1. A 21st Century Education

2. Traditional classroom model
We get a lot of this...
and some of this...
but very little
of this...
Source: Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University

3. But what if this was our classroom...

4.
Tremendous prevents this from happening?
What amount of constraint in education

5. Food
Schools Interests
Extracurriculars
Classes Entertainment
Girlfriends
Responbilities
Kids lives are filled with constantly
changing pieces
Boyfriends Music Friends
Grade
Authoritative Clothing Expectations
Figures
Levels
Style

6. A Vision of Students Today (mwesch)
Complete 49% of readings assigned --
only 26% of which were deemed relevant to life
Will read 8 books, 2,300 Web pages,
and 1,281 Facebook profiles per year
Will write 42 pages for class
and 500 pages of email

7. A Day in the Life of a Student Today...
7 hours sleeping
1.5 hours watching TV
3.5 hours online
2.5 hours listening to music
26.5 hours
2 hours talking on the cell
phone
3 hours in class
2 hours eating
2 hours work
3 hours study

8. Did You Know 3.0
• The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004
• Today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38 (US Dept of
Labor)
• 1 in 4 workers have been with their current employer for less than a
year
• 200 million registers users in MySpace, 5th largest country in world
• 31 billion Google searches per month
• 4 exabytes (4.0 x 10^19) of unique information will be generated each
year
• By 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities
of the entire human species

9. Social Media - so·cial me·dia - ˈsō-shəl ˈmē-dē-ə- noun -
Internet-based tools for sharing and discussing information
Social media depends on interactions
between people as the discussion and
integration of words builds shared-
meaning (source: netlingo.com)
Social media is an educational tool

12. Students need to
take ownership
over their
educations
Generate Connect and
content Network
Incorporate
on Moodle Web 2.0
projects

13. Creativity provides leadership for
the community

14. Watch podcasts on TED.com

15. Follow experts on Twitter

16. Connect with Skype & iChat

17. Join a workgroup online

18. Work with your teacher and create a Ning
or Wiki for a topic

19. Make a Voicethread for study sessions

20. Rethink Knowledge

21. More resources available at delicious/liontech/lcc