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Learning in a Networked WorldFor Our Students and For Ourselves

Will Richardsonwill@willrichardson.comwillrichardson.com@willrich45

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Friday, April 19, 13

Jacob Arnott14-year old Editor in Chief

New Context

Scarcity

ABUNDANCEFriday, April 19, 13

“Crisis of Contexts”

Traditional Learning(Politicians, Parents, Communities, Educators)

Modern Learning(Kids with Access, Connected, Networked Learners)

Traditional Learning

Modern Learning

DeliveryVs

Traditional Learning

Modern Learning

Delivery

DiscoveryVs

Traditional LearningWhat you want me to learn.

Modern LearningWhat I want to learn

Traditional LearningJust in case.

Modern LearningJust in time.

New reality

CHANGEFriday, April 19, 13

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

Clay Shirky

750,000 Apps2.5 Billion People

2 Trillion Webpages5 Years of YouTube video per minute

5 Years of all IP video per second100,000 Tweets per minute

12 Billion Internet Connected Devices by 2015Etc...

ABUNDANCE

GamesVideos

NetworksTexts

Hangouts

(...and all sorts of other interesting stuffthey don’t have access to at school.)

ABUNDANCEKids’ Version

...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:

New reality

Information, knowledge and teachers are in abundant supply and ubiquitous.

NEW REALITY

That supply of knowledge and information is expanding and changing at a rate like never before.

ABUNDANCENEW REALITY

We cannot predict the impacts of technological advances on the future of learning and work.

A wide range of new skills and literacies will be required to navigate the future.

THE Key Shift:

NEW REALITY

Institutionally Organized World

Self-Organized World

“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

Part 1:Relearning Learning

RELEARNING

What do you mean by “learning?”

RELEARNING

“Higher student achievement?”“Improved student performance?”

“Better student outcomes?”“College readiness?”

RELEARNING

creativitypassion to know

application of knowledgeinquiry

seeing patternsposing and answering questions

understanding the worldacquiring knowledge

curiosityfinding and solving problems

making somethingunderstanding something you previously didn’t understand

making connectionschanging your perspective on something

synthesizing ideasadding new knowledge

RELEARNING

"Productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces

wanting to learn more. Absent wanting to learn, the learning context is

unproductive or counterproductive."

Seymour Sarason

RELEARNINGcreativity

passion to knowapplication of knowledge

inquiryseeing patterns

posing and answering questionsunderstanding the world

acquiring knowledgecuriosity

finding and solving problemsmaking something

understanding something you previously didn’t understandmaking connections

changing your perspective on somethingsynthesizing ideas

adding new knowledge

Which of These do we Assess?

Easier

Harder

Less Important More Important

Learning in aTime of Abundance

Difficulty to

Assess

ContentKnowledge

CriticalThinking

ProblemSolving

Basic Skills

Easier

Harder

Less Important More Important

Difficulty to

Assess

ContentKnowledge

CriticalThinking

Creativity

ProblemSolving

EntrepreneurialThinking

ProblemFinding

Networking

Synthesis

Passionto Learn

Curiosity

CreatingSolutions

Participation

Sharing

Connecting

Collaboration

Basic Skills

Inquiry

Initiative

Courage

Empathy

Learning in aTime of Abundance

Resilience

“Connected Learning”

Our New Value

“Connected learning is realized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and interest to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement.”

Mimi Ito

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

Part 2:Relearning “School”

RELEARNING

New Reality

Teachers are everywhereClassrooms are everywhere

“School” is everywhere

215,284,446 Lots of Lessons Delivered

What if he’s right?

Self-Organized LearningSelf-Organized Learning

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

within a couple of hours?”

New Question:

If this is what our students now have access to...

...what is our new role?Friday, April 19, 13

New Question:

New Answer:

That which cannot be “Khanified.”

Part 3:Relearning Higher Education

RELEARNING

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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

InstitutionallyOrganized

Self-Organized

Self-Organized Learners?

Part 4:Relearning Work

RELEARNING

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Self-Organized Work

43% of 5-12th graders said they planned to start their own businesses.

Are you helping your students become successful entrepreneurs?

--Stephen Downes

“Looking to the future of work, one could sum up the anticipated impacts in a single word: More. More intensity. More pressure. More change. More risk. But also, more opportunity. More engagement. More transparency. More impact.”

Yvette Cameron

To Sum it Up:

ABUNDANCE

Means that we are now the central, organizing force in our own learning, our own education, and, increasingly our own careers.

ABUNDANCE

Means that we now need the skills and dispositions to “design”our own

learning and careers.

ABUNDANCE

Means we must develop a new context for modern learning.

ABUNDANCE

Question

So, what are the skills and dispositions that our students now

need to succeed?

New Answer:

CuriosityResiliencePassion

Entrepreneurial ThinkingEmpathyCreativity

CollaborationInquiry

NetworkingCommunicationCritical Thinking

(and more)

“The only competitive skill in the long run is skill at learning.”

Seymour Papert

New Reality

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

June 3, 1952Friday, April 19, 13

May 2, 1952

Moral of the Story

“Better” matters little if what people need and want is something else.

Where Do We Start?

With Us.

LEARNERS FIRST

LEARNERS FIRSTAre you:

Self-organized?Self-directed?Connected?

LEARNERS FIRSTTeachers Second

Where Do We Start?

Not, what have you learned.

Where Do We Start?

What will you learn?

will@willrichardson.com@willrich45

willrichardson.comFriday, April 19, 13

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solving problemsmaking

traditional

johns hopkins

easierharderless

cal tech

georgia tech

answering

worldacquiring

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