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ENLACES 2009
Engage Me or Enrage MeNovember 25, 2009Santiago de Chile
Marc [email protected]
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It’s NOT about the money(it’s gone)
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1. How can we get our students more engaged in their learning?
Guiding Questions
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2. How do we move toward the future while still teaching the curriculum and keeping test scores up?
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3. What and how should we teach?
Wh t’ bi t What’s your biggest concern as
an educator?
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The answer depends
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A d ti t d tAre we educating studentsfor the day they leave
us?
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or
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A d ti t d tAre we educating studentsfor the rest of their
lives?
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accelerating
We live in an era of
accelerating
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3 kinds of change happening at oncein education
1.Changing Students
2.Changing
Technology
3.ChangingPedagogyStudents Technology Pedagogy
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“Perfect Storm” of Change
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Our students arefast becoming…
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mobile mobiles
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technology is…
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moving like an out-of-control roller coaster
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and our pedagogy is…
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…in need of renewal
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BUT DON’T WORRY!
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I am here
Taken by Sky, Age 3½© 2009 Marc Prensky
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To help youdeal with it…
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…and still stay sane!
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People (and institutions)People (and institutions)are shaped, in large part,
by their environment
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The environmentThe environmentof the future
is that…
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The world, especially the , p yworld of young people, is going to evolve much faster and farther than
t l thi kmost people think.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIOIM6hHBk
Change is not just theFar Off Future
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Life is differentEvery Day!
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Gone to the bathroom lately?
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Toilets
There are MICROCHIPS in the
ToiletsUrinalsSinksSoap DispensersTowel Dispensers
What next?
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Banking
You have probably alreadyradically the way you do
gCommunicatingPayingTravellingBuying/SellingObtaining InformationObtaining InformationReadingHealth-related things
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For many, change is happening so fast
it’s
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And this fear often leads l t h t t tpeople to rush to protect
what they know and value,rather than seek the good
in the changesin the changes
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Introducing the book
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How many of youy yhave already sent
at least oneemail today?
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“Email is forold people”
– A student
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– A headline in The Chronicle of Higher Education
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D t i tDo not overinvestIn any one technology!
STAY FLEXIBLE!
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STAY FLEXIBLE!
In their lifetimes,our kids will see technologyour kids will see technology
become ONE TRILLION
times more powerfultimes more powerful
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1.000.000.000.000 TIMES(240)
1960’s main-frame
x 1B =Today’s
Cellphone
???x 1T =
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…and today we are alreadyworking at theatomic level
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1989
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Today
Human hair
Nanomachine© 2009 Marc Prensky
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Today,NEW TOOLS COME FAST…
S d id P2P• Sped-up video• Picture Search• IM/texting• Blogs• Wikis• Wikipedia
• P2P• Complex Games/Sims• Web 2.0 • Web 3.0• Augmented Reality• Phone cameras
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Wikipedia• Podcasting• Phone polling• My Space• Handhelds
• Phone cameras• Phone videos• GPS• You Tube• MoSoSo
AND GO FAST…
S d id P2P• Sped-up video• Picture Search• IM/texting• Blogs• Wikis• Wikipedia
• P2P• Complex Games/sims• Web 2.0 • Web 3.0• Augmented Reality• Phone cameras
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Wikipedia• Podcasting• Phone polling• My Space• Handhelds
• Phone cameras• Phone videos• GPS• You Tube• MoSoSo
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Our future students
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4 year old with iphone
4 year old with iphone
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WELL, MAYBE YOU SHOULD WORRY!
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Is this a good thing?
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Absolutely—if we have balance
So…
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Why are we here?
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How can we helpthese kids?
What makes themDigital Natives?
XX√√
Knowledge?Capabilities?Attitude?C f t L l?
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√Comfort Level?
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Those who didn’t grow upwith technology often have a
“Digital Immigrant Accent”• Printing out our e-mails
• Not instinctively going to the Internet FIRST
• Not sharing easily
• Assuming online is not “Real Life”
•Thinking the way WE learned to do things isthe right way (or, worse, the only way)
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Young people have changed!
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not“little us’s”anymore!y
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You Tube: Young Kids on Cell Phones at Party
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We need to be helping themcreate the future!
Very similar to
BEFORE:
PASTTHEIR
FUTURE
y
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totally different from
NOW:
PAST ? THEIRFUTURE ?
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FUTURE ?
OUR JOBi t is to prepare
today’s studentsfor a
largely unknown futurelargely unknown future
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(and they arecounting on us)
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“We need toshow reverence
for the past, but not live in it”
— Deborah Needleman
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“We grow up interacting– through computers and through our cell phones –and that’s how we learn.
– A student
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“Why do we have to adapt to the past? Why
shouldn’t we be taught to in different ways!”
– A student
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“Most of us preferto walk backwards
into the future…
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a posture which …a posture which may be
uncomfortable…
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…but which at least allows us to look at familiar things as long as possible.”
-- Charles HandyCharles Handy
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GE
Our Lives
Discontinuity:
CH
AN
G Discontinuity:Digital Technology
TIME
We are here
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GE
Our Students’ Lives
CH
AN
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GE Technology 1 trillion
times more powerful
Machines morepowerful than thehuman brain
Change, in our students’ lifetimes, will go much farther
and faster than we thinkC
HA
NG times more powerful
Implanted /WearableReal-time environments
Mobile phonewallets
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Control of machines Directly with our minds
wallets
[our kids were] “born to the idea of rapid change”
Nicola Griffith in Slow River (1995)-- Nicola Griffith in Slow River (1995)
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“How often should we h “Every change our
teaching style in order to hold your interest?”
Every day”-- students
-- teachers
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So…
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We need somenew perspectives
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Why?
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“My students “Techno-l i ll
We are not seeing eye to eye
use technology as the new
spitball”
logically, my teachers are
illiterate”
We are wasting material resources
Unused:
Cell PhonesConnections
Computer Cycles
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and, much worse,
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“Whenever I go
We are wasting human resources
Whenever I go to school I have to ‘power down’”
– a studenta student
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If we are going to prepareour students for the future,
we will have to
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not onlyhow we work…
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…but how we see the world!
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10 New Perspectives
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New Perspective #1
A New Way to SeeOur Students
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10 ThingsToday’s Students Want
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1
10 ThingsToday’s Students Want
1. They want to be
respected, trusted, and have their
opinions valued and opinions valued and count
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10 ThingsToday’s Students Want
2. They want to follow their own
interests and passions
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10 ThingsToday’s Students Want
3. They want to create
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10 ThingsToday’s Students Want
4. They want to use
the tools of their time
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10 ThingsToday’s Students Want
5. They want to work with
their peers on group work and projects
(with ways to prevent slackers (with ways to prevent slackers from getting a free ride)
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10 ThingsToday’s Students Want
6. They want to express and
share their opinions
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10 ThingsToday’s Students Want
7. They want to make decisions
and share control
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10 ThingsToday’s Students Want
8.They want to connect with their peers, both in
class and around the worldworld
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9
10 ThingsToday’s Students Want
9.They want to cooperate and compete with each
other
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10 ThingsToday’s Students Want
10. They want an education
that is not just relevant,but REALbut REAL
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A New Metaphor
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Our students areROCKETS!
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Our students are ROCKETS!• They go at high speed
• They are headed to places unknown• They are highly volatile
• They can’t be controlled precisely• They need good programming,
the right fuel and a good payload• They may require mid-course
corrections
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corrections
They have an enormouspotential payoff!
And that makes And that makes today’s educators
ROCKET SCIENTISTS!
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SCIENTISTS!(who knew!)
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What fuel best What fuel best motivates today’s
kids to learn?
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SportsSpace
DanceMusic
Medicine People
The Environment Motorcycles
The Internet
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Coins History
SingingWriting
Nature
ProgrammingAnimalsBusiness
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the best motivationcomes from
“passion,not discipline”
– —Nicholas NegroponteNicholas Negroponte
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when it does,it takes you much further
and lasts a lifetime!
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“Passion-based Learning”
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FIRST Robotics
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Dimension M Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoFsMIsuKSo
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D t h k Do teachers know their students’
passions?
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Not enough!
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Teachers need to askeach student:
“What is your passion?”
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…and then use that to individualize instruction
New Perspective #3
Digital Tools are REQUIRED
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We are
DigitalImmigrants
We areall movingto something
NEW??
NEW
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DigitalNatives
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The world isThe world is“birthing”
a new type ofperson…
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p
who requires…who requiresdigital tools
to live and work
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“H. sapiens digital”
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“The Digitally Wise Person”
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Wi dWisdomrequires
digital tools
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“What do you What do you mean
requires?”
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H. Sapiens required tools
CarsEyeglassesEyeglassesTimepieces
MoneyKeys
Clothing
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Black or White BoardsPaper, Pens, Pencils
Books
H. Sapiens Digital’srequired tools?All of the above plusAll of the above, plus
ComputerNetwork
Mobile phoneIM
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GPSetc.
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Things our brainsdo well
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• We reason• We reflect and contemplate• We combine reason and emotion• We solve problemsp• We learn from experience• We work with other people• We create• We store and retrieve• We build up expertise• We have empathy• We have a sense of context• We have a sense of humor• We tell stories• We lie
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Things our brainsdo LESS well
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• We make decisions based on only a portion of the available data.• We make assumptions, often inaccurate, about the thoughts or intentions of others.• We depend on educated guessing and verification (the traditional scientific method) to find new answerstraditional scientific method) to find new answers.• We are limited in our ability to predict the future and construct what-if scenarios. • We cannot deal well with complexity beyond a certain point.• We cannot see, hear, touch, feel, or smell beyond the range of our senses. g• We find it difficult to hold multiple perspectives simultaneously.• We have difficulty separating emotional responses from rational conclusions.• We forget.
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The only way to think and work wisely
is tois toMERGE THE TWO
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“My phone is my My phone is my third hand”-- a high school student
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“If I lose my cell phone I lose half
my brain”-- a high school student
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a high school student
So weSo weREQUIRE
the digital tools
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H. Sapiens DigitalREQUIRE
The latest/best way to:
NetworkCommunicate
PresentUnderstand
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UnderstandLEARN
But
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Dodigital tools
lead automatically tolead automatically to
learning?
or engagement?
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or wisdom?
NO!and that’s whereeducators
NO!
come in
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New Perspective #4
Verbs vs. Nouns
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Nouns(Tools)
Verbs(Skills)
A different way to think of technology:Verbs vs. Nouns
PowerpointPresenting
EmailCommunicating
Flash
TextingTwitter
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Change rapidlyStay the same
WikipediaLearning You Tube????
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VERBS
Stay the same
Thi ki iti ll
• Decision Making
• Communicating
• Presenting logically
• Thinking critically
• Being rigorous
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• Understanding Context
• Persuading
NOUNS
Change
B k Vid
• Blackboards Electonic Boards
• Clickers mobile phones
• Overheads PPT Flash
• Books Videos
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• Laptops Netbooks
• Mobile Phones iPhones
• FaceBook Twitter?
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Ideally, students shouldBe using theBe using the
best, most up-to-datenouns (tools)
for each verb (skill)
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for each verb (skill)
What are the key b ( kill ) I t
Teachers need to ask themselves:
verbs (skills) I want my students to learn/practice/
master?
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master?
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AnalyzingCalculatingCollaborating
PredictingPresentingQuestioning, Socratic
VerbsEthical Questioning
EvaluatingCombiningCommunicatingComparingCompetingConnectingCooperating
(i.e. thought‐provoking)
ReflectingSearching / FindingSharingSimulatingThinking critically
ExperimentingExploringImitatingInnovatingLeadingListeningCooperating
CreatingDebatingDeciding Estimating
Thinking criticallyThinking logicallyTryingVerifyingWriting
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ListeningNegotiatingNetworkingObservingPracticing
What nouns (tools) d t d t
Teachers need to ask themselves:
do students use now? What else
could my students be using?
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be using?
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“Am I using the i t / b t / appropriate / best /
latest nouns for the verbs (skills) I am
teaching?”
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teaching?”
What if you don’t haveall the latest nouns (tools)?
PRETEND YOU DO!Ask:
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Ask:“What would we do
if we DID have them?
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Technology is becomingmore and more
DISPOSABLEand will soon need tochange every year!
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change every year!(and it will be cheap enough
to do so)
New Perspective #5
Students LearningOn Their Own
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Our kids have discoveredOur kids have discovered(outside of school, on their own)
that they CAN TEACH THEMSELVES!
(but often need guidance)
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(but often need guidance)
Everything a kid needsto teach him or her self
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Is already on the web…
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…and getting better daily
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All th t’ i i i thAll that’s missing is theMOTIVATION
to use it.
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“If a learner is motivated, there’s no stopping him
([or her])”– Will Wright
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SocratesDescartes
ALL SELF-TAUGHT
William BlakeThomas EdisonMichael FaradayAbraham Lincoln
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin FranklinJohn van Neumann
George Bernard ShawJose Saramago (NP in Lit)
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Our kids’ education issplitting quickly into
“After School”(21st century learning)
“School”(Credentials)
School “After School”
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Future Learning –Stuff they Know they Need
PULLED BY KIDS= Exciting
Legacy Stuff –Stuff that is Irrelevant
PUSHED ON KIDS= Boring
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Do your Do your nightmares ever
come true?
“Can “school” compete with “after-school”?
It had better learn to, because if
Prensky — 2007
,the kids have to be trapped (by law) in darkness, doing nothing they consider worthwhile, our schools will become only jails, and sooner or later the and sooner or later the kids will rebel and the
riots will begin.”
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Penguin Revolution — 2006
Lots of smart people t ti tare starting to
question whether weNEED SCHOOLS
at all!
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at all!
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To work for today’s students, school must be about
ENGAGEMENT,NOT contentNOT content
“ENGAGE MEor
ENRAGE ME”– Dr. Kip Leland ex LAUSD
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OUR JOB IS TOOUR JOB IS TOTURN ON
THE LIGHTS!!!!!!
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How do we
TURN ONTHE LIGHTS
for today’sstudents?
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New Perspective #5
A New Pedagogy
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I call it
PARTNERING
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But it goes by many names
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You can call it:
PartneringCase-Based Learning (CBL)
Problem-Based Learning (PBL)Problem Based Learning (PBL)Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL)Student-Centered Learning
Learning by DoingActive Learning
Challenge Based Learning
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Challenge-Based LearningProcess-Oriented Guided Inquiry Lng
it’s basically the same!
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Those are all basically
brand namesfor the same thingfor the same thing
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For teachers and students
to work togethereffectively today,y y,
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they need tothey need toPARTNERin a new way
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Old Way Better Way
Changing Pedagogy
Studentsbeingtold
Studentsteaching
themselves(with our coaching
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(with our coaching and guidance)
BOREDOM ENGAGEMENT
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Teachers must learn to SHARE THE WORK
Students dowhat they do well
Teachers dowhat they do well
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• Use technology• Find content
• Create
• Ask questions• Add quality & rigor
• Put into context
New Perspective #6
The Role of the Teacher
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Remember,in the twenty-first
century…
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Toolsare changing
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and…
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TeachersTeachersare a tool
for educating kids
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Teachers need to change into a
21st century tool,too!
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21st Century Pedagogy =a move from:
LecturerController
“Ruler”
CoachGuide Partner
to
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C hi
Do you know where you (or your teachers) are
along this continuum?
Lecturingto and
controllingyour students
Coaching, guiding andpartneringwith yourstudents
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The teacher’se teac e srole in their students’
educationis changing!
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Teachers need to be
Preparing your students for their exams?
Preparing their students for their exams
Preparing their studentsfor their unknown future
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Teachers need to be
Preparing your students for their exams?
Helping students graduateand go to college
Helping each studentfind their passion
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Teachers need to be
Preparing their students for a world where mostInformation is written
Preparing their students for a world where mostInformation is in forms
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Information is writtenOTHER than written
The Top Things to Do To Improve Learning
StudentsTeachers
• No filtering• Support
• Training
• Notes/texts online
• 1 to 1 computers• 1 to 1 computers
• Wi-Fi in classroom
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• Smaller ClassesNotes/texts online
• Teach kids who don’t know (peer-to-peer)
• Teach yourself
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New Perspective #7
The Role of Technology
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Technology’sl irole is
TO SUPPORT THEPARTNERING PEDAGOGYPEDAGOGY
(i.e. students teaching themselves with their teachers’ coaching and guidance)
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TechnologyDOES NOT and CANNOT
SUPPORTthe pedagogy
of lecturing and telling(“direct instruction”)
except in the most minimal of ways:i.e. pictures and videos
Gibralter
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If a teacher is lecturing or telling,ddi t h ladding technology
to a classroom can actuallyHINDER
engagement and learning!
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Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops
May 4, 2007
LIVERPOOL, N.Y. — The students at Liverpool High have used their school-issued laptops to
So the Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting this fall, joining a handful of other schools around the country that adopted one-to-one computing programs and are now abandoning them as educationally empty — and worse.
, p g p pexchange answers on tests, download pornography and hack into local businesses. When the school tightened its network security, a 10th grader not only found a way around it but also posted step-by-step instructions on the Web for others to follow (which they did). …
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So there is a key yPREREQUISITEto adding and using
technology:
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BEFOREBEFOREtechnology can
really help learning…
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Teachers must
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their pedagogy…
TToPARTNERING
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Y t h d tYes, teachers need tobe using
the latest tools…
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NEW TOOLS• Sped-up video • P2PSped up deo• Picture Search• IM/texting• Blogs• Wikis• Wikipedia
P2P• You Tube• Web 2.0 (Participatory)• Web 3.0 (Semantic)• Augmented Reality• Phone cameras
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• Podcasting• Phone polling• Social Nets• Handhelds
• Phone videos• GPS• Games & Simulations• MoSoSo
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But onlyyin the right contexti.e. in support of the Partnering Pedagogy
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Step 1: Change to the
Partnering Pedagogy
Step 2:
Partnering Pedagogy
pLet kids use the technology
to take off!
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TEACHINGDIGITAL
Corwin, March 2010
DIGITALNATIVES:PARTNERING forPARTNERING for
Real Learning
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HIGH!Set the bar
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More and more teachers know this.
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OUR JOBOUR JOBIS TO
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There are lots of waysto partner…
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…and it takes work…
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New Perspective #8
How Teachers Should Use Technology
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“A lot of teachers think they make a think they make a PowerPoint and
they’re so awesome!”
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“But it’s just like But it s just like writing on the blackboard!”
-- a (female) high school junior
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(The stress-reducing bit)“THE PRENSKY APOSTACY”
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It’s important that teachersIt’s important that teachersDON’T WASTE THEIR TIMELearning to Create With New Tools,
(unless they want to)
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(unless they want to)
because…
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The students can do that! (and they want to)
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“Don’t try to keep Don t try to keep up with the technology-- you can’t”y
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“You’ll only look stupid.”
– A 15 year old girl
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RULE #1
Teachers should neveruse the technologyFOR their students!
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3D PRINTER
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3D PRINTER
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New Perspective #9
Talk to Students About Their Learning!!
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Education isNO LONGERNO LONGER
something we can doTO
students
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withToday, we have to
with
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In order to educate them
Engaging With Students
Talk with them
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When we do,we will find that
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Our students areGLOBAL
CITIZENS!
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“W t“We wantto connect”
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witheach other
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and…
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WithWithTHE
WORLDWORLD© 2009 Marc Prensky
They want an educationthat is
Relevant == REAL
that is
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Th t t They want to affect the worldand improve it…
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while they’restill in school!
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And they want TOOLSthat make this
possible
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The e-Life
CommunicatingIM, chat, texting
Sharing
SearchingInfo, connections, people
CoordinatingProjects, workgroups, MMORPGs
SharingBlogs,MySpace,Facebook
Buying & Sellingebay, craigslist
Exchangingpeer-to-peer
Learning
AnalyzingSETI, drug molecules
ReportingMoblogs, photos
ProgrammingOpen systems, mods search
EvaluatingReputation systems–Epinions, Amazon, Slashdot
CollectingMp3s videos, sensor data
LearningWikipedia, You Tube, search
MeetingVirtual Worlds
GamingOnline, MMORPGs, Cell Phones
SocializingLearning social behavior, influence
Growing UpExploring, transgressing
CreatingSites, avatars, mods
EvolvingPeripheral, emergent behaviors
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New Perspective #10
What should students know?
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Now:CO S S SLITTLE CONSENSUS
on what studentsshould know
But most agreeBut most agree…
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The idea that we canThe idea that we cangive kids a set of
meaningful informationthat will last
is over
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We need to teachWe need to teachskills
that will be usefulthroughout life
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Our kids need to learnOur kids need to learnTwenty-first Century
Skills!
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GOAL:
21st Century Skills
GOAL:Following your passion,as far as your abilities
allowallow
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21st Century Skills
To do that, you need to master the following skills
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21st Century Skills
1. Figuring out the right thing to do
• Behaving Ethically• Critical Thinking • Decision Making • Problem Solvingg
• Judgment
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21st Century Skills
2. Getting it done
• Goal Setting • Planning
• Self-DirectionS lf E l ti • Self-Evaluation
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21st Century Skills
3. Doing it with others
• Communicating/Interacting:With individuals & groups (especially using technol.)
• Communicating/Interacting:g gWith Machines (= Programming)
• Communicating/Interacting:With a World Audience
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21st Century Skills
4. Doing it creatively
• Creative thinking• Designing
• PlayingFi di i• Finding your voice
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21st Century Skills
5. Constantly doing it better
• Being proactive • Prudent risk-taking • Thinking long-term
• Continually improvingContinually improvingthrough learning
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If our students know their passion,and can, in any situation
-- Figure out the right thing to do-- Get it done-- Do it with others-- Do it creatively, and-- Continually do it better
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they will succeed,no matter what the future brings
or throws at them
So many more things:
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Curriculum
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AdditionalTwenty-first
We can’t just add more, wehave to delete, because
CORESKILLS
Twenty firstCentury Skills
we don’t even have time for what we try to do now!
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The Importance of
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“Video is the new Text”--Mark Anderson
Teacher Tube
Bi Thi k
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Big Think
TED Talks
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Action Item:
UNBLOCK(almost)
EVERYTHING
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The importance of
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“Phones are the new Textbook”--Marc Prensky
evaluating studentswith their tools!
Teachers need to start
with their tools!
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“Open Phone”Tests!!
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“Most of our tests ARE open phone tests – you guys just don’t know
it!”A Student– A Student
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Action Item:
START ALLOWINGCELL PHONES
(and using them educationally)
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The Importance of
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COMPLEX
“Games are the new Worksheet”--Marc Prensky
COMPLEX
GAMESare the ENGAGING
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are the ENGAGING educational system
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Curricular Gamesare finally coming
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math games that go beyond mental arithmetic and help kids to enjoy practicing quadratic equations and trigonometry.
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Action Item:
START SHOPPINGFOR GAMES
(that fit the curriculum)
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The Importance of
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Educators must become“Digital Multipliers”g p
byallowing greater access
d
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andencouraging sharing
Action Item:
KEEP COMPUTER LABOPEN TILL MIDNIGHT AND ON WEEKENDSAND ON WEEKENDS
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The Importance of
our
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Today’s Young Learnerslove to
share…
…but today’s adults
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…but today s adultsdon’t!
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The more you share,The faster you The faster you
learn
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Action Item:
Have students and teachers make You Tubes about successful practices
(and use them to learn)
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Bottom Line:
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The new world is
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GE Technology 1 trillion
times more powerful
Machines morepowerful than thehuman brain
In the lifetimes of our studentsChange will go much farther
and faster than we thinkC
HA
NG times more powerful
Implanted /WearableReal-time environments
Mobile phonewallets
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Control of machines Directly with our minds
wallets
We can either
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Feel the fear Feel the fear –And stick to what
we’re used to
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OR…
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We can
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“Feel the fear –ee t e eaand do it anyway!”
-- Elizabeth Moon in The Speed of Dark (2003)
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Which is the definition of
COURAGE
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our job is to
enCOURAGEour colleagues
to change
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to c a ge
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WE HAVE ANWE HAVE ANENORMOUS
OPPORTUNITY
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TO HELPOUR STUDENTS
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PREPARE FORCHANGE
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AND FOR THEIRAND FOR THEIR21st CENTURY
LIVES
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To learn
The skills of the future
The toolsof the future
AND
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our Students and Teachersour Students and Teachersmust become
PARTNERSin a new way
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And help each studentfind the
PASSION
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That will motivate them to
ENGAGEand learn
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the
SKILLSthey need
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to
SUCCEED&THRIVE
in the twenty-first century
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And to do that…
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we have tolearn how to
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ENGAGE WITH STUDENTSabout their learning…
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and truly
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Can we changebehavior?
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The Five StagesThe Five Stagesof
Educatorsand
Technology
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1. Hiding
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2. Panic
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3. Acceptance
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4. Comfort
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5. Power
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