School 2.0 - Winter 13

Creating School 2.0

Chris LehmannScience Leadership AcademyPhiladelphia, PA@chrislehmann

Friday, February 8, 13

Why This Matters


My Bias:

Old Ideas and New ToolsFriday, February 8, 13

More Bias:

Citizenry, Not WorkforceFriday, February 8, 13

One Last Bias:

Public Education = DemocracyFriday, February 8, 13

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178404705/

School Stinks




School was designed for this:


Do What You’re ToldOver and over and over again...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/195707530/




Stuff You Might Never Need... or care about.

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_123031_862743_0_0_18/PSSA_Item_Sampler_Math_Grade_11_2009.pdf




“Why Do I Need to Know This?”


It will be on the test...

You’re going to need it some day...It’ll h

elp you get a job...

It looks good on a college resume...It’s a required class...

(because someone told me I had to learn it / teach it.)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/benrussell/1477899923/




It Doesn’t Have toBe That Way.


School Can Teach Us How To Learn.


School Can Help Us Learn to Live.


The Paradox of Education 2013:

Create New Things,Measured Old Ways


Data Driven DecisionsAssume that you use good data --

and good data ain’t cheap.


Reclaim Our LanguageReclaim Education


Deliver PizzaNot Instruction

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracyhunter/104435268/




Dream BiggerThis isn’t personalized.


We Learn BestWhen It Matters To Us


http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/838786841/

Photo by Ewan McIntosh

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

- John Cleese






What the school system needs to understand is that its strength lies, not in the strength of the central organization,

but in the strength of the individual school, not in making one school like another, but in making each school a distinct unit. The need of the system is the preservation of its units, so that each school can keep itself alive, wide awake, responsive to

its people, easily adaptable, the best of its kind.

Angelo Patri -- A Schoolmaster of the Great City


http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2225299236/

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,

unlearn and relearn.

-- Alvin Toffler




What Will You Unlearn?


Tell A Better Story:We Must Have Vision

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lnx/6257130/




Caring Institutions

We Teach Kids, Not Subjects


Inquiry Driven

Ask Questions We Don’t Know The Answers To


Student CenteredIt’s Not About Us.


Teacher-Mentored

Kids Need Adults


Community-Based

We can learn from manyFriday, February 8, 13

CollaborativeSynthesis Works


Passionate

High School Is Real LifeFriday, February 8, 13

Integrated

The day has to make senseFriday, February 8, 13

Meta-Cognitive

Think about thinking.Friday, February 8, 13

Understanding-Driven

and Project-BasedFriday, February 8, 13

Tests

Homework

Projects

Class Participation

TraditionalSchools:

Recall-Based


Projects

Homework

Class Participation

Tests & Quizzes

The SchoolsWe Need:

Understanding-Driven


Common Language of Teaching and Learning


Common Inputs


Common Process


Common Outputs


Technology Like Oxygen

Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible


Neil Postman:

Certain Technologies Are Not Additive, They Are

Transformative


Technology Transforms:

CreationResearch

CollaborationPresentationNetworking


Thoughtful, Wise, Passionate and Kind


How Do We Change the

World?


Be Humbled By The Task

And Be Skeptical of Those Who Aren’tFriday, February 8, 13

Have FunWe get to teach!


Organize

The Time Is Nowhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163922974/




Ideas Must Live In Practice

Build Systems and Structures that Reflect Your Vision


We Have a Choice

Control or SupportFriday, February 8, 13

Keep Asking Questions

And Don’t Settle For Easy AnswersFriday, February 8, 13

What Do You Think?

The link between inquiry and careFriday, February 8, 13

Problematize Everything

What is the worst consequence of your best idea?Friday, February 8, 13

Empower the Kids

It is their education, and it will be their worldFriday, February 8, 13

Continue the Conversation

Dream big in every communityFriday, February 8, 13

Share

We Will Get Better TogetherFriday, February 8, 13

Be Willing to Be Transformed

We Have So Much Left to LearnFriday, February 8, 13

What do we teachin the Information Age?


Wisdom.


Join us:[email protected]

http://www.practicaltheory.orgTwitter: chrislehmann

Science Leadership Academyhttp://www.scienceleadership.org

EduCon 2.5 -- Jan. 25-27, 2013http://educonphilly.org


mailto:[email protected]


















School 2.0 - Winter 13

Documents

school system

school stinks http

individual school

passionate high school

vision http

schoolswe need

common inputsfriday

common processfriday