21st skills neasc 110910 Presentation

EDUCATION CONNECTION

21st Century Skills

Why, What, & How

NEASC Preparation

November 9th, 2010

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Why Bother With 21CS?

1.You should do it.

2.You have to do it.

The only question left is…..

superficial or systemic?

Yes, It’s Happened Before Our Eyes

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Think About Exponential Growth

Since 1994 the number of web sites has grown from 5,000 to 200,000,000 (40,000 % increase)

The “blogosphere” did not exist before the year 2000… now there a 1,000,000 posts per day.

Google processes about 1,000,000,000 searches per day.

Facebook grows by 750,000 users per day.

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Look at These Numbers

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WORLD INTERNET USAGE AND POPULATION STATISTICS

World RegionsPopulation( 2010 Est.)

Internet Users

Dec. 31, 2000

Internet Users

Latest Data

Penetration(%

Population)

Growth2000-2010

Africa 1,013,779,050 4,514,400 110,931,700 10.9 % 2,357.3 %

Asia 3,834,792,852 114,304,000 825,094,396 21.5 % 621.8 %

Europe 813,319,511 105,096,093 475,069,448 58.4 % 352.0 %

Middle East 212,336,924 3,284,800 63,240,946 29.8 % 1,825.3 %

North America 344,124,450 108,096,800 266,224,500 77.4 % 146.3 %

Latin America/Caribbean

592,556,972 18,068,919 204,689,836 34.5 % 1,032.8 %

Oceania / Australia 34,700,201 7,620,480 21,263,990 61.3 % 179.0 %

WORLD TOTAL 6,845,609,960 360,985,4921,966,514,81

628.7 % 444.8 %

As of June 30, 2010

The King Is Dead, LLTK

More content hours have been uploaded to YouTube this year…

…than have been broadcast by the three major networks in their entire history.© JPC Sr 2010

From Turn the Page to Hit The Button

In the second quarter of 2010, Amazon sold 180 Kindle Edition Books for every 100 hard-covers sold.

Amazon has been selling books for 15 years and Kindle books for 33 months.

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Instant Access…to Everything

Apple iPhone 4G

A hand heldcomputer, phone,

e-mailer, camera, web browser, GPSvideo player, iTunes, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, instant messenger, live

television, etc..

Forget Expensive Software

Opens on July 11, 2008

In the first 2 months, 100,000,000 applications were downloaded.

The average cost of an iPhone App is $3.87

Many are silly and junk, but huge numbers do specific things related to information very efficiently…

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Real Utility – Quick and Cheap

Redlaser – Use the iPhone camera to

scan any commercial bar code and get instant world-

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Augmented Reality Applications

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What happens when you combine a digital compass, a gyroscope/accelerometer, GPS, and data storage in hand-held device?

Augmented Reality Applications

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Night Sky

What happens when you combine a digital compass, a gyroscope/accelerometer, GPS, and data storage in hand-held device?

Up, Up, and Away…

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Do You Know What This Is?

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This is one of the bigtechstories of 2010.

The HTC Hero – Sprint’s 4G Wimax phone

Full cable-modem speeds in your pocket.

Hang on…again!

How Would You Answer?

What would an “open phone test” look like?

What would your district/school iPhone app have in it?

What happens when everyone can get anything from anywhere?© JPC Sr. 2010

The smartest 25% of the Chinese population . . .

includes more people

than the total

population of North America.

In other words, they have more

Honors kids than we have

kids.

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s

students…

will have 10-14 jobs before they reach the age of 40.

Consider the Consequences

What rules and restrictions do we have now that will

not survive a public culture that is racing to be more…

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Open

Immediate

Customized

Personal

Let’s Look Beyond the Gadgets

Think of the impact that these tools and environment are having on how an entire

generation thinks and learns…

The main impact is a dramatic difference between

Digital Immigrants

- And -

Digital Natives© JPC Sr. 2008

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They ARE Different

Adapted from Marc Prensky – “Digital Game Based Learning”

Digital Immigrants

Digital Interpreters Mostly textPaper basedInformation streamOne task at a timeFontsLogical orderOne conversationReward in the endSerious workDeliberation Legacy content

Digital Natives

Digital FluencyMostly mediaScreen basedInformation floodMulti-taskingGraphicsRandom accessNetworkedInstant gratificationGames and engagementTwitch speedFuture content

Seeing the World Differently

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“Go to Your Room!”

Digital Immigrants Digital Natives

Sad & alone in my room. Glad & connected to the world.

From Watching to Engaging

The cell phone has reached 90% of the market faster than any other device in the last 50 years.

38% of teens say their phone is more important than their wallet.

After having his wisdom teeth out last month, my youngest had to be warned by the nurse that he may not remember what he is texting because of the impact of the anesthesia. © JPC Sr. 2010

Seeing The World Differently

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“Come to class every

day ready to learn!”

It Won’t Be Like the 60’s

A shift to 21st Century Skills will not change the need for accountability – the standards movement and all the money have ensured that.

One thing it will change is increase the difficultly of creating reliable assessments.

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By Setting a Minimum Standard…

…we see a shift in emphasis from

rank and sort with universal access

- to – improve the

performance of every student and

universal proficiency.© JPC Sr. 2008

A Change in the Culture

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Articulating how well we expectlearners to perform and measuring for it.

A variety of reliable and consistentAssessment tools that are aligned with the

identified goals for learning.

Improving the methods throughwhich we create learning.

A variety of teaching strategies that arealigned with the identified goals for learning.

Articulating what we want learners to know and be able to do.

What are the most critical skills andattributes a learner will need

to be successful?

ImprovedStudent Learning

DATA

NEASC 2011 Standards Focus

To ensure that all students are successful and obtain identified 21st century learning expectations through

effective instruction, data based assessment, and appropriate instructional supports.

School wide analytic rubrics with targeted high levels of achievement.1. A formal process based on school wide rubrics to assess whole-school

and individual student progress.2. Disaggregate and analyze data to identify and respond to inequities in

student achievement.

Teachers’ instructional practices are continuously examined to ensure consistency with the school’s core values, beliefs, and 21st century learning expectations. All teachers should be…1. personalizing instruction.2. engaging students as active and self-directed learners.

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2011 Standards Greatest Hits

A rating of DEFICIENT is appropriate if any of the following exist:

1. A lack of challenging and measurable 21st century learning expectations for all students which address academic, social, and civic competencies, and a lack of school-wide analytic rubrics that identify targeted high levels of achievement for all 21st century learning expectations

2. The school does not have a formal process, based on school-wide rubrics, to assess whole-school and individual student progress in achieving the school’s 21st century learning expectations

3. Insufficient opportunities for all students to practice and achieve each of the 21st century learning expectations

4. Instructional practices on the whole are not consistent with the school’s core values, beliefs, and 21st century learning expectations

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A Common Sense Approach

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CSDE/SRBIEnsure all students

are challenged and successful.

NEASCEnsure a focus on

21st Century Skills.

Two secondary school mandates, but just...

...one Mission.Ensuring all students are challenged and successful in acquiring 21st Century Skills.

Pursued through one pathway and one plan.

QualityInstruction

21st Century Skill

Identification

Universal Screening

Tiered Quality

Instruction

ProgressMonitoring

High School Bottom Line… Part One

1. Identifiable and measurable 21st century skills throughout the community.

2. Some kind of “entry” data collection.3. Some kind of system for ensuring

that the results of this data are tracked and acted on so that all kids have dedicated opportunities/instruction in these areas.

4. Some kind of exit experience to ensure that these skills have been mastered and demonstrated.

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Usually, the process looks like this….1. Identify measurable 21st century skills

and create rubrics/assessment frameworks.

2. Practice using them and refine them – test them.

3. Build the assessment tasks/challenges.

4. Design the courses and systems that will support your implementation.

5. Implement, review, and improve.© JPC Sr. 2010

High School Bottom Line… Part Two

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So What Are They?

How Do We Get There?

As a community?

If you would allow me to put my 2 cents in…© JPC Sr. 2009

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Alignment and Coherence…

There are three things extremely

hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. 

Benjamin Franklin

Three Foundational Principles

1. All for one and one for all – make everyone accountable everything.

2. Systems orientation - or – it’s about HOW the work gets done.

3. Dedication to the Pareto Principle

(content).© JPC Sr. 2009

Big PictureWhen the last round of

standards where released you were encouraged to divvy the work up by department.

In this pursuit, I firmly believe if everyone is not on the hook for all of the skills, you have made a grave mistake.

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Preparing Students For a Knowledge Economy

Align Your Systems With Your Goals for Learning

Type of AssessmentRequired

Subject Area Responsibilities

Everyone’s Responsibility

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Content(Declarative)

Facts

Content Skills

(Procedural)Discrete Skills

21st Cent. Skills(Contextual)

Applied Understandings

Type of Knowledge

Desired

Type of InstructionRequired

Lecture, video, films, assigned readings and

memory activities.

Classroom or textbook problems, experiments,

discussions, practice and repetition.

Complex projects,real time explorations,

authentic and technology supported applications.

Amount of Time

Required

Discrete units,spiraled and predictable.

Ongoing, systemic and without a finite

or predictable end.

Discrete units,spiraled and predictable.

Recall & recognitionbased quizzes, tests,

and activities. Multiplechoice, matching, etc.

(SAT/AP/Exams)

Checklists, analytic rubrics,

or other agreed upon skill standards

(AP/CMT/CAPT/Exams)

Holistic and, analytic rubrics,

or other agreed upon skill standards

(Portfolios, Exhibitions, Etc)

A Systems Orientation

Recognition that all work is part of a process.

Recognition that the way the work is done defines the process and becomes the system of work.

Recognition that work quality is absolutely driven by that system of work.

The principle of . . . . 85/15 More than any other decision you make, the

WAY you do the work of a school will have the largest impact on how effective your school is.

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Systems Drive the Work

Curriculum InstructionAssessment& Data

Prof. Development

Teacher Evaluation

Goals &Planning

Leadership &Communication

Budgeting

time, time, time, time

© PI 2001

The Bottom Line…

MOST American High Schools have not

traditionally organized

themselves in ways that promote this

type of integrated, accountable, and

authentic approach to teaching and

learning.

Devise Processes That Engage All

Random groups, get out of the department focus.

Provide templates and examples.

Be prepared for the content blowback – you have to have a reasonable answer, approach, and process or it stop you in your tracks.

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The Pareto Principle

In any system of work, 20% of the

causes are responsible for 80%

of the effects.© JPC Sr. 2008

Refined/Refocused North Salem Statement

Engage students to continuously learn, question, define and solve problems

through critical and creative thinking. 

In pursuit of this, we believe that: 

All students are capable of learning All students are supported and challenged to continuously

improve Academic, intra and interpersonal skills are essential for

success The learning environment must be safe, ethical and respectful Everyone in the community shares responsibility for student

development We must continue to hire and retain staff of the highest quality Collaboration, data and evidence guide decision-making.© JPC Sr. 2009

How must our methods of assessing

student learning evolve so that

we can meet the twin demands of

feedback and accountability in

a skill based world?

Essential Planning Questions

Feedback and Accountability in a Skill Based World© JPC Sr. 2009

Rethinking Key - How You Know

Traditional, print literacy assessment

practices can be very concrete and

narrowly focused. Assessing for

analysis, patterns, synthesis and

evaluation skills is more difficult – and

important.© JPC Sr. 2009

A Process for Building Performance Assessments

1. Identify what you are assessing for.

2. Determine critical attributes.

3. Select an appropriate assessment instrument/scale to judge the work.

4. Describe each attribute across the selected scale.

5. Provide models of work across the scale.

6. Assess, and/or have the student assess, the work by applying the ratings and providing

explanations.

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Rigor, Rubrics and Standards

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Item Insufficient - 0 Sufficient -1 Proficient - 2 Excellent – 3

Sustains aProcess of Inquiry

Does not ask relevant questions. Asks questions that are relevant. Asks questions that are relevant and there is evidence of complex interpretations.

Asks questions that are insightful, relevant; shows evidence of complex interpretations; displays original thinking.

Does not activate prior knowledge. Makes limited use of prior knowledge Relates prior knowledge/experiences to work and expands interpretation of work

Demonstrates how prior knowledge contextualizes and enriches the interpretation of the work.

Does not make even minimal connections among sources or ideas.

Make somes connections among multiple sources or ideas.

Makes multiple connections among multiple sources or ideas.

Makes multiple and complex connections among multiple sources or ideas.

DifferentiatesBetween Media

Sources

Displays limited or no understanding of how different media outlets vary in their delivery and consideration of content.

Displays a basic understanding of how different media outlets vary in their delivery and consideration of content.

Displays a sound understanding of how different media outlets vary in their delivery and consideration of content and provides specific examples of how these outlet’s viewpoints may vary.

Displays an in-depth understanding of how different media outlets vary in their delivery and consideration of content and provides specific examples of how these outlet’s viewpoints may vary for the same or different content and applies analytic criteria to judge bias and reliability of these outlets.

Discerns SourceBias

Displays no recognition of source bias and/or is unable to articulate the potential impact of this bias.

Demonstrates a basic awareness of source bias or structural features and/or is able to explain potential affect on information accuracy or relevance.

Identifies specific examples of source bias or structural features and can explain how these issues affect the accuracy or relevance of the information.

Identifies specific examples of source bias or structural features, explains how these issues affect the accuracy or relevance of information, and can counter or balance this bias with other data or sources.

Understands Ideas from MultiplePerspectives

Does not paraphrase or demonstrate empathy with alternative points of view.

Paraphrases and demonstrates some evidence of empathy for alternative points of view.

Paraphrases and demonstrates strong evidence of empathy for multiple alternative points of view.

Paraphrases and demonstrates strong evidence of empathy for multiple alternative points of view and indentifies strengths and weaknesses of the alternatives.

Applies EvaluativeCriteria

Does not judge the merits of a work or understand criteria.

Evaluates explicit and implicit information for relevance or accuracy to judge the merits of a work and applies the prescribed criteria.

Accurately evaluates explicit and implicit information to judge the merits of a work and applies the prescribed criteria.

Independently evaluates explicit and implicit information;. develops and applies original criteria to judge the merits of a work.

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Something to Think AboutThere is no shortcut to the

amount of time required to use standards effectively.

You either have to define the standard through descriptive language or you will have to define it through working with your peers to develop anchor sets/model student work.

The best strategy is a combination of both approaches.

How should we adjust our teaching and

delivery methods to both leverage the

power of Information Age technologies and

to meet a new generation of learners in their own learning

environment?

Essential Planning Questions

Leveraging Information Age Tools and Strategies

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Rethinking Key - How You Teach

You cannot prepare students to master

skills and be literate, independent, higher-order thinkers if they

are not doing meaningful work with

the tools that will help define their

success.© JPC Sr. 2009

Responsibilities for 21st Century Learning Success

So students can…

1.Use real-world digital and other research tools to access, evaluate and effectively apply information appropriate for authentic tasks.2.Work independently and collaboratively to solve problems and accomplish goals.3.Communicate information clearly and effectively using a variety of tools/media in varied contexts for a variety of purposes.4.Demonstrate innovation, flexibility and adaptability in thinking patterns, work habits, and working/learning conditions.5.Effectively apply the analysis, synthesis, and evaluative processes that enable productive problem solving.6.Value and demonstrate personal responsibility, character, cultural understanding, and ethical behavior.

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teachers must…

1. Design instructional experiences that facilitate the ownership & development of these critical skills.

2. Create, lead & facilitate a rigorous, content rich & student centered learning environment.

3. Improve the quality & depth of assessment of student learning.

4. Work collaboratively to support a variety of student learning & professional goals.

5. Continuously improve their own technical knowledge & problem solving abilities.

& BOE/admin. must;

1. Actively support the movement toward a 21st Century digital learning environment.

2. Ensure alignment of curriculum, assessment, supervision, & professional development practices with these goals.

3. Provide a robust technology infrastructure.

4. Ensure that resource allocation & budget development processes align with these goals.

5. Align all district policies and processes to facilitate digital practice & systems integration.

Contact Information

Jonathan P. Costa, Sr. Director, School/Program Services

EDUCATION [email protected]

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