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"Old School" or "Bold School"? Redefining our Value in an Era of Abundance

Will Richardsonwill@willrichardson.comwillrichardson.com@willrich45

Wednesday, December 5, 12

“What can you do has been replaced by what can you and your network connections do.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

New reality

CHANGEWednesday, December 5, 12

Scarcity

ABUNDANCEWednesday, December 5, 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

Media Politics

JournalismMedicineBooks

BusinessMusic...

Which is Changing:

K-12 Education

194,508,576 Lessons Delivered

“We don’t know one-millionth of one percent about anything.”

Thomas Edison

Which is Changing:

Higher Education

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Scarcity

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Scarcity

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Scarcity

Abundance

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Scarcity

Abundance

Information ≠ Education

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Scarcity

Abundance

Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.

of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.

Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.

of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.

“This is the tsunami.”--Richard DeMillo, Ga. Tech

change

CHANGEWednesday, December 5, 12

“I believe that the computer presence will enable us to so modify the learning environment outside the classrooms that much if not all the knowledge schools presently try to teach with such pain and expense and such limited success will be learned, as the child learns to talk, painlessly, successfully, and without organized instruction. This obviously implies that schools as we know them today will have no place in the future. But it is an open question whether they will adapt by transforming themselves into something new or wither away and be replaced.”

Seymour Papert

Reactions/Discussion

How do we react in the face of rapid, radical changes in the world?

Key Question

BE BOLDWednesday, December 5, 12

1. Learning Centered2. Inquiry Driven3. Authentic Work

4. Digital5. Connected

6. Literate7. Transparent8. Innovative

9. Provocative

Nine Qualities

1. Bold Schools are Learning and Learner Centered

Students and teachers direct their own learning and connect to their passions.

Nine Qualities

1. Bold Schools are Learning and Learner Centered

Pick one outcome and tell students to design their own path to that outcome and their own assessment.

Bold Move

2. Bold Schools are Inquiry Driven

Learning is focused around exploring answers to “big questions”

Nine Qualities

2. Bold Schools are Inquiry Driven

Focus on “discovery” not “delivery”.

Bold Move

3. Bold Schools Support Authentic Work

Students and teachers create real work for real audiences and real purposes.

Nine Qualities

3. Bold Schools Support Authentic Work

Let students create work that lives in the world, not in the classroom.

Bold Move

4. Bold Schools are Digital

Students and teachers have access to and fluency with technology.

Nine Qualities

4. Bold Schools are Digital

Consider BYOD. Teachers first.

Bold Move

5. Bold Schools are Connected

Students and teachers regularly learn from and with people online.

Nine Qualities

5. Bold Schools are Connected

Think of classrooms as having thin walls.

Bold Move

6. Bold Schools are Literate(by 21st Century Standards)

Students and teachers meet NCTE guidelines for modern readers and writers.

Nine Qualities

• 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

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NCTE Literacies

6. Bold Schools are Literate(by 21st Century Standards)

Make literacy work a part of annual learning plans and evaluations.

Bold Move

7. Bold Schools are Transparent

Students and teachers widely share best practices and reflections on their learning.

Nine Qualities

7. Bold Schools are Transparent

Create public online spaces that showcases teacher and student practice and thinking.

Bold Move

8. Bold Schools are Innovative

All learners are encouraged to “poke the box” and experiment with practice.

Nine Qualities

8. Bold Schools are Innovative

Support a “20%” type schedule.

Bold Move

9. Bold Schools are Provocative

Conversations around change extend to parents, communities, and local, state and national governments.

Nine Qualities

9. Bold Schools are Provocative

Regularly share news about reform and learning with parents and community members.

Bold Move

1. Learning Centered2. Inquiry Driven3. Authentic Work

4. Digital5. Connected

6. Literate7. Transparent8. Innovative

9. Provocative

Nine Qualities

Reactions/Discussion

How do we get there?

LEARNERS FIRST

LEARNERS FIRSTTeachers Second

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