The document discusses the urgent need for schools to adapt to 21st-century learning, emphasizing the importance of creativity and technology in education. It highlights that much of the knowledge students acquire becomes outdated quickly, and that schools risk irrelevance if they do not evolve. Key themes include the balance of safety and access in learning, the significance of mobile learning, and the characteristics necessary for preparing students for the future.

2. Conference Wiki http://tuanz2007.wikispaces.com/ all resources from this conference it will be an evolving resource feel free to add to it Conference blog http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/tuanz/ please weigh in on the conversation Comment and point to your own blog Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach [email_address] http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog / Virtual Handout

3. iPods in Vending Machines Signs of the Times….

4. What do you need to know, when most of recorded knowledge is a mouse-click away? In light of this…what do students still need to memorize?

5. How do we prepare our students for jobs that don’t yet exist- - using technologies that haven’t yet been invented . . . in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet?

6. What does it do to the value of information, when everyone is a producer and knowledge isn’t static anymore?

7. How do we balance safety and access in order to empower our students with such prevailing skills?

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

9. You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet! Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0

10. Some statistics- - 1 billion people on the Internet 57 million blogs, 1.7 million posts a day. 50 new blog sites created every minute “ None of the top 10 jobs that will exist in 2010 exist today." -- Richard Riley , (Former US Sec. of Ed.) A Changing World

11. Currently, the number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet. Remote Control for Your Life Think of the number of cell phones that are Internet capable! Imagine with me how we can leverage that accessibility in the classroom! But NOT just for email or surfing the Web– mobile learning, when it truly arrives will be a way to do things we couldn’t do before.

12. It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 1018) 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

13. 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.

14. What Do We Mean by 21st Century Learning ? Source: AASA Year Long Study: Preparing Schools and School Systems for the 21 st Century 16 Major Characteristics of Schools and School Systems Capable of Preparing Students for a Global -Knowledge/Information Age

15. Outsourcing Edc . Outsourcing Homework

16. Creativity Creativity is now as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status. If you're not prepared to be wrong then you will never come up with anything original. We don't grow into creativity we grow out of it, or rather, we get educated out of it.

17. Source: enGauge 21st Century Skills

18. Two Perspectives Tom Carroll, NCTAF Peter Vaill Antioch University http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/tom_carroll.swf http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/peter_vaill.swf

19. 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).

20. Rethinking Teaching and Learning New Literacy Changing Demographic Active Content Creators Collaboration and Communication

21. Born to be Wired! Understanding the Net Generation

22. Who is the Net Generation? Source: Educating the Net Generation, Diana Oblinger and James Oblinger (2005)

23. Born in or after 1982 Technology means MP3, PDA, Phones that do it all Daily communication involves- cell phones, text messaging, IMing, Blogs, and Email Academically diverse Consumed by extra curricular activites Thrive on group interactions Tinkerers Family Oriented Ethically and racially diverse Millennials…

24. Millennials Want to Learn… With technology With one another Online In their own time In their own place Doing things that matter

25. Digital Disconnect Schools Millennials

26. Change is Hard

27. Last Generation