May 26 presentation to the Symposium for eLearning of Eastern Ontario (SELEO). A review of how all teaching needs to change to address the needs of 21st Century Learners.

1. A New Generation
of Learners
Symposium for eLearning
in Eastern Ontario
May 2011, T. D’Amico

2. Agenda Smartest or Dumbest ?
A Changed World
Ontario
Perspectives
Recent Reports
Next Steps

3. Digital Generation
Smartest
or
Dumbest
Generation?

4. Your Turn
Is this the Smartest or the Dumbest Generation - Why?

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6. Smartest or Dumbest Generation…
It depends!

7. Do you know your
Twitter?

8. TRIVIA
• Who was the first person to
have 10 million followers on
Twitter?

9. Twitter as a teaching tool?
Lady Gaga –
first person to
have 10
million
followers on
Twitter
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gagafameball.jpg

10. Twitter Stats
Who are your
students
following?
Source:
Twitter Counter

11. Lots of Opinions

12. 21st
Century
Learning
Lots of Opinions

13. The Millennial Generation
Don Tapscott –
Is this the Smartest
or the Dumbest
Generation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MDPDf34vaI

14. TRIVIA TIME!

15. TRIVIA
• On Jan. 1, 2001
there were
approximately
361 million
Internet users.
How many
Internet users are
there worldwide 2.0 Billion
(as of Jan. 2011)?
Source:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-
internet-users-worldwide-billion.html

16. TRIVIA
• How many mobile
phones were sold
worldwide in the
first 3 months of
2011?
428 million
Source:
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?i
d=1689814

17. TRIVIA
• Who were the top
3 companies (in
order of sales) of
mobile devices in
the first 3 months
of 2011?
Source:
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.js
p?id=1689814

18. TRIVIA
• By 2014 how
many devices are
anticipated to be
connected to the
Internet?
6.7 Billion
Source:
http://www.gartner.com/it/p
age.jsp?id=1607814

19. TRIVIA
• How many tweets
are there per day
on Twitter (world
wide as of
03/11/11)?
140 million
Source: Tech Crunch 2011
http://tcrn.ch/lzO6BG

20. TRIVIA
• iTunes App Store
launched in July
2008 with 500 apps,
as of Jan. 2011 how
many apps are
available and how
many downloads 400,000
took place over that apps
2 ½ year time? Over 10
Billion
downloads
Source:
http://bit.ly/iLn5oY

21. TRIVIA
• How many
searches take
place on Google
each day? (world
wide)
3.0
Billion
Source:
http://searchenginewatch.com/

22. TRIVIA
• How many videos
are watched on
YouTube each
day? (world wide as of
05/25/11)
3.0
Billion
Source:
http://tcrn.ch/ma2RLb

23. My teacher’s name is…
Mr./Mrs.
YouTube
Over 48 hours of
video is uploaded
to YouTube…
every minute of
every day!
Source:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/25/as-
youtube-turns-6-years-old-daily-
views-shoot-up-to-3-billion-yes-3-
billion-daily/

24. TRIVIA
• As of 05/25/11,
What is the most
viewed video on
YouTube and how
many times has it
been viewed?
Justin Bieber
– “Baby”
550,110,785 views views

25. Google and YouTube –
Master Teachers?
550,110,785 views views as of 05/25/11 10:45 a.m.

26. Was this your guess?
24,615,286 views as of 05/25/11 10:45 a.m.

27. TRIVIA
• How many
worldwide
Facebook users are
there as of
05/24/11? 670 million
Source:
http://www.checkfacebook.com/

28. Facebook Users
Is there
anything for
students to
learn on
Facebook?
Source:
http://www.checkfacebook.com/
Canada – 17,862,080

29. Source: http://jess3.com/

30. Ontario - Getting in the game
3 Directions: Dec. 2010
1. Policy research to
Letter from
inform the discussions Deputy
2. Sector dialogues Minister of
3. Scan of current activity Education
in district school
boards on visioning,
policy and initiatives
connected with
teaching and learning
in a digital world

31. Evidence Informed Decision Making
“The question is not which
“Teaching and
technology leads to learning in a
increased productivity in digital world
education, but which new
technology‐enabled What we
methodologies improve heard in June,
student performance over
traditional ones, if any at
2010”
all, and which other factors
intervene?”
(Scheuermann & Pedro, 2009, p. 7)

32. Teaching and Learning
In a Digital World
Ontario: 10 Emerging Themes
1. Vision, guidelines and expectations
2. Learning: How does it help and what do kids need to
learn?
3. Privacy, rules of use and digital citizenship
4. Teaching practice and teacher preparation
5. Assessment
6. Digital media and content
7. Access and equity
8. Infrastructure
9. Innovation
10. Community involvement

33. Teaching and Learning
In a Digital World
Ontario: 6 Themes for Priority Action
1. Vision
2. Digital Citizenship and Literacies
3. Innovative Teaching Practice
4. Student Engagement, Culture and Achievement
5. Learning Environments
6. Parent and Community Engagement
Feb. 2011

34. Your Turn
What is your biggest concern or challenge related to
eLearning?

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36. Ontario Research
Critical
Trends
1. Open Source Review and
2. Adaptive and Assistive Analysis of the
Technologies
3. Engaging Parents Issue of
“Skills,
Themes
1. Digital Naifs
Technology
2. Computers in Schools – still and Learning”
underused
3. Environmental Impact of ICT Source:
http://www.edu.go
v.on.ca/eng/resea
rch/Jenson_Repor
tEng.pdf

37. Digital Learning Now!
10 Elements of Digital Learning
1. Student Eligibility: All students are digital
learners.
2. Student Access: All students have access to
high quality digital content and online courses.
3. Personalized Learning: All students can
customize their education using digital content
through an approved provider.
4. Advancement: Students progress based on
demonstrated competency.
5. Content: Digital content, instructional materials, Digital Learning
and online and blended learning courses are Council
high quality. * Jeb Bush
* Bob Wise

38. Digital Learning Now!
10 Elements of Digital Learning
6. Instruction: Digital instruction and teachers are
high quality.
7. Providers: All students have access to multiple
high quality providers.
8. Assessment and Accountability: Student learning
is the metric for evaluating the quality of content
and instruction.
9. Funding: Funding creates incentives for
performance, options and innovation.
10. Delivery: Infrastructure supports digital
learning.

39. Post-Secondary Education
“Online learning is not just “A Policy
about a specific form of course Framework for
delivery (distance education),
but it is increasingly affecting Online
the way knowledge is explored Learning in
and discovered by learners. It
is a critical element of Ontario – A
preparing Ontarians for the use Work in
of technology in the workplace,
at home, for social networking, Progress”
and in particular, for developing
the 21st century skills needed
to function effectively and Source:
thrive in a global economy”. http://bit.ly/kR1iUA

40. TRIVIA TIME!

41. TRIVIA
• How many online
courses were
offered in Ontario
post-secondary
institutions in
2009?
20,843
online
courses
Source:
http://bit.ly/kR1iUA

42. TRIVIA
• How many
registrants were
there in online
courses in Ontario
Colleges and 495,716
Universities in registrants
2010?
Source:
http://bit.ly/kR1iUA

43. Your Turn
Given these numbers of eLearning in College and University
– Should K-12 react?

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45. Digital Generation
6 verbs for the next 20 years of Smartest
the Connected World or
Dumbest
1. Screening Generation?
2. Interacting March 29, 2011
3. Sharing
4. Flowing
5. Accessing
Source: Tech Crunch:
6. Generating http://tcrn.ch/m7SANc

46. Digital Generation
"We live in a world that is quickly racing How should
toward ubiquitous computing, communication
and information about everything everywhere,
school staff
accessed at unlimited speed and uploaded adjust?
from anywhere on all kinds of devices... How
did we end up in a situation in which the
institutions we have designed for learning see
this as a distraction rather than an asset?"
Michael Wesch
May 1, 2011,
interview by Mary Grush,
campustechnology.com

47. Digital Generation
Online
Learning isn’t
for everyone
Maureen Cottrell, a science teacher at iHigh Virtual Academy
“Many students fully Source:
expect it to be easy http://mindshift.kqed.or
and then bomb out.” g/2011/04/whos-best-
suited-to-teach-and-
learn-in-virtual-
schools/

48. Arts Smarts
Moving from
We need to what students
move from… should
know… to
what students
can do
Source:
This is true for Face to Face, http://www.artssmarts.
Blended, and Online Learning ca/en/research--
reports/publications/21
st-century-
learning.aspx

49. Getting on the Agenda
The report helps to Horizon
describe emerging Report – 2011
technologies that are
likely to have an K-12 Edition
impact on teaching
and learning around
the world.
New Media Consortium (NMC)
Consortium for School
Networking (CoSN)
International Society for
Technology in Education (ISTE) Source:
http://www.nmc.org/pdf
/2011-Horizon-Report-
K12.pdf

50. 5 Key Trends
Trend #1
The abundance of resources
and relationships made easily
accessible via the Internet is
increasingly challenging us to
revisit our roles as educators
Source:
http://www.nmc.org/pdf
/2011-Horizon-Report-
K12.pdf

51. 5 Key Trends
Trend #2
As IT support becomes more
and more decentralized, the
technologies we use are
increasingly based not on
school servers, but in the cloud
Source:
http://www.nmc.org/pdf
/2011-Horizon-Report-
K12.pdf

52. 5 Key Trends
Trend #3
Technology continues to
profoundly affect the way we
work, collaborate,communicate,
and succeed
Source:
http://www.nmc.org/pdf
/2011-Horizon-Report-
K12.pdf

53. 5 Key Trends
Trend #4
People expect to be able to
work, learn, and study
whenever and wherever they
want to
Source:
http://www.nmc.org/pdf
/2011-Horizon-Report-
K12.pdf

54. 5 Key Trends
Trend #5
The perceived value of
innovation and creativity
is increasing
Source:
http://www.nmc.org/pdf
/2011-Horizon-Report-
K12.pdf

55. The New 3 E’s of Education
Speak Up
The 3 E’s of Education 2010 National
1. Enabled Findings K-12
2. Engaged Students &
3. Empowered Parents April
2011
The 3 Trends
1. Mobile Learning
2. Online and Blended Learning Source
http://www.tomorrow.or
3. E-textbooks g/speakup/pdfs/SU10_
3EofEducation(Studen
ts).pdf

56. The New 3 E’s of Education
Speak Up
Role of Librarians and
Technology Coordinators: 2010 National
To enable student use of the
emerging technologies
Findings K-12
Role of Classroom Teachers: Teachers,
To engage students in rich, Librarians &
compelling learning experiences
Role of Administrators:
Administrators
To empower both teachers and May 2011
students to creatively envision the
future of digital learning, and to
provide opportunities for exploring Source
the elements of a new shared http://www.tomorrow.or
vision for learning. g/speakup/pdfs/SU10_
3EofEducation_Educat
ors.pdf

57. Research and Advocacy
Canadian
Education
Association
…influencing
educational
transformation in
Canada.
Source:
http://www.cea-
“The most powerful thing teachers do to engage students
ace.ca/education-
is to design engaging, meaningful, and authentic work and
technology-enhanced learning experiences.” canada/article/teachi
ng-participatory-
digital-world

58. What are your Next Steps?
Focus on Student Achievement

59. Next Steps
Review the document
See the section entitled
“Leading Education in
a Digital World
Valuable Web Sites”
Canadian Perspective
Feb. 2011

60. Next Steps
Review the document
Focus on Blended Learning
40 case studies featuring 6
models of Blended Learning
177 page document
May 2011

61. Next Steps
Summer Rejuvenation Guide
Build your Professional Learning
Network
Relax and keep Learning
Summer 2011

62. New Brunswick
21st Century
Leadership

63. Questions?
T. D’Amico
Twitter: TDOttawa
Thomas.DAmico@ottawacatholicschools.ca