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Bold Learning for Bold SchoolsMaking the Jump from Traditional to Modern Learning

Will [email protected]@willrich45

Saturday, March 16, 13

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What are the conditions necessary for optimal, sticky learning?




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Context


Scarcity


ABUNDANCESaturday, March 16, 13

“Crisis of Contexts”


Traditional Learning(Politicians, Parents, Communities, Educators)


Traditional Learning(Politicians, Parents, Communities, Educators)

Modern Learning(Kids with Access, Connected Learners)

Vs


Traditional Learning

Modern Learning

DeliveryVs


Traditional Learning

Modern Learning

Delivery

DiscoveryVs


New world


CHANGESaturday, March 16, 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:


ABUNDANCETHE Key Shift:


Institutionally Organized World

Self-Organized World

ABUNDANCE


Part 1:Rethinking “School”

ABUNDANCE


New Reality

Teachers are everywhereClassrooms are everywhere

“School” is everywhere



215,284,446 Lots of Lessons Delivered




What if he’s right?




Self-Organized Learning





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

within a couple of hours?”






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.”


Part 2:Rethinking Higher Education

ABUNDANCE




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Scarcity


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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?


Part 3:Rethinking Work

ABUNDANCE




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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


To Sum it Up:

ABUNDANCE


Means that our students can (must?) be the central, organizing force in their own learning,

their own education, and, increasingly their own careers.

ABUNDANCE


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

learning and careers.

ABUNDANCE


Question

So, what are the skills and dispositions that our students now

need to succeed?


Question

Discuss (if time)


New Answer:

CuriosityResiliencePassion

Entrepreneurial ThinkingEmpathyCreativity

CollaborationInquiry

NetworkingCommunicationCritical Thinking

(and more)


“The only competitive skill in the long run is skill at learning.”

Seymour Papert


New Reality

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


Where Do We Start?


BE BOLDSaturday, March 16, 13

BOLD SCHOOLS


1. Learning Centered2. Inquiry Driven3. Authentic Work

4. Digital5. Connected

6. Literate7. Transparent8. Innovative

9. Provocative

Nine Qualities


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1. Bold Schools are Learning and Learner Centered

Students and teachers direct their own learning and connect to their passions.

Nine Qualities


1. Bold Schools are Learning and Learner Centered

Pick one outcome and tell students to design their own path to that outcome and their own assessment.

Bold Move


2. Bold Schools are Inquiry Driven

Learning is focused around exploring answers to “big questions”

Nine Qualities


2. Bold Schools are Inquiry Driven

Focus on “discovery” not “delivery”.

Bold Move


3. Bold Schools Support Authentic Work

Students and teachers create real work for real audiences and real purposes.

Nine Qualities


3. Bold Schools Support Authentic Work

Let students create work that lives in the world, not in the classroom.

Bold Move


4. Bold Schools are Digital

Students and teachers have access to and fluency with technology.

Nine Qualities


4. Bold Schools are Digital

Consider 1-1. Teachers first.

Bold Move


5. Bold Schools are Connected

Students and teachers regularly learn from and with people online.

Nine Qualities


5. Bold Schools are Connected

Think of classrooms as having thin walls.

Bold Move


6. Bold Schools are Literate(by 21st Century Standards)

Students and teachers meet NCTE guidelines for modern readers and writers.

Nine Qualities


• 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

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NCTE Literacies


6. Bold Schools are Literate(by 21st Century Standards)

Make literacy work a part of annual learning plans and evaluations.

Bold Move


7. Bold Schools are Transparent

Students and teachers widely share best practices and reflections on their learning.

Nine Qualities


7. Bold Schools are Transparent

Create public online spaces that showcases teacher and student practice and thinking.

Bold Move


8. Bold Schools are Innovative

All learners are encouraged to “poke the box” and experiment with practice.

Nine Qualities


8. Bold Schools are Innovative

Support a “20%” type schedule.

Bold Move


9. Bold Schools are Provocative

Conversations around change extend to parents, communities, and local, state and national governments.

Nine Qualities


9. Bold Schools are Provocative

Regularly share news about reform and learning with parents and community members.

Bold Move


1. Learning Centered2. Inquiry Driven3. Authentic Work

4. Digital5. Connected

6. Literate7. Transparent8. Innovative

9. Provocative

Nine Qualities


Reactions/Discussion


How do we get there?


Challenges


Challenges



Challenges


Challenges


Challenge


LEARNERS FIRST


LEARNERS FIRSTTeachers Second


Do We Have:

CuriosityResiliencePassion

Entrepreneurial ThinkingEmpathyCreativity

CollaborationInquiry

NetworkingCommunicationCritical Thinking

(and more)


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