Housekeeping

Paperless handoutshttp://wiu.wiueacademy.org/

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Co-Founder & CEO Powerful Learning Practice, LLChttp://plpnetwork.comsheryl@plpnetwork.com

President21st Century Collaborative, LLChttp://21stcenturycollabrative.com

What are you doing to contextualize and mobilize what you are learning?

How will you leverage, how will you enable your teachers or your students to leverage- collective intelligence?

Driving Questions

“Direction-not intention-determines our destination.”

Andy Stanley

Are your daily choices taking you and your learners in the direction you want to go?

Principle of the Path

Native American Proverb“He who learns from one who is learning, drinks from a flowing river.”

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Sarah Brown Wessling, 2010 National Teacher of the YearDescribes her classroom as a place where the teacher is the “lead learner” and “the classroom walls are boundless.”

Lead Learner

By the year 2011 80% of all Fortune 500 companies will be using immersive worlds – Gartner Vice President Jackie Fenn

Libraries 2.0Management 2.0 Education 2.0Warfare 2.0Government 2.0Vatican 2.0

Credit: Hugh MacLeod, gapingvoid

Everything 2.0

Are you Ready for Learning and Leading in the 21st

Century?

It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived! And schools who aren’t redefining themselves, risk becoming irrelevant in preparing students for the future.

Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0

We are living in a new economy – powered by technology, fueled by information, and driven by knowledge.

-- Futureworks: Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century

By the year 2012 80% of all Fortune 500 companies will be using immersive worlds – Gartner Vice President Jackie Fenn

Shifting From Shifting To

Learning at school Learning anytime/anywhere

Teaching as a private event Teaching as a public collaborative practice

Learning as passiveparticipant

Learning in a participatory culture

Learning as individuals

Linear knowledge

Learning in a networked community

Distributed knowledge

Shift in Learning = New Possibilities

Shift from emphasis on teaching…

To an emphasis on co-learning

It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes 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

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.

Shifting From Shifting To

A teaching focus A learning focus

Teaching as a private event

Teaching as a collaborative practice

School improvement as an option

School improvement as a requirement

Mandated accountability

Mutual accountability

Source: enGauge 21st Century Skills

What about the world and society has changed since you went to school?

What about students has changed since you went to school?

What about schools has changed or not changed since you went to school?

What should School 2.0 look like in order to meet the needs of the 21st Century learner?

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).

Mobile Computing

Smart PhonesThe mobile market has: 4 billion subscribers, three-fourths of whom live in developingcountries.

Over a billion new phones are produced each year, and the fastest-growing sales segment belongs to smart phones —

Open Content

Relevance for Teaching, Learning & Creative Expression

Open content allows teachers to customize their courses quickly and inexpensively and keepup with emerging information and ideas.

Communities of practice and learner groups that form around open content provide a sourceof support for independent or life-long learners.

Electronic Books

Electronic books are now accessible via a wide variety of readers, from dedicated reader platforms like the Kindle to applications designed for mobile phones, and are enjoying wide consumer adoption.

Electronic books can be a portable and cost-effective alternative to buying printed books, although most platforms lack featuresto support advanced reading and editing tasks such as annotation, collaboration, real-time updates, and content remixing.

Trend 1 – Social and intellectual capital are the new economic values in the world economy.

This new economy will be held together and advanced through the building of relationships. Unleashing and connecting the collective knowledge, ideas, and experiences of people creates and heightens value.

Source:Journal of School Improvement, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2002http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/wallaradistrict/files/links/Ten_Trends_Educating_Child.pdf

“Schools are a node on the network of learning.”

Personal Learning Networks

Community-Dots On Your Map

Are you “clickable”- Are your students?

Teacher 2.0The Emergent 21st Century Teacher

Teacher 2.0Source: Mark Treadwell - http://www.i-learnt.com

FORMAL INFORMAL

You go where the bus goes You go where you choose

Jay Cross – Internet Time

http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepaper.pdf

MULTI-CHANNEL APPROACHSYNCHRONOUS

ASYNCHRONOUS

PEER TO PEER WEBCAST

Instant messenger

forumsf2f

blogsphotoblogs

vlogs

wikis

folksonomies

Conference rooms

email Mailing lists

CMS

Community platformsVoIP

webcam

podcasts

PLE

Worldbridges

What do we need to unlearn?

Example: * I need to unlearn that classrooms are physical spaces.* I need to unlearn that learning is an event with a start and stop time to a lesson.

 

The Empire Strikes Back:LUKE:  Master, moving stones around is one thing.  This is totallydifferent.

YODA:  No!  No different!  Only different in your mind.  You must unlearn what you have learned.

What will be our legacy…• Bertelsmann Foundation Report: The Impact of Media and Technology in

Schools– 2 Groups– Content Area: Civil War– One Group taught using Sage on the Stage methodology– One Group taught using innovative applications of technology and

project-based instructional models• End of the Study, both groups given identical teacher-constructed tests of

their knowledge of the Civil War.

Question: Which group did better?

Answer…

No significant test differences were found

However… One Year Later

– Students in the traditional group could recall almost nothing about the historical content

– Students in the traditional group defined history as: “the record of the facts of the past”

– Students in the digital group “displayed elaborate concepts and ideas that they had extended to other areas of history”

– Students in the digital group defined history as:

“a process of interpreting the past from different perspectives”

Change is inevitable: Growth is Optional

Change produces tension- out of our comfort zone.

“Creative tension- the force that comes into play at the moment we acknowledge our vision is at odds with the current reality.” Senge

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.

Last Generation