Alan November - Creating a New Environment of Teaching and Learning

Mass Production line model of education

Online Courses should be a requirement

To Do List:

Online Learning Center - not reference section plus educator who can teach kids to learn independently

Food/drink helps people be social...people need this.

Stanford - The American High School Online

Students should be making resources for other students

Schools need to be available to students - not the other way aroundEvery kid has their own blog - RSS then delivers that infon to the teacher and the course

*Evidence that learning continues beyond the "time" of your class

Every class should have Learning Teams - podcasting, Tech Help, etc.

epgy.stanford.edu

Kids need more art and music

David Pink

It's a Different Community

Best learning model = face to face with online comboStudents more likely to appreciate criticism from anonymous online contributor than face to face from teacher

Building community?

It's not one or the other!

People NEED social interaction (lonely people die earlier!)

High Tech High - San Diego blends this wellOCOHOE - outside of Orlando

Accountablility

How will/should assessment inform:Teacher InstructionCurriculumStudent ability

Now we consider/blame student ability/knowledge

This is the power of the online course/systemIT CAN do all of this.

Are our core values are getting in the way?

(Right or Wrong)

Parent RSS portalsTheir child's work comes to them from ALL classes

Students doing online work moving more quickly through "curriculum"

Who does the work?

Why not everyone? What's wrong with collective intelligence in schools?

Is it because we worry about the individual student missing something?

And if that's the case, are they missing anything if we teach them how to access it through using the collective intelligence of others?

Students need to OWN their learning

Why do we fear this?

Is it loss of control?

Is it giving up our Core Values?

Is it that WE DON'T GET IT?

Is it that we might become obsolete in our current form?

Is it because it's different?

What can teachers do?

Play video games with kids

Subscribe to a podcast (grammar girl)

Comment on a blog

"Shred" the internet layer by layer

Have research teams - Flickr, YouTube, etc

Do more things with parents - provide your blog feed to parents

So what are my core values?

LET GO