The State of Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century

The State of Teaching
and Learning in the 21st
Century
Modernizing Education
Lucy Gray
ISACS CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 2011
1Thursday, November 3, 2011

SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP
AT BOARD RETREAT

Experiences
• Graduate of Lake Forest
Country Day
• Worked at University of
Chicago
• Apple Distinguished
Educator
• Google Certified Teacher
• Founder, The Global
Education Collaborative
• Co-founder, The Global
Education Conference
• Multiple Opportunities to
visit and work with schools

The Power of Social
Media
Flickr
YouTubeTwitter Facebook
LinkedIn Google+
Diigo
SlideShare

Another Nation at Risk
Moment ?
How do we improve teaching and learning?
What’s Truly Innovative?
How do we effectively assess students?

“The Highly Connected
Teacher”
The National Educational Technology Plan

The K12 Horizon Report

The New Media Consortium
Horizon Report 2011
K-12
•1 year or less
• Cloud Computing
• Mobiles
•2 to 3 years
• Game-based learning
• Open Content
•4 to 5 years
• Learning Analytics
• Personal Learning
Environments 2011 Report

Why Change?

Why Evolve?

Shift Happens: Iowa, Did You Know?

http://www.onlineeducation.net/students-love-tech

The Reality

Independent Schools
• Time
• Resources
• Streamlined
bureaucracy
• Organizational vision
• Community Consensus
• Administrative and
collegial support
• Authentic curriculum
• Recognition of the
Importance of 21st
century skills
• Professional
development
• Teacher autonomy
• Prepared students
• Commitment to
developing the whole
child
• Parental support

Public Schools
• Increased pressure
via Race to the Top,
AYP, RTI
• Less funding
• Less Time
• Emphasis on
standards and high
stakes testing
• Teacher Proof
curriculua
• Less instruction in
the arts, World
Languages, etc.
• Longer school days
• Technology seen as
a content delivery
Mechanism
• Constant seeking of
silver bullets

What do all schools
seem to have in common?
• A WIDE RANGE OF EFFORTS TOWARDS
CULTIVATING 21ST CENTURY SKILLS AND
IMPLEMENTING ROBUST TECHNOLOGY
PROGRAMS
• THE SUCCESS OF ANY PROGRAM DEPENDS ON:
• VISIONARY LEADERSHIP
• STRATEGIC PLANNING
• COMMITMENT TO CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
• THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SCHOOL IS PRESSURED
TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR A CHANGING WORLD

The School at Columbia
• K-8
• Columbia University faculty and local kids
• Innovation driven
• 1 to 1 laptop program
• 3 technologists plus tech staff
• Extensive Google Apps for Education and new
media use
• Other: field trip guides, computer programming,
robotics, conference

Known as “THE”

Science Leadership
Academy

Educon 2.4

University of South Florida’s
Tech Intergration Matrix

Personalized
Learning
Mobile
Technologies
21st century
skills
generational
Diversity
Learning
environments
Design
Thinking
Cloud
Computing
Textbook
Revolution
Curated
Learning
New Media
Literacies
Flipping
The
Classroom
Global
Collaboration

21st Century Skills

A Pedagogical Shift
• New models of teaching and learning are emerging
• Rigorous content + 21st century themes
• “Sage on the stage” to “guide on the side”
• New literacies need to be taught strategically
• Examples:
• developing a search mentality
• Student personal learning networks (PLNs)
• Standards and accountability still are important;
assessments need revision
• Going global is within reach using current technologies

The Partnership for
21st Century Skills

The Global Achievement
Gap
Critical
Thinking and
Problem-
Solving
Collaboration
Across
Networks and
Leading by
Influence
Agility and
Adaptability
Initiative and
Entrepreneuri
alism
Effective Oral
and Written
Communication
Accessing and
Analyzing
Information
Curiosity and
Imagination

Managing
Generational Diversity

Teachers and Students
• Adults have different learning styles. How
are we taking this into account in terms of
professional development and human capital?
• Baby Boomers
• Gen Xers
• Gen Yers
• Kids have had different levels of exposure to
technology. The period of time at which our
schools have been wired is fairly short.

Beloit College’s
Mindset List

Basic online entertainment
(online videos, playing games)
E-commerce
(online shopping, banking, and travel reservations)
Research and information gathering
(product research, news, health and religious information searches)
Email and search
Active engagement
with social media
(visit SNS, create SNS proﬁle,
create blogs)
More advanced online
entertainment
(download videos, music and
podcasts)
More advanced communication and
passive social media use
(instant messaging, visit SNS, read blogs)
From: State of the
Internet 2009: Pew
Internet Project
Findings and
Implications for
Libraries
The vast majority of
online adults from all
generations uses email
and search engines.
While there are always
exceptions, older generations
typically do not engage with the
internet past e-commerce.
The majority of teens and Gen
Y use SNS, but fewer maintain
blogs. Online adults older than
Gen X are less likely to use
SNS.
Online
activity
pyramid: by
generation

Project Tomorrow
Recommendations
• Un-tether learning and leverage mobile devices to extend
learning beyond the school day and meet all learners in their
own world
• Create new interactive, participatory learning spaces using
tools such as online classes, gaming and simulations, online
tutors, and virtual reality environments
• Incorporate Web 2.0 tools into daily instruction especially
those that develop collaborative or social-based learning and
provide unique opportunities for students to be content
developers
• Expand digital resources in the classroom to add context and
relevancy to learning experiences through new media tools
• Get beyond the classroom walls and make learning truly
experiential such as using high tech science instrumentation
and creating podcasts with content experts

0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002
K-12 Classroom Internet Connectivity
Classroom Internet Connectivity
2007
Coming Soon to Campus: The New "Free
Agent" Learner
Julie Evans, CEO-Project Tomorrow Campus
Technology 09
Jul 27, 2009

Class of 2011 – just graduated seniors
8th grade
Class of 2013 – your rising juniors
6th grade
Class of 2015 – your current incoming freshman
4th grade
How digitally “native” are these students?
What are their expectations for learning?

Implications for Schools
• Need for strategic human capital planning
• Need for increased targeted, sustained,
personalized and thoughtful professional
development
• Need for long range planning for students’
use of technology. Requires schools to think
of skills sets needed by students at various
points in their academic careers while gauging
the future of technology.

Learning Environments

NYC’s The School of One
• Summer school pilot
• Middle school math
• Flexible space
• Personalized curriculum
• Regular assessments
• Variety in delivery of instruction
• Lesson plan bank
• Partnered with publishers

Re:Imagine Ed

The Third Teacher

So what?
• Networked learning: You must be open to at least letting
your kids drive the technology use in your classrooms. Be
willing to engage them in the ways that they learn best.
• Generational diversity: Change is not going to happen
without schools working as teams to examine at
longitudinal goals.
• 21st century skills: The art of teaching comes through via
the weaving of 21st century themes into core content. You
need to provide guidance and be thoughtful when designing
classroom activities.
• Learning environments: Just as we’ve looked at the whole
child, we need to start emphasizing the whole learning
environment. Personalized learning for both students and
teachers is important.

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http://tinyurl.com/21stcenturyskillssurvey

"...the future belongs to
the nation that best
educates its citizens…"
-President Barack Obama

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