rework of Shifts in Learning

2. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach snbeach- Twitter, Skype, Diigo snbeach50- Delicious [email_address] http://21stcenturycollaborative.com http://plpnetwork.com All Materials- http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com

3. Welcome to the human network

4. 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.

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

7. Mutual accountability Mandated accountability School improvement as a requirement School improvement as an option A learning focus A teaching focus Shifting To Shifting From

8. Learning in a networked community Distributed knowledge Learning as individuals Linear knowledge Learning in a participatory culture Learning as passive participant Teaching as a public collaborative practice Teaching as a private event Learning anytime/anywhere Learning at school Shifting To Shifting From

9. 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 totally different . YODA: No! No different! Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.

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

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

14. It 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. Knowledge Creation

15. 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 half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

17. Time Travel Lewis 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).

18. 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 2002 http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/wallaradistrict/files/links/Ten_Trends_Educating_Child.pdf

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

20. Personal Learning Networks Community-- in and out of the classroom Are you “clickable”- Are your students?

21. FORMAL INFORMAL You go where the bus goes You go where you choose Jay Cross – Internet Time

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

23. MULTI-CHANNEL APPROACH SYNCHRONOUS ASYNCHRONOUS PEER TO PEER WEBCAST Instant messenger forums f2f blogs photoblogs vlogs wikis folksonomies Conference rooms email Mailing lists CMS Community platforms VoIP webcam podcasts PLE Worldbridges

24. Learning to Change: Changing to Learn Walk About

26. New Media Literacies- What are they? Will the future of education include broad-based, global reflection and inquiry?

27. Shifts focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement.

28. Share Cooperate Collaborate Collective Action According to Clay Shirky, there are four steps on a ladder to mastering the connected world: sharing, cooperating, collaborating, and collective action. From his book- “Here Comes Everybody”

29. Sharing Sharing leads to connecting which is the starting place for community building. Sharing is important within the context of communities as well.

30. Cooperating Cooperation in communities allows many schools across an entire state to work together to create artifacts and thin walled classrooms.

31. Collaborating Collaboration within a community can result in outcomes that impact policy , influence working conditions, or result in a project that displays the "wisdom of the crowd" at its best.

32. Collective Action Collective action in a community often results in positive global change . 25 Days to Make a Difference

34. Twitter

38. Change is inevitable: Growth is Optional Change 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

39. 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.

40. Last Generation