Classrooms Of The Future Presentaiton

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Our Students - Our Worlds

Classrooms for the Future

Teaching & Learning in a New Information Landscape


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Prepared to work in straight rows, performing repetitive tasks, under close supervision.


Three C

onverging Conditions

Three converging conditions, that are redefining what it is to educate and to be educated…


"How Much Information." School of Inormation Management & Systems. 2000. Regents of the

University of California. 13 March, 2001.

<http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-

info/summary.html>.



For the first time in history

Our job as educators

Is to prepare our children

For a future

That We can not clearly describe.


Three C


Preparing students for a future we can not

clearly describe.

1st converging condition…


• Did you know that …If Wal-Mart was a country, it would now be China's eighth-biggest trading partner…?

• Did you know that …UPS ships 13.5 million packages a day… At any given moment, 2% of the world's GDP is in the back of a UPS delivery truck?

Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.


• Did you know that …in 2003, Chinese students graduating with engineering degrees represented 46% of all graduates. In the US it was only 5%.

• Almost half of NASA’s 18,146 employees are over 50 years old.

• NASA Employees over the age of 60 out number those under 30

By a margin of 3 to 1


Richard Florida says…

– Lose 500,000 manufacturing jobs

+ Gain 200,000 Science & Engineering jobs

+ 400,000 creative arts jobs (visual arts, music, drama, culture, & entertainment)

Florida, Richard. The Flight of the Creative Class. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.


He’s not investing in the technology!

He’s investing inthe Story!


They were born after• The Reagan era• The Persian Gulf War• The walkman

Most of them were born after• The breakup of the

Soviet Union• Tiananmen Square

• Compact Discs had been around for a decade.

They have never• Played Pac Man or Pong• Listened to an 8-track• Purchased a vinyl album

• Seen a TV with less than 100 channels

• Heard “Where’s the Beef?”, “I’d walk a mile for a camel”, or “de plane, de plane.”

They’re Smart & Connectedand very few have any formative recollection of the 20th century

Our Children are Different


A Story from a Techie

Vinod Khosla

Founding CEO of Sun Microsystems

• Children believe that..

“…everything is clickable,

Khosla, Vinod."ITConversations." Vinod Khosla: In Conversations with John Battelle. Web 2.0 Conference, San Francisco. 5 Oct 2005. Audio Archive. 25 Nov 2005 <http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail796.html>.

even their parents.”

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Three C



clearly describe.

Preparing children who are accustomed to a rich

& deep information experience

2nd Converging Condition…


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:224Waste of Money Brains and Time


• Got Game by John Beck & Mitchell Wade

• The Kids are Alright: How the Gamer Generation is Changing the Workplace by John Beck & Mitchell Wade

• What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee

• Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning! By Marc Prensky

• How Computer Games Help Children Learn By David Williamson Shaffer

Video Games


• Games consist of Roles & Rules

David Williamson

Shaffer

Epistemic Games

University of Wisconsin


Video Game

Computer

Audio Images Actors

Video Editing

Software

Machinima


We see information as a

product

They see information as a raw material

Duss, Leslie. "Reading.JPG." Leslie Duss' Photostream. 21 Mar 2006. 28 Jul 2007 <http://flickr.com/photos/leslieduss/150799155/>.Harris, Steve. "Always Here." Steveharris' Photostream. 9 Sep 2006. 28 Jul 2007 <http://flickr.com/photos/sharris/238772338/>.


Web 1.0


Web 2.0


Web 2.0

http://wikipedia.org/


Web 2.0

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Davis, Matthew. "Congress 'Made Wikipedia Changes'." BBCNews 9 Feb 2006 12 Nov 2006 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4695376.stm>.

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Heidigoseek, "AADL - New Books." Heidigoseek's Photostream. 20 Mar 2006. 13 Nov 2006 <http://flickr.com/photos/heidigoseek/115581765/>.Althouse, Ann. "September 11th News." Ann Althouse's Photostream. 11 Sep 2005. 13 Nov 2006 <http://flickr.com/photos/althouse/42300120/>.

Who am I to trust? Who’s going to be my gatekeeper?


What does it mean to be literate today?

• Reading?

• Arithmetic?

• Writing?



Three C



clearly describe.



Preparing children in a new and dynamic information landscape

3rd Converging Condition…


Anderson, Chris. "The Long Tail." WIRED Magazine Oct 2004. 17 Mar 2005 <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html>.

TheLong

Tail


Blogging has given my six and seven-year olds a window to the world. They see themselves as part of a global community--a community that shares... This international audience gives my students a purpose and they are motivated to do their best writing on their blog.

Kathy Cassidy

I worried about making my students’ developing language skills available to a wider audience – but I needn't have. They are developing their own voice and with a greater degree of

responsibility. Paul Harrington

Without a doubt the children that find their voices first and carry the most enthusiasm for blogging are my special needs children. Students who would agonize over a sentence are writing prolifically about their lives. (…the improvements in writing are steadily making their way back to paper and pencil!)

Elsie

Student bloggers…– Feel part of a global

community,

– Exhibit a sense of responsibility,

– Are empowered learners, particularly special needs students.


ResponsibleLearners



• Reading?

• Arithmetic?

• Writing?




• Reading?

• Arithmetic?

• Writing?

» Exposing truth

» Employing information

» Expressing ideas

compellingly



Ethics Ethics Ethics

Spam

• ..cost the world $50 billion dollars in 2005 (U.S. $19b).

• Expected to double in 2007.According to the Copenhagen Consensus

We could bring HIV/AIDS under control for less than $35 billion.

Jennings, Richi. “Spam and Other Email Threats: Market and Technology Update.” Ferris Research. 8 Jun 2007. Ferris Research. 9 Jun 2007 <http://www.ferris.com/>.

Kerr, Roger. “Hard-Hedaded Spending Decisions not Cold-Hearted.” BusinessROUNDTABLE. 2 Jul 2004. New Zealand Business Roundtable. 9 Jun 2007 <http://www.nzbr.org.nz/documents/articles/articles-2004/040702Copenhagen.htm>



• Reading?

• Arithmetic?

• Writing?

» Exposing truth

» Employing information

» Expressing ideas

compellingly

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Learners Learners

Curriculum, Content &Teachers

Gravit

y Gravity

Our Classrooms are Flat

From the perspective of their information

experience, our students are more

literate than we are!

Learners LearnersCurriculum

ContentTeachers

Lenhart, Amanda and Mary Madden. "Teen Content Creators and Consumers...." Pew Internet & American Life Project. 2 Nov 2005. Pew Charitable Trust. 9 Aug 2007 <http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Teens_Content_Creation.pdf>.

57% of teenagers have produced original digital content and published it.


Vinod Khosla

Founding CEO of Sun Microsystems

• Content today is the dominant thing. But one thing that I can say, is that

• …it is going to be the company that can grow and maintain audiences (not content).

Khosla, Vinod."ITConversations." Vinod Khosla: In Conversations with John Battelle. Web 2.0 Conference, San Francisco. 5 Oct 2005. Audio Archive. 25 Nov 2005 <http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail796.html>.


Energy from Intrinsic Need To…• Work in responsive environments• Communicate• Share personal experience & identity

• Form & participate in communities• Ask questions• Accomplish

• Invest themselves• Safely make mistakes• Earn audience and attention

Audience Chat, "Our Students • Our Worlds." Miami Country Day School. Multipurpose Room, Miami. 14 Aug 2007.




Preparing children in a new and dynamic information landscape

Three C



clearly describe.

Teach Students to Teach Themselves

Pay attention to students’ information

experiences

Rethink the basic Skills “redefine literacy”


Not just literacy!

But learning literacy!


Not just skills!

But habits!


Not just lifelong-learning!

But learning lifestyle…


Bottom Line?

so we shouldn’t be preparing children for a future of security.

Instead, we should prepare them for a future of opportunity…

and that’s done differently!

The future is not secure,


Thank You!

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