Keynote for #esymp in Sudbury, Ontario October 28, 2014

1. Rethinking Learning in a Connected World
Dean Shareski
#eysmp
Sudbury, ON
October 28, 2014

2. Rethinking Learning in a Connected World

3. Rethinking Learning in a Connected World

4. How is Learning
Different in 2014?

5. There’s never been a better time to be a learner

6. There’s never been a better time to be a learner
And a more challenging time for schools

7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgecouros/6173491562/

9. DISRUPTION

10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaar/4284117075/

11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaar/4284117075/
“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his
spare time, not because he hates you but
because he loves you, then you got a problem.”

12. Chris Avenir

13. Chris Avenir
Ryerson University sites 3 reasons for
the case against him.
1.Learning should be hard.
2.There is no structure of regulation
for online behavior and that makes it
incompatible with academic work.
3.It is our job to protect academic
integrity from any threat.
i.e. Unless learning is hard and is directed by others, it
fails to meet the standard for academic rigor.

14. BHQ

15. BHQ Big Hairy Questions

16. https://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/galleries/72157626388866819/

17. https://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/galleries/72157626388866819/

18. https://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/galleries/72157626388866819/

19. https://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/galleries/72157626388866819/

20. “This is not
what I signed
up for”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barkbud/4257136773/
sizes/l/

21. http://shareski.ca/y/3p0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mg315/381296439/sizes/o/

22. http://shareski.ca/y/3p0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mg315/381296439/sizes/o/

23. “I waited fourteen years to do
something that I should have done
my first year of teaching: shadow a
student for a day.”
http://shareski.ca/y/3p0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mg315/381296439/sizes/o/

24. http://shareski.ca/y/3p0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mg315/381296439/sizes/o/
Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.

25. http://shareski.ca/y/3p0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mg315/381296439/sizes/o/
Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.
High School students are sitting passively and
listening during approximately 90% of their
classes.

26. http://shareski.ca/y/3p0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mg315/381296439/sizes/o/
Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.
High School students are sitting passively and
listening during approximately 90% of their
classes.
You feel a little bit like a nuisance all day long.

27. The Role of the Teacher is Changing: Phil Schlechty

28. The Role of the Teacher is Changing: Phil Schlechty

29. Instructor

30. Designer Guide
Instructor
Creative Commons – Attribution (CC BY 3.0)
Teacher designed by Musavvir Ahmed from the Noun Project
Creative Commons – Attribution (CC BY 3.0)
Education designed by Travis Yunis from the Noun Project

31. IT’S TIME TO
RETHINK
EVERYTHING

32. IT’S TIME TO
RETHINK
SOME THINGS

33. Rethinking Literacy

34. What does it mean
to be a literate
person in 2014?

35. What does it mean
to be a literate
person in 2014?

36. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkuropatwa/4554087615

37. Consumption Creation
Reading
Listening
Viewing
Writing
Speaking
Representing

38. Consumption Creation
Reading
Listening
Viewing
Writing
Speaking
Representing

39. Consumption Creation
Reading
Listening
Viewing
Writing
Speaking
Representing

57. If a student goes a year without creating a video...

58. If a student goes a year without creating a video...
it would be like going
a year without writing a story

61. I’m eating bacon

62. I like bacon

63. I have skills eating bacon

64. This is where I eat bacon

65. Watch me eating bacon

66. Here’s a vintage photo of my bacon

67. Here’s a recipe with bacon

68. I work for Google and I eat bacon

69. I’m listening to music about bacon

73. Rethinking Community

74. Rethinking Community

75. What is the role
of community in
the classroom?

76. What is the role
of community in
the classroom?

78. “It still shocks me, the extent to which we
continue to dumb down the affordances of
the Web and technology for authentic
learning in the service of keeping the system
grinding no matter what the obstacle.”
Will Richardson

79. “Mind-Your-Own-Business Learning”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572657

80. “Can you send me all the
assignments ahead of time?”

81. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkuropatwa/4285018251

83. “Time spent on
community is always
time well spent”
Tracy Carpenter
#DEStreamathon

84. BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING

85. BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING
•Learning is Social and Connected

86. BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING
•Learning is Social and Connected
•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed

87. BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING
•Learning is Social and Connected
•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed
•Learning is Shared and Transparent

88. BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING
•Learning is Social and Connected
•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed
•Learning is Shared and Transparent
•Learning is Rich in Content and Diversity

89. BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING
•Learning is Social and Connected
•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed
•Learning is Shared and Transparent
•Learning is Rich in Content and Diversity
•Learning Ought to be Joyful

90. The Course Trailer
http://youtu.be/4NrnjzNHQLI

91. The Course Trailer
http://youtu.be/4NrnjzNHQLI

92. Give them Their Own Space

93. Connect in
Multiple Ways

94. Connect in
Multiple Ways

95. Connect in
Multiple Ways

96. Connect in
Multiple Ways

97. Connect in
Multiple Ways

98. Video Trumps Text

99. Video Trumps Text

100. Audio Trumps Text
http://ideasandthoughts.org/2013/02/15/evernote-as-a-assessment-tool/

101. Audio Trumps Text
http://ideasandthoughts.org/2013/02/15/evernote-as-a-assessment-tool/

102. Audio Trumps Text
http://ideasandthoughts.org/2013/02/15/evernote-as-a-assessment-tool/

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http://ideasandthoughts.org/2013/02/15/evernote-as-a-assessment-tool/

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http://ideasandthoughts.org/2013/02/15/evernote-as-a-assessment-tool/

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http://ideasandthoughts.org/2013/02/15/evernote-as-a-assessment-tool/

106. Audio Trumps Text
http://ideasandthoughts.org/2013/02/15/evernote-as-a-assessment-tool/

107. Audio Trumps Text
http://ideasandthoughts.org/2013/02/15/evernote-as-a-assessment-tool/

108. Audio Trumps Text
http://ideasandthoughts.org/2013/02/15/evernote-as-a-assessment-tool/

109. Audio Trumps Text

110. Audio Trumps Text

111. Audio Trumps Text

112. Be a Connector

113. “The Lazy Professor”

114. Help them Build a Network

115. Play Together
http://youtu.be/K-q-KXE759U

116. Play Together
http://youtu.be/K-q-KXE759U

117. Expectations of
Community
“Class size only matters if the
teacher does everything”
Mark Prensky

118. Expectations of
Community

119. Expectations of
Community
What

120. did

121. you

122. learn

123. from

124. others?

126.
!
What

127. did

128. you

129. contribute

130. to

131. the

132. learning

133.
of

134. others?

136. Rethinking Research
https://www.flickr.com/photos/iavi_flickr/9317042700

137. What role does
research play in our
current practice?

139. Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.

140. “My argument is not with educational research
but with the imperative of evidence-based
education policy. At its best, educational
research can provide important
insights into the relationship
between various social and cultural
variables and pedagogic outcomes.”
Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.

141. But the principal problem educators face today is not the dearth of
educational research or a lack of evidence about ‘what works’, but
rather the increasing absence of any
opportunity for them to exercise
professional judgment and to learn the value of
what Aristotle call phronesis – the virtue of judgment.
Experimentation in education should
be part of a teacher’s everyday life.
Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.

143. Courtesy D’arcy Norman

145. “Books are designed to contain all the
information required to stop inquiries within
the book’s topic. But now that our medium
can handle far more ideas and information,
and now that it is a connective medium
(ideas to ideas, people to
ideas, people to people), our
strategy is changing. And that is changing
the very shape of knowledge.”

146. The

147. Death

148. of

149. Publishing
“[T]he word “publishing” means a cadre of
professionals who are taking on the
incredible difficulty and complexity and
expense of making something public.
That’s not a job anymore. That’s a
button. There’s a button that says “publish,”
and when you press it, it’s done.” Clay Shirky

150. The

151. Death

152. of

153. Publishing
“[T]he word “publishing” means a cadre of
professionals who are taking on the
incredible difficulty and complexity and
expense of making something public.
That’s not a job anymore. That’s a
button. There’s a button that says “publish,”
and when you press it, it’s done.” Clay Shirky

157. Reflection

160. My Learning Project

161. My Learning Project

167. My Teaching Staff

170. SAGE ON
THE STAGE

171. SAGE ON
THE STAGE

173. GUIDE ON
THE SIDE

174. GUIDE ON
THE SIDE

176. MEDDLER IN THE
MIDDLE

179. Thanks
shareski.ca
@shareski
dean_shareski@discovery.com