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Are you Ready for Learning and Leading in the 21st Century?

It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived! And schools who aren’t redefining themselves, risk becoming irrelevant in preparing students for the future.

You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

Web 3.0Singularity

By the year 2011 80% of all Fortune 500 companies will be using immersive worlds – Gartner Vice President Jackie Fenn

Some statistics-

- 1 billion people on the Internet - 50 new blog sites created every minute- Our President elect uses 21st Century to describe everything related to the changes he hopes to implement!

“None of the top 10 jobs that will exist in 2010 exist today." -- Richard Riley, (Former US Sec. of Ed.)

A Changing World

"Jobs in the new economy--the ones that won't get outsourced or automated--"put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos." --

Marc Tucker, (an author of the skills-commission report and president of the National Center on Education and the Economy*

It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes of unique new information

will be generated worldwide this year.

That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.

Knowledge Creation

For students starting a four-year technical or higher education degree, this means that . . .

half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

Time Travel

Lewis Perelman, author of School's Out (1992). Perelman argues that schools are out of sync with technological change:

...the technological gap between the school environment and the "real world" is growing so wide, so fast that the classroom experience is on the way to becoming not merely unproductive but increasingly irrelevant to normal human existence (p.215).

Seymour Papert (1993) In the wake of the startling growth of science and technology in our recent past, some areas of human activity have undergone megachange. Telecommunications, entertainment and transportation, as well as medicine, are among them. School is a notable example of an area that has not(p.2).

Shifts focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement.

Share

Cooperate

Collaborate

Collective Action

According to Clay Shirky, there are four steps on a ladder to mastering the connected world: sharing, cooperating, collaborating, and collective action.

From his book- “Here Comes Everybody”

Trend 1 – Social and intellectual capital are the new economic values in the world economy.

This new economy will be held together and advanced through the building of relationships. Unleashing and connecting the collective knowledge, ideas, and experiences of people creates and heightens value.

Source:Journal of School Improvement, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2002http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/wallaradistrict/files/links/Ten_Trends_Educating_Child.pdf

Trend 7 – Technology will increase the speed of communication and the pace of advancement or decline.

Using participatory media educators will help today’s students shape tomorrow’s world.

Teachers will become partners with students- using learning communities to open the classroom to the world. They will deal with real world problems and opportunities while gaining a global perspective.

Source: enGauge 21st Century Skills

• Critical thinking and problem-solving

• Collaboration across networks and leading by influence

• Agility and adaptability

• Initiative and entrepreneurialism

• Effective oral and written communication

• Accessing and analyzing information

• Curiosity and imagination

Tony Wagner’s Seven Survival Skills as defined in his most recent book, The Global Achievement Gap.

Partnership for 21st Century Skills Ken Kay on 21st Century Professional Development

• Ensure educators understand the importance of 21st century skills and how to integrate them into daily instruction.

• Enable collaboration among all participants.

• Allow teachers and principals to construct their own learning communities.

• Tap the expertise within a school or school district through coaching, mentoring and team teaching.

• Support educators in their role of facilitators of learning.

• Use 21st century tools

Mutual accountabilityMandated accountability

School improvement as a requirement

School improvement as an option

Teaching as a collaborative practice

Teaching as a private event

A learning focusA teaching focus

Shifting ToShifting From

“Schools are a node on the network of learning.”

FORMAL INFORMAL

You go where the bus goes You go where you choose

Jay Cross – Internet Time

http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepaper.pdf

MULTI-CHANNEL APPROACHSYNCHRONOUS

ASYNCHRONOUS

PEER TO PEER WEBCAST

Instant messenger

forumsf2f

blogsphotoblogs

vlogs

wikis

folksonomies

Conference rooms

email Mailing lists

CMS

Community platformsVoIP

webcam

podcasts

PLE

Worldbridges

Letting Student Passion and Interest Rule the Curriculum

Lisa Duke's students at First Flight High School in the Outer Banks in NC created this video as part of a service project in her Civics and Economics course curriculum.

Rethinking Teaching and Learning

• Multiliterate

• Change in pedagogy

• Change in the way classrooms are managed

• A move from deficit based instruction to strength based learning

• Collaboration and communication Inside and Outside the classroom

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Focus on Possibilities

–Appreciate “What is”–Imagine “What Might Be”

–Determine “What Should Be”–Create “What Will Be”

Blossom Kids

Classic Problem Solving Approach

– Identify problem– Conduct root cause analysis– Brainstorm solutions and analyze– Develop action plans/interventions

, , Most families schools organizations function

on an unwritten rule…

–Let’s fix what’s wrong and let the strengths take care of themselves

Speak life life to your students and teachers…

–When you focus on strengths, weaknesses become irrelevant

Spending most of your time in your area of weakness—while it will improve your skills, perhaps to a level of “average”—will NOT produce excellence

This approach does NOT tap into student motivation or lead to student engagement

The biggest challenge facing us as educators: how to engage the hearts and minds of the learners

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

-- Leonardo da Vanci

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Alan Cohen

What will be our legacy…

• Bertelsmann Foundation Report: The Impact of Media and Technology in Schools

– 2 Groups

– Content Area: Civil War

– One Group taught using Sage on the Stage methodology

– One Group taught using innovative applications of technology and project-based instructional models

• End of the Study, both groups given identical teacher-constructed tests of their knowledge of the Civil War.

Question: Which group did better?

Answer…

No significant test differences were found

However… One Year Later– Students in the traditional group could recall almost nothing about the

historical content

– Students in the traditional group defined history as: “the record of the facts of the past”

– Students in the digital group “displayed elaborate concepts and ideas that they had extended to other areas of history”

– Students in the digital group defined history as:

“a process of interpreting the past from different perspectives”

Learning to Change: Changing to Learn

Define Community

A Definition of Community

Communities are quite simply, collections of individuals who are bound together by natural will and a set of shared ideas and ideals.

“A system in which people can enter into relations that are determined by problems or shared ambitions rather than by rules or structure.” (Heckscher, 1994, p. 24).

The process of social learning that occurs when people who have a common interest in some subject or problem collaborate over an extended period to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations. (Wikipedia)

Characteristics of a healthy community

http://archofphiladelphiaplp.wikispaces.com/

The driving engine of the collaborative culture of a PLC is the team. They work together in an ongoing effort to discover best practices and to expand their professional expertise.

PLCs are our best hope for reculturing schools. We want to focus on shifting from a culture of teacher isolation to a culture of deep and meaningful collaboration.

Professional Learning Communities

Knowledge: An understanding of the transformative potential of Web 2.0 tools in a global perspective and context, and how those potentials can be realized in schools.

Pedagogy: An understanding of the shifting learning literacies that the 21 Century demands and how those literacies inform teacher practice.

Planned Outcomes

“The most positive aspect is the teaching of fellow educators to use these tools and student involvement and interest. I love being able to captivate the classroom and get them excited about assignments using web 2.0 tools.”

- PLP 2007-08 participant

Connections: The development of sustained professional learning networks for team members to begin experimenting and sharing with other team members and online colleagues from around the world.

Sustainability: The creation of long term plans to move the vision forward in participating districts at the end of the program.

Capacity: An increase in the abilities and resources of individuals, teams and the community to manage change.

Planned Outcomes

“The best part of PLP was learning and growing with my team. I am using tools I didn't even know existed before this year. I modeled in a regular meeting and taught other staff through the process enough for them to say they will go back and use it in their classrooms. I want to learn more and use it to help teachers in the district support one another to excellence.”

- WNY District level curriculum coach

“PLP helped us deve lop a 3 year plan to incorporate our web2.0 too ls and staff development for the enti re school . Also the connections that were made in an inspir ing and non-threatening way.”

- District Superintendent.

TEAM PROJECTS•Teams work as PLTs to co-create a project:

1) Develop a creative PD plan to share (scale) what you have learned over the past few years with the rest of your school or district.

2) Develop a 21st Century curriculum project that is constructivist in nature that leverages the potential of the emerging technologies for connecting and collaboration. “The project allowed me to

work closely with other people in my district in order to accomplish a common goal. Discussing projects from the other districts was very informative!”- school level technology coordinator

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Change is inevitable: Growth is Optional

Change produces tension- out of our comfort zone.

“Creative tension- the force that comes into play at the moment we acknowledge our vision is at odds with the current reality.” Senge

Real Question is this:Are we willing to change- to risk change- to meet the needs of the precious folks we serve?

Can you accept that Change (with a “big” C) is sometimes a messy process and that learning new things together is going to require some tolerance for ambiguity.

Last Generation