Slide 2: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach snbeach- Twitter, Skype, Diigo snbeach50- Delicious snbeach@cox.net All Materialshttp://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com
Slide 4: 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.
Slide 5: 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 2002 http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/wallaradistrict/files/links/Ten_Trends_Educating_Child.pdf
Slide 6: Shifting From
A teaching focus Teaching as a private event School improvement as an option Mandated accountability
Shifting To
A learning focus Teaching as a collaborative practice School improvement as a requirement Mutual accountability
Slide 8: Knowledge Creation
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.
Slide 9: 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 half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.
Slide 10: 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).
Slide 12: New Media Literacies- What are they?
http://newmedialiteracies.org/
Will the future of education include broad-based, global reflection and inquiry? What role will Professional Learning Communities and Personal Learning Networks play? Will your current level of new media literacy skills allow you to take part in learning through these mediums?
Slide 13: “Schools are a node on the network of learning.”
Slide 14: Rethinking Teaching and Learning
1. Multiliterate 2. Change in pedagogy 3. Change in the way classrooms are managed 4. A move from deficit based instruction to strength based learning 5. Collaboration and communication Inside and Outside the classroom
1.
Slide 15: FORMAL
INFORMAL
You go where the bus goes
You go where you choose
Jay Cross – Internet Time
Slide 16: http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepaper.pdf
Slide 17: MULTI-CHANNEL APPROACH
webcam VoIP SYNCHRONOUS Community platforms Conference rooms Worldbridges WEBCAST Mailing lists CMS podcasts PLE forums wikis
Instant messenger PEER TO PEER email vlogs photoblogs folksonomies f2f blogs
ASYNCHRONOUS
Slide 18: TPCK Model
There is a new model that helps us think about how to develop technological pedagogical content knowledge. You can learn more about this model at the website:
http://tpck.org/tpck/index.php?title=TPCK_-_Technological_Pedagogical_Content_Knowledge
Slide 19: SITE 2006 IEA Second Information Technology in Education Study
• • 9000 School 35,000 math and science teachers in 22 countries
How are teachers using technology in their instruction?
Law, N., Pelgrum, W.J. & Plomp, T. (eds.) (2008). Pedagogy and ICT use in schools around the world: Findings from the IEA SITES 2006 study. Hong Kong: CERC-Springer, the report presenting results for 22 educational systems participating in the IEA SITES 2006, was released by Dr Hans Wagemaker, IEA Executive Director and Dr Nancy Law, International Co-coordinator of the study.
Slide 20: Findings
Increased technology use does not lead to student learning. Rather, effectiveness of technology use depended on teaching approaches used in conjunction with the technology. How you integrate matters- not just the technology alone. It needs to be about the learning, not the technology. And you need to choose the right tool for the task. As long as we see content, technology and pedagogy as separate- technology will always be just an add on.
Slide 21: Teacher as Designer
See yourself as a curriculum designer– owners of the curriculum you teach. Honor creativity (yours first, then the student’s) Repurpose the technology! Go beyond simple “use” and “integration” to innovation!
Slide 22: Technology
USE Mechanical
Technology Integrate Meaningful Technology Innovate Generative
Slide 23: Shifts focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement.
Slide 24: According to Clay Shirky, there are four steps on a ladder to mastering the connected world: sharing, cooperating, collaborating, and collective action.
Share Cooperate Collaborate Collective Action
“Here Comes Everybody”
From his book-
Slide 25: Let Go of Curriculum
Slide 26: Classic Problem Solving Approach – Identify problem – Conduct root cause analysis – Brainstorm solutions and analyze – Develop action plans/interventions
Most families, schools, organizations function on an unwritten rule… –Let’s fix what’s wrong and let the strengths take care of themselves
Focus on Possibilities –Appreciate “What is” –Imagine “What Might Be” –Determine “What Should Be” –Create “What Will Be” Blossom Kids
Speak life life to your students and teachers… –When you focus on strengths, weaknesses become irrelevant
Slide 27: Spending most of your time in your area of weakness—while it will improve your skills, perhaps to a level of “average”—will NOT produce excellence
This approach does NOT tap into student motivation or lead to student engagement The biggest challenge facing us as educators: how to engage the hearts and minds of the learners
Slide 28: Strengths Awareness Confidence Self-Efficacy Motivation to excel Engagement Apply strengths to areas needing improvement Greater likelihood of success
Slide 29: Develop Strengths
By refining our dominant talents with skill and knowledge, we can create strength: the ability to provide consistent, positive performance in a given activity.
--Clifton & Harter, 2003
Slide 30: Letting Student Passion and Interest Rule the Curriculum
Lisa Duke's students at First Flight High School in the Outer Banks in NC created this video as part of a service project in her Civics and Economics course curriculum.
Slide 31: 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?
Slide 32: Answer…
No significant test differences were found
Slide 33: 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”
Slide 34: Change is inevitable: Growth is Optional
Change produces tension- out of our comfort zone. “Creative tensionthe force that comes into play at the moment we acknowledge our vision is at odds with the current reality.” Senge
Slide 35: 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.
Slide 36: Last Generation
