education summit "digital exposure"

The world is changing...

Learning is changing...

Anytime. Anywhere...

Anyone.

Two billion potential teachers from around the world.

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

--Jay Cross, Informal Learning 

Huge implications for us as learners and for our schools.

    "Our learning institutions, for the most part, are acting as if the world has not suddenly, irrevocably, cataclysmically, epistemically changed-and changed precisely in the area of learning. --Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, "Future of Learning Institutions", 2009. http://bit.ly/X52mZ (.pdf)

“If you think that the future will require better schools you’re wrong. The future of education will call for entirely different learning environments.”

--Knowldege Works Foundation

Education vs. Everyday

Analog vs. DigitalTethered vs. Mobile

Isolated vs. ConnectedGeneric vs. Personal

Consumption vs. CreationClosed vs. Open

David Wiley, BYU

Right now, schools are:

Time and place. Filtered. Teacher-directed. Standardized. Push oriented. Content-based. Group assessed. Linear. Closed. Sept-June. Local.

Learning will be (already is):

Mobile. Networked. Global. Collaborative. Self-directed. Inquiry based. On demand. Transparent. Lifelong. Personalized. Pull.

 So here's the question...

 Even though no one is asking you to...

 ...not parents, not the community, not the state...

 ...are you changing?

What are the consequences of not changing?

Eight* Shifts For Us, For Our Kids

*Subject to change without notice.

Shift #1: Do Talk to Strangers

The reality of the safety question...

The reality of the learning question...

"But there is no doubt that five years from now, when my children are teenagers, they will be comfortable living in public in ways that will astound and alarm their parents. I can already imagine how powerful the instinct to worry about predators and compromising photos will be. But it will be our responsibility to keep that instinct in check and to recognize that their increasingly public existence brings more promise than peril. We have to learn how to break with that most elemental of parental commandments: Don't talk to strangers. It turns out that strangers have a lot to give us that's worthwhile, and we to them."  --Steven Johnson"Web Privacy: In Praise of Oversharing"Time Magazine, May 20, 2010http://bit.ly/aBbBYL

98% Strangers

Kids are already doing this.

“Kids learn on the Internet in a self-directed way, by looking around for information they are interested in, or connecting with others who can help them. This is a big departure from how they are asked to learn in most schools, where the teacher is the expert and there is a fixed set of content to master.” 

--Mimi ItoMacArthur Foundation

No one is teaching kids to do this well.

"Young people's internet literacy does not yet match the headline image of the intrepid pioneer, but this is not because young people lack imagination or initiative but rather because the institutions that manage their internet access and use are constraining or unsupportive - anxious parents, uncertain teachers, busy politicians, profit-oriented content providers."

--Sylvia LivingstoneAuthor "Children and the Internet"

If it was just about learning,* shouldn't we be teaching them to talk to strangers?

*Which it isn't...

Shift #2: The "G-Portfolio"

What comes up when you Google yourselves?

How do we help students become "Googled well?"

"Planet -scale sharing."

--Clay ShirkyCognitive Surplus

"The traditional two-page resume has been turned into a 'personal productivity portal' that empowers prospective employers to quite literally interact with their candidate's work."

 --Michael Schrage

Harvard Business Review

"Reputation management"

Can we model the "G-portfolio" for our students?

Shift #3: Get Digital Paper Trained

Paper can't compete to "digital paper."

Analog paper is hard to:

SearchCopy

Co-createShareReviseRemixArchivePublishCarry

Digital paper is easy to:

SearchCopy

Co-createShareReviseRemixArchivePublishCarry

Shift #4: Information Management

National Council of Teachers of English on literacy:

21st Century readers and writers need to be able to "manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information."

http://bit.ly/nctelit

"It's not a matter of information overload; it's 'filter failure.'"

--Clay Shirky

We live in a "pull" information world, not "push." 

--John Seely BrownPull

We participate with information, not simply consume it.

Shift #5: Be a “LIE” Detector

Who do you trust?

How do you determine authority?

Shift #6: Follow Your Passions

National EducationalTechnology Plan (Draft) http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010

"The model of 21st century learning described in this plan calls for engaging and empowering learning experiences for all learners. The model asks that we focus what and how we teach to match what people need to know, how they learn, where and when they will learn, and who needs to learn. It brings state-of-the art technology into learning to enable, motivate, and inspire all students, regardless of background, languages, or disabilities, to achieve. It leverages the power of technology to provide personalized learning instead of a one-size fits-all curriculum, pace of teaching, and instructional practices."

Shift #7: Learn to Learn

Learning is now lifelong and lifewide.

“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

"The success of universal schooling has led us to identify learning with schooling. These new alternatives will make us rethink the dominant role of K-12 schools in education as children and adults spend more time learning in new venues."

--Collins and Halverson inRethinking Education in an Era of Technology

"The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere."

WikiversityUniversity of the PeopleUnclasses.orgTeachstreetEduFireSchool of EverythingOpenLearnOpenCourseWare ConsortiumiTunesUCosmoLearningNational Connections AcademyOpen High School of UtahOpen Learning IntiativeAcademic EarthConnexionsFlat World Knowledgep2pU 

With that reality, the question for schools now becomes: how are we preparing our students for lifelong, self-directed, independent learning?

Shift #8:  Solve Problems...Creatively, Patiently

National Council of Teachers of English on literacy:

"Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally."

1:45-3:26

So, here is our problem: how will we change?

tinyurl.com/266c8hmtinyurl.com/2e6xr7h

"Big problems are rarely solved with commensurately big solutions. Instead, they aremost often solved by a sequence ofsmall solutions, sometimes overweeks, sometimes over decades."

 --Dan and Chip Heath, "Switch"

You need a "growth mindset."

--Carol Dweck, "Mindset"

Is technology a part of your personal learning culture?

Are you sharing, co-operating, collaborating and collectively acting with others?

"Increasingly, those who use technology in ways that expand their global connections are more likely to advance, while those who do not will find themselves on the sidelines. With the growing availability of tools to connect learners and scholars all over the world — online collaborative workspaces, social networking tools, mobiles, voice-over-IP, and more — teaching and scholarship are transcending traditional borders more and more all the time." 

--2009 Horizon Report