1. This is not
your Father’s EDUCATION
Dean Shareski
CIPS Conference
May 2008
Thank you for the opportunity to speak
Dificulty with creating this presentation
Goals:
Describe some trends
Make some connections
Raise some questions
5. Who am I?
My Name is Dean Shareski
Digital Learning Consultant
Prairie South School Division
Travel throughout our division
Hold M.Ed
Golf
Teach at the University of Regina
Family
6. Who am I?
My Name is Dean Shareski
Digital Learning Consultant
Prairie South School Division
Travel throughout our division
Hold M.Ed
Golf
Teach at the University of Regina
Family
7. Who am I?
My Name is Dean Shareski
Digital Learning Consultant
Prairie South School Division
Travel throughout our division
Hold M.Ed
Golf
Teach at the University of Regina
Family
8. Who am I?
My Name is Dean Shareski
Digital Learning Consultant
Prairie South School Division
Travel throughout our division
Hold M.Ed
Golf
Teach at the University of Regina
Family
9. Who am I?
My Name is Dean Shareski
Digital Learning Consultant
Prairie South School Division
Travel throughout our division
Hold M.Ed
Golf
Teach at the University of Regina
Family
10. Who am I?
My Name is Dean Shareski
Digital Learning Consultant
Prairie South School Division
Travel throughout our division
Hold M.Ed
Golf
Teach at the University of Regina
Family
11. Who am I?
My Name is Dean Shareski
Digital Learning Consultant
Prairie South School Division
Travel throughout our division
Hold M.Ed
Golf
Teach at the University of Regina
Family
12. Who am I?
My Name is Dean Shareski
Digital Learning Consultant
Prairie South School Division
Travel throughout our division
Hold M.Ed
Golf
Teach at the University of Regina
Family
13. The New Face of Learning
Challenging sometimes to think of technology in this way.
14. The New Face of Learning
Challenging sometimes to think of technology in this way.
15. “Technology must be like
Oxygen”
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible
John Seely Brown
16. quot;Communications tools don't get
socially interesting until they get
technologically boringquot;
Clay Shirky
This is our goal and I’m sure your goal in many ways. To make it “just work” so really
interesting things can occur
17. What are they?
Examples
What does this mean for you?
These are 5 trends I’ve identified
Lots of overlap
Mashup of various schools of thought
47. High School posts their work online for review but also used by other clasrooms
48. Based on Friedman’s book the World is Flat
Classrooms originally from Georgia and Malaysia
Actually mentioned in the last revision
I was able to make a small contribution to their work
49. Even from Here
Colleague in Northern Manitoba
Showing his students that it doesn’t matter where you live
56. Wireless in most buildings and now providing for outside devices
57. Etiquette
Matters
It doesn’t mean there aren’t issues but it means we have to discuss them with our students
and with our employees.
What is appropriate and what isn’t?
Band-aid technology solutions are short term.