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Learning in a Networked World
For Our Students and For Ourselves
Will Richardson
will@willrichardson.com
willrichardson.com
@willrich45
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Friday, April 19, 13

Jacob Arnott
14-year old Editor in Chief

New Context

ABUNDANCE

“Crisis of Contexts”

Traditional Learning
(Politicians, Parents, Communities, Educators)

(Politicians, Parents, Communities, Educators)
Modern Learning
(Kids with Access, Connected, Networked Learners)
Vs

Modern Learning
Delivery
Vs

Modern Learning
Delivery
Discovery
Vs

What you want me to learn.
Modern Learning
What I want to learn
Vs

Just in case.
Modern Learning
Just in time.
Vs

New reality

“The change we are in the
middle of isn’t minor, and it
isn’t optional.”
Clay Shirky

750,000 Apps
2.5 Billion People
2 Trillion Webpages
5Years ofYouTube video per minute
5Years of all IP video per second
100,000 Tweets per minute
12 Billion Internet Connected Devices by 2015
Etc...
ABUNDANCE

Games
Videos
Networks
Texts
Hangouts
(...and all sorts of other interesting stuff
they don’t have access to at school.)
ABUNDANCEKids’Version

...A world marked by “ubiquitous computing,
ubiquitous information, ubiquitous networks, at
unlimited speed, about everything, everywhere,
from anywhere, on all kinds of devices that make
it ridiculously easy to connect, organize, share,
collect, collaborate and publish.”
Michael Wesch

Media
Politics
Journalism
Medicine
Books
Business
Music...
Which is Changing:

Information, knowledge and teachers are in abundant
supply and ubiquitous.
NEW REALITY

That supply of knowledge and information is expanding
and changing at a rate like never before.
ABUNDANCENEW REALITY

We cannot predict the impacts of technological
advances on the future of learning and work.

We cannot predict the impacts of technological
advances on the future of learning and work.
A wide range of new skills and literacies will be
required to navigate the future.

THE Key Shift:
NEW REALITY

Institutionally Organized World

Institutionally Organized World
Self-Organized World

“The illiterate of the 21st century
will not be those who cannot read
and write, but those who cannot
learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
Alvin Tofﬂer

Part 1:
Relearning Learning
RELEARNING

What do you mean by “learning?”
RELEARNING

“Higher student achievement?”
“Improved student performance?”
“Better student outcomes?”
“College readiness?”
RELEARNING

creativity
passion to know
application of knowledge
inquiry
seeing patterns
posing and answering questions
understanding the world
acquiring knowledge
curiosity
ﬁnding and solving problems
making something
understanding something you previously didn’t understand
making connections
changing your perspective on something
synthesizing ideas
adding new knowledge
RELEARNING

"Productive learning is the learning
process which engenders and reinforces
wanting to learn more.Absent wanting
to learn, the learning context is
unproductive or counterproductive."
Seymour Sarason

RELEARNINGcreativity
passion to know
application of knowledge
inquiry
seeing patterns
posing and answering questions
understanding the world
acquiring knowledge
curiosity
ﬁnding and solving problems
making something
understanding something you previously didn’t understand
making connections
changing your perspective on something
synthesizing ideas
adding new knowledge
Which of These do we Assess?

Easier
Harder
Less Important More Important
Learning in a
Time of Abundance
Difﬁculty
to
Assess
Content
Knowledge
Critical
Thinking
Problem
Solving
Basic Skills

Easier
Harder
Less Important More Important
Difﬁculty
to
Assess
Content
Knowledge
Critical
Thinking
Creativity
Problem
Solving
Entrepreneurial
Thinking
Problem
Finding
Networking
Synthesis
Passion
to Learn
Curiosity
Creating
Solutions
Participation
Sharing
Connecting
Collaboration
Basic Skills
Inquiry
Initiative
Courage
Empathy
Learning in a
Time of Abundance
Resilience

“Connected Learning”
Our NewValue

“Connected learning is realized when a young
person is able to pursue a personal interest or
passion with the support of friends and caring
adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and
interest to academic achievement, career success
or civic engagement.”
Mimi Ito

Networks are the new classrooms.

“What can you do has been replaced by what
can you and your network connections do.
Knowledge itself is moving from the individual
to the individual and his contacts.”
Jay Cross

Part 2:
Relearning “School”
RELEARNING

New Reality
Teachers are everywhere
Classrooms are everywhere
“School” is everywhere

215,284,446 Lots of Lessons Delivered

What if he’s right?

Self-Organized LearningSelf-Organized Learning

“What does a middle school algebra teacher do
if kindergarteners can start learning to solve equations
within a couple of hours?”

New Question:
If this is what our students now
have access to...
...what is our new role?

New Question:

New Answer:
That which cannot be
“Khaniﬁed.”

Part 3:
Relearning Higher Education
RELEARNING

bit.ly/MZmNDy

bit.ly/MZmNDy
Scarcity

bit.ly/MZmNDy
Scarcity
Abundance

bit.ly/MZmNDy
Scarcity
Abundance
Information ≠ Education

Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. ofVa, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins,
Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.
of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.

Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. ofVa, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins,
Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.
of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.
“This is the tsunami.”
--Richard DeMillo, Ga.Tech

Institutionally
Organized
Self-
Organized

Self-Organized Learners?

Part 4:
Relearning Work
RELEARNING

bit.ly/UsKA4h

Self-Organized Work

43% of 5-12th graders said they planned
to start their own businesses.

Are you helping your students
become successful entrepreneurs?

--Stephen Downes

“Looking to the future of work, one could
sum up the anticipated impacts in a single
word: More. More intensity. More pressure.
More change. More risk. But also, more
opportunity. More engagement. More
transparency. More impact.”
Yvette Cameron

To Sum it Up:
ABUNDANCE

Means that we are now the central,
organizing force in our own learning, our own
education, and, increasingly our own careers.
ABUNDANCE

Means that we now need the skills and
dispositions to “design”our own
learning and careers.
ABUNDANCE

Means we must develop a new context for
modern learning.
ABUNDANCE

Question
So, what are the skills and
dispositions that our students now
need to succeed?

New Answer:
Curiosity
Resilience
Passion
Entrepreneurial Thinking
Empathy
Creativity
Collaboration
Inquiry
Networking
Communication
Critical Thinking
(and more)

“The only competitive skill in the
long run is skill at learning.”
Seymour Papert

New Reality
Schools need to be “different”...
not just “better.”

June 3, 1952

May 2, 1952

Moral of the Story
“Better” matters little if what people need
and want is something else.

Where Do We Start?

Where Do We Start?
With Us.

LEARNERS FIRST

LEARNERS FIRST
Are you:
Self-organized?
Self-directed?
Connected?

LEARNERS FIRSTTeachers Second

Where Do We Start?
Not, what have you learned.

Where Do We Start?
What will you learn?

will@willrichardson.com
@willrich45
willrichardson.com

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