2. Housekeeping
One thing you need to write down—
http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com

4. Are you Ready for Leading in the
21st Century
It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived! And
schools who aren’t redefining themselves, risk
becoming irrelevant in preparing students for
the future.

5. Some statistics-
- 1 billion people on the Internet
- 57 million blogs, 1.7 million posts
a day.
-50 new blog sites created every minute
“None of the top 10 jobs that will exist in 2010 exist today." --
Richard Riley, (Former US Sec. of Ed.)
A Changing World
"Jobs in the new economy--the ones that won't get
outsourced or automated--"put an enormous premium on
creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other
people see only chaos." --
Marc Tucker, (an author of the skills-commission report and
president of the National Center on Education and the Economy*

6. Source: enGauge 21st Century Skills

7. "Technological change is not additive, its
ecological. A new technology does not change
something, it changes everything"
[Neil Postman]
Source: Mark Treadwell - http://www.i-learnt.com

8. Shift in Learning = New Possibilities
Shift from emphasis on
teaching…
To an emphasis
on co-learning

9. Rethinking Teaching and Learning
1. Multiliterate
2. Changing Demographic
3. Active Content Creators
4. Collaboration and Communication
We are in the midst of seeing education transform
from a book-based, linear system to an web-based,
divergent system with profound implications for
every aspect of teaching and learning.

10. Trend 1 – Social and intellectual capital are the new economic
values in the world economy.
This new economy will be held together and advanced through the
building of relationships. Unleashing and connecting the collective
knowledge, ideas, and experiences of people creates and heightens
value.
Source:
Journal of School Improvement, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2002
http://www.tntdevelopment.org/resources/preparing_students.pdf

11. What do we need to unlearn?
Example:
* I need to unlearn that classrooms are physical spaces.
* I need to unlearn that learning is an event with a start and stop time to a lesson.
The Empire Strikes Back:
LUKE: Master, moving stones around is one thing. This is to
different.
YODA: No! No different! Only different in your mind.
You must unlearn what you have learned.

12. Time Travel
Lewis Perelman, author of School's Out (1992). Perelman
argues that schools are out of sync with technological change:
...the technological gap between the school environment and
the "real world" is growing so wide, so fast that the classroom
experience is on the way to becoming not merely unproductive
but increasingly irrelevant to normal human existence (p.215).
Seymour Papert (1993)
In the wake of the startling growth of science and technology in
our recent past, some areas of human activity have undergone
megachange. Telecommunications, entertainment and
transportation, as well as medicine, are among them. School is
a notable example of an area that has not(p.2).

13. Participatory web culture
Web 2.0 culture: Pull School culture: Push
learner-driven instructor-driven
Process focus Event focus
Content defined by learner’s
perception of need
Content mandated by others’
perception of need
Relationships, conversation Courses, workshops

14. Teacher 2.0
The Emergent 21st Century Teacher
Teacher 2.0
Source: Mark Treadwell - http://www.i-learnt.com

15. “Schools are a node on the
network of learning.”

16. Personal Learning Networks
Community-- in and out of the classroom
Are you “clickable”- Are your students?

18. What about the world and society
has changed since you went to school?
What about students has changed since you
went to school?
What about schools has changed or not
changed since you went to school?
What should School 2.0 look like in order to
meet the needs of the 21st Century learner?