The Retooling of Education

“Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able

to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any

single university.” Bill Gates

Chairman of Microsoft

"The virtue of a computer in the

classroom is that it requires a user,

not a watcher." Diane Ravitch

Former US Asst Secretary to Education

and educational historian

“Professors teach today exactly the

same way they taught a thousand years

ago.” Sebastian Thrun

Stanford University

“Every industry will be disrupted and rebuilt with people

at the center.”

Sheryl Sandberg Facebook COO

“Education is the only business

still debating the usefulness of technology.”

Rod Paige former U.S. Secretary of

Education

Cave Paintings

to Cuneiform

Mud Brick-Cuneiform to

Leather/Papyrus Scrolls

Scrolls to bound books- A-Book-Horrible Histories

Mass production of books at

a scriptorium

Massive Changes in Education

• Guttenberg’s Printing Press

– Made books cheap

– More people could read and become educated

– Leads to quicken of innovation through the spread of information through books

• Computers/Internet

– Made information cheap

– “Flattened the world”

– Leading to the fastest period of innovation in world history…so far

How do we create students of the 21st Century with technology?

Technology in the classroom -Fears: •Losing control of the classroom content •Creating students that are widgets instead of creators •Not needing teachers anymore……

What is Blended or Hybrid Learning?

How can we as educators make this experience happen everyday in our classrooms?

21st Century students expect to work, learn and study whenever and wherever they want to

We are increasingly becoming collaborative, driving changes in the way students need to think about the world and how we structure projects.

Social Networking

Blogs

Web 2.0 Interactions Just to name

a few…

Video Lectures or Student Produced

Multimedia

Collaborative Research Using Google Docs

Collaborative Writing in a

Wiki

Since all students are unique, technology in a hybrid teaching format is a tool that can be

used to reach a greater number of students based on their individual needs.

So where does the teacher fit in???

• Since information is everywhere, the quality of teaching will make a difference in the effectiveness of the learning.

• Having a Hybrid or Blended learning model (face to face and online), can leverage the online skills students have already developed independent of our schools.

• The many students will find it more comfortable to be working in their environment instead of someone else's.

Shifting from teacher-centered to student-centered education & engaging them by connecting the curriculum with real life issues.

Examples of Hybrid Sites

• Stockbridge Moodle Site – Class website

• World History/Biology- Crash Course Video Lectures on Youtube.com

• Glogster – Interactive posters/portfolios

• Prezi- Presentation Tool

• Edmodo – Social Networking

Examples of Hybrid Sites

• Google docs

• iTunesU

• Interactive simulations/Games – icivics.org, Redistricting Game and Budget Hero

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