A presentation by Paul Fuller about education in the 21st century. Gven at Christ Church Grammar School on Tuesday 24 July 2007.

1. The Digital Generation
digitalgeneration.wikispaces.com

2. “My interest is in
the future
because I am
going to spend
the rest of my life
there.”
Charles F. Kettering,
American inventor
(1876-1958)

3. Overview
The Opportunity
The Urgency
The Possibilities
The Challenge

4. Never Before
The Opportunity of a Lifetime

5. 600 BC

6. 1600s

7. 1930s

8. 1960s

9. 2000

10. 2007

11. Tectonic Shifts
Input
The entire sum of human
knowledge available to
every human being on the
planet.

12. Internet Traffic in Australia
20%
45%
55%
80%
2001 2007
Downloads Uploads Source: Michael Malone, CEO
iiNet, quoted in the Australian,
17 July 2007

13. Internet Traffic in Australia
100 million + 65,000 new videos every day
members 100 million clips viewed daily

15. Tectonic Shifts
Input Output
• A generation of authors.
The entire sum of human
knowledge available to
• A stage for every
every human being on the
performer.
planet.

16. Power of Computers Cost of Computers

17. We are living in the greatest
‘teachable moment’ in human
history.
Are we taking advantage of it?

18. The Urgency
Why Web 2.0 Matters

19. Flat world

20. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
• The current generation learns differently to us
• The gap between ‘us and them’ is big and
getting bigger
• More and more students view school as
irrelevant

23. Searching

24. Imagination is Never
more memorise
important anything you
than can look up.
knowledge.

25. The Possibilities
What Might a 21st Century Classroom Look Like?

26. Authentic work
for
Authentic audiences

27. Production Process
Planning Real Experts
collaborating with
Production Real Purpose
of content to achieve
Review Real Audience
feedback from

28. Web 2.0 Tools
On-line journal
Blogs
with feedback
Collaborative website,
Wiki
any-one can edit
Audio / video published to
Podcast
audience’s MP3 players

30. Why Podcast?
• Engagement and motivation
• Global citizenship
• Reflecting on learning
• Critical awareness
• Window on the classroom

31. This is not a technology project!
Sharing
Editing
Writing
Planning and
Research

32. The Challenge
How Can We Make ‘School 2.0’ a Reality?

34. Multiple Challenges
Ignorance
Self-doubt
Cost
Fear

35. The First Step
Starting the Conversation

36. “No way Jose!”
“Yes, but...”
“Yes, and...”

37. What do these people have
in common?

38. 1940
Winston Churchill

39. 1963
Martin Luther King Jr

40. 1987
Mikhail Gorbachev

41. 1993
Nelson Mandela

43. Thankyou
paul.fuller@det.wa.edu.au