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Learning in a Networked WorldFor Our Students and For Ourselves

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Tuesday, February 19, 13

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Context


Scarcity


“Crisis of Contexts”


Crisis of Contexts

Traditional LearningPoliticians, Parents,

Communities, Educators


Crisis of Contexts



Modern LearningKids with Access,

Connected Learners




≠Modern Learning

Kids with Access, Connected Learners



Communities Educators

≠Delivery


Connected Learners



Connected Learners


Communities Educators

Modern LearningConnected Learners

≠Delivery

Discovery


New reality


ABUNDANCETuesday, February 19, 13

CHANGETuesday, February 19, 13

“The change we are in the middle of isn’t minor,and it isn’t optional.”

Clay Shirky


750,000 Apps2.5 Billion People

2 Trillion Webpages4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute

16,000 Tweets per second*5 Billion Internet Connected Devices

Etc...

*Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration

ABUNDANCE



...A world marked by “ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous information, ubiquitous networks, at unlimited speed, about everything, everywhere, from anywhere, on all kinds of devices that make it ridiculously easy to connect, organize, share, collect, collaborate and publish.”

Michael Wesch


Media Politics

JournalismMedicineBooks

BusinessMusic...

Which is Changing:


Key Idea:

Institutionally Organized World

Self-Organized World

ABUNDANCE


Part 1:The Future of Schooling

ABUNDANCE


Discussion

Define “learning”


Learning Is...

creativitypassion to know

application of knowledgeinquiry

seeing patternsposing and answering questions

understanding the worldacquiring knowledge

curiosityfinding and solving problems

making somethingunderstanding something you previously didn’t understand

making connectionschanging your perspective on something

synthesizing ideasadding new knowledge


"Productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces

wanting to learn more. Absent wanting to learn, the learning context is

unproductive or counterproductive."

Seymour Sarason


New Reality

Teachers are everywhereClassrooms are everywhere

“School” is everywhere



215,284,446 Lessons Delivered






Self-Organized Learning





“What does a middle school algebra teacher do if kindergarteners can start learning to solve equations

within a couple of hours?”






Part 2:The Future of Higher Education

ABUNDANCE




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Scarcity


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Scarcity


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Scarcity

Abundance


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Scarcity

Abundance

Information ≠ Education


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Scarcity

Abundance



Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.

of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.


Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.

of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.

“This is the tsunami.”--Richard DeMillo, Ga. Tech






InstitutionallyOrganized

Self-Organized


2024?


Self-Organized Learners?


Remember...


Learning Is...

creativitypassion to know

application of knowledgeinquiry

seeing patternsposing and answering questions

understanding the worldacquiring knowledge

curiosityfinding and solving problems

making somethingunderstanding something you previously didn’t understand

making connectionschanging your perspective on something

synthesizing ideasadding new knowledge


Part 3:The Future of Work

ABUNDANCE




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Self-Organized Work



--Stephen Downes


“Looking to the future of work, one could sum up the anticipated impacts in a single word: More. More intensity. More pressure. More change. More risk. But also, more opportunity. More engagement. More transparency. More impact.”

Yvette Cameron


Means that we are now the central, organizing force in our own learning, our own education, and, increasingly our own careers.

ABUNDANCE


Means that we now need the skills and dispositions to “design”our own

learning and careers.

ABUNDANCE


New Question:

What do students need to learn in school at a moment when they can

learn so much without us?


New Question:

And:What is the value of school (and

classrooms and teachers) at a moment where we don’t need

school to do school?


New Question:


New Answer:

That which cannot be “Khanified.”


New Answer:

CuriosityResiliencePassion

Entrepreneurial ThinkingEmpathyCreativity

CollaborationInquiry

NetworkingCommunicationCritical Thinking

(and more)


“The only competitive skill in the long run is skill at learning.”

Seymour Papert


New Reality

Schools need to be “different”...not just “better.”


“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”

Alvin Toffler


Where Do We Start?


Where Do We Start?

With Us.


LEARNERS FIRST


LEARNERS FIRSTTeachers Second



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9 Qualities of Bold Schools(classrooms, teachers)

1. Learning Centered2. Inquiry Driven3. Authentic Work

4. Digital5. Connected

6. Literate7. Transparent8. Innovative

9. Provocative


NCTE Literacies

• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology • Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships

with others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought

• Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes

• Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information

• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts • Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these

complex environments



“Dots in Blue Water”South Adams HS, Berne, IN


“Dots in Blue Water”

1. Authentic Problem/Question“How can we purify water for people in Haiti?”



2. Student Directed TeamsResearch, Development, Marketing, Community “Investment"



3. Real Product/Real AudienceTeachers and students travelled to Haiti to install their devices.

5 systems = clean water for 8,000



Notes:

-Aligned to standards-Interdisciplinary-Student-centered-Technology-rich

-Innovative thinking



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