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Learning in a Networked WorldSchooling in an Era of Abundance

Will [email protected]@willrich45

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Monday, January 7, 13

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Jacob Arnott14-year old Editor in Chief



Context


“Crisis of Contexts”


Crisis of Contexts

Traditional LearningPoliticians, Parents,

Communities Educators


Crisis of Contexts



Modern LearningConnected Learners




Modern LearningConnected Learners

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New reality


Scarcity


ABUNDANCEMonday, January 7, 13

CHANGEMonday, January 7, 13

“The change we are in the middle of isn’t minor,and it isn’t optional.”

Clay Shirky


600,000 Apps2.5 Billion People

2 Trillion Webpages4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute

16,000 Tweets per second*5 Billion Internet Connected Devices

Etc...

*Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration

ABUNDANCE



...A world marked by “ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous information, ubiquitous networks, at unlimited speed, about everything, everywhere, from anywhere, on all kinds of devices that make it ridiculously easy to connect, organize, share, collect, collaborate and publish.”

Michael Wesch


Media Politics

JournalismMedicineBooks

BusinessMusic...

Which is Changing:


Is redefining an “education”

ABUNDANCE




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Scarcity


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Scarcity


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Scarcity

Abundance


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Scarcity

Abundance

Information ≠ Education


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Scarcity

Abundance



Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.

of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.


Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.

of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.

“This is the tsunami.”--Richard DeMillo, Ga. Tech






2024?


Changes the Way We Learn

ABUNDANCE


New Reality

Teachers are everywhereClassrooms are everywhere

“School” is everywhere



215,284,446 Lessons Delivered









“What does a middle school algebra teacher do if kindergarteners can start learning to solve equations

within a couple of hours?”



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New Question:

What do students need to learn in school at a moment when they can

learn so much without us?


New Question:

And:What is the value of school (and

classrooms and teachers) at a moment where we don’t need

school to do school?


New Question:


New Answer:

That which cannot be “Khanified.”


New Answer:

CuriosityResiliencePassion

Entrepreneurial ThinkingEmpathyCreativity

CollaborationInquiry

NetworkingCommunicationCritical Thinking

(and more)


New Reality

Schools need to be “different”...not just “better.”






Content

Our Old (Traditional) Value


Our New Value


New Contexts for Learning

Our New Value


New Contexts for LearningNew Literacies

Our New Value


New Contexts for LearningNew LiteraciesNew Futures

Our New Value


“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned

find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that

no longer exists.”

Eric Hoffer


Our New Value

“Entrepreneurial Learners”


“Constantly looking around you, all the time, for new ways

and new resources to learn new things.”

John Seely Brown


Our New Value

Inquiry


“Dots in Blue Water”South Adams HS, Berne, IN


“Dots in Blue Water”

1. Authentic Problem/Question“How can we purify water for people in Haiti?”



2. Student Directed TeamsResearch, Development, Marketing, Community “Investment"



3. Real Product/Real AudienceTeachers and students travelled to Haiti to install their devices.

5 systems = clean water for 8,000



Notes:

-Aligned to standards-Interdisciplinary-Student-centered-Technology-rich

-Innovative thinking


CHANGE(The World)


New Requirements

For our students.For our classrooms.

For ourselves.


New Requirements

Authentic Work


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New Requirements

Transparency



--Stephen Downes



http://shelleywright.wordpress.com/




http://abbylearns.edublogs.org/




http://pinterest.com/rachaelgking/the-living-resume/




New Requirements

Self-Direction




New Requirements

Literacy


New Requirements

• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology • Build relationships with others to pose and solve

problems collaboratively and cross-culturally • Design and share information for global communities to

meet a variety of purposes • Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of

simultaneous information • Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts • Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these

complex environments



http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/

http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/

New Requirements

Networks



Networks are the new classrooms.



“What can you do has been replaced by what can you and your network connections do. Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his contacts.”

Jay Cross


Where Do We Start?

With Us.


LEARNERS FIRST


LEARNERS FIRSTTeachers Second



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“What can you do has been replaced by what can you and your network

connections do. Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his

contacts.”Jay CrossInformal Learning




People

People


People

Classrooms


This changes learning.


This changes us.



Sheryl Nussbaum-BeachThe Connected Educator


How do we get there?


LEARNERS FIRST


LEARNERS FIRSTTeachers Second


PLNs allow us to“design our own learning.”


“Network Literacy”


“Create, navigate, and grow personal learning networks in

safe, effective, and ethical ways.”


Create


Share


Sharing is the only way to...


--Stephen Downes



Share




Become “Googled Well”


Connect


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Repeat after me...


“I want to be found by strangers on the Internet.”


#edchat#plpnetwork#education

#k12#scichat

#engchat (etc.)#edreform

#startyourown


Co-operate/Collaboarate



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