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GOVERNOR’S INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATION
EDUCATION AND LEARNING IN THE 21ST CENTURYHow, Why and What We Need to Do Differently
December 19, 2007State College, PA
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21st century kids…
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Who AREthese people,
anyway!
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not
“little us’s”
anymore!
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Today’s younger learners are NOT the ones our
systems (and teachers)were designed and trained
to teach!
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• 5-10,000 hours Video Games• 250,000 emails and IMs• 10,000 hours on cell phones• 20,000 hours TV (incl. You tube)• 500,000 commercials
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Why?
• • < 5,000 hours book reading
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• 2 billion ring tones per year
• 2 billion songs per month
• 6 billion text messages per day
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The e-Life
Communicating IM, chat
Sharing Blogs, MySpace, Facebook
Buying & Selling ebay, craigslist
Exchanging peer-to-peer
Learning Wikipedia, You Tube, search
Meeting Second Life
GamingOnline, MMORPGs, Cell Phones
Searching Info, connections, people
Analyzing SETI, drug molecules
Reporting Moblogs, photos
Programming Open systems, mods search
SocializingLearning social behavior, influence
Growing UpExploring, transgressing
Coordinating Projects, workgroups, MMORPGs
Evaluating Reputation systems–Epinions, Amazon, Slashdot
CollectingMp3s videos, sensor data
Creating
Sites, avatars, mods
EvolvingPeripheral, emergent behaviors
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In the 21st century
Learning can’t be dropped on kids
They have toWANT
To learn
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We can no longer just TELLstudents what is right/best
In the 21st century
We also have toASK!
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We can no longer justhand students “content”
In the 21st century
They have to find it WORTHWHILE!
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We can no longer justhand students “content”
In the 21st century
They have to helpdecide how we
present it!
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We have to equipour kids with
Twenty-first CenturySkills!
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21st CenturySkills
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21st Century Skills
1. Knowing the right thing to do
• Behaving Ethically• Critical Thinking • Decision Making • Problem Solving
• Judgment
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21st Century Skills
2. Getting it done
• Goal Setting • Planning
• Self-Direction• Self-Evaluation
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21st Century Skills
3. Doing it with others
• Communicating/Interacting: With individuals & groups (especially using technol.)
• Communicating/Interacting: With Machines (= Programming)
• Communicating/Interacting: With a World Audience
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21st Century Skills
4. Doing it creatively
• Creative thinking• Designing• Playing
• Finding your voice
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21st Century Skills
5. Constantly doing it better
• Being proactive • Prudent risk-taking • Thinking long-term• Continually improving
through learning
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• One size fits all
• Doing & Gameplay
Digital Natives
learn from
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DigitalImmigrants
teach by
• One Thing at a Time
• Linear Stories
• Presenting & Telling
• Multi-tasking
• Lots of Choices
• Random Access & Exploring Options
• Delivering content • Being Engaged
• Face-to-face • Going Online
• Going relatively slowly • Going really quickly
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http://mabryonline.org/archives/mtv
Immigration
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Game CaveatsLearning games exist BUT
1. Useful games are hard to find
2. Games are hard to use (especially complex games) and may not interest all students
3. Games are only a small part of the solution
4. Don’t focus on games; focus on
ENGAGING WITH STUDENTS
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“DimensionM”
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Math - Algebra
www.tabuladigita.com/
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“Waste of Space”
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Science – Space Physics
www.hagames.com/
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“The Grammar of Doom”
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English - Grammar
www.english-online.org.uk/games/grofdoom/advisory.htm
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“Darfur is Dying”
Social Studies
www.darfurisdying.com/ © 2007 Marc Prensky
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“Food Force”
Social Studies
www.food-force.com/ © 2007 Marc Prensky
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“PeaceMaker”
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Social Studies
www.peacemakergame.com/
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Business: Basic Concepts
“Disney’s Hot Shot Business”
disney.go.com/hotshot/index.html © 2007 Marc Prensky
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ECON 201
Microeconomics
web.uncg.edu/dcl/econ201/trailer.html © 2007 Marc Prensky
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Prin’lsSup’ts
Practical Steps To Take
Listen to a wide mix of kids
Encourage aFaster pace
Figure out how to Compete with after-school
Teachers KidsParentsMeet w/kids more often around big issues
Work with the younger teachers
Give more responsibility to students
Allow Kids to teach teachers
Allow themselves to be taught by kids
Share their successes
Volunteer for classroom videocams
Come to big meetings with kids, teachers and adminis-trators
Understand the need for a 21st c. education vs. a 20th c. one
Get involved helping teachers
Ask them to ask you
Help them make videos of good practices
BoardsAdd a student (or two)
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