the 4cs in the 21st c

The 4 Cs in the 21st CReimagining Learning

Will Richardsonwillrichardson.com@willrich45

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Friday, December 7, 12

Lots of Cs


Context



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Jacob Arnott14-year old Editor in Chief


CreativityCollaboration

CommunicationCritical Thinking

The 4 Cs


The 4 Cs


New reality


5th C


5th C6th C


CHANGEFriday, December 7, 12

Scarcity


ABUNDANCEFriday, December 7, 12

“The change we are in the middle of isn’t minor,and it isn’t optional.”

Clay Shirky


600,000 Apps2.5 Billion People

2 Trillion Webpages4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute

16,000 Tweets per second*Etc...

*Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration

ABUNDANCE


...A world marked by “ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous information, ubiquitous networks, at unlimited speed, about everything, everywhere, from anywhere, on all kinds of devices that make it ridiculously easy to connect, organize, share, collect, collaborate and publish.”

Michael Wesch


Media Politics

JournalismMedicineBooks

BusinessMusic...

Which is Changing:


New Reality

Teachers are everywhereClassrooms are everywhere

“School” is everywhere


215,284,446 Lessons Delivered


4 Cs?


New Question:

What is the value of school at a moment where we don’t need

school to do school?


New Question:


New Answer:

That which cannot be “Khanified.”


New Answer:



(and more)


New Reality

Schools need to be “different”...not just “better.”




(and more)

Our Value


Our New Value


Our New Value

Digital Creativity - Abundance of Tools


Our New Value

Digital Creativity - Abundance of ToolsVirtual Collaboration - Abundance of People


Our New Value

Digital Creativity - Abundance of ToolsVirtual Collaboration - Abundance of PeopleGlobal Communication - Abundance of Media


Our New Value

Digital Creativity - Abundance of ToolsVirtual Collaboration - Abundance of PeopleGlobal Communication - Abundance of MediaUbiquitous Critical Thinking - Abundance of

Content and Contexts


“Dots in Blue Water”South Adams HS, Berne, IN


“Dots in Blue Water”

1. Authentic Problem/Question“How can we purify water for people in Haiti?”



2. Student Directed TeamsResearch, Development, Marketing, Community “Investment"



3. Real Product/Real AudienceTeachers and students travelled to Haiti to install their devices.

5 systems = clean water for 8,000



Digital CreativityVirtual Collaboration

Global CommunicationUbiquitous Critical Thinking



Notes:

-Aligned to standards-Interdisciplinary-Student-centered-Technology-rich

-Innovative thinking


CHANGE(The World)


New Requirements

For our students.For our classrooms.

For ourselves.


New Requirements

Authentic Work


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New Requirements

Transparency


--Stephen Downes


New Requirements

Self-Direction


New Requirements

Literacy


New Requirements

• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology • Build relationships with others to pose and solve

problems collaboratively and cross-culturally • Design and share information for global communities to

meet a variety of purposes • Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of

simultaneous information • Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts • Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these

complex environments


New Requirements

Networks


Networks are the new classrooms.


“What can you do has been replaced by what can you and your network connections do. Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his contacts.”

Jay Cross


Where Do We Start?



(and more)


Where Do We Start?

With Us.


LEARNERS FIRST


LEARNERS FIRSTTeachers Second


“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned

find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that

no longer exists.”

Eric Hoffer


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