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Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Co-Founder & CEO Powerful Learning Practice, LLChttp://plpnetwork.comsheryl@plpnetwork.com
President21st Century Collaborative, LLChttp://21stcenturycollaborative.com
AuthorThe Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age
Follow me on Twitter@snbeach
• THE CONNECTED EDUCATOR
Housekeeping
Get close to someone
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Digital Citizenship
Learner First—
Talk about (in 2 min or less) the most recent or compelling use of technology you have seen or used for your own personal learning.
Emerson and Thoreau reunited would ask-
“What has become clearer to you since we last met?”
Mantra for tonight’s presentation
We are stronger together than apart.
None of us is as smart, creative, good or interesting as all of us.
Are you Ready for Learning, Leading and Parenting in the
21st Century?
It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived! And
professionals who aren’t redefining themselves, risk becoming irrelevant in preparing children for the future that awaits them.
“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”
--Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition
6 Trends for the digital age
Analogue DigitalTethered MobileClosed OpenIsolated ConnectedGeneric Personal Consuming Creating
Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education
“We are tethered to our always on/ always on us communication devices and the people and things we reach through them.”
~ Sherry Turkle
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Photo credit: http://cradlepoint.com/sites/default/files/uploads/Internet_of_Things.jpg
• The Internet of Things is a technological system, a suite of products and services that will make life a bit more comfortable.
• It is more than the Internet we know — it goes beyond empowering people to communicate and collaborate.
• The Internet of Things can connect any product or service. And it automatically links what might emerge as a result of this collaboration — interact even without human intervention.
Internet of Things & Services
What do you wonder…
• About how the emergence of the 2nd renaissance will change education?• About the impact this shift will have on parenting and home life?About what students will need to prepare them for their future?About connected learning in general?
Recap… 1. The world is changing.
2. The context has shifted
3. We have amazing tools that enable us to connected, collaborate and create.
4. Schools are remaining just about the same.
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.
We have to change school culture
Recapture OURpassion for learning.
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Free range learners
Almost from birth today’s children have free range access to knowledge.
The potential exists for all kiddos to learn what they want – when they want.
dangerouslyirrelevant.org
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• THE CONNECTED EDUCATORThe Disconnect“Every time I go to school, I have to power down.” --a high school student
The pace of change is accelerating
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.
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”
Connected Learning has the potential to takes us deeper
“The interconnected, interactive nature of social learning exponentially amplifies the rate at which critical content can be shared and questions can be answered.”
From: Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Cathy Davidson, professor at Duke University
Connected sometimes trumps F2F with deep learning…
Via Marc Andreessen’s blog, the findings of researchers as related by Frans Johansson in The Medici Effect:
Diversity of thoughtAllows for Greater Innovation
Frans Johansson explores one simple yet profound insight about innovation: in the intersection of different fields, disciplines and cultures, there’s an abundance of extraordinary new ideas to be explored.
• THE CONNECTED EDUCATOR
Do it Yourself PDA revolution in technology has transformed the way we can find each other, interact, and collaborate to create knowledge as connected learners.
What are connected learners? Learners who collaborate online; learners who use social media to connect with others around the globe; learners who engage in conversations in safe online spaces; learners who bring what they learn online back to their classrooms, schools, and districts.
Personal Learning Networks
Community-Dots On Your Map
Are you “clickable”- Are your children?
“Twitter and blogs ... contribute an entirely new dimension of what it means to be a part of a tribe. The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.”
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“A tribe needs a shared interest and a way to communicate.”
constantly connected
responsiveresponsive
personalized
interconnected
global connections
The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies
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
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
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Community platformsVoIP
webcam
podcasts
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Worldbridges
“ Do you know what who you know knows?” H. Rheingold
Screen Time- How much is too much?
Play — the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
Performance — the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
Simulation — the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
Appropriation — the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
Multitasking — the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details.
Distributed Cognition — the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities.
Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
Judgment — the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
Transmedia Navigation — the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
Networking — the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
Negotiation — the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms..
Shifts focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement.
Students become producers, notjust consumersof knowledge.
Shifts focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement.
Connected Learning
The computer connects the student to the rest of the worldLearning occurs through connections with other learnersLearning is based on conversation and interaction
Stephen Downes
Connected Learner Scale
Share (Publish & Participate) –
Connect (Comment and Cooperate) –
Remixing (building on the ideas of others) –
Collaborate (Co-construction of knowledge and meaning) –
Collective Action (Social Justice, Activism, Service Learning) –
In Phillip Schlechty's, Leading for Learning: How to Transform Schools into Learning Organizations he makes a case for transformation of schools.
Reform- installing innovations that will work within the context of the existing culture and structure of schools. It usually means changing procedures, processes, and technologies with the intent of improving performance of existing operation systems.
It involves repositioning and reorienting action by putting an organization into a new business or adopting radically different means of doing the work traditionally done.
Transformation includes altering the beliefs, values, meanings- the culture- in which programs are embedded, as well as changing the current system of rules, roles, and relationship- social structure-so that the innovations needed will be supported.
Transformation- is intended to make it possible to do things that have never been done by the organization undergoing the transformation.
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So as you consider your vision for learning in the 21st Century how do you see it? Should schools follow a reform framework ora transform framework and why?
Make a case for using one or the other as a change strategy.
Change is hard
Connected learners are more effective change agents
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.
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