This document discusses the transition to 21st century teaching and learning. It notes that the amount of new information generated annually now exceeds that of the previous 5,000 years combined. It also states that half of what students learn in their first year of college will be outdated by their third year. The document advocates for teaching creativity and collaboration skills and leveraging technologies like mobile devices and social media in the classroom. It argues that schools must reinvent themselves to remain relevant in preparing students for future jobs and an increasingly digital world.

2. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Email: [email_address] Web: http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com Blog: http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com Wiki http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com

5. Source: Mark Treadwell - http://www.i-learnt.com "Technological change is not additive, its ecological. A new technology does not change something, it changes everything" [Neil Postman]

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

8. 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.

9. 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

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 half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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).

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

17. Active Content Creators On Andrew Churches’ Blog He takes a stab at a 21 st Century tools match-up with the new Blooms. http:// www.bloglines.com/blog/andrewch?id =4

18. The truth is that parents of children with technology access at home will ensure that their children have this information advantage. Who will ensure that the children of poverty are given an equal opportunity?

19. Digital Divide Have Nots Haves

21. Digital Divide Those who don’t Those who know how to band together online

22. Change is Hard

23. 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.

24. Last Generation