“cloud” (off-site server
storage of data and
applications) have
refocused development
on the browser.
The browser has become
the default platform for
the vast majority of value
based applications.

27. Putting It All
Together
These are the factors that have
come together over the last two
years to make the new math of
one-to-one for everyone possible.
© EC/JC 2011
Affordable
1 to 1
Delivery
Models.Low cost,
apps and
open source
materials.
Low cost,
i-net focused
Netbooks and
Devices.
No or low cost
cloud-based computing
software and storage
options on a mass
basis.

28. The Bottom Line
 For reasons both
economic and
educational, within the
range of this strategic
plan, Glastonbury will
certainly become a totally
digital, one-to-one, school
system.
 What does that mean for
teaching, learning and
assessment?
© JPC Sr. 2011

29. Planning Question #One
How do your goals for learning need to be
adjusted to reflect the skills and
attributes required for academic,
vocational, and personal success in a flat,
digital, integrated, and highly
collaborative/competitive world?
Aligning Goals for Learning With The Real World
© JPC Sr. 2011

30. Rethinking Key - What You Teach
Time spent preparing to
fight the last war is
wasted.
What do learners need to
be successful in a 2020
digital age?
 Smarter Balance - CCSS
 21st Century Skills
 Local values
© JPC Sr. 2011

31. How should we adjust our
teaching and delivery
methods to both
leverage the power of
Information Age
technologies and to
meet a new generation
of learners in their own
learning environment?
Leveraging Information Age Tools and Strategies
© JPC Sr. 2011
Planning Question #2

32. Rethinking Key - How You Teach
Remember Truth #2
You cannot prepare
students to master skills
and be literate,
independent, higher-
order thinkers if they are
not doing meaningful
work with the tools that
will help define their
success.
© JPC Sr. 2011

33. How must our
methods of
assessing student
learning evolve so
that we can meet
the twin demands
of feedback and
accountability in a
skill based world?
Feedback and Accountability in a Skill Based World
© JPC Sr. 2011
Planning Question #3

34. Rethinking Key - How You Know
Assessing for analysis,
the ability to see
patterns and make
connections, apply
synthesis and
evaluation skills is
more difficult – and
important.
© JPC Sr. 2011