Technology and the changing face of education

Dr. Darlene WestinghouseDirector of Instructional ServicesONC BOCES

CHANGE?

…as obsolete as the horse and carriage are now.”

Diaries of Thomas Edison, 1925

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CHANGE…

Did You Know?

04/10/23Central Processing Unit - 8 MB Memory

BIOTECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY

The United States Department of Commerce ranked 55 industrial sectors by their level of Information Technology (IT).

Education came in at 55

The lowest of all including coal mining (U.S. Department of Commerce, 2002).

We are preparing students for an

era that no longer exists and for a job

market that no longer offers

the same positions

(Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2006).

Basic Skills No Longer Enough

Minimum jobs need to solve a range of intellectual and technical problems

21st century skills calls us to reason, analyze, weigh evidence, problem-solve – and to communicate effectively

They are survival skills for all of us

“The future U.S. workforce is here – and it is woefully

ill-prepared for the demands

of today’s (and tomorrow’s) workplace”

(The Conference Board, Partnership for 21st century Skills, Corporate Voices for Working Families, HR Society for Human Resource Management, 2006, p. 9).

for K-12

Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Education (Levine, Smith, Smythe, & Johnson, 2009)

Virtual Workplaces:Integrated media - 2D and 3D

LMS:Moodle, Blackboard, Sakai

Social Networking Platforms:Ning, Facebook, Diigo, Glogster

3D Virtual Worlds:Active Worlds, Second Life

Simply put:

Web 1.0 get information from the Internet

Web 2.0 contribute and interact on the Web

Google EarthItunes UWebspirationHippocampusVoiceThreadAnimotoPhotostory 3Movie MakerZohoBloggerAudacityWikispaces

CREATIVECOMMONS

OCW MIT

MoOM

BlogsPodcastingRSS FeedsTwitterFacebookWikis

The 21st Century

Networked

Student

Mobile Learning is taking on board and complementing the concepts of Web 2.0 which have led to the emergence of E-Learning 2.0 and … Mobile Learning 2.0

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

content

content

content

sharing (content)collaborationsyndication

tagging

1. Do you instant message?

2. Do you blog?

3. Do you subscribe to RSS feeds?

4. Have you contributed to a wiki?

5. Do you use Digg, Furl or Delicious?

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6. Do you text message on your cell?

7. Have you created an avatar in Second

Life?

8. Do you watch videos on YouTube or other

sites?

9. Have you subscribed to a vod/podcast?

10. Do you use search engines other than

Google? 26

10 Recluse

20 Refugee

30-40 Immigrant

50-60 Native

70-80 Explorer

90 Innovator

100 Addict

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Objects relate to their environment and to each other –

Violet’s Mirror Siftables Sixth Sense

From the Agricultural World

To the Industrial World

Into World of Information,

Knowledge & Communication

And onward toward the

World of Creativity and Innovation!

Finding the information Processing different media Decoding the information Analyzing the information Critically evaluating the information Organizing it into personal digital libraries Creating information in a variety of media Teaching the information to find the user Filtering the information gleaned

Creativity and Innovation

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Communication and

Collaboration

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Research and

Information Fluency

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Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving & Decision-Making

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Digital Citizenship

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Technology

Operations and

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“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