school 2.0 -- nassp
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Slidedeck from my presentation at the National Association of Secondary School Principals.TRANSCRIPT
School 2.0Creating The Schools We Need
Chris LehmannPrincipal
Science Leadership Academy
Who Is This Guy?
Why This Matters
My Bias:School 2.0 is Progressive Education with 21st Century Tools
More Bias:
Citizenry, Not Workforce
One Last Bias:Public Education = Democracy
Obsolete
Broken
Wasteland
Money Pits
Failing
What They Say About Us
The Problem Is...If we keep down our current path, they’re right.
The Great Big Question:How can we have so many passionate,
dedicated educators in our schools and still have so many problems?
Fix the System:Put a good person into a bad system and the
system will win every time.
Data Driven Decisions:Assume that you use good data -- and good
data ain’t cheap.
Our Biggest Problem:A Lack of Vision
There is no silver bullet.What do we need?
What do we value?
You Can’t Standardize:
Differentiated Instruction,Differentiated Schools
What the school system needs to understand is that its strength lies, not in the strength of the central organization, but in the strength of the individual school, not in making one school like another, but in making each school a distinct unit. The need of the system is the preservation of its units, so that each school can keep itself alive, wide awake, responsive to its people, easily adaptable, the best of its kind.
Angelo Patri -- A Schoolmaster of the Great City
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/838786841/
Photo by Ewan McIntosh
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
- John Cleese
We Learn BestWhen It Matters To Us
Things Are Different
How Do We Deal With That?
If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we
rob them of tomorrow.
John Dewey
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2225299236/
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler
Scary Thought:What are we willing to unlearn and relearn?
So Now What?
What do you value?
What is your vision of school?
My Two Cents:Thoughtful
Wise
Passionate
Kind
Pedagogy Matters.
A Lot.
Caring Institutions
We Teach Kids, Not Subjects
Inquiry-Driven
What are the questions we can ask together?
Student-Centered
It’s Not About Us.
Teacher-Mentored
Kids Need Adults
Community-Based
We can learn from many
Collaborative
Synthesis Works
Passionate
And it has to matter.
Integrated
The day has to make sense
Meta-Cognitive
We need to think about thinking.
Authentic
Assessment as Real and Transparent
What Do You Measure?
And Does That Match With What You Value?
Understanding-Driven
and Project-Based
Tests
Homework
Projects
Class Participation
TraditionalClassrooms: Recall-Based
Projects
Homework
Class Participation
Tests & Quizzes
The SchoolsWe Need:
Understanding-Driven
What Do We Gain?What Do We Lose?
But what about the tech?
Technology Must Be Like Oxygen
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible
Transparency:
We Can Invite the World to Our Schools
Relevance?
Paraphrasing Neil Postman:Certain Technologies Are Not Additive, They Are Transformative
Information Literacy and The “Prosumer”Find information
Analyze information
Synthesize information
Judge information
Create information
Share information
http://www.dhmo.org
ResearchCollaborate
CreatePresentNetwork
Research Collaborate Create Network Present
RSS Wikis Blogging Twitter uStream
Del.icio.us Google Docs Drupal Skype Flickr
Google Moodle Podcasting Facebook iTunes U
Wikipedia Digital Films IM Voicethread
A Convenient And Reasonably False Taxonomy
What is Teacher 2.0?
How is a teacher’s life different in this model?
What are the skills necessary to teach in this world?
How will you find new teachers?
How will you help older teachers to adapt?
Big Questions:
How will you create the time and space for your teachers
to learn?
How will you make your faculty meetings part of a
running, constant dialogue?
How will your values inform every thing you do?
What is the role of teacher in the age of Google?
Wisdom.
Keep In Touch:Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
http://www.practicaltheory.org
Twitter: chrislehmann
Skype: chrislehmann
EduCon 2.2 -- Jan. 29-31, 2010
http://educon22.wikispaces.com