The document discusses 5 realities of 21st century living: 1) Unlearning outdated knowledge, 2) Using design thinking to solve problems creatively, 3) Managing time efficiently, 4) Discerning important tech trends from passing fads, and 5) Leveraging gamification to motivate learning and behavior change. It provides examples of each reality and argues that education must adapt to these new realities through techniques like unlearning, interdisciplinary collaboration, prototyping ideas, tracking time use, focusing on ubiquitous technologies, and gamifying the learning process.

1. 5 Realities of 21st Century Living
A Guide for Teachers and Learners
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2. Be sure to check out
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#nh13 reading list on pinterest

3. Why?

4. 1. Unlearning
Forgetting the truths that got us here but hold
us back from there

5. A Primer to Unlearning
By Jack Uldrich
or just watch his TED talk

6. What are the colors of a yield sign?
Exercise

9. What is unlearning?
The chief object of education is not to learn
things but to unlearn things
G. K. Chesterton

10. Imagination is more important than knowledge
Albert Einstein

11. $.01
$.02
$.04
$.08
$.16
$100,000
$200,000
$300,000
$400,000
$500,000
$3,000,000 $5,368,709

12. Compound Interest Principle
A = P ( 1 + r/n ) nt

13. Forces that have been doubling
Moore’s Law, Bandwidth, Genome Sequencing, Robotics

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Moore’s Law

16. How technology evolves
The S-Curve

19. What does unlearning mean for us?
A lesson from Sherlock Holmes

20. A man's brain originally is like an empty attic, and you have to stock it
with such furniture as you choose.
!
It is a mistake to think that little room has elastic walls and can distend
to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition
of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.
!
Therefore, one must not have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
!
A man should keep his brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is
likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his
library, where he can get it if he wants it.

21. What does unlearning mean for us?
The significant problems we face today cannot
be solved at the same level of thinking we were
at when we created them
Albert Einstein

22. 2. Design Thinking
The art of evolution

23. Intention
Iteration
Creation

24. As more of our basic needs are met, we
increasingly expect sophisticated experiences
that are emotionally satisfying and meaningful
… design thinking is the tool for imagining
these experiences as well as giving them a
desirable form
Tim Brown

25. Application to education
People are taught what to learn but not how to
learn, and they are slowing educated out of their
innate curiosity and creativity.
Patrick Newell

26. Integrating Design Thinking
Be more interdisciplinary
No idea is a bad idea
Prototype

27. designthinkingforeducators.com

28. 3. Efficiency

29. Sleep Work Other

30. Track your time
It’s your most precious and finite resource

34. Evernote
Notes
Notebooks
Tags
Search
Ubiquitous

35. 4. Tech Fads
Which ones do I care about?

36. A look into 2007
No smartphones
No tablets
No cloud
No twitter
No kinect
No web-enabled things

37. What fads really matter?
The ones that make tech invisible

38. Ubiquitous Computing
Where tech takes a backseat

39. Mainframe
Personal
Ubiquitous

40. 5. Gamification
Everything’s a game, everyone’s a gamer

41. Computer and video games have reached a critical
mass. Our industry’s position is one of the strongest
and most cutting-edge sectors in the U.S. economy.
Michael D. Gallagher, CEO,
Entertainment Software Association

42. Average gamer age
30

43. % of Female Gamers
47

44. % of Gamers play games with others
62

45. Everyone is gaming
Play has moved beyond entertainment
Games are the most elevated form of
investigation. ––Albert Einstein

46. Gamification
Taking the things that make games engaging and
applying them to the rest of life to drive behavior
Game Mechanics - the procedures
and rules of your game

47. Autonomy
Customization
Choice
!
Mastery
Levels
Challenges
!
Purpose
Giving / Altruism
Narrative
Greater Meaning
!
Status
Leaderboards
Achievements
Social Connections
Suggest similar users
Cooperative “play”
!
Rewards
Points
Badges
Achievements
!
Peer Pressure
Peer review / feedback / grading
Boasting / Bragging system
Competitive “play”
Avoidance
Lose Points
Lose Status
Game Over
!
Scarcity
Exclusive / Unique Rewards
Reward Schedules
!
Fun!
Quiz’s
Competitions

50. Gamification

51. Gamification will be used in 25% of redesigned
business processes by 2015, this will grow to more than
a $2.8 billion business by 2016
!
70% of Global 2000 businesses will be managing at
least one "gamified" application or system by 2014
Gartner

52. Gamifying Education
It’s simpler than you might think

54. One more thing...
Are you ready for our new reality?

55. mgreene@rappahannock.edu
804.768.6878
@profmikegreene
Q & A