MDMC Keynote

How to Avoid

Keynote / Stephens / MDMC 2009 4

How to Avoid

Extinction

in a Changing World


Are we in danger of

extinction?extinction?


Leading Causes of Extinction

• Information overload

• Technology has changed time and

space where learning can occur

• Globalization• Globalization








Information Overload

By 2010, the amount

of technical

information in the

world it is expected

to double every 72

Information

Overloadto double every 72 hours!


By 2010, the amount of

technical information in the

world will double every 72

hours

Surviving Information Overload

In the pastIn the pastIn the pastIn the past To SurviveTo SurviveTo SurviveTo Survive

Only experts create knowledgeDynamic knowledge requires individual meaning making based upon multiple sources of information

Teachers deliver knowledge in the form of information

The role of educators is to facilitate the making of dynamic knowledge

Children are graded on how much of the information they have stored

Dynamic knowledge is revealed through real world performance








Means, B., Toyama, Y.,

Murphy, R., Bakia, M.,

& Jones, K. (2009).

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Department of

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• The New Media

Consortium. (2009).

2009-Horizon-Report-

K12.pdf K12.pdf

(application/pdf

Object). Retrieved June

7, 2009, from

http://www.nmc.org/pdf

/2009-Horizon-Report-

K12.pdf.








• Growing foreign

challenges

• A new world of

challenges and

competition

• Rising tide of


• Rising tide of

mediocrity

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, 2007.




Information Age

Conceptual Age


18th Century 19th Century 20th Century 21st Century

Agriculture Age

Industrial Age

Tough Choices for Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on The Skills of the on The Skills of the American Workforce. (2007). National Center

on Education and the

Economy.


Six Senses for the Six Senses for the Six Senses for the Six Senses for the

Conceptual AgeConceptual AgeConceptual AgeConceptual Age

• #1 Design

• #2 Story

• #3 Symphony

• #4 Empathy• #4 Empathy

• #5 Play

• #6 Meaning


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