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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.

Shifts focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement.

Share

Cooperate

Collaborate

Collective Action

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

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

Shifting From Shifting To

A teaching focus A learning focus

Teaching as a private event

Teaching as a collaborative practice

School improvement as an option

School improvement as a requirement

Mandated accountability

Mutual accountability

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

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

Laura Stockman- share, connect, collaborate, collective action

Matt Moe- share, connect, collaborate, collective action

Personal Learning Networks

Community-- in and out of the classroom

Are you “clickable”- Are your students?

• 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.

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.

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 lifeto 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

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”

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

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