Learning in a Connected WorldT. D’Amico, 2013

Learning Goals

By the end of this presentation you should have a better understanding of:

• The connection between pedagogy, technology, and change knowledge

• Why technology should NOT be your focus

• Why technology has NOT had a major impact on learning…so far

• Additional online resources to continue your learning

What is the Stratosphere?Quiz time?

What is the Stratosphere?

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Does this mean…

• A book opportunity?

&Tom D’Amico

From Stratosphere to Mesosphere

From Great to Excellent

Beyond mobile learning

A short storyabout a couple’s trip to Las Vegas

Stratosphere

Culture of the airline industry

and gender discrimination

Sex, Strategy and the

Stratosphere

Aerosexual series of short erotic

tales from aviation

The Stratosphere

Lounge

Zombies in the Stratosphere –

VHS colour version!

Zombies in the Stratosphere

Somehow this book must be linked to …

Click here for video

The Cover says it all!

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Integrating Technology, Pedagogy, and Change Knowledge

Ontario is doing well… why change?

• In Ontario – Technology has not played much of a role to this point, which could explain why top-end higherorder skills have not moved much (pg. 3)

4 Criteria to integrate technology and pedagogy:

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1.

Pg. 4

Irresistibly engaging

4 Criteria to integrate technology and pedagogy:

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2.

Pg. 4

Elegantly efficient and easy to use

4 Criteria to integrate technology and pedagogy:

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3.

Pg. 4

Technologically ubiquitous

24/7

4 Criteria to integrate technology and pedagogy:

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4.

Pg. 4

Steeped in real-life

problem solving

Think Back to the last decade of teaching…

2000 - 2010

Irresistibly engaging

Think Back to the last decade of teaching…

2000 - 2010

Elegantly efficient and easy to use

Think Back to the last decade of teaching…

2000 - 2010

Technologically ubiquitous

24/7

Think Back to the last decade of teaching…

2000 - 2010

Steeped in real-life

problem solving

1. Irresistibly engaging 2. Elegantly efficient and easy to use 3. Technologically ubiquitous - 24/74. Steeped in real-life problem solving

How does your school / Board measure using this criteria?

Full video interview

Michael Fullan – Stratosphere Interview

Bring your book to the front with the first occurrence of the word “BFF” highlighted!

Prize Time

Chapter Two: Doom and Gloom

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Increased presence of technology enables:Narcissism ObsessionAddiction BipolarityADHD Poor sleepLower empathy HypochondriaVoyeurism

Larry Rosen, iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

Technology is Dangerous

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How does your community view today’s learners?

• Dumbest generation

Spoiledgeneration

Self-centered

Megeneration

Cheaters

Are today’s students the Dumbest Generation?

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“The twenty first century teen, connected and multitasked, autonomous yet peer-mindful, makes no great leap forward in human intelligence, global thinking, or netizenship”.

Mark Bauerlein

Discussion TimeDiscussion Time

Perspectives of Education Community? Parents? Teachers? Trustees? Administration? Board staff?

Are today’s students the

Dumbest Generation?

A different Generation of Learners

Is this the Smartest or the Dumbest Generation?

Chapter Two Conclusions

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Integrating Technology, Pedagogy, and Change Knowledge

School Boredom has no chance against the addictive digital draw of the outside world (pg. 14)

(technology)… has far more upside than downside potential. It is time to define the learning game as racing with technology (pg. 16)

Changes in Education?

How much has really changed?

What really needs to change?What really needs to change?

Canadian Education Association Study

Canadian Education Association Study

Are students Compliant or Engaged?

Engagement is always about relationship with a person, situation, or activity (pg. 7)

Karen Hume

District and school leaders need to ensure that all necessary conditions are in place to support the kinds of technology use that can make a real difference in student engagement and achievement. (pg. 186)

Chapter Three: Pedagogy and Change

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Stratosphere will make the lives of both students and teachers exciting (pg. 17)

Create conditions for deep engagement of both students and teachers (pg. 30)

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1.Doing less telling – allowing students to research the answers

2.Connecting what is taught with the real-world outcomes

3.Distinguish between Skills and Tools

4.Treat students as learning partners

5.Allow students to use their own tools for learning (Smartphones) (pg. 31/32)

Mark Prensky, “The Reformers are Leaving our Schools in the 20th

Century”, 2012 – pg. 16

Prensky – 10 measures that impact learning

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Mark Prensky, “The Reformers are Leaving our Schools in the 20th

Century”, 2012 – pg. 16

Prensky – 10 measures that impact learning

6. Use more peer to peer teaching

7. Allow more choice for students

8. Allow students to be the primary users of classroom technology

9. Share success via short videos posted online

10.Connect students with the world via tools like Skype (pg. 31/32)

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How do you rate your school / Board ?

1. Doing less telling – allowing students to research the answers

2. Connecting what is taught with the real-world outcomes

3. Distinguish between Skills and Tools

4. Treat students as learning partners

5. Allow students to use their own tools for learning (SmartPhones)

6. Use more peer to peer teaching

7. Allow more choice for students

8. Allow students to be the primary users of classroom technology

9. Share success via short videos posted online

10.Connect students with the world via tools like Skype

Level 2 ?

Level 3 ?

Level 4 ?

Chapter 4 – Digital Disappointments

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The organizational support for the use of technology in schools is badly underdeveloped…-Availability of digital media-Shared vision-School culture-Technical support-Leadership-Assessment systems (pg. 37)

“…students loved working and playing with smartphones, iPods, iPads, computers… of all kinds”… students were not so savvy surfers…lack the skills they need to use those tools effectively for learning...

In other words, making digital devices available and helping teachers and students use them is the easy part – but it isn’t pedagogy (pg. 37) Be careful of

the Digital Native bandwagon

Chapter 4…Links the work of Hattie to Stratosphere

-High yield practices rely on the influence of student peers, feedback, transparent learning intentions, success criteria, and adjustments of instruction

-The teacher is the change agent who helps students learn how to learn and how to monitor their own learning (pg. 48)

- We need to get our pedagogy and our technology straight

Changes in

PedagogyTechnology Change

Knowledge

Chapter 4…Park Manor example

-…digitally rich learning tasks without limits…integrates technological tools, exemplary pedagogy, rich learning tasks, and 21st Century learning skills. (pg. 51)

-At Park Manor it is clear that pedagogy is the driver with student learning at the center and technology as the …machine that gets the student there faster and better. (pg. 51)

Changes in

PedagogyTechnology Change

Knowledge

Good Teaching Practice is still needed

Poster for Primary students

Apps in Education Blog – Feb. 17, 2013

“…In order for this move to be successful we need to ensure that the students have their learning scaffolded in much the same way that we have always done.

Introducing iPads into the classroom is not an alternative to good teaching but rather it is another tool that good teachers use.

Greg Swanson @GregDSwanson

What practices still need to change?

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Be careful of 20th century

teaching practice using 21st Century

tools

Posting notes on a SmartBoard for students to copy on their iPads

Electronic worksheets with math problems completed in a computer lab

What practices still need to change?

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Be careful of 20th century

teaching practice using 21st Century

tools

Assignments such as creating a PowerPoint presentation to highlight the main features of France

“Khan Academy is a great 20th century pedagogue using 21st century technology… improved the delivery system of the old way”. (pg. 38)

What practices still need to change at your school / Board ?What practices still need to change at your school / Board ?

How does differentiated instruction and

assessment fit with technology at your

school?

Do you still use Scantron – automated marking?

Do you still have computer labs?

Do you use technology to automate correction of mainly multiple choice questions?

Chapter Five: Change Knowledge

• “Motion Leadership – leadership that causes

positive movement forward for individuals,

organizations, and entire systems”

- pg. 66- --------

- “Our challenge is to combine the best of

change knowledge with the best of technology and

pedagogy” – pg. 70

Normal to fear change

“Pedagogy and technology provide the directional vision; change knowledge helps us achieve it, learning while we go - pg. 66

System Change – PoliciesSocial Media

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Policies

WiFi has had a major impacton Equity

Infrastructure decisions have an impact on Technology and Pedagogy – System Impacts (Change Knowledge)

Wireless = Accessibility

100% increase in 1 year Key Points

• On a typical day we have over 28,000 unique devices connecting to our wireless network

• iPad access has had a 400% increase in 1 year

• iPod Touch remains the most popular device

Are you asking the right questions?

Is this the right question?

What is the computer to student ratio in our

school?

Are you asking the right questions?

Is this the right question?

How many iPads do I have in my class?

Are you asking the right questions?

Is this the right question?

Do you show digital movies from YouTube?

Are you asking the right questions?

Is this the right question?

How many SmartBoards do we have in our

school?

Is your focus on the tool or on skill acquisition?

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Let’s complement the 3Rs with

the 4Cs as we become 21st

Century Leaders & Learners

Critical Thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Creativity

Is your focus on the tool or on skill acquisition?

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How often do activities focus on

remembering (memorizing) vs.

Creating and Evaluating?

Change Knowledge – Environmental Design

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Students are the focus

Changes in Teacher Practice

Increased Student Engagement

Increased Student Achievement

We can’t ignore technological changes impacting the World

Moving from what students should know… to what students can do

We need to move from…

This is true for Face to Face, Blended, and Online Learning

Speak Up Reports – National Surveys

Speak Up 2011 National Findings

K-12 (Oct. 2012)

LEARNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

MOBILE DEVICES +

SOCIAL MEDIA =

PERSONALIZED LEARNING

Speak Up Reports – National Surveys

Speak Up 2011 National Findings

K-12 (June 2012)

•Key Findings – review the paper online•2012 results about to be released

What’s needed to change this practice?

What’s needed to change this practice?

Pedagogy – Technology – Change KnowledgePedagogy – Technology – Change Knowledge

21st Century Learners

Traditional schools involved teachers and textbooks delivering information to students, and students reflecting that information back.

To better serve their future, today’s classrooms should facilitate teaching and learning as a conversation – two-way conversations between teachers and learners, conversations betweenlearners and other learners, conversations among teachers, and new conversations between the classroom and the home and between the school and its community. - David Warlick

Page 3

Shifting Practices?

Page 38

21st Century Learning ≠ Computers

Pg. 59

“Electronic classroom tools such as PowerPoint presentations, online videos, and high-tech presentation equipment were still tied to the same material in the same school environment.

Certainly these tools made education more interesting and allowed for opportunities to present content in new and different ways, but they were still tied to static material presented in a static learning environment.

Today’s learners need something more attuned to their daily lifestyles – connected, and often virtual. That’s where mobile learning comes into play.”

Teaching Practice… it’s not about the tools!

Pg. 95

“Stop Talking… and Start Doing!”

“Even though this research has been around for decades, many educators continue to depend completely on the “stand and deliver; sit and learn” full-frontal lecture method. If we were to be really honest with ourselves, we know intuitively that this isn’t working”.

(2011 – Ian Jukes, Lee Crockett, Andrew Churches)

Brain based research…

“Children raised with the computer think differently from the rest of us. They develop hypertext minds. They leap around. It’s as though their cognitive structures were parallel, not sequential. Linear thought processes that dominate educational systems now can actually retard learning for brains developed through game and web-surfing processes on the computer”. (pg. 79)

…Digital Natives crave interactivity…So it generally isn’t that Digital Natives can’t pay attention, it’s that they choose not to. Pg. 81)

(2012 Marc Prensky – From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom)

21st Century Learning ≠ Technology

Pg. 140

Simply inserting technology into

classrooms and schools without considering how the contexts for learning

need to change, will likely fail.

Allan Collins

What lies ahead?

We can’t predict the device of the future… and that’s ok

Future Trends for Leaders…

1. It’s all about access2. Tension between access and security continues3. You can’t keep abreast of everything4. Relations with IT Dept. are critical5. Social media can extend learning6. Stay out front, but not too far ahead

of your communityPg. 210(Williamson and Johnston, 2012)

Trends in Education

1. Cloud Access and Digital Resources

2. Device Agnostic

3. Social Learning – trusted sources

4. 24/7 mobile access

5. Skills focus will lead to Higher Order Thinking

Trends in Education

6. Engagement from gaming and Blended Learning

7. Increased use of “tools” to improve Assessment

8. Multi-Modal Differentiated instruction

9. Focus on Creativity and Innovation

10.Environmental Design as an impact on Learning

Collaborative, a joint effort of industry stakeholders, school

officials and non-profit leaders to encourage collaboration across the

ecosystem, accelerate the development of digital textbooks

and improve the quality and penetration of digital learning

in K-12 public education.

State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is the principalassociation serving, supporting, and representing US state and territorial educational technology leadership

Edweb - A community of

educators who are using social

networking to share information, create resources, and create online communities of

practice to improve teaching

and learning

Free Webinars

21st Century Professional Learning Network

The Future of EducationSteve Hargadon

- Over 300 recorded interviews

21st Century Professional Learning Network

Personal Learning Network

Scoop.IT

Impact of The Common Core

Digital Learning

Goorulearning.org

Impact of The Common Core

Digital Learning

LearnZillion.com

Chapter 6 - Making Technology Pay

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1.“Never think of technology without worrying about teachers and mentors. It is teachers with technology who will make a difference. Students are the third partner. All three are co-essential”. – pg. 72

The Skinny is simple but powerful ...

•Make it all about learning

•Let technology permeate

•Engage the whole system

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Whether you believe you can, or you believe

you can’t – you’re right.

Henry Ford

@TDOttawa