This document discusses the challenges and opportunities that principals face in leading 21st century learning environments. It outlines how Web 2.0 tools can facilitate administration, communication, and learning by enabling collaboration, conversation, creation, and contribution. However, it also notes that this will require rethinking issues like copyright, authorship, identity, ethics and more. It argues that students need skills to participate in society and that professional development must help teachers adapt to these changes.

1. The Times They Are
A-Changin’...
Web 2.0 and Instructional Leadership
Principals’ Short Course
July 4, 2007

2. The 21st Century Learner
Web 2.0
Challenges
An introduction to the dynamics of the 21st Century
learner and the new web tools which facilitate
administration, communication and learning.

3. How can one
create a learning
environment in
the classroom,
the school and
the school
division to
enable...

4. ...quot;the simultaneous personal and
public experience of using all of the
tools at the teacher’s disposal to tear
down walls, collaborate with each
another, and question the traditional
role of technology in the classroomquot;?
Ben Wilkoff
http://yongesonne.edublogs.org/

5. Image: Brian Grenier
How do we ensure that every child has...

6. ...access to the skills and experiences
needed to become a full participant
in the social, cultural, economic and
political future of our society?

7. ...the ability to articulate his or her
understanding of how media shapes
perceptions of the world?

8. ...been socialized into the emerging
ethical standards that should shape
their practices as media makers
and as participants in online
communities?
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for
the 21st Century

9. The 21st Century Learner
immediate digital natives
fast 96% online
multi-taskers seek personal info
connected content creators
social visual learners
optimistic gamers
re-mixers
teachers are vital
valued
shallow tech understanding
informal learners

10. Web 2.0:
Trends in Technology
Conversation
Collaboration
Creation
Contribution

13. Donna’s Bloglines Account
Donna’s Protopage
Donna’s PageFlakes

16. Content Creators
“We are the Web”
Blogging = Conversation
Early Literacy Blog
Classroom Tech Tips

17. I Am David

18. Mrs. Sparrow’s Grade One Blogs
Educational Discourse

19. Podcasting = Creation
TTTK
Audio Tools = Conversation

20. Wikis = Collaboration
Learning and Technology
The Discovery Utopia Project

21. Social Bookmarking
Tagging
Donna’s Bookmarks

22. Photosharing = Creation

23. Videosharing
History of Technology

24. Social Networks
Classroom 2.0

25. Virtual Worlds

26. Productivity Tools
The browser as platform
My favourite OS is Firefox, because all my favourite apps (Google search, gmail,
google docs, google notebook, etc.) work on it.
Rob Wall

27. Contribution
• Flat classroom
• Horizon
• International Teen Life
• TeenTec

28. We’ll need to rethink a few things

29. We’ll need to rethink
...copyright
...authorship
...identity
...ethics
...aesthetics
...rhetorics
...governance
...privacy
...commerce
...love
...family
...ourselves
From: The Machine is Using/Us

30. Protection or Education?
Our children need to be protected from
predators
each other
themselves

31. Rethink Literacy
Information has changed...
networked
digital
overwhelming
fluid

32. What should we teach?
media production authorship
media sharing copyright
media literacy
digital citizenship
authority global citizenship
evaluation
authentication
filtering
acceptance of uncertainty
anchoring
pattern recognition
connecting

33. We need to rethink professional development
Connaught Summer Workshop
inTECH Mentorship Project
K-12 Online Conference

34. School 2.0...
School 2.0 needs to be about creating knowledge, analyzing
information, and evaluating both.
It’s about understanding a world
in which connections and
communicating with others is at
the foundation of how we learn.
Through creating our own
knowledge, not from what a
teacher tells us, but rather from
what we read, listen to, and
watch ourselves is far more
powerful.
Jeff Utecht

35. Resources
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture:
Media Education for the 21St Century
Coming of Age: An Introduction to the New World Wide Web
The Horizon Report, 2007 Edition
Educating the Net Generation
Young Canadians in a Wired World
Pew Internet and American Life Research
Creative Commons Search (Flickr Photos)

36. Donna DesRoches
Learning Resources Consultant
Living Sky School Division
North Battleford, SK
Canada