leading, learning and the modern school
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Slides from the FETC Keynote - 1/31/14TRANSCRIPT
Leading, Learning and the Modern School
Chris LehmannScience Leadership AcademyPhiladelphia, PA@chrislehmann
Why This Matters
My Bias:
Old Ideas and New Tools
More Bias:
Citizenry, Not Workforce
One Last Bias:
Public Education = Democracy
School Stinks
Do What You’re ToldOver and over and over again...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/195707530/
Stuff You Might Never Need... or care about.
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_123031_862743_0_0_18/PSSA_Item_Sampler_Math_Grade_11_2009.pdf
“Why Do I Need to Know This?”
It will be on the test...
You’re going to need it some day...It’ll h
elp you get a job...
It looks good on a college resume...It’s a required class...
(because someone told me I had to learn it / teach it.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benrussell/1477899923/
Is School Relevant?
(am I relevant?)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/4176254887
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178404705/
Old-School School Design
But We Can’t Replace It With This...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jean-ed/1803024018/
Maybe This...
The Modern School
School Can Teach Us How To Learn.
School Can Help Us Learn to Live.
The Paradox of Education 2014:
Create New Things,Measured Old Ways
Data Driven DecisionsAssume that you use good data...
Reclaim Our LanguageReclaim Education
Deliver PizzaNot Instruction
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracyhunter/104435268/
Dream BiggerThis isn’t personalized.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/838786841/!
!Photo by Ewan McIntosh
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
!
- John Cleese
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2225299236/
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn and relearn. !
-- Alvin Toffler
What Will You Unlearn?
Tell A Better Story:We Must Have Vision
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lnx/6257130/
Caring Institutions
We Teach Kids, Not Subjects
Inquiry Driven
Ask Questions We Don’t Know The Answers To
Student CenteredIt’s Not About Us.
Teacher-Mentored
Kids Need Adults
Community-Based
We can learn from many
CollaborativeSynthesis Works
Passionate
High School Is Real Life
Integrated
The day has to make sense
Meta-Cognitive
Think about thinking.
Understanding-Driven
and Project-Based
Tests
Homework
Projects
Class Participation
Traditional Classrooms: Recall-Based
Projects
Homework
Class Participation
Tests & Quizzes
The Schools We Need:
Understanding-Driven
Common Language of Teaching and Learning
Common Inputs
Common Process
Common Outputs
Neil Postman:
Certain Technologies Are Not Additive, They Are
Transformative
Technology Like OxygenUbiquitous, Necessary and Invisible
Thoughtful, Wise, Passionate and Kind
How Do We Change the
World?
Be Humbled By The Task
And Be Skeptical of Those Who Aren’t
Inquiry is for all of us.
And Don’t Settle For Easy Answers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjarrett/12143612396
Lead
Get everyone on the bus
Organize
The Time Is Nowhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163922974/
Ideas Must Live In Practice
Build Systems and Structures that Reflect Shared Vision
What Do You Think?The link between inquiry and care
Problematize Everything
What is the worst consequence of your best idea?
Empower the Kids
It is their education, and it will be their world
Be One School
Be What You Are For Everyone
Continue the Conversation
Dream big in every community
Have FunWe get to teach!
Be Willing to Be Transformed
We Have So Much Left to Learn
What do we teach in the Information Age?
Wisdom.
Join us:!
[email protected]://www.practicaltheory.org
Twitter: chrislehmann!
Science Leadership Academyhttp://www.scienceleadership.org
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