Glastonbury Public Schools

Fourth GenerationStrategic Planning

Three Truths &Three Questions

Jonathan P. Costa

August 29, 2011

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Last Time, I Spoke of the Future

Now YOU Can Predict the Future

The future of learning and work is…

Print- or -

Digital?

Truth Number OneThere is no escape…

The future of work and learning

processes/resources are

digital.

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Remember in 2007?

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Just Four Years Later…

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Think About Exponential Growth

Since 1994 the number of web sites has grown from 5,000 to 250,000,000 (50,000 % increase)

Distinct content pages now number in the trillions…

Every day, Google handles about 6,200,000,000 page views and processes 20 petabytes of data.

275,000 words are typed every minute onto blogger

And then there is the newest internet monster Facebook...

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Facebook as the New Internet

o In October 2007, FB had a mere 20 million US users.

oToday (as of 1/4/11) it has over 146 million US based users.

oThat accounts for 70% of all US based internet users.

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The World is One Network

My youngest son is in Brazil on a Rotary Exchange.

Three weeks before Rotary told him where he was going, he had “Facebooked” and Skyped with his host brother and family.

In our parent orientation, it was suggested that Carl refrain from communicating with us for two months.

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In Less Than A Generation…

From isolation to communication as the norm.

From going out of your way to communicate to going out of your way not to.

Skype, text, Google voice, etc.

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The World is One Information Sharing

Network

1. Google2. Facebook3. YouTube4. Yahoo!5.

Windows Live (Microsoft search)

6. Baidu.com (A Chinese language search

engine)

7. Blogger.com8. Wikipedia9. QQ.COM

(A Chinese language IM program)

10. Twitter

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The World’s Top 10 Traffic Sites

Nobody Waits for Print

Like any other commodity, as facts have become ubiquitous, their value in the knowledge economy has declined.

It is the expectation that you will have what you need or that you can get it at anytime from anywhere.© JPC Sr. 2011

From Passive to Empowered

The cell phone has reached 90% of the market faster than any other device in the last 50 years.

Nearly half (47%) of US teens say their social life would end without their cell phone, and nearly six in 10 (57%) credit their mobile device with improving their life.

After having his wisdom teeth out in August, my youngest son had to be warned by the nurse that he may not remember what he was texting because of the impact of the anesthesia.

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From Turn the Page to Hit The Button

In the second quarter of 2010, Amazon sold 180 Kindle Edition Books for every 100 hard-covers sold.

In the fourth quarter, Kindle editions outsold paperbacks as well.

Amazon has been selling books for 16 years and Kindle books for 3 years.

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The King Is Dead, LLTK

More content hours were uploaded to YouTube in 2010…

…than have been broadcast by the three major networks in their entire history.

http://www.youtube.com/create© EC/JC 2010

Remember, They Are Wired Differently

By Age 21…1. 20,000 hours of video

games2. 250,000 emails/text

messages (BTW - my son sent 4,450 texts in July of 2011)

3. 10,000 hours on the phone4. 10,000 hours watching TV5. 250,000 commercial

messages.InfoSavvy Group, June 2010

Jukes, McCain, McDonald

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Seeing the World Differently

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“Go to Your Room!”

Digital Immigrants Digital Natives

Sad & alone in my room. Glad & connected to the world.

Still Not Sure?It really is no longer a prediction…

- Restated Truth One –

CURRENTwork and learning

processes/resources are

already primarily digital.

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Truth Number TwoYou Can’t Learn Without Access

Adequate preparation

for a higher order thinking digital

environment requires one-one access by staff and students.

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It Just Makes Sense

One cannot prepare students to master skills

and be information literate, independent,

higher-order thinkers if they are not consistently doing meaningful work with the tools that will

help define their success.

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Practice + Feedback = Fluency

2011 NEASC Standards

A rating of DEFICIENT is appropriate if any of the following exist:

1. A lack of challenging and measurable 21st century learning expectations for all students which address academic, social, and civic competencies, and a lack of school-wide analytic rubrics that identify targeted high levels of achievement for all 21st century learning expectations

2. The school does not have a formal process, based on school-wide rubrics, to assess whole-school and individual student progress in achieving the school’s 21st century learning expectations

3. Insufficient opportunities for all students to practice and achieve each of the 21st century learning expectations

4. Instructional practices on the whole are not consistent with the school’s core values, beliefs, and 21st century learning expectations© EC/JC 2011

SMARTER BALANCEConnecticut has

committed to a new generation of assessments based on the Common Core State Standards.

Starting in 2015, there will be portions that must be done online.

Why would we ever assess writing on paper anyway?

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Truth Number Three

Further Print Investment is a Waste

Continued investment in a print-based

infrastructure and the lack of strategic

transitional planning for a complete move to digital are ultimately counterproductive -

both educationally and fiscally.© JPC Sr. 2011

Moore’s Law Unabated

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The Google Effect

Do you think most people can even conceive of a company who’s primary business strategy is to provide all of their primary consumer services for free?

How does one compete with free?

Think of this as the Google decade…

Driving the cost of software down…

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The Cloud & BrowserThe emergence of the

“cloud” (off-site server storage of data and applications) have refocused development on the browser.

The browser has become the default platform for the vast majority of value based applications.

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Putting It All Together

These are the factors that have come together over the last two years to make the new math of

one-to-one for everyone possible.

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+ + =Affordable

1 to 1DeliveryModels.Low cost,

apps and open sourcematerials.

Low cost,i-net focusedNetbooks and

Devices.

No or low costcloud-based computing

software and storageoptions on a mass

basis.

The Bottom LineFor reasons both

economic and educational, within the range of this strategic plan, Glastonbury will certainly become a totally digital, one-to-one, school system.

What does that mean for teaching, learning and assessment?

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Planning Question #One

How do your goals for learning need to be adjusted to reflect the skills and attributes required for academic,

vocational, and personal success in a flat, digital, integrated, and highly collaborative/competitive world?

Aligning Goals for Learning With The Real World© JPC Sr. 2011

Rethinking Key - What You Teach

Time spent preparing to fight the last war is

wasted. What do learners need

to be successful in a 2020 digital age?

Smarter Balance - CCSS

21st Century SkillsLocal values

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How should we adjust our teaching and

delivery methods to both leverage the

power of Information Age technologies and

to meet a new generation of learners in their own learning

environment?Leveraging Information Age Tools and Strategies

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Planning Question #2

Rethinking Key - How You Teach

Remember Truth #2You cannot prepare students to master

skills and be literate, independent, higher-order thinkers if they

are not doing meaningful work with the tools that will help define their success.

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How must our methods of assessing

student learning evolve so that

we can meet the twin demands of

feedback and accountability in

a skill based world?

Feedback and Accountability in a Skill Based World© JPC Sr. 2011

Planning Question #3

Rethinking Key - How You Know

Assessing for analysis, the ability to see

patterns and make connections, apply

synthesis and evaluation skills is more difficult – and

important.

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