The document discusses 10 trends that will impact education for the future, including an aging population, the importance of social and intellectual capital, personalized education, the role of technology, and the need for schools to prepare students with 21st century skills. It also discusses how education is shifting from traditional models to new approaches that incorporate emerging technologies, collaboration, creativity, and student-centered learning. Schools will need to change and adapt their practices to meet the needs of students in this new digital world.

2. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach [email_address] http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog Welcome

3. Virtual Handout http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com/Learning+2.0+%28China%29 / Shorter link http://tinyurl.com/yw3zkk Housekeeping Access from Learning 2.0 Forum

4. Pay Attention http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/t4/content/view/221/35/

5. iPods in Vending Machines Signs of the Times….

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

7. Source: Journal of School Improvement, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2002 Ten Trends: Educating Children for Tomorrow’s World

12. Trend 5: Technology Will Increase the Speed of Communication and Pace of Advancement or Decline Trend 6: Knowledge Creation and Breakthrough Thinking will Stir a New Era of Enlightenment Trend 7: Scientific Discoveries and Societal Realities Will Force Ethical Choices Trend 8: Competition Will Increase and Industry will Intensify their Efforts to Attract and Retain Talented People

14. You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet! Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0

16. It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year. That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years. Knowledge Creation

17. For students starting a four-year technical or higher education degree, this means that . . . half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

18. Source: enGauge 21st Century Skills

19. "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

20. Creativity Creativity is now as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status. If you're not prepared to be wrong then you will never come up with anything original. We don't grow into creativity we grow out of it, or rather, we get educated out of it.

21. Two Perspectives Tom Carroll, NCTAF Peter Vaill Antioch University http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/tom_carroll.swf http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/peter_vaill.swf

22. 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).

24. Active Content Creators On Andrew Churches’ Blog He takes a stab at a 21 st Century tools match-up with the new Bloom’s. http:// www.bloglines.com/blog/andrewch?id =4

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

28. FORMAL INFORMAL You go where the bus goes You go where you choose Jay Cross – Internet Time

29. MULTI-CHANNEL APPROACH SYNCHRONOUS ASYNCHRONOUS PEER TO PEER WEBCAST Instant messenger forums f2f blogs photoblogs vlogs wikis folksonomies Conference rooms email Mailing lists CMS Community platforms VoIP webcam podcasts PLE Worldbridges

30. Personalized Education Choice Multiple perspectives

34. Digital Divide Those who don’t Those who know how to band together online

35. Change is Hard

36. Real Question is this: Are we willing to change- to risk change- to meet the needs of the precious folks we serve? Can you accept that Change (with a “big” C) is sometimes a messy process and that learning new things together is going to require some tolerance for ambiguity.

37. Last Generation

38. Questions or Comments? What concerns, questions, reactions do you have so far about using these emerging technologies in your classroom or organization?