21st Century Learning

& Teaching

Gregory KulowiecPlymouth South High School

gkulowiec@gmail.comGoogle Voice #: 508-591-0606

Twitter: @gregkulowiecwww.kulowiectech.blogspot.com

Teacher:

occupation is to instruct,a person who educates

others,a person who recommends,

or otherwise helps

Will our teaching methods prepare our students for the

21st Century?

What exactly does it mean to be prepared for the 21st

Century?

Publish, collaborate, find, organize, store, remix & broadcast

information.Communicate synchronously

& asynchronously

An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is

exponential, contrary to the common-sense "intuitive linear" view. So we won't experience 100 years of progress in the

21st century -- it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at

today's rate). The Law of Accelerating Returns

by  Ray Kurzweil

TED Talks – Ray Kurzeil on how technology will transform us.

Source: http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1Raymond Kurzweil 2001

Synonyms: advisor assistantguide mentor

pedagogue scholar

Antonym: pupil,

student…

“Most interesting, however, is that classroom observers noticed changes in the behavior of

teachers and students. Students were taking more responsibility for

their own learning, and teachers were working more as mentors and less as presenters of information.”

Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow Project (ACOT). 'The Impact of Technology on Student Achievement"

Teacher = Student = Teacher

We have managed, rather gracefully, far more change

than we predicted would come; it turns out that our past's vision of the future was not

visionary enough. This is often the case: reality puts prophecy

to shame.

What College Students Don't KnowTime MagazineSept. 21, 2009

We must transform as educators and focus on

relinquishing:control

perfect orderexpected outcomesnarrow assessment

& authority

"What we want to assess is how well prepared people are to learn new things in a non-sequestered

environment where they have access to technology tools and

social networks."  John BransfordUniversity of Washington Grace RubensteinEdutopia Magazine

Schools are the "conservators" of our culture, and therefore are

instinctively conservative in what they do, the resistance comes more from the fact that our public school

system has evolved an extremely delicate balance between many sets

of pressures…any technological change is bound to disrupt…shifting certainly initially means more work

and pressure on educators, who already feel overburdened.

Shaping Tech for the Classroom21st-century schools need 21st-century technology.by Marc PrenskyDec/Jan 2006: Student Fitness, Edutopia magazine as "Adopt and Adapt".

But resisting today's digital technology will be truly lethal to our children's

education. They live in an incredibly fast-moving world significantly different than

the one we grew up in. Shaping Tech for the Classroom21st-century schools need 21st-century technology.by Marc PrenskyDec/Jan 2006: Student Fitness, Edutopia magazine as "Adopt and Adapt".

1990 Apple Computer & Oregon Trail

1996Google was born &

I had one friend on the internet.

2000

Two internet labs on campus

Students in 1st grade this year will

graduate from high school in 2021.

The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper

and a thousand times more powerful

and about a hundred times smaller

than the one computer at MIT in 1965.

Source: Shift 4.0

The average American teen sends _____ text message a

month.2,27

2

Source: Shift 4.0

“We need to introduce the innovation disruptively – not

by using it to compete against the existing

paradigm and serve existing customers, but to target those who are not being served – people we call

nonconsumers.”Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn“Disrupting Class: Student-Centric Education is the Future”OnCue Magazine – Winter, 2010

21st Century knowledge & information…

is not confined to the textbook

&our student’s voices can’t

be confined to our classrooms.

They won’t remember what you teach them,

they will remember how you treat them.

The Missing Banister Theory

When walking down the street, you can walk in one line perfectly without ever

falling over.Now take that same city

block, then put it a hundred stories high. You’re going to

be so focused on the fact that you don’t have a

banister, that you’re more likely to fall because of it.Kanye West & J. Sakiya Sandifer

Appears in: Thank You and You’re Welcome

2004 & 2005 – Zero Technology Integration

2006 – Class Blog

2007 – Voicethread, Google Docs

2008 – Personal Blog, Ipods & Podcasting, Animoto

2009 – Student: Websites & Blogs, Delicious, Twitter, Edmodo, Etherpad, SCVNGR,

Polleverywhere, GoogleVoice, FlipCamera, Back-Channel Discussions, Synchronous &

asynchronous chat.

Where do I start?Joint a NING - Classroom 2.0

Read Blogs -www.freetech4teachers.com

http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/http://ilearntechnology.com/

http://peterpappas.blogs.com/ www.kulowiectech.blogspot.com (Shameless

plug)

Follow Teachers on Twitter - Search #edchat…start following

Gregory KulowiecPlymouth South High School

gkulowiec@gmail.comGoogle Voice #: 508-591-

0606Twitter: @gregkulowiec

www.kulowiectech.blogspot.com