This document discusses the need for schools and teachers to adapt to changing technologies and learning styles in the 21st century. It notes that current school models are becoming outdated and risk making schools irrelevant. It highlights trends like social learning, knowledge creation, mobile devices, and open content that require schools to shift from an emphasis on teaching to co-learning. The document argues that teachers must become "lead learners" and develop personal learning networks in order to best prepare students.

2. HousekeepingPaperless handoutshttp://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com/Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Co-Founder & CEO Powerful Learning Practice, LLChttp://plpnetwork.comsheryl@plpnetwork.comPresident21st Century Collaborative, LLChttp://21stcenturycollabrative.com

3. Driving QuestionsWhat are you doing to contextualize and mobilize what you are learning?How will you leverage, how will you enable your teachers or your students to leverage- collective intelligence?

4. Principle of the Path“Direction-not intention-determines our destination.” Andy StanleyAre your daily choices taking you and your learners in the direction you want to go?

5. .Lead LearnerNative American Proverb“He who learns from one who is learning, drinks from a flowing river.”Sarah Brown Wessling, 2010 National Teacher of the YearDescribes her classroom as a place where the teacher is the “lead learner” and “the classroom walls are boundless.”

6. Welcome to the human network

7. Everything 2.0 By the year 2011 80% of all Fortune 500 companies will be using immersive worlds – Gartner Vice President Jackie Fenn Libraries 2.0Management 2.0 Education 2.0Warfare 2.0Government 2.0Vatican 2.0Credit: Hugh MacLeod, gapingvoid

8. Are you Ready for Learning and Leading in the 21st Century?It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived! And schools who aren’t redefining themselves, risk becoming irrelevant in preparing students for the future.

11. Shift in Learning = New PossibilitiesShift from emphasis on teaching…To an emphasis on co-learning

12. Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0We are living in a new economy – powered by technology, fueled by information, and driven by knowledge.-- Futureworks: Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century

13. By the year 2011 80% of all Fortune 500 companies will be using immersive worlds – Gartner Vice President Jackie Fenn

15. Knowledge CreationIt is estimated that 1.5 exabytes of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.

16. For students starting a four-year technical or higher education degree, this means that . . .half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

18. What about the world and society has changed since you went to school?What about students has changed since you went to school?What about schools has changed or not changed since you went to school?What should School 2.0 look like in order to meet the needs of the 21st Century learner?

19. Time TravelLewis Perelman, author of School's Out (1992). Perelman argues that schools are out of sync with technological change: ...the technological gap between the school environment and the "real world" is growing so wide, so fast that the classroom experience is on the way to becoming not merely unproductive but increasingly irrelevant to normal human existence (p.215). Seymour Papert (1993)In the wake of the startling growth of science and technology in our recent past, some areas of human activity have undergone megachange. Telecommunications, entertainment and transportation, as well as medicine, are among them. School is a notable example of an area that has not(p.2).

20. Mobile ComputingSmart PhonesThe mobile market has: 4 billion subscribers, three-fourths of whom live in developingcountries. Over a billion new phones are produced each year, and the fastest-growing sales segment belongs to smart phones —

21. Open ContentRelevance for Teaching, Learning & Creative ExpressionOpen content allows teachers to customize their courses quickly and inexpensively and keepup with emerging information and ideas.Communities of practice and learner groups that form around open content provide a sourceof support for independent or life-long learners.

23. Trend 1 – Social and intellectual capital are the new economic values in the world economy.This new economy will be held together and advanced through the building of relationships. Unleashing and connecting the collective knowledge, ideas, and experiences of people creates and heightens value.Source:Journal of School Improvement, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2002http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/wallaradistrict/files/links/Ten_Trends_Educating_Child.pdf

24. “Schools are a node on the network of learning.”

25. Personal Learning NetworksCommunity-Dots On Your MapAre you “clickable”- Are your students?

26. Teacher 2.0The Emergent 21st Century TeacherTeacher 2.0Source: Mark Treadwell- http://www.i-learnt.com

27. FORMAL INFORMALYou go where the bus goesYou go where you chooseJay Cross – Internet Time

28. http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepaper.pdf

29. MULTI-CHANNEL APPROACHwebcamSYNCHRONOUSCommunity platformsVoIPConference roomsInstant messengerWorldbridgesPEER TO PEERWEBCASTfolksonomiesMailing listsemailPLEf2fforumsvlogsCMSwikisblogsphotoblogspodcastsASYNCHRONOUS

30. What do we need to unlearn? Example:*I need to unlearn that classrooms are physical spaces.* I need to unlearn that learning is an event with a start and stop time to a lesson.The Empire Strikes Back:LUKE: Master, moving stones around is one thing. This is totallydifferent. YODA: No! No different! Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.

31. What will be our legacy…Bertelsmann Foundation Report: The Impact of Media and Technology in Schools2 GroupsContent Area: Civil WarOne Group taught using Sage on the Stage methodologyOne Group taught using innovative applications of technology and project-based instructional modelsEnd of the Study, both groups given identical teacher-constructed tests of their knowledge of the Civil War.Question: Which group did better?

32. Answer…No significant test differences were found

33. However… One Year LaterStudents in the traditional group could recall almost nothing about the historical contentStudents in the traditional group defined history as: “the record of the facts of the past”Students in the digital group “displayed elaborate concepts and ideas that they had extended to other areas of history”Students in the digital group defined history as: “a process of interpreting the past from different perspectives”

34. Change is inevitable: Growth is OptionalChange produces tension- out of our comfort zone.“Creative tension- the force that comes into play at the moment we acknowledge our vision is at odds with the current reality.” Senge

35. Real Question is this:Are we willing to change- to risk change- to meet the needs of the precious folks we serve? Can you accept that Change (with a “big” C) is sometimes a messy process and that learning new things together is going to require some tolerance for ambiguity.

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