Dimensions of Change

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Are you Ready for Leading in the 21st Century

It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived! And schools who aren’t redefining themselves, risk becoming irrelevant in preparing students for the future.

You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

Web 3.0Singularity

By the year 2011 80% of all Fortune 500 companies will be using immersive worlds – Gartner Vice President Jackie Fenn

Trends that Drive the Need for Change

Trend 1 – Social and intellectual capital are the new economic values in the world economy.

This new economy will be held together and advanced through the building of relationships. Unleashing and connecting the collective knowledge, ideas, and experiences of people creates and heightens value.

Source:Journal of School Improvement, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2002http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/wallaradistrict/files/links/Ten_Trends_Educating_Child.pdf

Trend 7 – Technology will increase the speed of communication and the pace of advancement or decline.

Using participatory media educators will help today’s students shape tomorrow’s world.

Teachers will become partners with students- using learning communities to open the classroom to the world. They will deal with real world problems and opportunities while gaining a global perspective.

Personal Learning Networks

Community-- in and out of the classroom

Are you “clickable”- Are your students?

“Schools are a node on the network of learning.”

Shifting From Shifting To

A teaching focus A learning focus

Teaching as a private event

Teaching as a collaborative practice

School improvement as an option

School improvement as a requirement

Mandated accountability

Mutual accountability

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

CMS

Community platformsVoIP

webcam

podcasts

PLE

Worldbridges

Rethinking Teaching and Learning

1. Multiliterate

2. Change in pedagogy

3.Change in the way classrooms are managed

4.A move from deficit based instruction to strength based learning

5.Collaboration and communication Inside and Outside the classroom

6.

Focus on Possibilities–Appreciate “What is”

–Imagine “What Might Be”–Determine “What Should Be”

–Create “What Will Be”Blossom Kids

Classic Problem Solving Approach

– Identify problem

– Conduct root cause analysis

– Brainstorm solutions and analyze

– Develop action plans/interventions

Most families, schools, organizations function on an unwritten rule…

–Let’s fix what’s wrong and let the strengths take care of themselves

Speak life lifeto your students and teachers…

–When you focus on strengths, weaknesses become irrelevant

Spending most of your time in your area of weakness—while it will improve your skills, perhaps to a level of “average”—will NOT produce excellence

This approach does NOT tap into student motivation or lead to student engagement

The biggest challenge facing us as educators: how to engage the hearts and minds of the learners

Learning to Change: Changing to Learn