Given at Illinois Computing Educators Conference, February 2010 and Teacher Net Elmhurst College presentation October 21, 2009

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Teacher Net 2009
State of Teaching and
Learning in the 21st
Century
Lucy Gray
Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science
Education
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Presentation Resources
 Slides can be found at http://lucygray.org
 Links to sources mentioned here can be found
at:
http://delicious.com/elemenous/teachernet09
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Experiences to Inform Your Work
 Chicago Public Schools
 University of Chicago
 Apple Distinguished Educator
 Google Certified Teacher
 Other Recent Activities
 School Talk
 Schoolhouse 3.0
 Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age
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Another Nation at Risk Moment?
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Teaching for a Living: How
Teachers See the Profession Today
State of Mind
EdWeek
Disheartened
40%
Idealists
23%
Contented
37%
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Teaching for a Living: How
Teachers See the Profession Today
DISHEARTENED teachers are more
likely to:
• give their principals poor ratings for
supporting them as teachers
• express concerns about working
conditions, student behavior, and
testing
Disheartened
40%
Idealists
23%
Contented
37%
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Teaching for a Living: How
Teachers See the Profession Today
IDEALIST teachers are more likely to:
• say they became teachers to help
disadvantaged students
• believe their students’ test scores have
increased a lot because of their
teaching
• say that good teachers can lead all
students to learn, even those from poor
families or who have uninvolved
parents
Disheartened
40%
Idealists
23%
Contented
37%
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Teaching for a Living: How
Teachers See the Profession Today
CONTENTED teachers are more likely
to:
• report excellent working conditions
• be experienced in their profession
• work in middle- or higher-income
schools
• believe their students’ test scores have
increased a lot because of their
teaching
Disheartened
40%
Idealists
23%
Contented
37%
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Be the Change
Piano Stairs
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Convergence of Themes
 Social Media
 “Generational Diversity”
 21st Century Skills
 Learning Environments
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The School at Columbia
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The School at Columbia
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The School at Columbia
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The School at Columbia
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The School at Columbia
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The School at Columbia
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The Social Media Explosion
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Defining Social Media
 “Online technologies and practices that people use
to share opinions,insights,experiences,and
perspectives with each other.”
 “Social media are works of user-created video,
audio,text or multimedia that are published and
shared in a social environment,such as a blog,wiki or
video hosting site.”
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Implications for Education?
http://searchenginewatch.com/3634651
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Do You Know All of These ?
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Implications for Schools
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“Managing Generational
Diversity”/ Looking to the Future
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Think About Students & Teachers
 Adults have different learning styles.
 Baby Boomers
 Gen Xers
 Gen Yers
 Kids have had different levels of exposure to technology.The
period of time at which our schools have been wired is fairly
short.
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Online activity pyramid: by
generation
The vast majority of online adults from
all generations uses email and search
engines.
While there are always exceptions, older
generations typically do not engage with the
internet past e-commerce.
The majority of teens and GenY use SNS, but
fewer maintain blogs. Online adults older than
Gen X are less likely to use SNS.
Basic online entertainment
(online videos, playing games)
E-commerce
(online shopping, banking, and travel reservations)
Research and information gathering
(product research, news, health and religious information searches)
Email and search
Active engagement
with social media
(visit SNS, create SNS profile,
create blogs)
More advanced online
entertainment
(download videos, music and
podcasts)
More advanced communication
and passive social media use
(instant messaging, visit SNS, read blogs)
State of the Internet
2009: Pew Internet
Project Findings and
Implications for
Libraries
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Project Tomorrow Speak Up Day
Recommendations
 Un-tether learning and leverage mobile devices to extend learning
beyond the school day and meet all learners in their own world
 Create new interactive, participatory learning spaces using tools such as
online classes, gaming and simulations, online tutors, and virtual reality
environments
 Incorporate Web 2.0 tools into daily instruction especially those that
develop collaborative or social-based learning and provide unique
opportunities for students to be content developers
 Expand digital resources in the classroom to add context and relevancy
to learning experiences through new media tools
 Get beyond the classroom walls and make learning truly experiential
such as using high tech science instrumentation and creating podcasts
with content experts
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Let’s add some context:
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25%
50%
75%
100%
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K-12 Classroom Internet Connectivity
Classroom Internet Connectivity
2007
Coming Soon to Campus:The New "Free
Agent" Learner
Julie Evans, CEO-Project Tomorrow Campus
Technology 09
Jul 27, 2009
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42. (c) Project Tomorrow 2009
Let’s add some context:
Thinking about your students:
How did they use technology within learning
and instruction in their K-12 lives?
Based upon those experiences, what are their
expectations for your classrooms?
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43. (c) Project Tomorrow 2009
What grade where they in . . . when we
reached the 90% Internet access in K12
classrooms?
Class of 2009 – just graduated seniors
10th grade in high school
Class of 2011 – your current 3rd year students
8th grade in middle school
Class of 2013 – your current incoming freshman
6th grade in middle school
Are they really “digital natives?”
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44. (c) Project Tomorrow 2009
Let’s think about your future students:
Class of 2015 – incoming to 11th grade
Class of 2017 – incoming to 9th grade
Class of 2019 – incoming to 7th grade
How digitally native are these students?
What are their expectations for learning?
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45. (c) Project Tomorrow 2009
What grade where they in . . . when we reached
90% Internet access in K12 classrooms?
Class of 2015 – incoming to 11th grade
4th grade in elementary school
Class of 2017 – incoming to 9th grade
2nd grade
Class of 2019 – incoming to 7th grade
Kindergarten
Are you ready for these students and
their expectations for you?
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Implications for Schools
 Increases the need for targeted, sustained, and thoughtful
professional development.
 How are you meeting the needs of adult learners with very different
learning styles?
 Necessitates strategic human capital planning
 Requires schools to think of skills sets needed by students at
various points in their academic careers while gauging the
future of technology.
 How are you preparing to students in relation to changing technology?
 How is your school changing to meet the new needs and desires of
students?
 How are you balancing student engagement and rigor?
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21st Century Skills Buzz
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The Pedagogical Shift
 New models of teaching and learning are emerging
 Rigorous content + 21st century themes
 “Sage on the stage” to “guide on the side”
 New literacies need to be taught strategically
 Examples:
 developing a search mentality
 Student personal learning networks (PLNs)
 Standards and accountability aren’t going away
 Assessments need improvement
 A return to constructivism
 Going global is easy
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The Partnership for 21st Century
Skills
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MacArthur Digital Media and
Learning Initiative
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Implications for Schools
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Implications for Schools
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Learning Environments
Re-defined
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Learning Anywhere & Everywhere
 Personalized instruction
 Personal learning networks
 Mobiles
 School Design
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NYC’s The School of One
 Summer school pilot
 Middle school math
 Flexible space
 Personalized curriculum
 Regular assessments
 Variety in delivery of
instruction
 Lesson plan bank
 Partnered with publishers
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The Third Teacher
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Impact on Schools
 How does physical space affect learning?
 How space be used flexibly in your classroom or school?
 What will schools of the future look like?
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So What ?
 Social networks: You must be open to at least letting your
kids drive the technology use in your classrooms. Be willing to
engage them in the ways that they learn best.
 Generational diversity: Change is not going to happen
without schools working as teams to look at longitudinal
goals.
 21st century skills: The art of teaching comes through via
the weaving of 21st century themes into core content. You
need to give guidance and thought to classroom activities.
 Learning environments: Just as we’ve looked at the whole
child, we need to start emphasizing the whole learning
environment. Personalized learning for both students and
teachers is important.
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Recommended Reading
 A World is Flat
 A Whole New Mind
 Disrupting Class
 The Global Achievement
Gap
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Contact Information
Lucy Gray
elemenous@gmail.com
Skype: elemenous
iChat/AIM: elemenous
Blog: http://lucygray.org
Delicious, Flickr,YouTube etc: elemenous
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