educon 2.0 -- dewey's dream workshop
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Building School 2.0:New Tools and Dewey’s Dream
Chris LehmannPrincipal
Science Leadership AcademyPhiladelphia, PA
What is School 2.0?
My Bias:
School 2.0 isProgressive
Education updated for today’s world.
Paraphrasing Neil Postman:Certain technologies are not merely additive,
They are transformative.
What is the purpose of school?
(and (how) has that changed?)
Discussion Prompt:
My Two Cents
• Thoughtful
• Passionate
• Wise
• Kind
Now What?
Have a vision
Science Leadership Academy
• Inquiry
• Research
• Collaboration
• Presentation
• Reflection
http://www.scienceleadership.org/mission.php
Gates Foundation
•Rigor
•Relevance
•Relationships
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/UnitedStates/Education/TransformingHighSchools/
Coalition of Essential Schools
• Learning to use one’s mind well.
• Less is More, depth over coverage
• Goals apply to all students
• Personalization
• Student-as-worker, teacher-as-coach
• Demonstration of mastery
• A tone of decency and trust
• Commitment to the entire school
• Resources dedicated to teaching and learning
• Democracy and equity
http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/about/phil/10cps/10cps.html
High Tech High
• Personalization
• Adult World Connection
• Common Intellectual Mission
http://www.hightechhigh.org/about/design-principles.php
Christian Long’s Learning Manifesto
• “Playing Small Does Not Serve The World:” Your Brain Is Your Brand.
• What Would Socrates Do?
• Nobody Cares That You Walked Uphill Both Ways in the Snow.
• Got Passion? If Not, I’ll Tell You What To Care About.
• My Memory Is Only As Big As My Heart, Otherwise I’ll Stick With Google.
• Look It Up Or Die.
• Collaboration Ain’t About Holding Hands. It’s About Going Places Fast.
• This Will Go Down On Your Permanent Record.
• It Ain’t About the Technology, It’s About Being Inside the Story
• Nobody Knows the Answer. Get Comfy With the Questions.
http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2007/01/the_future_of_l.html
Curriculum 2.0
Discussion Prompts:• How do we create
curriculum in this model?
• What do we teach when THIS is available 24/7?
• How do you establish a link between your manifesto and your curriculum?
• What does assessment look like in your model?
Student-Centered
It’s not about us.
Inquiry-Driven
What are the questions we can ask together?
Passionate
And it has to matter.
Meta-Cognitive
Project-Based
An inversion of what we know.
Teaching Toward Understanding
Understanding by DesignWiggins and McTigue
What about the tools?
Discussion Prompts:
• What does digital literacy mean?
• How do we teach it?
• What’s the same? What’s different?
•What are the tools we need to accomplish that?
• How do we have to change?
Chris’ School - Tech Manifesto:
Don’t Talk About “What” Before
“Why.”
Chris’ School - Tech Manifesto:(Part Two)
Process Trumps Product.
Technology must allow our students to research,
collaborate, create and network.
Technology Must Be Like Oxygen:
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible
Information Literacy and The “Prosumer”
• Find information
• Analyze information
• Synthesize information
• Judge information
• Create information
• Share information
Text
http://www.dhmo.org
Transparency
What would happen if you invited the world to school?
Talking About Tools
Building a School Web Portal
The Killer App• Student Information
System
• Student Reporting System
• Parent Interface
• “Walled Garden”
• School / Student Publishing Tool
• And more... (Library, etc...)
What is Teacher 2.0?• How is a teacher’s life
different in this model?
• What are the skills necessary to teach in this world?
• How will you find new teachers?
• How will you help older teachers to adapt?
Professional Development
• How do you learn?
• 24 / 7 / 365 Just In Time Learning
Big Questions:• How will you create the
time and space for your teachers to learn?
• How will you make your faculty meetings part of a running, constant dialogue?
• How will that manifesto we wrote earlier inform every thing you do?
Returning to Big Thoughts
• Who do we want our students to be?
• Who do we want our teachers to be?
• What do we want our schools to be?
Take-Aways
• What could you do in your school / district immediately?
• What could you do in your school / district this year?
• What could you do in your school / district over the next five years?
Stay in Touch
• Chris Lehmann
• http://www.practicaltheory.org
• http://www.scienceleadership.org
• Twitter: chrislehmann
• Skype: chrislehmann
• AOL: hubkatt