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Designing 21st Century Secondary Schools

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If you had it to do all over again, what would you change?

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

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Design Criteria

Will schools of the 21st Century require learning environments different from today?

Is building a school like buying a house?

Who will tell the architects what we want?

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Design Criteria

Design Principles

Design

Elements

Kids Needs: •Safe •Respect •Personal •Interests

Program, Facility, Transitions, Exhibitions, Advisories, Technology, Projects, Portfolios, Internships, Size and Teams

•Personalization

•Common Learning Goals

•Adult World Immersion

•Performance-Based Student Work & Assessment

•Experience•Real World•Workspace•Tools

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Schools for the 21st Century: Are You Ready?By Prakash NairThere are 15 trends happening in the field of education and related educational technology. Many of them have direct facility ramifications. Use them as a checklist to see how many of these trends your school facility is designed to accommodate.

1. Ubiquitous Computing:

2. Wireless Networking and Robust Internet Access:

3. Technology-intensive Teaching and Learning:

4. Emphasis on Informal Learning:

5. De-emphasis of Classroom:

6. Food Court vs. Cafeteria:

7. Shared Common Areas:

8. Imaginative Furniture Design:

9. Team-teaching, Non-Chronological Grouping and Inter-disciplinary Curriculums:

10. Emphasis on Service Learning:

11. Students Creating Products for Business:

12. Computer Labs Replaced by Distance Learning Electronic Studios:

13. More hi-tech Production Facilities:

14. Parent and Community Education Programs in Schools:

15. New Learning Partnerships with Other Schools and Universities:

Prakash Nair is President-Elect of UEF-21, Urban Educational Facilities for the 21st Century

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Bob Pearlman Director of Strategic Planning, New Technology Foundation

[email protected]://www.bobpearlman.org

Building Learning Communities 2004

July 19, 2004

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What knowledge and skills do students need for the 21st Century?

“Will this generation of learners have the skills and preparation to innovate?”

-- Barry Schuler, Former CEO, AOL

At NTHS Founder’s Day Event

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SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991)Competencies – effective workers can productively use:

•Resources -- identifying, organizing, planning, and allocating time, money, materials, and workers;

•Interpersonal Skills -- negotiating, exercising leadership, working with diversity, teaching others new skills, serving clients and customers, and participating as a team member;

•Information Skills -- using computers to process information and acquiring and evaluating, organizing and maintaining, and interpreting and communicating information;

•Systems Skills -- understanding systems, monitoring and correcting system performance, and improving and designing systems; and

•Technology utilization skills -- selecting technology, applying technology to a task, and maintaining and troubleshooting technology.

Source: What Work Requires of School, 1991, Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, U.S. Department of Labor

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SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991)The Foundation – competence requires:

•Basic Skills -- reading, writing, speaking, listening, and knowing arithmetic and mathematical concepts;

•Thinking Skills -- reasoning, making decisions, thinking creatively, solving problems, seeing things in the mind's eye, and knowing how to learn; and

•Personal Qualities -- responsibility, self-esteem, sociability,

self-management, integrity, and honesty.

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Job Outlook 2002, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

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Working in the Real World (i.e. California?)

•Projects, projects, projects

•Teamwork and collaboration

•Self-direction

•Interpersonal skills and Networking

•No one asks about your formal education

•Project Management, Leadership

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http://www.21stcenturyskills.org

Released June 21, 2004 at NECC, New Orleans

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So what do schools look like where students get 21st Century Knowledge and Skills?

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Designing 21st Century Secondary SchoolsThey don’t look like this!

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Teachers talk and students listen.

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Designing 21st Century Secondary SchoolsThe teacher has a monopoly on information

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Students learn by not doing

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How do we get them here?

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Strategies that Make a Difference

Engagement

Hands-on

Adult connections

Internships

Real World immersion

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At the core is a student centered, project and problem based

teaching strategy that is tied to both content standards and

school wide learning outcomes.

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PROJECT BASED LEARNING

PBL vs. Doing Projects

The Project is the Curriculum

Creating a “Need to Know”

Teacher Acts as a Coach

Focus on Skills (ESLRs)

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Designing 21st Century Secondary SchoolsTRAINING RESOURCE

The Buck Institute for EducationNovato, California

www.bie.org

TRAINING DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH

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Project Management

Teamwork

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Oral Communication/Presentation

Exhibition

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PersonalizationProjectsExhibitionsDigital Portfolios InternshipsTechnology

Reinventing the High School Experience

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New Technology High SchoolNapa, California

http://www.newtechhigh.org/

Integrating technology into every class

Interdisciplinary and project-based

Internship class consisting of classroom curriculum and unpaid work in technology, business or education

Digital Portfolio

http://www.newtechfoundation.org/nthlearning.html

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New Technology HS

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• TECHNOLOGY LITERACY

• COLLABORATION

• CRITICAL THINKING

• ORAL COMMUNICATION

• WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

• CAREER PREPARATION

• CITIZENSHIP AND ETHICS

• CURRICULAR LITERACY (CONTENT STANDARDS)

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TECHNOLOGY TOOLS

FOR …

Learning

Curriculum

Communication

Assessment

Scalability*

• Computerized Tutorials• On-Line Curriculum

• E-Library• Academic Systems

• Document Libraries• Project Design Template

• Project Standardization• Digital Textbooks

• Student E-Mail• Parent E-Bulletin

• Online Curriculum• Internship Coordination

• Digital Gradebooks• Student Journals

• Collaboration Database• Learning Logs

• PBL Unit Library• Customizable Templates

• Support Databases• Account Management

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TOOLS: PEER COLLABORATION EVALUATOR

Students submit evaluations using a standardized rubric for the whole school.

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TOOLS: PRESENTATION EVALUATION DATABASE

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COMMUNICATION TOOLS

STUDENT DATA COLLECTION

CURRICULUM LIBRARY

DIGITAL PORTFOLIO NTHS GRADEBOOK

COLLABORATION EVALUATOR

DISCUSSION BULLETIN BOARDS

What is the Learning System? The NTH Learning System™ is a set of tools and technologies that support a student-centered, project- and problem-based learning environment.

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Napa

Vallejo

Rohnert Park

Novato

Sacramento

Oakland (conversion)

Davis

Anderson

REPLICATION PROGRESS

Anchorage (AK)

Portland (OR)

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NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL

Study Tours and Visits

http://www.newtechfoundation.org

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Bob [email protected]

http://www.bobpearlman.org

"New Ingredient for Student Success: Social Networks" http://www.bobpearlman.org/Articles/Student_Success.htm

“Reinventing the High School Experience“

http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/edlead/0204/pearlman.html

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