EduCon 2.0 -- Dewey's Dream Workshop

Building School 2.0:New Tools and Dewey’s Dream

Chris LehmannPrincipal

Science Leadership AcademyPhiladelphia, PA

What is School 2.0?

My Bias:

School 2.0 isProgressive

Education updated for today’s world.

Paraphrasing Neil Postman:Certain technologies are not merely additive,

They are transformative.

What is the purpose of school?

(and (how) has that changed?)

Discussion Prompt:

My Two Cents

• Thoughtful

• Passionate

• Wise

• Kind

Now What?

Have a vision

Science Leadership Academy

• Inquiry

• Research

• Collaboration

• Presentation

• Reflection

http://www.scienceleadership.org/mission.php

Gates Foundation

•Rigor

•Relevance

•Relationships

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/UnitedStates/Education/TransformingHighSchools/

Coalition of Essential Schools

• Learning to use one’s mind well.

• Less is More, depth over coverage

• Goals apply to all students

• Personalization

• Student-as-worker, teacher-as-coach

• Demonstration of mastery

• A tone of decency and trust

• Commitment to the entire school

• Resources dedicated to teaching and learning

• Democracy and equity

http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/about/phil/10cps/10cps.html

High Tech High

• Personalization

• Adult World Connection

• Common Intellectual Mission

http://www.hightechhigh.org/about/design-principles.php

Christian Long’s Learning Manifesto

• “Playing Small Does Not Serve The World:” Your Brain Is Your Brand.

• What Would Socrates Do?

• Nobody Cares That You Walked Uphill Both Ways in the Snow.

• Got Passion? If Not, I’ll Tell You What To Care About.

• My Memory Is Only As Big As My Heart, Otherwise I’ll Stick With Google.

• Look It Up Or Die.

• Collaboration Ain’t About Holding Hands. It’s About Going Places Fast.

• This Will Go Down On Your Permanent Record.

• It Ain’t About the Technology, It’s About Being Inside the Story

• Nobody Knows the Answer. Get Comfy With the Questions.

http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2007/01/the_future_of_l.html

What is your manifesto?

Discussion Prompt:

Curriculum 2.0

Discussion Prompts:• How do we create

curriculum in this model?

• What do we teach when THIS is available 24/7?

• How do you establish a link between your manifesto and your curriculum?

• What does assessment look like in your model?

Student-Centered

It’s not about us.

Inquiry-Driven

What are the questions we can ask together?

Passionate

And it has to matter.

Meta-Cognitive

Project-Based

An inversion of what we know.

Teaching Toward Understanding

Understanding by DesignWiggins and McTigue

What about the tools?

Discussion Prompts:

• What does digital literacy mean?

• How do we teach it?

• What’s the same? What’s different?

•What are the tools we need to accomplish that?

• How do we have to change?

Chris’ School - Tech Manifesto:

Don’t Talk About “What” Before

“Why.”

Chris’ School - Tech Manifesto:(Part Two)

Process Trumps Product.

Technology must allow our students to research,

collaborate, create and network.

Technology Must Be Like Oxygen:

Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

Information Literacy and The “Prosumer”

• Find information

• Analyze information

• Synthesize information

• Judge information

• Create information

• Share information

Text

http://www.dhmo.org

Transparency

What would happen if you invited the world to school?

Talking About Tools

Building a School Web Portal

The Killer App• Student Information

System

• Student Reporting System

• Parent Interface

• “Walled Garden”

• School / Student Publishing Tool

• And more... (Library, etc...)

What is Teacher 2.0?• How is a teacher’s life

different in this model?

• What are the skills necessary to teach in this world?

• How will you find new teachers?

• How will you help older teachers to adapt?

Professional Development

• How do you learn?

• 24 / 7 / 365 Just In Time Learning

Big Questions:• How will you create the

time and space for your teachers to learn?

• How will you make your faculty meetings part of a running, constant dialogue?

• How will that manifesto we wrote earlier inform every thing you do?

Returning to Big Thoughts

• Who do we want our students to be?

• Who do we want our teachers to be?

• What do we want our schools to be?

Take-Aways

• What could you do in your school / district immediately?

• What could you do in your school / district this year?

• What could you do in your school / district over the next five years?

Stay in Touch

• Chris Lehmann

• chris@practicaltheory.org

• http://www.practicaltheory.org

• http://www.scienceleadership.org

• Twitter: chrislehmann

• Skype: chrislehmann

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