shifts in learning

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beachsnbeach- Twitter, Skype, Diigosnbeach50- Delicioussnbeach@cox.net

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Are you Ready for Learning and Leading in the 21st

Century?

It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived! And schools who aren’t redefining themselves, risk becoming irrelevant in preparing students for the future.

Shift in Learning – The PossibilitiesRethinking teaching and learning…

1. Multiliterate

2. Changing Demographic

3. Active Content Creators

4. Global Collaboration and Communication

We are in the midst of seeing education transform from a book-based, linear system with a focus on individual achievement to an web-based, divergent system with a focus on community building.

Shift in Learning = New Possibilities

Shift from emphasis on teaching…

To an emphasis on co-learning

Shifting From Shifting To

A teaching focus A learning focus

School improvement as an option

School improvement as a requirement

Mandated accountability

Mutual accountability

Shifting From Shifting To

Learning at school Learning anytime/anywhere

Teaching as a private event Teaching as a public collaborative practice

Learning as passive

participant

Learning in a participatory culture

Learning as individuals

Linear knowledge

Learning in a networked community

Distributed knowledge

What do we need to unlearn?

Example: * I need to unlearn that classrooms are physical spaces.* I need to unlearn that learning is an event with a start and stop time to a lesson.

The Empire Strikes Back:LUKE:  Master, moving stones around is one thing.  This is totallydifferent.

YODA:  No!  No different!  Only different in your mind.  You must unlearnwhat you have learned.

Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0

We are living in a new economy – powered by technology, fueled by information, and driven by knowledge.

-- Futureworks: Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century

By the year 2011 80% of all Fortune 500 companies will be using immersive worlds – Gartner Vice President Jackie Fenn

Some statistics-

- 1 billion people on the Internet - 70 million blogs, 1.7 million posts a day.-80 new blog sites created every minute

“None of the top 10 jobs that will exist in 2010 exist today." -- Richard Riley, (Former US Sec. of Ed.)

A Changing World

"Jobs in the new economy--the ones that won't get outsourced or automated--"put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos." --

Marc Tucker, (an author of the skills-commission report and president of the National Center on Education and the Economy*

It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes of unique new information

will be generated worldwide this year.

That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.

Knowledge Creation

For students starting a four-year technical or higher education degree, this means that . . .

half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

Time Travel

Lewis Perelman, author of School's Out (1992). Perelman argues that schools are out of sync with technological change:

...the technological gap between the school environment and the "real world" is growing so wide, so fast that the classroom experience is on the way to becoming not merely unproductive but increasingly irrelevant to normal human existence (p.215).

Seymour Papert (1993) In the wake of the startling growth of science and technology in our recent past, some areas of human activity have undergone megachange. Telecommunications, entertainment and transportation, as well as medicine, are among them. School is a notable example of an area that has not(p.2).

How has the world shifted since you and I went to school?

How have students shifted since you and I went to school?

How have schools shifted/or not shifted since you and I went to school?

Trend 1 – Social and intellectual capital are the new economic values in the world economy.

This new economy will be held together and advanced through the building of relationships. Unleashing and connecting the collective knowledge, ideas, and experiences of people creates and heightens value.

Source:Journal of School Improvement, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2002http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/wallaradistrict/files/links/Ten_Trends_Educating_Child.pdf

“Schools are a node on the network of learning.”

Personal Learning Networks

Community-- in and out of the classroom

Are you “clickable”- Are your students?

FORMAL INFORMAL

You go where the bus goes You go where you choose

Jay Cross – Internet Time

http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepaper.pdf

MULTI-CHANNEL APPROACHSYNCHRONOUS

ASYNCHRONOUS

PEER TO PEER WEBCAST

Instant messenger

forumsf2f

blogsphotoblogs

vlogs

wikis

folksonomies

Conference rooms

email Mailing lists

CMS

Community platformsVoIP

webcam

podcasts

PLE

Worldbridges

Learning to Change: Changing to Learn

Shifts focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement.

Share

Cooperate

Collaborate

Collective Action

According to Clay Shirky, there are four steps on a ladder to mastering the connected world: sharing, cooperating, collaborating, and collective action.

From his book- “Here Comes Everybody”

TPCK Model

There is a new model that helps us think about how to develop technological pedagogical content knowledge. You can learn more about this model at the website:

http://tpck.org/tpck/index.php?title=TPCK_-_Technological_Pedagogical_Content_Knowledge

• 9000 School• 35,000 math and science teachers in 22 countries

How are teachers using technology in their instruction?

Law, N., Pelgrum, W.J. & Plomp, T. (eds.) (2008). Pedagogy and ICT use in schools around the world: Findings from the IEA SITES 2006 study. Hong Kong: CERC-Springer, the report presenting results for 22 educational systems participating in the IEA SITES 2006, was released by Dr Hans Wagemaker, IEA Executive Director and Dr Nancy Law, International Co-coordinator of the study.

SITE 2006IEA Second Information Technology in

Education Study

Increased technology use does not lead to student learning. Rather, effectiveness of technology use depended on teaching approaches used in conjunction with the technology.

How you integrate matters- not just the technology alone.

It needs to be about the learning, not the technology. And you need to choose the right tool for the task.

As long as we see content, technology and pedagogy as separate- technology will always be just an add on.

Findings

See yourself as a curriculum designer– owners of the curriculum you teach.

Honor creativity (yours first, then the student’s)

Repurpose the technology! Go beyond simple “use” and “integration” to innovation!

Teacher as Designer

Spiral – Not Linear Development

Technology USE

Mechanical

Technology Integrate

Meaningful

Technology Innovate

Generative

It is never just about content. Learners are trying to get better at something.

It is never just routine. It requires thinking with what you know and pushing further.

It is never just problem solving. It also involves problem finding.

It’s not just about right answers. It involves explanation and justification.

It is not emotionally flat. It involves curiosity, discovery, creativity, and community.

It’s not in a vacuum. It involves methods, purposes, and forms of one of more disciplines, situated in a social context.

David Perkins- Making Learning Whole

21st Century Learning – Check List

Letting Student Passion and Interest Rule the Curriculum

Lisa Duke's students at First Flight High School in the Outer Banks in NC created this video as part of a service project in her Civics and Economics course curriculum.

Focus on Possibilities–Appreciate “What is”

–Imagine “What Might Be”–Determine “What Should Be”

–Create “What Will Be”Blossom Kids

Classic Problem Solving Approach

– Identify problem

– Conduct root cause analysis

– Brainstorm solutions and analyze

– Develop action plans/interventions

Most families, schools, organizations function on an unwritten rule…

–Let’s fix what’s wrong and let the strengths take care of themselves

Speak life lifeto your students and teachers…

–When you focus on strengths, weaknesses become irrelevant

Spending most of your time in your area of weakness—while it will improve your skills, perhaps to a level of “average”—will NOT produce excellence

This approach does NOT tap into student motivation or lead to student engagement

The biggest challenge facing us as educators: how to engage the hearts and minds of the learners

What will be our legacy…• Bertelsmann Foundation Report: The Impact of Media and Technology in

Schools

– 2 Groups

– Content Area: Civil War

– One Group taught using Sage on the Stage methodology

– One Group taught using innovative applications of technology and project-based instructional models

• End of the Study, both groups given identical teacher-constructed tests of their knowledge of the Civil War.

Question: Which group did better?

Answer…

No significant test differences were found

However… One Year Later

– Students in the traditional group could recall almost nothing about the historical content

– Students in the traditional group defined history as: “the record of the facts of the past”

– Students in the digital group “displayed elaborate concepts and ideas that they had extended to other areas of history”

– Students in the digital group defined history as:

“a process of interpreting the past from different perspectives”

Change is inevitable: Growth is Optional

Change produces tension- out of our comfort zone.

“Creative tension- the force that comes into play at the moment we acknowledge our vision is at odds with the current reality.” Senge

Real Question is this:Are we willing to change- to risk change- to meet the needs of the precious folks we serve?

Can you accept that Change (with a “big” C) is sometimes a messy process and that learning new things together is going to require some tolerance for ambiguity.

Last Generation