PLP LIVE2012 CONFERENCE

Essential Ideas

ESSENTIAL IDEAS

1. Educational Shift

2.Professional Development & Practice

3. Technology

EDUCATIONAL SHIFT

Old Model: Scalable Learning/Efficiency• learning a set of skills

New Model: Participating in Knowledge Flows• learning how to learn and participate in knowledge

flows

EDUCATIONAL SHIFT

Today’s students live in a multimodal world

Students learn in three spheres:• 1. Academic• 2. Interest Driven• 3. Peer Culture

Students build context and content

EDUCATIONAL SHIFT

Students construct new contexts • 1. Remixing existing structures into something NEW• Ex) Movie:

• students edit sound track, saturation, images• Alters not only what you see but what it means

EDUCATIONAL SHIFTS

Play= progenitor of culture and innovation• Rooted in Montessori and Dewey

Through play, students find new

ideas/solutions/epiphanies

In world of play, students can fail until getting it right

EDUCATIONAL SHIFTS

In a world of constant change, modern students must

blend epistemologies Knowing

Making Playing

PROFESSIONAL

PRACTICE

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

1. Teacher= Mentor/Coach/Facilitator

2. Students produce more content than YOU

3. Class= OPEN PORTAL to the world

4. Amplify Students’ Interests & Voices

5. Connected Educators= Leaders of Social

Learning• Utilize Local/ Global Resources and Experts• Create Authentic Learning Experiences & Opportunities

TECHNOLOGY

Promotes culture of continuous inquiry

Connects students to global community

Enables students to publish to the world• Publishing no longer the end; it’s the beginning

(of discussions and deeper reflection)

TECHNOLOGY

Integrated with Content and Pedagogy

Content

Technology

Pedagogy

TECHNOLOGY

College of William & Mary: T-PACK • Technology Pedagogical Content Knowledge

“attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge.”

(http://tpack.org/)

TECHNOLOGY

Discipline Specific Resource Packs:

http://activitytypes.wmwikis.net/HOME

SAMPLE: SCIENCE

SAMPLE: ENGLISH

SAMPLE:HUMANITIES

SAMPLE: MATH

SAMPLE: LANGUAGE

PROMINENT SPEAKERS

John Seely Brown

Suzie Boss

Darren Cambridge

Bruce Dixon

Will Richardson

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

Jackie Gerstein

Jane Krauss,

Renee Moore

NOTABLE SITES:H T T P : / / T E A C H E R L E A D E R S . T Y P E P A D . C O M / T E A C H M O O R E /

HTTPS: / /WWW.EPICED.ORG/HOME

HTTP:/ /WWW.IDEASLAB.EDU.AU