We all know the world has changed and is doing so exponentiallyBut connecting the dots as to what the implications are for schools is challenging

Lest you think this is only about technology…I hope you reconsiderCertainly technology is embedded in the shift and at times drives it butClassrooms and schools are trying to respond to the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s learners

I don’t have all the answers and often have more questions but we’re trying to put together some ideas and principles that we think will help schools focus their attention

Creating and Understandinga Blueprint for Learning

Dean ShareskiPrairie South Administrator’s RetreatSeptember 28,2007

Participants are asked key questions to respond to the “Did you Know” video

What are some key implications for your schools?What is your school already beginning to address?What is necessary for future steps?

Constructing MeaningConstructing Meaning

This is the overall guiding principles for Prairie South

This is a starting point for changeNot the be all end allTerms are markers and reflective of a changing society

Web 1.0 vs.

Web 2.0

Web 1.0

Still focused on experts or those will the ability to publish…small numbers

Information streamed down to classrooms Sage on the stage simply lived in cyberspace

How is this different?

Digital doesn’t make it meaningful. Same process as always…it’s just digital

Web

2point0Web 2.0 simply refers to the ability of anyone to publish, remix and participate fully in learningCreating knowledge is now open to everyone

Publishing is easyEmpowering

Connecting is expected Your learning network is no longer confined to your class, your school, your school division or even your province

Disruptive A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology or status quo product in the market.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHwV2JuwZls

StupidUselessWaste of Time

This is often the initial responseMost adults don’t understand this kind of learningWhat does it have to do with real life?

How about quadratic equations?

Talk about assessment…9,000 comments1 million views

No wonder kids spend time creating stuff like this

Look at the reaction of the MOM

She doesn’t get it…neither do most adults

Illustrates why we need to be more active and involved in new forms of learning and expression.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNG3sgk02Lc

How much learning took place here with a teacher?Who taught them this?How long would this take to learn?

Why are students spending countless hours learning to do this?

Feedback…audience…..fun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Em36g-vlOY

Garden of Communication

Beautiful creation using database and communicationThis type of work makes more sense to us but is borne from the same creative, individualized form of learning

http://www.heppell.net/bva2/pages/ravensbournecollege1.htm

We need to unlearn the idea that we are the sole content experts in the classroom, because we can now connect our kids to people who know far more than we do about the material we're teaching.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick_q/98179665/

Will Richardson says:

This isn’t Kansas anymore

The Human Network

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x60pWzJvb9Q