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The 4 Cs in the 21st CReimagining Learning

Will Richardsonwillrichardson.com@willrich45

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Lots of Cs

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Context

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Jacob Arnott14-year old Editor in Chief

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CreativityCollaboration

CommunicationCritical Thinking

The 4 Cs

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The 4 Cs

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New reality

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5th C

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5th C6th C

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CHANGEFriday, December 7, 12

Scarcity

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ABUNDANCEFriday, December 7, 12

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

Clay Shirky

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600,000 Apps2.5 Billion People

2 Trillion Webpages4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute

16,000 Tweets per second*Etc...

*Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration

ABUNDANCE

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...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

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Media Politics

JournalismMedicineBooks

BusinessMusic...

Which is Changing:

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New Reality

Teachers are everywhereClassrooms are everywhere

“School” is everywhere

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215,284,446 Lessons Delivered

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4 Cs?

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New Question:

What is the value of school at a moment where we don’t need

school to do school?

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New Question:

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New Answer:

That which cannot be “Khanified.”

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New Answer:

CreativityCollaboration

CommunicationCritical Thinking

(and more)

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New Reality

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

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CreativityCollaboration

CommunicationCritical Thinking

(and more)

Our Value

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Our New Value

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Our New Value

Digital Creativity - Abundance of Tools

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Our New Value

Digital Creativity - Abundance of ToolsVirtual Collaboration - Abundance of People

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Our New Value

Digital Creativity - Abundance of ToolsVirtual Collaboration - Abundance of PeopleGlobal Communication - Abundance of Media

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Our New Value

Digital Creativity - Abundance of ToolsVirtual Collaboration - Abundance of PeopleGlobal Communication - Abundance of MediaUbiquitous Critical Thinking - Abundance of

Content and Contexts

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

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“Dots in Blue Water”

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

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“Dots in Blue Water”

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

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“Dots in Blue Water”

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

5 systems = clean water for 8,000

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“Dots in Blue Water”

Digital CreativityVirtual Collaboration

Global CommunicationUbiquitous Critical Thinking

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“Dots in Blue Water”

Notes:

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

-Innovative thinking

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CHANGE(The World)

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New Requirements

For our students.For our classrooms.

For ourselves.

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New Requirements

Authentic Work

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New Requirements

Transparency

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--Stephen Downes

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New Requirements

Self-Direction

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New Requirements

Literacy

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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

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New Requirements

Networks

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Networks are the new classrooms.

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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 Cross

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Where Do We Start?

CreativityCollaboration

CommunicationCritical Thinking

(and more)

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Where Do We Start?

With Us.

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LEARNERS FIRST

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LEARNERS FIRSTTeachers Second

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“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

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