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1 Weapons of Mass Instruction: Every Learner, Digital Tools, Modern Learning Horry County Schools Adult Education TLC at the Beach, March 15, 2013 Milton Chen, Ph.D., Senior Fellow George Lucas Educational Foundation San Francisco Bay Area
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Weapons of Mass Instruction:
Every Learner, Digital Tools, Modern Learning
Horry County Schools Adult EducationTLC at the Beach, March 15, 2013
Milton Chen, Ph.D., Senior FellowGeorge Lucas Educational Foundation
San Francisco Bay [email protected]
My Learning Journey: Longest Street in the World to a
Galaxy Long Ago & Far, Far Away
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Imagine an Education Nation…
A learning society where education of children is the highest priority, on par with a strong economy, high employment, and national security.
A nation is only as good as its educational system.
The U.S. an Education Nation?
• Of 50 1st-grade students behind in reading, 44 still behind in 4th-grade
• A HS student drops out every 26 seconds,6,000 each day (Tough Choices or Tough Times, 2006)
• CA students 1 year behind U. S. average, 2-3 years behind best states (NAEP 2007, 8th-gr. math)
• Closing the gap could contribute $2 trillion per year in GDP (McKinsey & Co., 2010)
America’s Strength: School/Community Partnerships
A “ladder of learning” from pre-K through “gray” blending formal and informal learning through schools, universities, media, museums, libraries, companies, churches, youth groups, parks
A New Day for Learning: 24/7/365
• Innovation: The Key to an Education Nation
• A “Must Do,” Not Just “Nice to Know”
• Internet Time: Google 15 Years Old, YouTube 8 Years
• Every 30 seconds, 24 Hours of New YouTube Video
Education Innovation = Authentic LearningSchool Life = Real Life
“the great waste comes from [the child’s] inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school…within the school…on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school.”
John Dewey, The School and Society lecture, University of Chicago, 1899
6 Leading Edges of K-12 Innovation:
Any Time, Any Place, Any Path, Any Pace
1. Thinking
2. Curriculum & Assessment
3. Technology
4. Time/Place
5. Co-Teaching, inc. Parents!
6. Youth
1. The Thinking Edge: New Roles!
21st C. Job Description: End of Solo Practitioner, Rise of Team Collaborator
• Schools/Programs -> Learning Centers
• Teachers -> Mentors, Team Leaders
• Students -> Team Members, Scholars
Neuroscience & Cognitive Science: Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
1. Verbal2. Logical/Mathematical 3. Visual4. Musical5. Bodily/Kinesthetic6. Intrapersonal7. Interpersonal 8. Naturalist
Maya Angelou
“Any book that helps a child form a habit of reading, to make reading
one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
6th & Greatest Edge: Today’s Youth
• 95% of Stakeholders
• Digital Natives Carrying Change in their Pockets
• Generation YES: Students as TAs genyes.org
• Edutopia’s Digital Generation edutopia.org/digital-generation
edutopia.org/digital-generation
edutopia.org/digital-generation
3rd Edge: Technology
• Weapons of Mass Instruction, 1:1 edutopia.org/maine-project-learning- schools-that-work
• iPod, iListen, iRead sites.google.com/a/eusd.org/eusd-iread/
• Intelligent Text
• Online Learning edutopia.org/stw-online-learning- new-breakthroughs
What’s your definition of a great school?
Make it short and measurable!
Do the students run in at the same
rate they run out?
