Resources

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beachhttp://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com

http://ncaect.wikispaces.com/

iPods in Vending Machines

Signs of the Times….

Are you Ready for 21st Century Teaching and Learning?

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

Some statistics-- Over 1 billion people on the Internet http://www.internetworldstats.com/

- 70 million blogs, 2.7 million posts a day.

- 80 new blog sites created every minute

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

A Changing World

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half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

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.ncacasi.org/jsi/2002v3i1/ten_trends

Personal learning networksSituated communities of practice

Trend 4 – Education Will Shift from Averages to Individuals. (Standardization to Personalization)

The trend toward standards and high-stakes testing will likely incite a movement toward ensuring that support is provided for individual students to reach high levels of learning.

Demand will grow for personalization rather than a system often driven by prescribed high-stakes tests that produce averages, demand uniformity, and sustain a scoreboard mentality.

Changing Learning Landscape

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.

Right before school started, the Minneapolis I-35 bridge collapsed and it really hit home for many of the locals.

We sent letters and interviewed locals about the issue.  It started out as a teacher-centered project, but the students quickly took over.  They decided to produce a You Tube video to educate the public.

The AP Statistics teacher, to help my students visualize their research.  The class made graphs so we could better comprehend our numbers.  My classes wrote the script and we started to brainstorm on the video.

 First semester, they were graded on their lobbying efforts, second semester, on community service, third quarter on their participation in the video, and fourth quarter they will write an essay or give an oral presentation on what they will take from this project.

Currently, we are planning a Skype with a class in Minneapolis to talk about their experience last fall.

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

Outsourcing Edc. Outsourcing Homework

"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

Need to develop adaptive expertise

In a world that is constantly changing we need to find balance.

Geetha Narayanan talks about the need for slow, wholesome learning. She looks at ways to bring people, technology, and learning together with a new conceptual framework.

• techo-skeptics

• techno-evangelists

• techno-minetics

Creativity

Creativity is now as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

If you're not prepared to be wrong then you will never come up with anything original.

We don't grow into creativity we grow out of it, or rather, we get educated out of it.

Ken Robinson

http://www.bloglines.com/blog/andrewch?id=4

Instill Curiosity

Encourage students to explore their interests and passions.

Be that teacher…

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

Dorothy ParkerThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Rethinking Teaching and Learning

1. Multiliterate

2. Change in pedagogy

3.Change in the way classrooms are managed

4.A move from deficit based instruction to strength based learning

5.Collaboration and communication Inside and Outside the classroom

6.

FORMAL INFORMAL

You go where the bus goes You go where you choose

Jay Cross – Internet Time

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

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

“Individuals gain more when they build on their talents, than when they make comparable efforts to improve their areas of weakness.”--Clifton & Harter, 2003, p. 112

Engaged Learning-

A positive energy invested in one’s own learning, evidenced by meaningful processing, attention to what is happening in the moment, and participation in learning activities.

From this

To This

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

Why does it work?

Appreciative Inquiry is a Shift

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

Albert Einstein

From learner centered to learner directed

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 Hard

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

Model how to develop PLNs

Take risks while they watch!