The Times They Are A-Changin’...

Web 2.0 and Instructional Leadership

Principals’ Short CourseJuly 4, 2007

The 21st Century LearnerWeb 2.0

Challenges

An introduction to the dynamics of the 21st Century learner and the new web tools which facilitate

administration, communication and learning.

How can one create a learning environment in the classroom, the school and the school division to enable...

..."the simultaneous personal and public experience of using all of the tools at the teacher’s disposal to tear down walls, collaborate with each another, and question the traditional role of technology in the classroom"?

Ben Wilkoffhttp://yongesonne.edublogs.org/

Image: Brian Grenier

How do we ensure that every child has...

...access to the skills and experiences needed to become a full participant in the social, cultural, economic and political future of our society?

...the ability to articulate his or her understanding of how media shapes perceptions of the world?

...been socialized into the emerging ethical standards that should shape their practices as media makers and as participants in online communities?

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century

The 21st Century Learner

immediatefast

multi-taskersconnected

socialoptimisticre-mixers

valued

digital natives96% online

seek personal infocontent creatorsvisual learners

gamers

teachers are vitalshallow tech understanding

informal learners

Web 2.0: Trends in Technology

ConversationCollaboration

CreationContribution

Donna’s Bloglines Account

Donna’s Protopage

Donna’s PageFlakes

Content Creators“We are the Web”

Early Literacy Blog

Classroom Tech Tips

Blogging = Conversation

I Am David

Mrs. Sparrow’s Grade One Blogs

Educational Discourse

Podcasting = Creation

TTTK

Audio Tools = Conversation

Wikis = Collaboration

Learning and Technology

The Discovery Utopia Project

Social Bookmarking

Tagging

Donna’s Bookmarks

Photosharing = Creation

Videosharing

History of Technology

Social Networks

Classroom 2.0

Virtual Worlds

Productivity ToolsThe browser as platform

My favourite OS is Firefox, because all my favourite apps (Google search, gmail, google docs, google notebook, etc.) work on it.

Rob Wall

• Flat classroom

• Horizon

• International Teen Life

• TeenTec

Contribution

We’ll need to rethink a few things

We’ll need to rethink

...copyright

...authorship

...identity

...ethics

...aesthetics

...rhetorics

...governance

...privacy

...commerce

...love

...family

...ourselves

From: The Machine is Using/Us

Protection or Education?

Our children need to be protected frompredatorseach otherthemselves

Information has changed...

networked

digital

overwhelming

fluid

Rethink Literacy

What should we teach?

authorshipcopyright

media productionmedia sharingmedia literacy

authorityevaluation

authentication

filteringanchoringconnecting

acceptance of uncertaintypattern recognition

digital citizenshipglobal citizenship

We need to rethink professional development

Connaught Summer WorkshopinTECH Mentorship Project

K-12 Online Conference

School 2.0...

It’s about understanding a world in which connections and communicating with others is at the foundation of how we learn.

Through creating our own knowledge, not from what a teacher tells us, but rather from what we read, listen to, and watch ourselves is far more powerful.

School 2.0 needs to be about creating knowledge, analyzing information, and evaluating both.

Jeff Utecht

ResourcesConfronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture:

Media Education for the 21St Century

Coming of Age: An Introduction to the New World Wide Web

The Horizon Report, 2007 Edition

Educating the Net Generation

Young Canadians in a Wired World

Pew Internet and American Life Research

Creative Commons Search (Flickr Photos)

Donna DesRochesLearning Resources Consultant

Living Sky School DivisionNorth Battleford, SK

Canada