5. “... if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our
children of tomorrow.”
-John Dewey
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6. Trends, Hotspots, &
Dilemmas
GenY Attributes
Unbundled Education
Participatory Pedagogy
Personal Digital Media
Media-SavvyYouth
Technologies of Cooperation
Media Rich Pervasive Learning
Integrating Digital Natives and
Digital Immigrants
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7. Learning 2.0
Society Today: Influential Buzz Words
Attributes of Today’s Kids
Emergent Technologies:Technologies of
Cooperation and Collaboration
Digital Schools and Programs: Participatory
Pedagogy
Policy for Tomorrow
The Digital Divide
Critical Questions
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8. Influential Buzz Words
The World is Flat
A Whole New Mind
NCLB
Web 2.0
21st Century Skills
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
American Association of Librarians
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9. Evidence
Pew Internet & American Life Project
NetDay Speak Up Day
NSBA Report: Creating and
Connecting
Grunwald Associates: Kids’ Social
Networking Study - more detailed
than NSBA; available for purchase
SETDA - Maximizing the Impact
Report
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10. Summary of Pew Findings
93% of 12 to 17 year olds use the
internet
87% of parents are online
73% of families have high-speed
internet access
89% of online teens have access at
home
75% have internet access at school
51% of online teens go online every
day
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11. Summary of Pew Findings
75% have internet access at school
51% of online teens go online every
day
94% of online kids use the internet
for school research
41% of online students use email or
instant messaging to talk to teachers
and classmates about school work
18% of online students know
someone who has cheated
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18. JuniorYear - 2005-2006
More than 100 million accounts
created
Third most popular site in the U.S
afterYahoo and Google
55% of online teens use social
networking sites
55% of these kids have posted a
profile
Of those who use social networking
sites, 48% visit these sites at least
once a day
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20. Pew did not include...
Twitter
Pownce
Gaming
Email
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21. According to the Pew
Report...
4 Key Teen Realities:
Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a
wired world.
Mobile gadgets allow them to enjoy media and
communicate anywhere
Teens know that ordinary citizens can be
publishers, movie makers, artists, song creators,
and story tellers
Teens are multimedia multi-taskers.
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22. NetDay SpeakUp Survey
Known as Project Tomorrow-NetDay
Top devices for K-12 students: computers, cell
phones and video game players
Top concerns: spam, digital access equity, online
cheating
Students want schools to relax rules about
email, IM, cellphone and online use and to
consider laptops for home and school use.
54% of middle schoolers have outside online
friends and most have never met face-to-face
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23. NetDay - Parents
Over 50% of parents are
satisfied with the amount of
technology at their child’s
school and the online safety
protections in place
A majority of parents (52%)
do not believe that their
child’s school is doing a good
job of preparing their child to
compete for jobs and careers
of the 21st century
2/3 of the parents are not
satisfied with the priority
placed on technology use at
their school, the amount of
time their child spends using
technology at school and how
well technology is integrated
into core academic subjects.
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24. NetDay -Teachers
Over 50% say technology
affects the quality of
teaching, lesson planning and
student engagement
75% say the use of
technology has increased
student achievement and
performance
Time is the biggest obstacle
to tech integration
Teachers use computers for
housekeeping tasks
Only 28% has used email as a
regular communication tool
with students, but 79% have
communicated electronically
with parents.
47% of teachers believe that
their school is doing a good
job of preparing students for
the 21st century
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27. Blogs
usually an individual journal
Types Examples
Teacher/Admin
Student
Professional
Development
Cool Cat
Teacher Blog
From the
Principal’s Desk
The MUS Lower
School Blog
Newly Ancient
Consumer Math
Class
Collaboration
Nation
Weblogged ITM
Dangerously
Irrelevant
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35. Media Sharing Examples
Tools Examples
iTunes
Flickr
YouTube
VoiceThread
iTunes U Coulee Kids Room 208
Map of
Migrations
Best Word
Book Ever
Merode
Altarpiece
DidYou Know? TEDTalks Women in Art
Poems by Ms.
Gross’s
Students
Knuffle Bunny
Stories
K-20
Educators
Exploring SL
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39. Google
online collaborative software
Tools Examples
Google Earth
Docs &
Spreadsheets
Custom Search
Summer
Tomatoes
Teacher
Project
Google Lit
Trips
Scavenger
Hunt
Palo Alto High
School
Alex Ragone’s
Skype Preso
Mrs. Gray’s
Sites
Elementary
Language Arts
GlobalVoices
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44. Social Networking - Pew
Web pages where people post information about
themselves, connect with others and share media
55% of online teens using social networking site
Older girls are more likely to engage in these
sites
Teens are increasingly savvy about privacy issues
32% of teens say that they have been contacted
by strangers - 23% of these were uncomfortable
32% report have experienced cyberbullying
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46. NSBA/Grunwald
Associates Report
9 to 17 year olds spend just about the same
amount of time on SN as on TV
96% have accessed some sort of SN
technologies; 71% use it weekly
School is a frequent topic of conversation despite
schools banning SN
“Explosive growth” in student authoring
Schools have extensive rules against social
networking and are leery of the label.
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47. NSBA, continued
Nonconformists are student leaders, producers
of content, and users of new media.
Families report few problems with unwelcome
encounters and cyberbullying than “school fears
and policies seem to imply.”
There’s a discrepancy in perceptions. 52% of
districts say their students have a problem with
providing personal info; 3% of kids report ever
giving out personal info to strangers
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48. Participatory Pedagogy
Rethinking Bloom’s Taxonomy
Schools & Programs
DigitalYouth Network
Science Leadership Academy
GenerationYES
Flat Classroom Project
MoLLIE
The School at Columbia
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51. Benefits & Pitfalls
Personalized learning
Ubiquitous computing
OLPC
Censorship
Teacher Asssesment
Research
What else can you think of?
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52. Implications for the Future
How do you assess 21st Century Skills?
How can we prepare our students for 21st
Century life if our teachers are not ready
themselves?
How do we craft an “elevator pitch” for
administrators to bring to constituents?
How do we protect students without
censorship?
How do we address digital citizenship in schools?
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56. For Discussion
What are the implications for our advocacy
work? (i.e. teacher quality, accountability, student
achievement, GAPS)
What are the implications for our teaching and
learning working?
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57. Final Reflections
In the context of what you have heard and
discussed, and looking to the future, how does
your state association maintain and increase its
relevancy and effectiveness for our members?
In the context of what you have heard and
discussed, and looking to the future, how does
the NEA maintain and increase its relevancy and
effectiveness for our members?
What are the implications for how we work with
various stakeholders and partners? (media,
parents, community groups, decision makers etc.)
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58. “Fifty years hence we may
well conclude that there
was no ‘crisis in education’
in the closing of the 20th
century-- there was only a
growing incongruence
between the way 20th
century schools taught and
the way 21st century
children learned.”
-Peter Drucker
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