School 2.0

Creating School 2.0digitalgeneration.wikispaces.com

“My interest is in the future

because I am going to spend

the rest of my life there.”

Charles F. Kettering, American inventor

(1876-1958)

The Opportunity

The Urgency

The Possibilities

The Challenge

Overview

Never BeforeThe Opportunity of a Lifetime

600 BC

1600s

1930s

1960s

2000

2007

Tectonic Shifts

Input

The entire sum of human knowledge available to

every human being on the planet.

80%

20%

Downloads Uploads

55%

45%

2001 2007

Internet Traffic in Australia

Source: Michael Malone, CEO iiNet, quoted in the Australian,

17 July 2007

Internet Traffic in Australia

100 million + members

65,000 new videos every day100 million clips viewed daily

Tectonic Shifts

Input

The entire sum of human knowledge available to

every human being on the planet.

Output

• A generation of authors.

• A stage for every performer.

Power of Computers Cost of Computers

We are living in the greatest ‘teachable moment’ in human

history.

Are we taking advantage of it?

The UrgencyWhy Web 2.0 Matters

Trends

• If a job can be sent overseas, it will

• If a task can be done by computer, it will

• More jobs than you could ever imagine will

fall into these categories

Engineering Firm 1980

Engineering Firm 2010

Flat world

21st Century Workplace

Collaborative

Global

Innovative

Cross-disciplinary

Tech-savvy

21st Century School?

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

• The current generation learns differently to us

• The gap between ‘us and them’ is big and getting bigger

• More and more students view school as irrelevant

Searching

Imagination is more

important than

knowledge.

Never memorise

anything you can look up.

The PossibilitiesWhat Might a 21st Century Classroom Look Like?

Authentic workfor

Authentic audiences

Planning Real Expertscollaborating with

Real Purposeof content to achieve

Real Audiencefeedback from

Production

Review

Production Process

Web 2.0 Tools

BlogsOn-line journal with feedback

WikiCollaborative website,

any-one can edit

PodcastAudio / video published to

audience’s MP3 players

Why Web 2.0?

• Engagement and motivation

• Global citizenship

• Reflecting on learning

• Critical awareness

• Window on the classroom

Planning and Research

WritingEditing

Sharing

This is not a technology project!

The ChallengeHow Can We Make ‘School 2.0’ a Reality?

Multiple Challenges

Ignorance

Self-doubt

Cost

Fear

The First StepStarting the Conversation

“Yes, and...”

“Yes, but...”

“No way Jose!”

What do these people have in common?

1940Winston Churchill

1963Martin Luther King Jr

1987Mikhail Gorbachev

1993Nelson Mandela

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