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Knowledge and Skills for the 21st Century

Bob Pearlman Director of Strategic Planning, New Technology Foundation

bobpearlman@mindspring.comhttp://www.bobpearlman.org

School to Career, New Orleans

June 28, 2004

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Dongguan

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Dongguan•7 million people. Grew from less than 1 million in 1979

•15,000 International Companies

•25,000 companies total -- 10,000 of them are computer related manufacturers, representing 40% of all international computer part market

•Ranked 7th in overall municipal competitiveness in China

•Ranked 3rd in goods exported, behind Shanghai and Shenzhen

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Bangalore

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Bangalore•Silicon Valley of India

•7.2 million people, 5th largest city in India (+ 1 billion people)

•86% literacy

•1154 IT SW companies in 2003, up from 29 in 1993

•116 new SW technology part units established in 2002-3Top Ten SW Exporters, 2002-03:

Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Wipro Ltd.

IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Digital Global Soft. Ltd.

I-Flex Solutions Ltd.

Texas Instruments

Cisco Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Mphasis BFL Ltd.

Philips Software Centre

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Small and Smaller: The third era of globalization is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny.

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, March 4, 2004

Globalization 1.0

From the late 1800's to World War I, was driven by falling transportation costs, thanks to the steamship and the railroad. shrank the world from a size large to a size medium.

Globalization 2.0

From the 1980's to 2000, was based on falling telecom costs and the PC, and shrank the world from a size medium to a size small.

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Small and Smaller: The third era of globalization is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny.

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, March 4, 2004

Globalization 3.0

Produced by three forces:

•Massive installation of undersea fiber-optic cable and bandwidth (thanks to the dot-com bubble) that have made it possible to globally transmit and store huge amounts of data for almost nothing.

•Second, the diffusion of PC's around the world.

•Third, the convergence of a variety of software applications — from e-mail, to Google, to Microsoft Office, to specially designed outsourcing programs — that, when combined with all those PC's and bandwidth, made it possible to

create global "work-flow platforms."

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What region or regions will be best poised to grow during the next recovery?

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Internet Cluster Regions – U.S.Boston

“Route 128”Boston

“Route 128”

New York —“Silicon Alley”New York —

“Silicon Alley”

Washington, D.C. “Silicon Dominion”Washington, D.C.

“Silicon Dominion”

Austin — “Silicon Hills”

Austin — “Silicon Hills”

Seattle —“Silicon Forest”

Seattle —“Silicon Forest”

ResearchTriangle

“Silicon Triangle”

ResearchTriangle

“Silicon Triangle”

Chicago“Silicon City”

Chicago“Silicon City”

Miami“Silicon Beach”

Miami“Silicon Beach”

Atlanta“Capital of the

New South”

Atlanta“Capital of the

New South”

Los Angeles “Digital Coast”Los Angeles

“Digital Coast”

San Francisco“Multimedia

Gulch”

San Francisco“Multimedia

Gulch”

Silicon ValleySilicon Valley

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Global Internet Cluster Regions

Japan“Bit Valley”

Canada“Silicon Valley North”

United Kingdom“Silicon Kingdom”

Scandinavia“Wireless Valley”

Germany“Silicon Saxony”

France“Telecom Valley”

Israel“Silicon wadi”

China/Hong Kong“Cyber Port”

India

Singapore“Intelligent Island”

United States

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Silicon Valley, 2000Silicon Valley, 2000

40% of workforce

in 7 high-tech clusters

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VALLEY OF HEART’S DELIGHT

Silicon Valley, 1970

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Source: Internet Cluster Analysis, 1999, A.T. Kearney, published by Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network

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1992-2001:

The longest expansion in US History

•H1-B visas

•The rise of Bangalore and Dongguan

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195,000 per year beginning 2001

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Czech students pose at a fast food restaurant in Fremont, Ohio

USA Work and Travel Programs

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TEC, Monterrey, Mexico

90,000 students in higher education learning technical and 21st Century Skills

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What knowledge and skills do students need for the 21st Century?

“Will this generation of learners have the skills and preparation to innovate?”

-- Barry Schuler, Former CEO, AOL

At NTHS Founder’s Day Event

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SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991)Competencies – effective workers can productively use:

•Resources -- identifying, organizing, planning, and allocating time, money, materials, and workers;

•Interpersonal Skills -- negotiating, exercising leadership, working with diversity, teaching others new skills, serving clients and customers, and participating as a team member;

•Information Skills -- using computers to process information and acquiring and evaluating, organizing and maintaining, and interpreting and communicating information;

•Systems Skills -- understanding systems, monitoring and correcting system performance, and improving and designing systems; and

•Technology utilization skills -- selecting technology, applying technology to a task, and maintaining and troubleshooting technology.

Source: What Work Requires of School, 1991, Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, U.S. Department of Labor

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SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991)The Foundation – competence requires:

•Basic Skills -- reading, writing, speaking, listening, and knowing arithmetic and mathematical concepts;

•Thinking Skills -- reasoning, making decisions, thinking creatively, solving problems, seeing things in the mind's eye, and knowing how to learn; and

•Personal Qualities -- responsibility, self-esteem, sociability,

self-management, integrity, and honesty.

 

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Job Outlook 2002, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

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Working in the Real World (i.e. California?)

•Projects, projects, projects

•Teamwork and collaboration

•Self-direction

•Interpersonal skills and Networking

•No one asks about your formal education

•Project Management, Leadership

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http://www.21stcenturyskills.org

Released June 21, 2004 at NECC, New Orleans

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So what do schools look like where students get 21st Century Knowledge and Skills?

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21st Century Knowledge and SkillsThey don’t look like this!

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Teachers talk and students listen.

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21st Century Knowledge and SkillsThe teacher has a monopoly on information

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Students learn by not doing

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How do we get them here?

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Strategies that Make a Difference

Engagement

Hands-on

Adult connections

Internships

Real World immersion

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At the core is a student centered, project and problem based

teaching strategy that is tied to both content standards and

school wide learning outcomes.

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PROJECT BASED LEARNING

PBL vs. Doing Projects

The Project is the Curriculum

Creating a “Need to Know”

Teacher Acts as a Coach

Focus on Skills (ESLRs)

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21st Century Knowledge and SkillsTRAINING RESOURCE

The Buck Institute for EducationNovato, California

www.bie.org

TRAINING DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH

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Project Management

Teamwork

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Oral Communication/Presentation

Exhibition

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PersonalizationProjectsExhibitionsDigital Portfolios InternshipsTechnology

Reinventing the High School Experience

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New Technology High SchoolNapa, California

http://www.newtechhigh.org/

Integrating technology into every class

Interdisciplinary and project-based

Internship class consisting of classroom curriculum and unpaid work in technology, business or education

Digital Portfolio

http://www.newtechfoundation.org/nthlearning.html

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New Technology HS

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• TECHNOLOGY LITERACY

• COLLABORATION

• CRITICAL THINKING

• ORAL COMMUNICATION

• WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

• CAREER PREPARATION

• CITIZENSHIP AND ETHICS

• CURRICULAR LITERACY (CONTENT STANDARDS)

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLS

FOR …

Learning

Curriculum

Communication

Assessment

Scalability*

• Computerized Tutorials• On-Line Curriculum

• E-Library• Academic Systems

• Document Libraries• Project Design Template

• Project Standardization• Digital Textbooks

• Student E-Mail• Parent E-Bulletin

• Online Curriculum• Internship Coordination

• Digital Gradebooks• Student Journals

• Collaboration Database• Learning Logs

• PBL Unit Library• Customizable Templates

• Support Databases• Account Management

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TOOLS: PEER COLLABORATION EVALUATOR

Students submit evaluations using a standardized rubric for the whole school.

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TOOLS: PRESENTATION EVALUATION DATABASE

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COMMUNICATION TOOLS

STUDENT DATA COLLECTION

CURRICULUM LIBRARY

DIGITAL PORTFOLIO NTHS GRADEBOOK

COLLABORATION EVALUATOR

DISCUSSION BULLETIN BOARDS

What is the Learning System? The NTH Learning System™ is a set of tools and technologies that support a student-centered, project- and problem-based learning environment.

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Napa

Vallejo

Rohnert Park

Novato

Sacramento

Oakland (conversion)

Davis

Anderson

REPLICATION PROGRESS

Anchorage (AK)

Portland (OR)

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NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL

Study Tours and Visits

http://www.newtechfoundation.org

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Bob Pearlmanbobpearlman@mindspring.org

http://www.bobpearlman.org

"New Ingredient for Student Success: Social Networks" http://www.bobpearlman.org/Articles/Student_Success.htm

“Reinventing the High School Experience“

http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/edlead/0204/pearlman.html