1. Re:Learn
The Changing Future of Work
and Education for Our Connected Kids
Will Richardson
will@willrichardson.com
willrichardson.com
@willrich45
bit.ly/KyQb6E
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3. “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
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20. “The change we are in the
middle of isn’t minor,
and it isn’t optional.”
Clay Shirky
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21. ABUNDANCE
750,000 Apps
2.5 Billion People
2 Trillion Webpages
4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute
16,000 Tweets per second*
5 Billion Internet Connected Devices
Etc...
*Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration
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23. ...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
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24. Which is Changing:
Media
Politics
Journalism
Medicine
Books
Business
Music...
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25. ABUNDANCE
Key Idea:
Institutionally Organized World
Self-Organized World
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26. ABUNDANCE
The Future of Schooling
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27. New Reality
Teachers are everywhere
Classrooms are everywhere
“School” is everywhere
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42. “What does a middle school algebra teacher do
if kindergarteners can start learning to solve equations
within a couple of hours?”
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58. Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins,
Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.
of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.
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59. Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, 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
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76. “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
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77. ABUNDANCE
Means that we are now the central,
organizing force in our own learning, our own
education, and, increasingly our own careers.
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78. ABUNDANCE
Means that we now need the skills and
dispositions to “design”our own
learning and careers.
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79. New Question:
What do students need to learn in
school at a moment when they can
learn so much without us?
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80. New Question:
And:
What is the value of school (and
classrooms and teachers) at a
moment where we don’t need
school to do school?
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87. Schools’ New Value
Passion
Inquiry
Authentic Work
Connection
Performance
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88. Schools’ New Value
Creating
“Entrepreneurial Learners”
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89. “Constantly looking around you,
all the time, for new ways
and new resources
to learn new things.”
John Seely Brown
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90. “In times of change, learners
inherit the Earth, while the learned
find themselves beautifully
equipped to deal with a world that
no longer exists.”
Eric Hoffer
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91. Sign up to beta read at:
bit.ly/relearn
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