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Teaching in an Age of AbundanceUnderstanding the New Contexts ofEducation and Work

Will [email protected]@willrich45

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Sunday, February 3, 13

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“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


Opener: What do we need to “unlearn”

in education?



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Jacob Arnott14-year old Editor in Chief


Context


“Crisis of Contexts”


Crisis of Contexts

Traditional LearningPoliticians, Parents,

Communities, Educators


Crisis of Contexts



Modern LearningConnected Learners





≠Sunday, February 3, 13


Communities Educators


≠Delivery



Communities Educators


≠Delivery

Discovery


New reality


Scarcity


ABUNDANCESunday, February 3, 13

CHANGESunday, February 3, 13

“The change we are in the middle of isn’t minor,and it isn’t optional.”

Clay Shirky


750,000 Apps2.5 Billion People

2 Trillion Webpages4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute

16,000 Tweets per second*5 Billion Internet Connected Devices

Etc...

*Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration

ABUNDANCE


...A world marked by “ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous information, ubiquitous networks, at unlimited speed, about everything, everywhere, from anywhere, on all kinds of devices that make it ridiculously easy to connect, organize, share, collect, collaborate and publish.”

Michael Wesch


Media Politics

JournalismMedicineBooks

BusinessMusic...

Which is Changing:


Key Idea:

Institutionally Organized World

Self-Organized World

ABUNDANCE


The Future of Schooling

ABUNDANCE


Discussion

Define “learning”


Learning Is...

creativitypassion to know

application of knowledgeinquiry

seeing patternsposing and answering questions

understanding the worldacquiring knowledge

curiosityfinding and solving problems

making somethingunderstanding something you previously didn’t understand

making connectionschanging your perspective on something

synthesizing ideasadding new knowledge


"Productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces

wanting to learn more. Absent wanting to learn, the learning context is

unproductive or counterproductive."

Seymour Sarason


New Reality

Teachers are everywhereClassrooms are everywhere

“School” is everywhere


215,284,446 Lessons Delivered


Self-Organized Learning


“What does a middle school algebra teacher do if kindergarteners can start learning to solve equations

within a couple of hours?”



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The Future of Higher Education

ABUNDANCE


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Scarcity


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Scarcity

Abundance


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Scarcity

Abundance

Information ≠ Education


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Scarcity

Abundance


Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.

of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.


Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.

of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.

“This is the tsunami.”--Richard DeMillo, Ga. Tech


InstitutionallyOrganized

Self-Organized


2024?


Self-Organized Learners?


Learning Is...

creativitypassion to know

application of knowledgeinquiry

seeing patternsposing and answering questions

understanding the worldacquiring knowledge

curiosityfinding and solving problems

making somethingunderstanding something you previously didn’t understand

making connectionschanging your perspective on something

synthesizing ideasadding new knowledge


The Future of Work

ABUNDANCE


bit.ly/UsKA4h


Self-Organized Work


--Stephen Downes


“Looking to the future of work, one could sum up the anticipated impacts in a single word: More. More intensity. More pressure. More change. More risk. But also, more opportunity. More engagement. More transparency. More impact.”

Yvette Cameron


Means that we are now the central, organizing force in our own learning, our own education, and, increasingly our own careers.

ABUNDANCE


Means that we now need the skills and dispositions to “design”our own

learning and careers.

ABUNDANCE


New Question:

What do students need to learn in school at a moment when they can

learn so much without us?


New Question:

And:What is the value of school (and

classrooms and teachers) at a moment where we don’t need

school to do school?


New Question:


New Answer:

That which cannot be “Khanified.”


New Answer:

CuriosityResiliencePassion

Entrepreneurial ThinkingEmpathyCreativity

CollaborationInquiry

NetworkingCommunicationCritical Thinking

(and more)


New Reality

Schools need to be “different”...not just “better.”


Discussion

So, what do we have to unlearn about learning and education?


Content and Skills

Schools’ Traditional Value


Schools’ New Value


PassionInquiry

Authentic WorkConnectionPerformance




Creating“Entrepreneurial Learners”


“Constantly looking around you, all the time, for new ways

and new resources to learn new things.”

John Seely Brown


BE BOLDSunday, February 3, 13

New Requirements

Inquiry


“Dots in Blue Water”South Adams HS, Berne, IN


“Dots in Blue Water”

1. Authentic Problem/Question“How can we purify water for people in Haiti?”



2. Student Directed TeamsResearch, Development, Marketing, Community “Investment"



3. Real Product/Real AudienceTeachers and students travelled to Haiti to install their devices.

5 systems = clean water for 8,000



Notes:

-Aligned to standards-Interdisciplinary-Student-centered-Technology-rich

-Innovative thinking


CHANGE(The World)


New Requirements

Authentic Work


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New Requirements

Transparency


--Stephen Downes



http://shelleywright.wordpress.com/




http://abbylearns.edublogs.org/



New Requirements

Self-Direction


New Requirements

Literacy


New Requirements

• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology • Build relationships with others to pose and solve

problems collaboratively and cross-culturally • Design and share information for global communities to

meet a variety of purposes • Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of

simultaneous information • Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts • Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these

complex environments



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New Requirements

Networks


Networks are the new classrooms.


“What can you do has been replaced by what can you and your network connections do. Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his contacts.”

Jay Cross


Where Do We Start?

With Us.


LEARNERS FIRST


LEARNERS FIRSTTeachers Second


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“What can you do has been replaced by what can you and your network

connections do. Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his

contacts.”Jay CrossInformal Learning


People

People


People

Classrooms


This changes learning.


This changes us.


Sheryl Nussbaum-BeachThe Connected Educator


How do we get there?


LEARNERS FIRST


LEARNERS FIRSTTeachers Second


PLNs allow us to“design our own learning.”


“Network Literacy”


“Create, navigate, and grow personal learning networks in

safe, effective, and ethical ways.”


Create


Share


Sharing is the only way to...


--Stephen Downes


Share


Become “Googled Well”


Connect


bit.ly/10YNq3A


Repeat after me...


“I want to be found by strangers on the Internet.”


#edchat#plpnetwork#education

#k12#scichat

#engchat (etc.)#edreform

#startyourown


Co-operate/Collaboarate


Authors


“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned

find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that

no longer exists.”

Eric Hoffer


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